Archive for the 'Wellness' Category
Youngzine is a site created for elementary and middle school students to help them learn about current events. Youngzine was created by a team of parents who want to provide a safe, bias-free place for students to learn about the world. The site contains stories and videos related to current topics. Each story has a […]
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YouTube Teachers is a YouTube Channel created by YouTube. The purpose of YouTube Teachers is to help teachers learn how to use YouTube as an educational tool. The site includes lesson plans, educational playlists, and training on how to create your own educational videos. When you sign up for YouTube Teachers, you are eligible to […]
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Free Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) is a website created for teachers by the Department of Education. FREE contains over 1,500 K-12 resources related to the arts, language arts, math, physical education, science and social studies. All the resources come from dozens of federal agencies, including the Department of Education, The Department of Health and […]
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The Learning Network is a site/blog sponsored by the New York Times. The Learning Network is a current site, updated every school day, that offers a wealth of high quality learning resources — lesson plans, student opinion questions, challenges, crossword puzzles, etc. — for teachers and students in grades 3-12. For example, a periodic math […]
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Problem Based Learning: Explained is a video created by Common Craft for the Buck Institute of Education. If you are familiar with Common Craft videos, you know they do a nice job of making complex concepts easy to understand. Problem Based Learning: Explained is a short (Time: 3:50 video that explains the basic concepts of […]
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The Health Hut is a blog devoted to providing information related to health, fitness and nutrition. While not specifically created for students, The Health Hut can be a useful site for teachers who teach health-related topics. A post that I found interesting is “How Healthy Is Your City, State or Country?”, posted on July 21, […]
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Stop Bullying Now, as the name suggests, is a site that offers resources for dealing with and stopping bullying. The site is created by the U.S. Department of Healthy and Human Resources and contains many resources for parents, teachers and students. Included on Stop Bullying Now are puzzles, quizzes, games, cartoons, songs, surveys and designed […]
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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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Nourish Interactive is a site designed for elementary students to learn about health and nutrition. Nourish Interactive was created by a group of nutrition and health professionals with the goal of helping children make healthy choices. The site contains a wide variety of interactive activities, games and worksheets related to health and nutrition.
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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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