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Lesson Plan Goldmines, p. 3
Fiskars Lesson Plans
http://www.fiskars.com/US/School/Teacher%27s+Lounge/Lesson+Plan+Ideas
NewsHour Extra Teacher Resources
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/index.html
Secrets of the Ocean Realm
http://www.pbs.org/oceanrealm/intheschool/index.html
SnowSchool
http://www.snowschool.org/snow/teachers/lessons.htm
P.O.V.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/classroom.php
World Wide School
http://www.worldwideschool.org
Cover Story: Laptops, pp 4, 5
Harker School (San Jose, California)
http://www.harker.org/about_harker/technology.htm
Oregon Episcopal School (Portland, Oregon)
http://www.oes.edu/technology
Rye Country Day School (Rye, New York)
http://www.rcds.rye.ny.us/theSchoolToday/technology/
Urban School (San Francisco, California)
http://blue.urbanschool.org/laptops/
Feature Story: Email vs. IM, pp 6, 7
NetDay Speak Up
http://www.netday.org/speakup
Destinations, pp 8, 9
OLogy
http://ology.amnh.org/index.html
Extreme Science
http://www.extremescience.com
EDSITEment: Under the Deep Blue Sea
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=245
Enchanted Learning: Ocean Animal Printouts
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/oceanlife.shtml
Explore the Abyss
http://www.exploretheabyss.com/index.htm
Monsters of the Deep
http://www.abc.net.au/science/ocean/monsters/default.htm
Natural History Museum
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/earth/oceans/index.html
Venture Deep Ocean
http://venturedeepocean.org/index.html
Oceans: Worlds of Water
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/theme/ocean01.htm
Extreme 2000: Voyage to the Deep
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea
Map of Ocean and Seas of the World
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-ocean-map.htm
Oceans Alive!
http://www.mos.org/oceans/index.html
MBGnet: Marine Ecosystems
http://www.mbgnet.net/salt/index.htm
Oceanography: Habitats
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/habitats/default.htm
Seafloor Geology
www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/level-1/geology/geology.html
http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/OceanStudyAndConservation/SeaFloor
Geology/en
Physical Features of the Ocean
http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/features.html
Ocean Floor Characteristics
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/regions/oceanfloor1.htm
Creature Features
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/level-1/creature/creature.html
In Search of Giant Squid
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/squid_opening.html
Creature Features: Explore Lost Worlds of the Deep
http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeature.htm
Dive and Discover: Vent Biology
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/biology/ventbio-infomod.html
The Deep Sea
http://www.marinebio.com/Oceans/TheDeep
Find a Fish: Viperfish
http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/csloani.htm
Monsters of the Deep
http://www.seasky.org/monsters/sea7a1.html
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Deep Sea
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/default.asp?hab=9
Exploring the Deep Ocean
http://www.extremescience.com/howdeep2.htm
Exploring the Oceans
http://www.mos.org/oceans/scientist/submersibles.html
New Scientist: Mysteries of the Deep
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/deep-sea
Calendar, p. 10
Antarctica
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/people/index.html
Illinois
http://www.state.il.us/kids/learn/doyou/
Montgomery, Alabama
http://www.africanaonline.com/montgomery.htm
Spain
http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/spain.htm
Cotton
http://www.cotton.org/edu/faq/index.cfm
Susan Collins
http://collins.senate.gov/
American School for the Deaf
http://www.asd-1817.org/history/history-asd.html
Pluto
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/plutopage.html
Benjamin Franklin
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_wit_franklin.html
The Bill of Rights
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm
Boston Tea Party
http://www.boston-tea-party.org/darthmouth.html
*Holiday Break*
Betsy Ross
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagtale.html
Extreme Weather
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/extreme/html_docs/Weather.html
Drinking Straws
http://www.stonestraw.com/History.htm
Braille
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/braille_deciphering.asp
Madame C. J. Walker
http://www.madamecjwalker.com/mwstory.html
Katie Couric
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/eveningnews/bios/main500496.shtml
Connecticut
http://www.kids.state.ct.us/symbols/symbols.htm
League of Nations
http://www.un.org/aboutun/history.htm
Word Play
http://school.discovery.com/brainboosters/wordplay/palindromes.html
Hattie Caraway
http://lincoln.senate.gov/bio_hattie.htm
Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/
Shannon Lucid
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lucid.html
Moose
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa111000a.htm
Ellis Island
http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_history.asp
Ethiopia
http://www.ethiopianembassy.org/history.shtml
Hakeem Olajuwon
http://www.nba.com/history/players/olajuwon_bio.html
Edouard Manet
http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=482
Cinderella
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html
Chocolate
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/choc_5.html
Kansas
http://www.travelks.com/s/index.cfm?aid=25
India
http://www.indianchild.com/population_of_india.htm
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial
http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/home.htm
Nauru
http://www.janeresture.com/nauru_home/
Math Feature, p. 11
Virtual Manipulative: Analog and Digital Clocks
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_316_g_1_t_4.html
Ambleside Clock
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/clock.html
Kid Klok
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/kidklok.cgi
Clock Wise
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ClockWise/
Willy the Watchdog
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/willy/willy.html
Learning About Time
http://arcytech.org/java/clock
Virtual Manipulative: Match Clocks
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_317_g_1_t_4.html
Telling Time
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/telling_time_grk
Stop the Clock, Level 1
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.html
Stop the Clock, Level 2
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec2.html
Stop the Clock, Level 3
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec3.html
Time to Go
http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/TimeToGo/page1.htm
Elapsed Time
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ElapsedTime/
Virtual Manipulative: What Time Will It Be?
