May 24,2013
May can be a month of extremes in weather and the formation of tornadoes is one example of those extremes.
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May 23,2013
Pay a visit to this examination of sculpture in the realm of fine arts
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May 22,2013
The Exploratorium in San Francisco offers this extensive site that looks into many aspects of baseball.
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May 21,2013
Recognizing and using word prefixes helps with reading comprehension and specificity in writing.
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May 20,2013
Challenge your younger students to use their problem-solving skills with these short problems.
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May 17,2013
The primary focus of this excellent interactive site is for users to decide how to plan for evacuation when a volcanic eruption is imminent.
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May 16,2013
What an interesting way to explore Manhattan and its place in American literary history.
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May 15,2013
This site, divided into information for five different age groups, provides lessons and activities that teach important lessons about saving, spending, and ways to avoid debt.
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May 14,2013
One of the daunting battles scientists are fighting now is preventing antibiotic resistance of certain bacteria that cause lethal diseases.
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May 13,2013
Visit this online museum that is filled with interactive learning and explore American historical artifacts
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May 10,2013
This lesson plan shows students how to use a Venn diagram to represent events and information that are not mutually exclusive.
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May 8,2013
The problem with “who” and “whom” is that a little knowledge can be dangerous.
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May 7,2013
Get ready now to celebrate Children’s Book Week, May 13-19.
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May 6,2013
The Hindenburg crashed on its eleventh trip to the United States on May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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May 3,2013
Learn this diabolically easy procedure, called casting out nines, right here.
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May 2,2013
Feed the frog with this fast-paced game that helps you review antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms.
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May 1,2013
Follow the construction of the iconic skyscraper in New York City from the excavation of the site in January, 1930, to its official opening by President Herbert Hoover on May 1, 1931.
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April 30,2013
Recent news that college debt is reaching $1 trillion should trigger discussion on financial benefits of attending college.
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April 29,2013
Use this interactive site from the PBS program Building Big to learn all about the architectural peculiarities of domes.
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April 25,2013
Play this interactive game to test your knowledge of literary elements.
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April 24,2013
What high school student wouldn’t love an experiment that requires the chewing of bubble gum?
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April 23,2013
Take a virtual tour of the Lascaux Caves in France without causing any environmental damage to the famous, delicate Paleolithic cave paintings.
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April 22,2013
April 22 has been celebrated as Earth Day since 1970.
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April 19,2013
Social stratification is a sociological concept that classifies groups based mainly on economic criteria, but also includes intangibles such as taste, language use, and attitude.
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April 18,2013
Letter writing by hand is becoming a lost art. Letter writing in cursive is almost a dinosaur.
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April 17,2013
This interactive site is filled with music, a music dictionary, music history, and even review of a multitude of music concepts.
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April 16,2013
National Library Week is April 14-20, so brush up on your Dewey Decimal skills with this interactive site.
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April 15,2013
The Boston Marathon has traditionally been held on Patriot’s Day, which is celebrated on the third Monday in April and commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
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April 12,2013
Although Drop Everything And Read Day is April 12, celebrate it all month long with the resources available on this site honoring the beloved children’s author, Beverly Cleary.
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April 11,2013
This lesson for high school students, part of a larger unit on internet use, targets the potential danger of posting and sharing inappropriate material on line.
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April 10,2013
April is Math Awareness Month and the theme for 2013 is the Mathematics of Sustainability.
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April 9,2013
Learn about the different kinds of galaxies before testing yourself on the galaxy games.
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April 8,2013
Use this lesson plan to show your students how mathematics can further the understanding of sustainability
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April 5,2013
Get kids excited about science and experimentation through watching for color changes in several different test materials.
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April 4,2013
Explore the world of materials used to make works of art.
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April 3,2013
This lesson plan from ReadWriteThink can be an original way to involve the entire class in writing poetry.
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April 2,2013
Reading Rockets offers a plethora of ideas and resources to bring poetry into your classroom all month long
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April 1,2013
This National Geographic article not only has information and links to April Fools’ Day hoaxes, but also information about the Ig Nobel Prizes
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March 29,2013
Using equipment safely is important in any laboratory situation.
