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A+ Math
This web site was developed to help students
improve their math skills interactively. You
can even make printable math worksheets.
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Activity Idea Place
A great place for quick seasonal ideas.
Theme-based art, math, science, language,
songs. Great for primary grades. |
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AIMS
AIMS is Activities Integrating Math and
Science. This is a gold mine for integrated
curriculum activities for K-12. |
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America's Freedom Documents
This site presents the full text of the
Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and Bill of Rights |
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Ask An Expert
This site is run by volunteers that can
answer questions in areas such as science
and technology, health and medicine,
computing, the Internet, the economy , etc. |
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Ask Dr. Math
This is a fantastic math resource. Children
and teachers submit questions about math.
The questions are then answered by Dr. Math.
What makes this site so great is that the
questions and answers are collected into a
well-organized archive. First choose the
level of math that you are interested in:
i.e. elementary school, middle school, high
school or college Then, within that
category, you can explore a variety of
topics. |
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AskERIC/Educator's
Reference Desk
2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online
education information, and 200+ question
archive responses.
From the Information Institute of Syracuse,
the people who created AskERIC. |
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August Moon Festival
Chinese harvest celebration. |
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Awesome Library
Awesome Library organizes the Web with
22,000 carefully reviewed resources,
including the top 5 percent in education.
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Berits
Best Sites for Children
There is so much information on the
Internet, but finding the specific facts
students need can be like looking for the
needle in the proverbial haystack. Students
need to know where and how to look for
different types of information. |
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Boggle's World for ESL
Boggle's World is a resource site for
teachers who teach elementary and middle
school English, ESL and EFL to kids. Just
click, print, and copy. |
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Book Adventure
Similar to our AR, this site has many book
titles for students to take comprehension
tests on. Students can even win prizes
(approved by the teacher). It is free to
register your class. |
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Bountiful Thanksgiving:
History/Documents/Places
Historical documents about the holiday, take
a virtual tour of the Plymouth Plantation,
and more. |
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Brainpop
Brainpop has great educational movies that
teach various subjects from math to science.
You can view up to two a day for free, and a
classroom subscription to view all you want
is not very expensive. |
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Calendars
and Other
Teacher Tools and Templates
The templates on this site can be
downloaded, saved to your hard drive, edited
as necessary, and then printed. Or they can
be downloaded, printed, and used as is. |
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A Capitol Fourth
This site from PBS Online presents the 20th
anniversary of the celebration on the
capitol and includes a history of the
holiday and the flag. |
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Chusok
Korean Thanksgiving and autumn festival. |
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Children's Book Council
Children's Book Council web site features
articles, bibliographies, book lists,
information about authors and illustrators,
and more information on children's
literature. |
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Cinco de Mayo
In English and Spanish, this site explains
the history and significance of Cinco de
Mayo |
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Creativity Portal
Creativity Portal's Imagination Prompt
Generator will inspire you by outputting one
of many randomly generated "Imagination
Prompts" at the press of a button. |
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Cultural Diversity through Children's
Literature
This web site offers annotated
bibliographies organized by genre of
children's literature and cultures. It also
has links to other resources related to each
culture covered in web site. |
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Customs, Traditions & Holidays
A collection of web sites on American and
foreign customs and traditions: K-12 |
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Daily Grammar
This site offers information and activities
that reinforce grammar, sentence structure
and punctuation lessons. |
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Developmental Studies Center
An awesome organization with a wealth of
resources for schools. |
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Discovery School
Various lesson plans, resources, links for
all subject areas and grade levels. |
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Diversity Calendar
"This calendar was created to note people,
dates, festivals, holy days, and
anniversaries that are important to people,
yet may not be widely known or noticed in
the United States... Diverse races,
cultures, religions, etc., are included
here." |
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Easy Test Maker
A webpage that helps teachers make tests
easily. Choose from multiple choice,
true/false, short answer, etc. ***Only works
on Internet Explorer! |
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Ed Helper
Worksheets galore for many subject areas.
