Archive for the 'The Arts' Category
Smithsonian Education – Lesson Plans is a site that contains inquiry-based lesson plans in a variety of grade levels and subject areas. The Lesson Plans site is part of a larger educational site created by The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. The site is very nicely organized. You can search for lesson plans […]
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A Different Place is a website that has a variety of activities and resources for gifted students, parents of gifted students, and teachers. If you click on the “Teachers” button on the home page, you are taken to a welcome page for teachers. About halfway down the Teachers page, in the paragraph that starts with […]
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American Car Brochures is a site that contains archived car brochures and ads from cars dating back to the early 1900’s. The brochures are organized by manufacturers, then by years. Check out American Car Brochures to see if they have information about your first car. The site can be used with students studying 20th century […]
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Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature is a website through which you can search for award winning books for children. The database contains over 7,000 books that can be searched by a wide variety of options — keyword, author, title, setting, historical period, ethnicity, language, genre, age of reader,etc. — which makes this a great site […]
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Wordle is a site that creates word clouds from text that is typed or copied and pasted into the text box on the site. I have to admit, the first time I was introduced to Wordle I thought it was a cool website, but I didn’t see much educational application. Since then, I realized that […]
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Vintage Ad Browser is a site at which you can peruse print advertisements from as early as the 1700’s to the present. There are over 100,000 ads available to browse through. The ads are organized by category (Sports, Clothing, Cigarettes and Tobacco, TV and Electronics), then organized by years. There is a search feature that […]
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CNN Student News was recommended to me by Justin Kastory. CNN Student News is geared for students at the middle and high school levels. Students can access the site to get information on the top news stories.
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Ideas to Inspire is a website that Pam Gruzynski told me about. It has some great ideas for teachers who want to use different technologies and engaging activities. The ideas are contributed from teachers from all around the world and cover a range of curriculum topics, including writing, the arts, and geography.
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Interesting Ways to Use Audio in Your Classroom is the result of a collaborative effort from teachers with tips and hints for using audio in the classroom. At the time of this posting, there were 22 Interesting Ways…; more ideas are added as teachers come up with them. What I like about this site is […]
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The Illinois State Museum site offers a variety of lesson plans, activities and online exhibits that relate to Illinois’ heritage. Be sure to click on the “Online Exhibits” link to view collections related to Anthropology, Art, Botany, Geology, History and Zoology. Clicking on the “Teachers and Students” link takes you to a page with many […]
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