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Can Wikipedia can be saved for our schools?
Andy Carvin on his blog presents a case for Turning Wikipedia into an Asset for Schools. Instead of blindly following what’s in Wikipedia, use it to present “teachers with an excellent authentic learning activity in which students can demonstrate their skills as scholars”: […]Take a group of fifth grade students and break them into groups,…
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Winter Olympics lesson plans and resources
Kathy Schrock has put together a ton of resources for using the Winter Olympics in your classroom, including the history of the Olympics, lesson plans, and activities. Check them out at her website. *UPDATE*: Her site has moved to http://kathyschrock.net/blog/
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Google Earth – Available for the Mac or PC
Google Earth, a free application, allows the user to view in 3D places around the world. Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in — Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.
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The Amazing Flash Card Machine – Online Flash Cards
Create online flashcards with The Amazing Flash Card Machine – Online Flash Cards: Welcome to The Amazing Flash Card Machine, an interactive web application that allows the user to create interactive web-based study flash cards. Students! Create flash cards to help you study for your next exam. Make them publicly available, and your classmates can…
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A web based graph creation tool
Need a way to easily create a graph? The National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education has put together an easy to use tool to create bar, line, area, pie, and XY graphs. Users can email the graph to themselves, which will also give a link to save the…
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Fun stuff, two hundred and fifty pounds of Silly Putty
From the Official Google Blog: I’m feeling silly: Naturally, we were all curious to see what 250 pounds of Silly Putty would look like, so before distributing the stuff, we put it all in a single pile to see. Huge mistake.
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Placeopedia.com – Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations
Placeopedia.com allows users to connect Wikipedia entries with their geographical location. What a great way to see what landmarks/historical entries are located near your home town. It allows anyone one to place entries on the map, so if your area is blank you can search Wikipedia for local landmarks and place them on the map…
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Cool search site
We’ve all come to love and rely on Google, but I was alerted to a new site today, Clusty. This search engine takes your search query, and “clusters” the results into different search topics. For example, I did a search on “volcano”, and not only did it give me a list of websites for volcanoes,…
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Fun Friday – Houghton Mifflin Education Place
Houghton Mifflin has several educational games available at Edugames.