You can even customize worksheets to include
students names. There is a subscription fee,
but you can print out some worksheets for
free. |
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Education News
Enjoy articles from various newspapers and
magazines, including Education Week and
Teacher Magazine. When you hear about
something important or interesting in the
world of teaching, this is the place to find
the details. |
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Education Place (Houghton Mifflin)
K-8 resources for teachers, students, and
parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts,
Math, Science, Social Studies, Intervention,
Professional Development, activities, games,
and textbook support. |
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Education World
A cross reference to many other research
related sites |
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Educational Resources and Lesson Plans
This web page consists of thousands of links
to lesson plans and other resources of
potential use to education students,
teachers, and Home schoolers. It also
includes lesson plans and resources unique
to this site. |
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EdWeb
Created in 1994 by Andy Carvin, EdWeb was
one of the very first websites on the
Internet to examine the role of the Web in
education. This is a great periodical for
those seeking to understand the Internet and
its role in education. |
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English to Go
Provides English language lesson plans for
various grade levels and a weekly newsletter
and learning activity. |
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Family Math
This site has practical math problems that
can be solved by students and their family
members. |
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Figure This!
Challenging math problems for students of
all grades. They make great supplemental
resources, especially for daily "stumper"
problems or problem-solving activities. |
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Free Translator
A Free Translator website. I used this for
progress reports and notes home to parents
who don't speak English. It's a great site! |
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Funbrain.com
This is great site to make online quizzes,
use an online gradebook, free games and
more. |
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Gateway to Educational Materials
This is a huge searchable database of lesson
plans. When you search for a subject, you
will be given links to websites with
appropriate lessons. A fantastic lesson plan
resource! |
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Geometry and Art
Here is a Web site that contains many
different ideas on how to teach abstract
geometrical ideas imaginatively. You will
see detailed presentation plans, as well as
descriptions of how to make all the visual
aids you need. You can find hands-on
activities and grids and patterns you can
copy, as well as tips on teaching geometry
vocabulary. |
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Getting Students Connected
- Interactive activities for students of all
grade levels to do online - great fun and
learning, too! |
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Governments of the World
This site has a lot of information organized
by country, including links to other Web
sites. There is also a nice collection of
links to various world organizations. |
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Great Teacher.NET
Great site for extra links/resources for
many subjects. Jobs also are posted. |
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TeachersFirst Celebrates Hanukkah -
A collection of web sites including history, games, lights, and songs about the
holiday. |
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Happy Birthday America
Learn a bit of American history including
about the flag, declaration of independence,
and more. |
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The History of Labor Day
The history of Labor Day. |
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History of Valentines Day
The History Channel tells of the history
behind the holiday. |
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Holiday and Seasonal Activities
Hundreds of worksheets, maps, math and
language activities, patterns, puzzles,
flashcards, vocabulary and spelling,
coloring pages, report forms, and history
around the theme of international holidays
and seasonal events. This list includes:
back-to-school, Cinco de Mayo, Christmas,
Chinese New Year, Easter, Father's and
Mother's Day, Grandparent's Day, Halloween,
Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King, New
Year's, President's, St. Patrick's Day,
Thanksgiving, Valentines and Veterans Day.
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Instructional Technology Research Online
You'll find bunches of links, technical
information, bibliographies, and FAQs for
educators interested in instructional
technology. |
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Instructor Magazine
This is professional publication for
elementary school teachers. You will find
articles on important topics such as
professional development, curriculum
planning, communicating with children and
parents, grading, teaching strategies, and
content area lesson ideas. |
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Jason Project
Offers educational experiences relating to
science and technology. The material is
organized around general themes, and helps
children learn about important scientific
discoveries and concepts. Jason is designed
to be part of a K-12 curriculum, and can
provide an ongoing and valuable adjunct to
classroom study. |
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Juneteenth
"Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration
of the ending of slavery." |
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Jurassic Park Institute
Great site for information about dinosaurs.
