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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 your [...]

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! Example: [...]

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

Literature Based Themes

15-Jun-09

Join Literature Based Themes at http://lbt.wikispaces.com/
LBT has thematic materials such as worksheets, activities, study guides and more to expand favorite Story Books and Childrens & Young Adults Literature.

For those on the old groups, I am combining the PreK-4 & 5-12 Literature Groups. The two groups will be closing as soon as everything is moved off [...]

Free Bird Font

27-Apr-09

Birds of a Feather Font is a free to download font that you can use to make games. Find a color picture of the bird and match it to its silhouette, make a GeoSafari card to identify what each bird is and use them on a game board path.
http://www.dafont.com/birds-of-a-feather.font

Free Online Math Textbooks

03-Apr-09

Online 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

Winter Safety

04-Jan-09

Winter Survival – A Health & Safety Unit for Young Children (Gr 1-2)
http://www.lnc.k12.nd.us/Resources/LessonPlans/Susan/Winter_Survival.htm
Billy & Maria learn about winter weather coloring pages
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/bm/bm_main.html
Red Cross “Be Ready 1-2-3″ materials help young children, ages 4 to 7, learn through activities and demonstrations
http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/eduinfo/
Winter Safety coloring book to d/l (right-click and save as) and print, free pdf.
Owlie Skywarn: Winter Storms – [...]

Walden Media Guides

09-Dec-08

Walden 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.