EL Education
El Education: San Diego Bay: 2008 Tide Calendar
Students complete original research to create a calendar. Each calendar month includes a page with informational text and original photographs featuring different endangered animals of the San Diego Bay including tidal information and a...
Other
Project Vote Smart: How a Bill Becomes a Law
Project Vote Smart provides a detailed guide to the process of making a bill become a law. Content also includes links for more explanation on certain topics.
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Project Vote Smart: How a Bill Becomes a Law
Project Vote Smart provides a detailed guide to the process of making a bill become a law. Content also includes links for more explanation on certain topics.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Jean Jacques Rousseau
This biographical sketch makes use of quotations from Rousseau's works. Provides a bibliography of his work as well.
Other
Time and date.com
This is a free site which began with the World Clock, and has grown to include many other wonderful tools for learning about time and date. what makes this site distinctive, is its ability to manipulate the perspective internationally to...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Educators Pack for Online Safety Awareness
The internet provides educators with a great tool for teaching young people, communicating with others, and sharing successes with the wider community. In order to make the most out social media, technology and the internet, we have put...
Other
Rss Ideas for Educators [Pdf]
Trying to make sense of RSS technology and wondering how to use it in your classroom? This research paper clearly explains the basics behind XML feeds and aggregators and how educators can use this new tool to share great resources with...
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
This Is Finland: Christmas
Enjoy this beautiful website about Christmas in Finland. Colorful drawings, information about Christmas in modern times as well as Christmas long ago, postcards to send, videos of Santa, and other features make this a wonderful Christmas...
Other
The Design Museum: Lesson Plan: Redesign Your Own Kitchen
Before the pioneering work of Margarete Grete Schutte-Lihotzky, kitchens would contain furniture such as dressers and chests of drawers, much like a bedroom, but in 1926 Grete changed everything. Watch the video to learn about the...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: China
Resource created by first and third grade students. Contains a Chinese calendar, numbers, paper making, and "The ABC's of China." Young students will enjoy exploring this site.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Zoom Astronomy
Where is our Solar System? How far away is the sun? What makes up the sun? Find out all you want to know about our solar system. This is a comprehensive on-line site about space and astronomy. Check out all of the excitement!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Christopher Columbus
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students recognize why we celebrate Columbus Day as related to the story of Christopher Columbus. Students explore the route taken from Spain to the Americas and how long this voyage took by using a...
Quia
Quia Web
In addition to website hosting for educators, QUIA Web offers a wealth of educational tools and templates that can be used to help create your website. The specialized tools QUIA includes make it easy to create games and learning...
Quia
Quia Web
In addition to website hosting for educators, QUIA Web offers a wealth of educational tools and templates that can be used to help create your website. The specialized tools QUIA includes make it easy to create games and learning...
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Frog Symphony
This inquiry focuses on analyzing spatial and temporal data for frog calls to determine the best time of day and location to hear a symphony of frogs. Click on the link for teaching guides and handouts.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Why Are There Seasons? A Study of Phenology
This is an ongoing activity where students take monthly temperature measurements, and make observations of the weather and changes in the environment, at the same location in the schoolyard each time. They will make and use an astrolabe,...
Other
Wiki
Doing a project that involves the whole class or more than one class can get cumbersome when trying to keep track of all of the data collected or ideas shared. By using Wiki educators, cooperative learning groups, and anyone else can...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Rituals of the Hajj
There are two pilgrimages to Mecca. Hajj--known as the Greater Pilgrimage and 'Umra-the lesser pilgrimage. Hajj can only be undertaken between the 8th and the 13th of Dhu al-Hijja - the twelfth month of the Muslim calendar. At all other...
Other
Microsoft: Template Gallery for Teachers
This Microsoft site provides a wealth of Office templates to be used by teachers. Such templates include attendance records in Excel, essay tests in Word, seat assignments in PowerPoint, and much more.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain:diary of a Wimpy Kid
Click through the pages and read this web version of the best selling novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Read straight through each day, or click on any day in the calendar feature to go straight to that entry. The main...