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Here are some resources to help you this month.

1. Science Education: Case Studies
   Annenberg Media 
   Watch free videos for K-8 science teachers - 25 half-hour video programs and guides - on your computer. These case studies take science education reform to a personal level, where individuals struggle to make changes that matter. Follow Donna, Mike, Audrey, and other science teachers as they work to improve one aspect of their teaching. Each case follows a single teacher over the course of a year and is divided into three modules: the teacher's background and the problem he or she chooses to address, the chosen approach and implementation, and the outcome with assessment by the teacher and his or her advisor.
   
2. Health & Well-Being
   BAM (Body and Mind)
   This Web site offers answers to questions about Fitness, Disease, Peer Pressure. Features include The Immune Platoon (a super-powered team of white blood cells), the Inside Scoop (about heredity), and The Game Room (where you can create your own comics and help the main character solve a problem). From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
   
3. Books
   Free Book Draw
   Enter the weekly drawing for a FREE specially autographed copy of one of these award-winning bestsellers (from the Legacy Project). Choose the book you’d like:
   • Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom & Wishes - Fifteen top illustrators offer an illustrated page in a poetic story about life's hopes and dreams. 40pp
   • A Little Something – A story about the gift of love. 32pp
4. Math
   A Plus Math
   This site offers math practice games for students - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, algebra (Matho, Concentration, Hidden pictures, and Planet Blaster). Materials also for sale on this site.
   
5. Environment: Display Materials
   Think Green
   Show your students the benefits of thinking green. Print these materials and hang them in your school. Materials also for sale on this site.
   
6. Education Research and Publications
   ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) 
   This site offers free online journals and reports and publications.
   
7. Writing 
   Hopeful Voices
   The nonprofit organization My Class Cares released a curriculum supplement called Hopeful Voices, a collection of essays written by youth around the world whose challenges have given them much to share about life and hope. Each essay concludes with prompts for student writing and research assignments. (An email address required to download or print Hopeful Voices. Materials are free, but site does include requests for volunteering or donations.)
   
8. Reading: Posters, Guides
   Author T.A. Barron Gifts
   Order your Teacher Gift Box with posters, bookmarks, inspirational quotations, reader’s guides and discussion guides for several novels, and articles for teachers, librarians, and parents.
   
9. Communication: Parents
   L. Carvel Wilson (Syracuse, Utah) Tip
   "I have found over the years that the more information and help a parent and student can find on your Web site, the less difficulties, emails, phone calls and struggles there will be during the year. My Web site has, in PDF format, all handouts, worksheets, lectures and items I use in my classroom. This has allowed parents to be a team partner in educating their student. CutePDF is a great tool for converting Word files – or any other document that can be printed from the Windows environment – into PDFs. And the cool thing is that it is free. Download and install the PDF Writer and Converter, which are available at CutePDF, and you’re off and running. Just select CutePDF as your printer, and save the newly created PDF file where you can link it to your website. Instant access for your kids and their families for just a few seconds works." From NEA's Works4Me Tips.
   
10. Science
    Teachkind
    Teach students to be kind to animals. Free humane education materials and policy resources for K-12 and college educators. Printable PDFs of books. Videos to watch online. Discussion activity ideas. Also materials are available for sale. A division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.