October 2001

General

America's Fund For Afghan Children: Children Helping Children
President Bush called on America's children to send $1 to help Afghan children struggling to cope with the devastation of war. Bush asked children to send dollars to the White House addressed to "America's Fund for Afghan Children."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/connection/20011012.html

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ASCD Resources
Coping with crisis and grief, dealing with differences and school climate, appropriate books, ASCD tools, and other resources have been compiled here.
http://www.ascd.org/educationnews/resources.html

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Earth Calendar
Holidays and special events celebrated throughout the world are highlighted at this site and are searchable by nation, date, or by religion.
http://www.earthcalendar.net/

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Ed Tech Conference Planner
Are you able to attend a conference this year? Here is the latest information about conferences for educators searchable by date and/or location.
http://www.theconferencecalendar.com/

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Elan TTS
Text to Speech reads text and pronounces it in programmable ways. Choose from British and American English, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian, Russian, Polish, and more using male or female voice, fast or slow, high or low.
http://www.elantts.com/speech/

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ExZOOberance
Virtual zoo, animal photo gallery, animal news, animal web cams, animal quotes, and links to zoos, aquariums, and other animal sites.
http://www.exzooberance.com/

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Factfinder: Kids' Corner
All the latest census facts and figures from the U.S. Census Bureau searchable by state with fun quiz questions to check what you have learned.
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/kids/kids.html

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FAPE
Free Appropriate Public Education provides a beginning point for research by parents, educators, state and federal staff members, and other interested parties on a wide range of issues involving disabilities and disability law.
http://www.fapeonline.org/

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Frogs!
The Exploratorium presents an online exhibition exploring the
amazing, adaptable frog.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/index.html

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GIMP
This free graphics program can be compared to PhotoShop.
You can download it from the Web at:
http://www.gimp.org/

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History through Deaf Eyes
Gallaudet University has created a traveling social history exhibition about deaf Americans. This site highlights the exhibit using photographs and descriptive text.
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/deafeyes/

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Index of Craft Recipes
Make edible paper, sidewalk chalk, simulated snow, geode eggs, chocolate fudge clay, homemade ink from berries, and many more recipes for students to use at school or home.
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1485.html

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Interactive Mathematics
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives from Utah State University presents these online manipulatives sorted by math topic and grade level, K- 12 to enhance student learning.
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/enu/navd/index.html

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National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
Celebrate the month of November by helping students learn about and recognize the contributions of the American Indians.
http://www2.ihs.gov/heritage/

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Raising Nonviolent Children
Article dealing with harassment and ways to teach children strategies to combat this abuse and introduce a climate of understanding and kindness among young people.
http://school.discovery.com/parents/ksy/play/nonviolent_1.html

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Spelling It Right
Resources for parents, teachers, and students, to help improve spelling skills.
http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/index.html

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Stop the Hate
Educators are given ways to determine if harassment, hate speech or behavior is occurring in the school community, how to prevent or respond to it, and how to improve the dialogue between school, community, and local law enforcement. The Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on Hate Crimes endorses this site.
http://www.stopthehate.org/get_involved/educators/

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Teach With Movies
Geared for teachers and parents, here are recommended movies as well as a list of definitely not recommended movies explaining why the movies are inappropriate for use as teaching tools.
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/

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Toward an Integrated Curriculum
This article offers guidance for programs striving to integrate curriculum by offering ten different methods for curriculum integration.
http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/ST2.1/TowardanIntegrated.html

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Upcoming Events on the Calendar: November
Presented by the Instructional Materials Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Education.
http://www.umkc.edu/imc/november.htm

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Vocabulary University
Reinforce and learn new vocabulary through these exercises designed to help students prepare for testing at different levels from elementary school through college. Specialized vocabulary development designed for use with students needing practice in ESL or ELD classes.
http://www.vocabulary.com/

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Zoo in the Wild
Explore birds, big cats, amphibians, reptiles, and more at this virtual zoo.
http://www.naturalia.org/ZOO/indexing.html

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Grades K-2

Arithmetic Activities for First Grade
Many great resources for math activities and practice worksheets including work with patterns, time, money, estimation, addition, subtraction, calendar work, and math games involving problem solving.
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/math1.html

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Interesting Places
First graders will enjoy exploring these sites with parents or teachers. Discover a Kansas wheat farm, an ocean reef, a rainforest, Dottie's garden, Australia, a desert, and more. Students can even learn what the weather forecast will be in their hometown.
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/places.html

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Kinderart
November calendar theme with activities, crafts, and art projects.
http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/nov.htm

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Perry Elementary School Kindergarten
Think you can't do much with computers and Kindergartners? Check out this award-winning site Mary Kohl created for her students and school.
http://www.perry-lake.k12.oh.us/pes/gradelevelwebsites/kindergarten/kohl/k2001.htm

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Phonemic Awareness: An Important Early Step in Learning to Read
An ERIC Digest Clearinghouse article looks at phonemic awareness, why it is so crucial to reading success, and how it relates to the "Great Reading Wars".
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d119.html

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The Reading Tree
How do students learn to read? How do they make sense of the words? What about dyslexia? What is the fast listening deficit? Find out answers to these questions and more by exploring the Reading Tree.
http://www.aability.com/rindex.html

