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Design a Willy Wonka Board Game

11-Aug-10

Create a board game based on the play, Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka. This could actually be used for either children or adults to help create any type of board game. Includes assessment rubric and prompt.

Banned Books Week

11-Aug-10

Banned Books Week celebrates the Freedom to Read during the last week of September each year, September 25-October 2, 2010. For more information on getting involved, please see Calendar of Events and Ideas and Resources. Who topped the chart as the Most Challenged Book of this decade? The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Amazon.com [...]

Animal Sciences Unit

29-Jan-10

Animal DatabaseAnimal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html Animal SoundsIn different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? Visit the world’s biggest multilingual list. A guiding principle behind this list is to visualise a comic book, in [...]

Geography Snacks

28-Jan-10

Geography & Food – Try Some of These Snacks Kids Make Around the World http://www.sara-jordan.com/activities-snacks.shtml Snack ideas come from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Guyana, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, USA

Canada Study Supplement

28-Jan-10

Canada Workbook http://www.wwu.edu/depts/castudies/k12studycanada/files/CanadaSupplement.pdf

Mexico Study Helps

28-Jan-10

Pictures of Mexico in general and cities http://www.picturesofplaces.com/Caribbean/mexico.html Online Change Maker game – Mexican money version http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/cr.cgi?A1=s&A14=medium&country[mex].x=40&country[mex].y=38 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico Open Source info on Mexico. Edit these in MSword with Teachers Pet. http://www.teachers-pet.org/ to make up great worksheets in the topic

Discover America

28-Jan-10

Discover America State by State Series http://www.gale.cengage.com/DiscoverAmerica/guides/index.htm. All 50 states plus Washington, D.C. are available to download in pdf. Download them soon before their gone from their website. Extensive Students Activities are available for all of the Discover America series. They are wonderful resources for the classroom as well as for library, school and home! [...]

Borders Educators Appreciation Week Sept 29-Oct 7

30-Sep-09

Borders Educator Appreciation Week Sept 29-Oct 7 Save 30% off almost everything in-store only For loads more info check their website at: http://www.borders.com/online/store/MediaView_teachingzone-teacherbenefits?cmpid=SA_20090930

Hispanic Heritage Month

23-Sep-09

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with free resources from Gale, part of Cengage Learning, at Gale, part of Cengage Learning http://www.galeschools.com/hispanic_heritage/index.htm

Do you twitter

06-Jul-09

Do you twitter? Follow me and join the groups homeschool and lapbook and unitstudy P.S. This is my new twitter account.