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Office Depot - Teacher Apprecation

28-Jul-08

Office Depot Teacher Appreciation Week is coming!
Star Teachers save 10% instantly on qualifying in-store purchases during your event week and join in that Saturday for a free breakfast & free school supplies.
Find your teacher appreciation event week - be sure to look because they are different. Most of Michigan’s events are being held August 17 [...]

Weather Freebie for UK residents

16-Jul-08

Interactive Weather Presenting Kit - Free, interactive learning resources for Key Stage 2-4 studies of weather and climate.
This highly interactive programme is designed to consolidate the weather and climate theme throughout Key Stages 2-4, and provides an ideal opportunity for the use of ICT in Geography. Using Microsoft PowerPoint, the package comes with a range [...]

A to Z Free Sample

16-Jul-08

A to Z Teacher Stuff - Download free sample of various learning books. Lots of different titles to choose from.

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Announcing EcoBrain!

17-Jun-08

EcoBrain is a new site for digital downloads offers a freebie (and paper free!) book of the week.
EcoBrain focuses on educating people of all ages about the environment. EcoBrain offers titles about cooking, green architecture, composting, farming, gardening, environmental science and kids books too. Visit EcoBrain.com this week and download “The Monkey Thief,” by Aileen [...]

Women Are Scientists

21-May-08

Women Are Scientists is a series of free video presentations that showcases successful female scientists in their respective specialties, and informs students about educational requirements, rewards, and challenges of careers in the biomedical sciences. Each video presentation gives a detailed view of three women scientists, from various backgrounds, as role models for their particular career. [...]

Verb - It’s What You Do

21-May-08

Activity ideas and resources you can d/l some and also send away for stuff. The program was initiated to increase and maintain physical activity among youth ages 9-13.

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Recycler-opoly

11-May-08

Many of us don’t realize that while we are stomping, separating, and bundling our recyclables, other creatures are also busy recycling. Nature’s recyclers are responsible for turning dead plants and animals back into usable nutrients for new plants and animals.
Play Recycler-opoly, an online quiz game from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to test your [...]

Online Books

11-Mar-08

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 25,000 free books and 17000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA. Book listings, search engine, newsletter and articles
ReadPrint.com has lots of free online books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. You can search within the books, look through the author index, and view recently [...]

Water

31-Jan-08

Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC) offers in the education section an educational poster on Water Pollution. This 17″ x 11″ poster explains where our drinking water comes from, potential threats to the safety of our water, and what is being done to protect it. It is viewable online to save as a jpg or [...]

Charts, calendars & more

27-Jan-08

Wendy Shepherd’s Chart Jungle offers loads of free printables are for many areas of life, from babies through business.

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