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Volume 12 Issue 7
February 12, 2008
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This week, Education World reviewed three Web sites of interest to educators.
ide@s
A database of lessons and other resources by and for Wisconsin teachers.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-08.shtml
Imperial Washington
The luxurious lobbyist and lawmaker life.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-06.shtml
PBS Nature Interactives
Don't try to feed the animals: It messes up your monitor!
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-04.shtml
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 ide@s
A database of lessons and other resources by and for Wisconsin teachers.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-08.shtml
REVIEW: A+
This is a great starting point for teachers looking for classroom lesson plans or other curriculum materials and resources. Grade levels include pre-kindergarten through adult/continuing education. There are twenty-five subject areas including everything from agriculture and dance to special education and theatre with each having several sub-categories. The Videoide@s section offers more than 160 videos on such topics as acid rain, the Bernoulli Effect, carbon dioxide, circuits, pendulums and more. Additionally, a Brightide@s section features the most popular resources each month, a new section offers resources that have been added in the last thirty days and the NewsEvents section provides information on periodically changing themes associated with new or calendar events in Wisconsin or the nation; for instance, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day or black holes in space.
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Imperial Washington
The luxurious lobbyist and lawmaker life.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-06.shtml
REVIEW: A+
This site explores Washington’s powerful world of lobbying, the perks of life in Congress and the pressure of raising campaign dollars. Visitors to the site can learn about the Congressional perks such as automatic pay hikes, gold-plated pensions, privately funded junkets and others; listen to the radio hour online or download the transcript; learn about the rise of lobbying in Washington; or read about he battle over the future of the Internet. There are three large features including “A Culture of Conceit?” “Playing the Lobbying Game” and “Power Trips”. The “A Culture of Conceit?” explores whether the life of perks and privilege seduces Congress members to succumb to the power of comfort and money? “Power Trips” documents the use, and misuse, of congressional travel and “Playing the Lobbying Game” explores how it works.
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 PBS Nature Interactives
Don't try to feed the animals: It messes up your monitor!
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-04.shtml
REVIEW: A+
Students will have hours of interactive engaging experiences while learning about the natural world at PBS Nature Interactives. Visitors to the site can help a 30 year old sea turtle, Adelita, find her way to Japan to lay her eggs; help a cheetah named Toki catch a meal and avoid danger; go inside a glacier to learn about crevasses and icefalls; search for amazing creatures in all levels of the rainforest; discover how diamonds are formed; learn the difference between a crocodile and an alligator; find out what creates a wave an how certain weather conditions can lead to monster swells; take a snapshot tour of India; scale the Himalayan peaks; and much more. But the site isn’t all fun and games there are also lesson plans and guides for teachers as well as videos, animal guides, podcasts and an archive of all past Nature features.
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The Morning Meeting Book
A very practical book -- step-by-step guidelines for implementing a morning meeting in any K-8 classroom; 45 greetings; 66 group activities; and ideas for adapting the morning meeting idea to classes with a lot of second-language learners. The essential concept is to make everyone feel that it matters that he or she is in school -- including the teacher! This books comes from the folks behind the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
First published in 1984, this is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses encouraging movements to create better schools, reduce class size, and improve assessment and teaching, but also points out that many of the problems that plague the American high school have remained the same over the last quarter century. This is one of the field's modern classics, and no education library is complete without it.
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Included in this 80-page booklet you'll find these games and more:
Math Facts Race (Math, grades K-8)
You Can Count on Spelling (Math and Language Arts, grades K-12)
Find It... Fast! (All Subjects, grades K-12)
Concentration Review Game (All Subjects, grades K-12)
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Play Ball: A Major League Review Game (All Subjects, grades K-12)
Friendly Feud (All Subjects, grades K-12)
Plus 35 more games!
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