Includes lesson plans and student activities
about dinosaurs and provides additional
links. |
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Kids Corner: Chinese Zodiac Signs
This site describes each of the Chinese
zodiac sign and corresponding year |
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Kwanzaa Information Center
Learn about what kwanzaa is, it's symbols,
principles, and more. |
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Kwanzaa: African American Celebration
What is Kwanzaa? Learn here! |
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Learning Page
Learning Page.com is a resource for
professionally produced materials that you
can download and print primarily for
elementary grades. |
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The Lesson Plans Page
Here you can find lesson plans sorted by
grade level and subject to help in all
curricular areas. Some lesson plans are
great to use, and most you can adapt to use
in your own classroom. Its a great tool. |
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Liberty: The Road to Revolution
This PBS Online site presents an interactive
game to learn about the revolution.
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Links to Children's Author/Illustrator Web
Sites
This site offers links to the individual Web
sites of many authors and illustrators. |
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MarcoPolo -
provides the highest quality standards-based
Internet content and professional
development to K-12 teachers and students
throughout the United States |
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Microsoft Movie Maker
Georgia Movie Academy has put together a
wonderful list of resources for using Movie
Maker including
using Movie Maker in the classroom |
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Media Builder
Samples of free clip art, backgrounds, and
photoclips. |
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Memorial Day
This thorough site discusses the history of
Memorial Day, contains the President's
remarks about Memorial Day, includes tips on
how to celebrate the holiday, and has
numerous links to memorials, images and
speeches. |
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Memorial Day - History Channel
From the History Channel, this site has
information about the history of Memorial
Day, statistics about America's wars, and
links to message boards where you can write
a message to veterans and their families. |
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Multi Cultural Calendar
This keyword-searchable site contains
entries which may provide recipes for
holiday foods, historical background,
significance of the holidays and the special
ways in which these days are observed. |
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National Biological Information
Infrastructure
- Teacher resources divided by grade level
for biological sciences |
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National Center for Educational Statistics
MATH- Graphing. Good site to use when
teaching graphing. Students can create
different types of graphs, and may enter
their own data. Students also get
explanations of the different types of
graphs, and why and when they are used. |
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National Women's History Project
Resources and materials to teach about
women's history, includes biographies of
notable women for student research |
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New York Times Learning Network
Great for current events, lots of articles
for students to read, also lesson plans for
teachers |
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Ottawa Area Intermediate
School District
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Favorite resources are links to other
websites that serve as valuable sources of
information |
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Discovery School's Revolutionary War
Lesson plans, resources, and links on the
Revolutionary War for all grade levels. |
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PE Central, Physical Education and Health
PE Central is the official Physical
Education website for resources in PE and
Health. |
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Picture Dictionary
Good site for your second language learners
to visually see the words. This site also
has activities like spelling and fill in the
blank to go along with the pictures. |
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Poetry 180
180 Poems to read daily; however, most of
the poems are intended for high school
students. Yet, the site has links and other
poems and recordings of poems. |
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Pongal
South India's harvest celebration. |
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Puzzle Maker
Instruction Dept. Puzzlemaker is a puzzle
generation tool for teachers, students and
parents. Create and print customized word
search, crossword and math puzzles using
your word lists. |
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readinglady.com
A web site that gives information on using
the four blocks method of instruction. It
also has many ideas sections and a store
where you can buy learning resources. |
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Refdesk
This site claims to be "the single best
source for facts on the Net." I would have
to agree. Some of my favorite features are
the News Headlines, Calendar,
Pictures/Quotes of the Day, and Google Web
Search. Enjoy! |
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Resource Area for Teachers (RAFT)
RAFT is an organization which collects
surplus office supplies and sells them to
educators for extremely cheap prices! They
also offer wonderful workshops (many
technology-oriented). |
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Riverdeep and Edmark
Teacher support, resources and teaching
tools for parents, teachers and students.