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Resources, Lesson Plans and Activities for Kindergartens
A wealth of resources, lesson plans, and listservs to complement a Kindergarten curriculum presented by Sue Roseman.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listkindersu.html

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Vehicles to Paint Online
Choose from a fire truck, or a ship, or a steam engine, among others.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/vehicles/paintonline.shtml

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Grades 3-5

50 States
From sea to shining sea, the fifty states have fifty capitals, fifty flags and fifty state birds. Use this site to research information for state reports.
http://www.50states.com/

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Bugs Count
In this project, schools study bugs, do classroom activities, look at local bugs, and report bug sightings online.
http://www.onlineclass.com/bugs

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Edible/ Inedible Experiments Archive
Fun experiments with safety precautions and appropriate age levels listed.
http://www.madsci.org/experiments/

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Fun With Dollars and Sense
Budgeting and learning to prioritize spending are important skills. These lessons are geared toward older elementary students.
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1107.html?printable=y

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Geography Helps
Here are geography games to help you learn everything from state capitals to world countries to plate tectonics.
http://www.quia.com/dir/geo/

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Handwriting for Kids
Practice sheets for manuscript or cursive handwriting by Linda Caroline Readman.
http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/

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I have a Dream: Bridging Diversity; Building Peace
Bridging Diversity; Building Peace is the topic for this site with project resources for songs, stories, cranes, and other sites promoting peace.
http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~sel/dream/index.htm

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Make Your Own Buffalo Hide Painting
Students become historians as they record events from their family history much like Native American Plains Indians did. Learn why the buffalo was such an important part of the People's history.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/buffalo/mypainting_frmset.html

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The Solar System in Pictures
Astronomy webquests, pictures and quizzes about all the planets in the
solar system.
http://www.the-solar-system.net

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Space Odyssey
Journey to where the entire solar system is within your easy reach.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/fastfinds/spaceodyssey/

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Which Way is North?
An interactive topographical map study allows the exploration of 12 different locations.
http://www.leo.lehigh.edu/envirosci/geology/wwn/

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Within These Walls
Take a look at five families who lived in the same home over a 200-year period of U.S. history, from 1757 to 1945. Explore resources to see more of the events of each time period.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/house/default.asp

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Grades 6-8

Aardvark's English Forum.com
Site for students and teachers of ESL/ ELD with grammar practice exercises, self-study quizzes, information on slang and idioms, sentence construction, etc.
http://www.english-forum.com/interactive/

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Ancient Empires
Investigate early civilizations, including Greece, Rome, Egypt, India, and China.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/fastfinds/ancientempires/

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Focusing on Words
An advanced English-vocabulary program that focuses on Latin and Greek elements used in English. Includes on-line scored quizzes and tests.
http://www.wordfocus.com/

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It's Elemental
Get detailed data on every element in the Periodic Table.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/fastfinds/itselemental/

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Label Me Printouts
Worksheets with blanks for labeling everything from the names of insect parts to the names of states, including tongue sections, ear anatomy, earth cross section, moon phases, human skeleton, and many more.
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/label/

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Learning HTML
Do you want to learn the HyperText Mark-up Language used to create web pages? Here is a tutorial for teachers and students who want to learn the code of the Internet in creating web pages.
http://www.ipl.org/youth/kidsweb/html.html

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Problems with a Point
Mathematical problem solving for students in grades 6- 12. Use this site to complement your curriculum. As students work through a problem they discover how one mathematical idea leads to understanding of other mathematical concepts.
http://www2.edc.org/mathproblems/default.asp

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The Quiet Game
A middle school math teacher shares a game that she uses at the beginning of the school year to help introduce working cooperatively in groups.
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/quiet.game.html

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Rulers
Resource site to find the Rulers (Heads of State or Government) of countries and states going back to the year 1700.
http://rulers.org/

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A Unit Study on Citizenship
Citizenship is an important part of adult life. This unit of study has an across-the-curriculum approach with many activities in addition to the resources listed. Appropriate for grades 5-12.
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1081.html?printable=y

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Grades 9-12

America Responds
Classroom Resources investigating how to stop international terrorism. Three one-hour lessons, correlated to the McRel Standards, include web sites and assessments.
http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/tamingterrorism.html

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Daily SAT Prep
Connect to this free site every day to answer new SAT sample questions. All areas of the
test are covered, complete with detailed hints, strategic explanations, hands-on review material and much more. How would students do if they took the SAT today? Download a free diagnostic SAT to find out.
http://cbweb9p.collegeboard.org/tqod/bin/question.cgi

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Kelly's Problem of the Week
Great problems to help students prepare for the AP calculus test. Check out the archives for more.
http://www.calculus-help.com/problem.html

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One Man's Freedom Fighter is Another Man's Terrorist
This webquest from SCORE (Schools of California Online Resources for Education) was written prior to Sept. 11. It helps students to investigate the threat to the US from both domestic and international terrorism.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/one_man_freedom/

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Party Time
From CongressLink this lesson uses a variety of primary or historical sources to help students analyze their political beliefs and associate them with certain political parties.
http://www.congresslink.org/lessonplans/MEDparties.htm

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