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Daily Archives: January 16th, 2008

Rainforest

16-Jan-08

Rain Forest Curriculum Packets from the Rainforest Action Network. Lots of materials including background info, glossary, lesson plans, worksheets, math worksheets, and much more to download free in pdf.
All About Rainforests
Rain Bird Rain Forest Curriculum - You can access activities and demonstrations to use in teaching scientific aspects of the Earth’s endangered rain forests. Teaching [...]

Rubrics

16-Jan-08

Create rubrics for your project-based learning activities. RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

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Classics for Kids

16-Jan-08

Classics for Kids program helps kids learn about classical music in a fun, entertaining way. Lesson plans, activities, games, and more. They study one composer per newsletter. There are also links to past composers and shows. Go to their teachers page and click on register.

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Kids & Computers

16-Jan-08

Stretch Break for Kids, a software program published by Para Technologies and offered free to any K-12 student, is designed to help kids avoid the kinds of repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) that plague so many adult computer users. The program, which offers a choice of 20 stretching exercises, provides written directions and computer animations for [...]

Piano Lessons

16-Jan-08

PianoNanny.com has free online piano and music lesson course.

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