Allison George- Cedar Grove |
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The Responsive Classroom
The Responsive Classroom approach to
teaching and learning fosters safe,
challenging, and joyful classrooms, K-8
--Consists of strategies for bringing
together social and academic learning. Learn
about: Morning Meetings, Classroom
Organization, Rules and Consequences, Family
Communication, Academic Choice,
etc.--Jennifer Rivera, JFSmith |
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RubiStar
Want to make exemplary rubrics in a short
amount of time? Try RubiStar out! Registered
users can save and edit rubrics online. You
can access them from home, school, or on the
road. Registration and use of this tool is
free |
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Kathy Schrock's Guide
Excellent web site for lesson plans,
resources, rubrics, for various subject
areas and grade levels that integrate
technology. |
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Scavenger Hunts
How to create a Internet scavenger hunt
instruction and samples of Internet
scavenger hunts. |
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Scavenger/Treasure Hunts
- Internet treasure hunts, or scavenger
hunts, provide students an opportunity to
practice problem solving, improve their
reading and comprehension skills, and learn
how to search the Internet. They are both
fun and informative for students and can be
geared to any curriculum area,
simultaneously providing students with
technological and subject matter knowledge. |
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Social Studies for Kids
Social Studies for Kids is a site with
articles, subjects, and tons of links for
all subjects of social studies, with a focus
on what kids are learning. |
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Science and Math
General resources for teachers and students
from Cornell University, Cornell Theory
Center |
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Sound Portraits
Recordings of historical events |
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Spelling Bee
The purpose of this Web site is to help
students improve their spelling, increase
their vocabularies, learn concepts, and
develop correct English usage that will help
them all their lives. |
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Sports Illustrated for Kids
For those teachers who like to incorporate
current events and sports in their teaching,
SI for kids is a great site for students to
read about what is going on in sports and
athletes. |
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Teacher2Teacher
Teacher2Teacher offers technology
professional development services, books,
and online resources. The Teacher2Teacher
services are customized and delivered by a
certified educator with experience in
technology integration. Allison George-
Cedar Grove |
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Teacher Cyber Guide for Hatchet
Lessons that integrate standards and
technology using the novel by Gary Paulsen,
Hatchet. |
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Tet-Trung-Thu
Vietnam's mid-August festival |
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Thanksgiving
- You are the Historian
Take a virtual tour of Plimoth plantation,
print out color sheets, read the history of
the first Thanksgiving, and George
Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation. |
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Thanksgiving-One of Humanity's Most
Universal Gestures
Discover Thanksgiving around the world, the
history of the holiday in the U.S. and
famous quotes about Thanksgiving. |
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ThinkQuest is all about students
thinking and learning together. Students
work in teams to create the best educational
websites and compete for exciting prizes,
including a trip to
ThinkQuest Live, an educational
extravaganza celebrating their achievements. |
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Distinguished Women of the Past and the
Present
Includes biographies of notable women,
searchable by name or subject area and also
includes other resources for research |
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U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education has
established this site to provide information
to educators and researchers interested in
education. There are a variety of files on
K-12 education as well as vocational and
adult education, goals of the U.S. Dept. of
Education, programs , etc. |
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Valentine Facts and Superstitions
This site explains some of the different
traditions of Valentine's Day. |
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U.S. Geological Survey
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a part of
the United States Department of the
Interior, is America's largest agency
devoted to earth science. The USGS creates
and provides (for free) an enormous amount
of information relating to geology
topography, and hydrology (water). There are
lots of maps and databases, as well as many
research analyses of natural resources. |
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Valentine's Day Cupid
How Cupid became the Valentine's Day symbol. |
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Virtual Field Trips
A virtual field trip takes students on a
tour of a location using a series of web
sites that have been linked together,
creating a guided experience. |
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Web English Teacher
A great site that offers information and
lessons plans about literature, vocabulary,
writing and much more! This is a useful
resource for all grade levels. |
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The Webquest Page
Webquest is a catalog of online projects in
all academic areas to help children K-12 do
extensive research on a specific topic of
interest. |
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Yam Festival
Ghana and Nigeria's harvest celebration. |
