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Nature RocksGet your family back to nature! This site offers easy tools and tips for planning a family nature adventure. Enter the age of your kids, how much time you have, and the location and the website gives you ideas for activities and events. | ||
Columbus DayColumbus Day is celebrated in the U.S., Spain, and many countries in Latin America. Whether Christopher Columbus is thought of positively or negatively depends on point-of-view. The following themed package presents a rangs of opinions. | ||
EELink Compiles Environmental Education Lesson PlansWe review a website offering free compilation of preK-12 lessons, activities and other curriculum resources that focus on environmental education. | ||
All About BirdsAll About Birds is an online guide to birds and bird watching with entries for 585 species. It has ID tips, sound, and video for 117 species; a weekly bird feature; Q and A between readers and experts; and, a weekly quiz on a companion Facebook page. | ||
Ten Free Things for Valentine’s DayMake February 14th a special day with classroom resources for all grades, including arts & crafts projects, creative writing ideas, historical resources, and more. | ||
Donations From BusinessesThis is a tried and true tip from an NEA member who wants to share with YOU how she acquires FREE classroom resources (computers, paper, general supplies) from local businesses who are happy to help. | ||
About.com: Resources for Spanish TeachersThis site offers links to free resources for Spanish teachers. | ||
Teaching Students to Prevent BullyingCurriculum Resources Address Identifying, Confronting and Stopping Bullying | ||
DonorsChoose.orgNeed money to fund a classroom project? DonorsChoose.org is a not-for-profit web site where public school teachers submit ideas for experiences and materials that their students need in order to learn. | ||
Science Teaching Case StudiesWatch free videos for science teachers - 25 half-hour video programs and guides - on your computer. Follow Donna, Mike, Audrey, and other science teachers as they work to improve one aspect of their teaching. | ||
Character CountsFree resources, professional development, and how to participate in the biggest celebration of character in the world. | ||
Gold Star RegistryParents, PTAs, and other community-support organizations are encouraged to make equipment and supply donations. | ||
Spanish RomanceSpanish Romance provides free spanish lessons and spanish language resources developed by spanish teachers to learn spanish online free and spanish language courses in Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru and more destinations where spanish is spoken. | ||
Tech Toys for TeachingThere’s a whole wide world of web tools for teaching. Here are a few of our picks. From NEA Today. | Article | |
Teacher's List: 10 Classroom Creativity KillersVeteran art teacher Marvin Bartel lists 10 teacher behaviors that discourage student creativity and tells how to avoid them. | Article | |
Ngram ViewerGoogle Books Ngram Viewer is a tool that searches for words and phrases in more than 20 million books and produces a graph showing how the words or phrases have occurred. Users can search published works in 8 languages over 5 centuries. | Background Reading | |
EarthPulse: State of The EarthEarthPulse: State of The Earth 2010 is a snapshot of Earth’s health and features features essays, photo galleries, vital statistics, and a quiz for grades 9-12. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Quiz | |
Tree of Life Web ProjectStudents explore connections between living organisms by following phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of plants and animals. Lessons, activities and multimedia resources help them learn about evolutionary relationships among species. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
The Civil War and EmancipationFrom PBS, this site includes stories of people on both sides of the slavery debate, journal articles from the times, and opinions from current historians. (background information) | Background Reading; Tool | |
Food FaceFood Face lets students create portraits in the style of 16th-century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The application supplies a library of frames, backgrounds, and stamps of fruits and vegetables. | Background Reading; Learning Game; Multimedia | |
Understanding EvolutionUnderstanding Evolution is a website for teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology to grades K-12 and undergraduates. Find current news, teaching modules and a primer, an image library, and more. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
RACE - Are We So Different?Using this website, students in middle school and high school can examine concepts of race from perspectives of history, human variation, and personal experience. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Quiz | |
Google Search EducationHelp your students become better searchers. Google Search Education provides lessons, activities, posters, tips, and webinars to help teachers hone their own and their students’ web search skills. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Printable | |
Finding Information on the InternetUC Berkeley Library offers an online tutorial covering search strategies, search tools, recommendations for evaluating web pages and other resources that will be of interest to educators and secondary students. | Background Reading | |
The Crogan AdventuresChris Schweizer’s blog for his series of historical graphic novels The Crogan Adventures includes a teaching guide, audio and video interviews with the author, and more. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan |
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