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March 28,2013
Walk into the virtual storage rooms of the New York Philharmonic to see and hear the various percussion, brass, woodwind, and string instruments.
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March 27,2013
Watch a webcast of teachers learning how to teach the properties of two-dimensional figures.
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March 26,2013
This is an interesting interactive site that offers a taste of play production.
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March 22,2013
Thinkquest has projects that are made by students for students.
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March 21,2013
The Science Museum in London offers this multimedia presentation of the effects of the Industrial Revolution
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March 20,2013
Here’s an effective hands-on explanation of the rock cycle for middle school students.
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March 19,2013
Here’s a fast-paced math review game that showers you with money, albeit fake, when you’ve answered fifteen questions.
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March 15,2013
This site from Utah Education Network asks students to examine the traits of heroes, both real and fiction, as a precursor to developing their own heroic characters.
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March 14,2013
Celebrate Pi day (3-14) by considering the calculations of Archimedes, who inscribed and circumscribed many-sided figures around a circle and calculated their perimeters to approximate pi (3.1416).
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March 13,2013
This busy site is filled with videos of British primary school teacher, Mr. Thorne, teaching all aspects of phonics.
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March 12,2013
Oceanographer Jean-Michael Cousteau has developed interactive web games to heighten awareness about the ocean, its inhabitants, and threats to both.
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March 11,2013
Johnny Appleseed Day is celebrated on March 11 to herald planting season.
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March 8,2013
Find out about the reasoning behind having Daylight Saving Time
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March 7,2013
Here’s a lengthy article from the VFW Magazine celebrating the women who have served our country
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March 6,2013
Using this lesson plan from PBS that introduces students to the various response mechanisms for natural and man-made disasters is a worthwhile exercise.
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March 5,2013
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a wide range of activity cards that explain many different kinds of physical activity.
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March 1,2013
The National Education Association offers a one-stop site to help plan for Read Across America Day.
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February 28,2013
The American Federation of Teachers' new online community, Share My Lesson, offers teachers free access to the resources and knowledge of their peers across the country.
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February 27,2013
The Fair Division activity page presents fourteen problems.
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February 26,2013
Statistics for the elementary set?
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February 25,2013
Use these activities to help students explore what makes up a calorie, how food provides energy, and how nutrients work in the body.
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February 22,2013
This interactive site teaches about teeth cleaning and why healthy food choices are important to dental health.
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February 21,2013
Spark your students’ competitive spirit by playing this interactive geography game.
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February 20,2013
On February 20, 1792, George Washington signed the Postal Service Act which formally created the U.S. Postal Service.
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February 19,2013
Are your students having trouble with comma-splices or misplaced modifiers?
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February 18,2013
Kids from age six to sixteen will enjoy performing experiments on this website.
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February 15,2013
Here’s a site from the US Mint that gives a brief history of how Presidents’ Day came to be celebrated on the third Monday of February.
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February 14,2013
Here’s a great opportunity for music teachers and Social Studies teachers to collaborate in presenting this powerful lesson on the freedom riders of the Civil Rights era.
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February 13,2013
Let’s hope there is good weather for the Great Backyard Bird Count from February 15-18.
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February 8,2013
Edgar Allan Poe obviously loved the English language, but do you know that he was interested in secret languages too?
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February 7,2013
Did you know that February is National Time Management Month?
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February 6,2013
Do you need some review on the meaning of mean, median and mode?
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February 5,2013
This PDF resource from the Austin Independent School District covers capitalization of geographical names and official titles, commas in a series, and commas in dates.
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February 4,2013
February is Black History Month, a good time to to celebrate the contributions made by African Americans to American history and culture.
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February 1,2013
This informative site from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is filled with background information and folklore about Punxatawny Phil and the origins of Groundhog Day.
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January 31,2013
Celebrate “Inspire Your Heart with Art” Day using this Seattle Art Museum site.
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January 30,2013
This teacher’s lab from Annenberg Learner looks at geometry not in the abstract, but in its concrete aspects.
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January 29,2013
Elementary age students can practice their understanding of food chains with this interactive quiz.
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