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_318_g_1_t_4.html
Stopwatch
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/stopwatch/
Playing with a Stopwatch
http://math.uc.edu/~pelikan/stopwatch.html
Exploratorium: Fastball Reaction Time
http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/reactiontime.html
Time to Think?
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/reaction/reaction.html
A+Web Gallery, pp 12–13
Nutrition Explorations
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Aesop’s Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/
National Center for Technological Literacy
http://www.mos.org/doc/1505
The National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
http://www.thencbla.org/
Planet Pals
http://www.planetpals.com/index.html
Project Censored
http://www.projectcensored.org/
Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
CIMC: Universal Human Rights Month
http://cimc.education.wisc.edu/ed_info/webliographies/human_rights.html
Utopia
http://utopia.utexas.edu/about/
Young Investor
http://www.younginvestor.com/
Wired Success, p. 14
The Global Earthquake Explorer
http://www.seis.sc.edu/GEE
The Rapid Earthquake Viewer
http://rev.seis.sc.edu/index.html
IRIS
http://www.iris.edu/about/ENO
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp
Kids’ Corner, p. 15
Kids’ Capital
http://kids.dc.gov/kids_main_content.html
Smithsonian National Zoo: Just for Kids
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Audiences/Kids/
Roofus's Solar and Efficient Home
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/kids/roofus/
Bottlecaps to Brushes
http://americanart.si.edu/education/cappy/
Curious George
http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/
Children’s Poetry Archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do
Feature Story: Running a Tech Department, pp 16–17
TeacherWeb.com
http://www.teacherweb.com
Scholastic
http://www.scholastic.com
Study Island
http://www.studyisland.com
NovaNET
http://www.pearsondigital.com/novanet
Plato Learning
http://www.plato.com
Read180
http://www.read180.00freehost.com
The Geometer’s Sketchpad
http://www.keypress.com/sketchpad
Lexia Learning
http://www.lexialearning.com
Connected University
http://corporate.classroom.com/cu.html
Effective Technology Integration
http://corporate.classroom.com/eti.html
Software Application, pp 18, 19
Clockwise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/den/clock/index.htm
Technology Tips, p. 20
Whyville: Guest Tour
http://www.whyville.net/lounge/guest.html
Whyville: Teacher Information
http://www.whyville.com/teacher/letter.html
Whyville: Teacher Registration
http://www.whyville.com/teacher/registration.html
Whyville: Educational Value
http://www.whyville.com/teacher/pdf_library.html
Whyville
http://www.whyville.net
Global Projects, p. 21
Resource Price Project: The Costs of Energy
http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/ssvends2/590project/Projmain.html
Digital Stories Global Classroom
http://dsglobalclassroom.globalteacher.org.au/
Movie in the Making
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/movie/
Historical Treasure Chests
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/treasure/index.html
Internet Activities, pp 22–23
Reader’s Theater Scripting Sheets
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/sheets.html
Children’s Storybooks Online
http://www.magickeys.com/books/#yc
Short Stories for Kids
http://www.bygosh.com/kidsstories.htm
Fables, Fairy Tales, Stories and Nursery Rhymes
http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/index.shtml
Aaron Shepard: Reader’s Theatre Editions
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html
Reader’s Theatre Collection
http://www.readerstheatre.ecsd.net/collection.htm
Lois Walker: Free Scripts and Teacher’s Guide
http://loiswalker.com/catalog/guidesamples.html
Costume Making for Kids
http://fleecefarm.com/costume_making_easy.htm
Costumes for Pretend Play
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/_hcostume.html
Arthur: Masks
http://pbskids.org/arthur/print/masks/index.html
Legends and Lore.com
http://www.legendsandlore.com/scripts.html
Puppet Plays
http://sunniebunniezz.com/puppetry/plays.htm
Puppetry Construction Page
http://www.cre8tivedrama.freeservers.com/puppetry/construction.html
KinderCrafts: Puppets and Marionettes
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/puppets/
Puppets to Make
http://sunniebunniezz.com/puppetry/puppetsb.htm
Make a Rod Puppet
http://www.puppets2000.com/index6b.html
Christmas Skits for Kids
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/christmas/plays/index.html
The Christmas Stocking
http://sunniebunniezz.com/puppetry/xmasplay.htm
The Story of Kwanzaa
http://www.holidays.net/kwanzaa/story.htm
The Story of Chanukah
http://www.holidays.net/chanukah/story.html
Artists on Artnet
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistIndex.aspx?alpha=A1
National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/collection/a-z.asp
WebMuseum: Artist index
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/
Georgia O’Keeffe
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/freed/okeeffe/intro2.html
Artwork by Andy Warhol
http://www.warhols.com/
American Artist: Beginner
http://www.myamericanartist.com/beginners/
Artists by Subject Matter
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/subjects/
Digital Art Museum: Technology Timeline
http://www.dam.org/history/index.htm
Digital Artists
http://www.digitalartsource.com/pages/artist.shtml
AntBee’s Childrens’ Books and Stories
http://www.antbee.com/More.asp
The Adventurous Bunny and Easter Island
http://www.learningbox.com/bunny/title.htm
Kevin Henkes
http://www.kevinhenkes.com/
David Wiesner: The Art of Visual Storytelling
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/home.html
Margaret Chodos-Irvine
http://www.chodos-irvine.com/
Picture Book Artists and Published Books Showcase
http://www.childrensillustrators.com/content.cgi/index
Art Appreciation Quiz
http://msquiz.com/ArtAppreciation/
Art Museums in the United States
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/museums-us.html