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 [...]
Category Archives: curriculum
Banned Books Week
11-Aug-10Animal Sciences Unit
29-Jan-10Animal 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-10Geography & 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-10Canada Workbook http://www.wwu.edu/depts/castudies/k12studycanada/files/CanadaSupplement.pdf
Mexico Study Helps
28-Jan-10Pictures 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-10Discover 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! [...]
Free Online Math Textbooks
03-Apr-09Online Mathematics Textbooks, a link list to higher math texts http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html Online Statistics Textbooks http://www.isixsigma.com/st/online_textbooks/ Comprehensive listing of freely available online textbooks for undergraduated and graduate Mathematics and Physics http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html Online Math & Science Texts http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.html Textbooks, Lectures & Tutorials in Mathematics http://www.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html
Solar System & DNA Kit Recalls
20-Mar-09CPSC issued on March 19, 2008 a recall on Educational Craft Kits by FloraCraft, specifically the Solar System Kits and DNA Kits. For the Solar System kit, it is the assembly wires that are on recall. I was unable to find any infomation at FloraCraft’s website other than a picture of Solar System and a [...]
Walden Media Guides
09-Dec-08Walden Media – Teach with free lesson plans, resources and educator’s guides http://www.walden.com/walden/teach/. Movies include City of Ember, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Prince Caspian, Nim’s Island, and many more.
Holcomb’s KnowPlace Half-Off Sale
08-Dec-08Holcomb’s KnowPlace Half-Off Sale All Music CD’s, Bulletin Board Sets, Trimmers (excluding solid and sparkle trimmers), and Books 50% Off Sale is on Now through 12/31/08 Find your local store location at http://www.holcombsknowplace.com/stores.cfm
