Another effort to improve student access to high-quality educational resources, especially multi-media content, is HippoCampus, from the Monterey Institute for Technology & Education. Students can browse multi-media lessons and find help with topics covered in popular textbooks.
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Students can use this PowerPoint template created by KP teaching assistant Matt Bannon to build a different kind of Facebook Template Presentation. And credit Tim Cayer at Hall with another discovery: http://myfakewall.com Let’s you create an even more realistic facebook page for anyone. Franklin Roosevelt, for example: http://myfakewall.com/w/Franklin+D+Roosevelt And one more very realistic option: Facebook Template
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A new online tool called http://docsteach.org/ recently was launched by the National Archives and provides a resource for teachers to search more than 3,000 primary-source documents. The site also includes seven tools for teachers, including one that customizes history activities to individual classroom needs.
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Here are two websites with helpful resources for science students: At http://cassiopeiaproject.com/ the goal is to make science education videos available to all who want them. Short clips can be found on biology, chemistry, evolution and other science topics. At http://learn.genetics.utah.edu students and teachers will find well organized and clearly written information on the basics of DNA, stem cells, cloning, [...]
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Math and the Movies! Here’s another website that recommends movie clips – and provides student worksheets – to help make math make sense, and to provide practice opportunities. The movies are fun – Harry Potter, Star Trek, etc. – but the catch is, you’ve got to get the movie. (Some we have, some we can [...]
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Visit http://thinkgreen.com/earthdayideas, where Waste Management and Discovery Education have partnered to help teachers and students at all grade levels celebrate Earth Day every day. The site includes a variety of resources from arts & crafts to educational tools focused on taking action against climate change.
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WHPS subscribes to TumbleBook Library, which you may assume is intended only for elementary grades. In fact, it has some great activities for secondary teachers. World Language & ESOL teachers will find special, easy-to-use features to engage their students. Explore the Language Learning and Record-a-TumbleBook features. Go to: www.tumblebooklibrary.com Username: whps Password: book
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www.sporcle.com A student (of course) recommended this site to Glastonbury English teacher Mark Dursin, who wrote about it in the Courant. “Sporcle.com is an online trivia site jampacked with timed quizzes…which run the gamut of categories, from geography to sports to literature to pop culture. Some require a doctorate and some fall into the “Just [...]
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At http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/, search or browse through over 60 video segements from Public Broadcasting’s NOVA. You can also link to dozens of online NOVA learning activities at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience/.
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At http://learner.org/interactives/ students are engaged in learning about DNA, the periodic table, amusement park physics, weather and environmental topics through engaging online activities.
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