Investigate Elements of Web Design
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Students in both art classes and computer or Web-design classes will love the Museum of Web Art devoted to the finest artistic elements of Web design, counters, buttons and more. For graphic art students, this is an incredible resource with many galleries and exhibits. Check out the Kids Gallery for students who are learning to create patterns. There are even stories for elementary students.
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Flatten Your Classroom in Meaningful Ways
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Flatten Your Classroom in Meaningful Ways
Flattening your classrooms is about introducing your students to the world in safe, meaningful ways that will enrich and augment the things that are already working in your school. Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom is a free ebook based on an Atomic Learning workshop developed by Vicki Davis, who has been recognized for her innovative use of the Web in the classroom.
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Save Planet Earth
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Save Planet Earth
At Green Education Network, K–16 teachers, students and parents will find a comprehensive and easy-to-use aggregation of Save Planet Earth curriculum-related information, lesson plans, activities, projects, contests—and inspiration. It’s all at your fingertips using the keyword search box or the topics list on the left-hand side of the site.
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Doodle or Animate
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Doodle or Animate
DoInk is a free online drawing and animation tool that runs right in your browser. You can use it to do just a quick doodle, or you can take advantage of its layer cloning and vector-based designs to create relatively advanced animations. When done with any creation, you can share it with the DoInk community, email it to a friend or embed it on a blog or social-networking profile. You can also publish anything you’ve made straight to YouTube.
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Create an Interactive Timeline
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Create an Interactive Timeline
Using a spreadsheet to create a timeline allows students to fill in cells to designate time periods. Text can be entered sideways to mark the events being represented. Students can enter text inside a drawing, or they can add drawings. This Web site gives step-by-step instructions on the process.
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Help Autistic Children Understand Emotions
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Help Autistic Children Understand Emotions
Need help teaching an autistic child struggling to understand emotions like excited and scared? There’s a game for that—and one that will put that child’s face, voice and favorite colors into the game. A customizable, online autism library with tools like the emotion game is one of the key offerings in VizZle, new Web-based software from Monarch Teaching Technologies. VizZle (short for “visual learning”) builds customized, autism-specific flashcards, games and other interactive exercises for children. All these personalized materials can be placed online for other VizZle users to borrow and adapt.
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Experience the Achievements of Nobel Laureates
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Experience the Achievements of Nobel Laureates
Your students don’t have to be geniuses to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire students, particularly those aged 14–18, while they’re having fun! Students, teachers and nonprofessionals of all ages will enjoy testing and building their knowledge in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics.
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Raise Awareness of Rules for Digital Properties
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Raise Awareness of Rules for Digital Properties
Your students interact with music, movies, software and other digital content daily. Do they understand the rules surrounding the appropriate use of these digital properties, and why these issues are relevant? The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content curriculum is a turnkey instructional program made available for free through Microsoft sponsorship. It was designed to raise awareness and foster better understanding of the rights connected with creative content. The curriculum resources offer a comprehensive set of cross-curricular classroom activities that are divided into four thematic units. Each unit consists of 4 to 6 standalone yet complementary lesson plans that provide a variety of ways to engage students in the learning experience. The program was designed for grades 8–10, but easily adapts for use in grades 6–12. It aligns with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and covers subject areas that include civics, computer science, debate, fine arts, economics, government, journalism, language arts, drama and video production.
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Assist Hispanic Parents in Navigating the School System
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Assist Hispanic Parents in Navigating the School System
The ToolKit for Hispanic Families, provided free of charge by the U.S. Department of Education, helps the parents of Hispanic American children navigate the education system. The toolkit, written in Spanish, was developed with guidance from more than 1,800 Hispanic parents at Parent Information and Resource Centers across the country. The toolkit contains brochures titled “You and Your Elementary School-Aged Child”; “A Challenging High School Education for All”; “You and Your Preschool Child”; “Tips for Helping Children Learn to Read”; “School Success for Your Child”; “No Child Left Behind: Help for Students and Their Families.”
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Help Students Explore Nontraditional Careers
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Help Students Explore Nontraditional Careers
In an effort to support the work that states are doing to help local education agencies increase the participation and completion of students in nontraditional CTE programs, the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) Education Foundation, in partnership with Career Communications, Inc., has developed a Parent Edition of the American Careers magazine that is focused on nontraditional careers. The magazine profiles nontraditional role models and includes information about nontraditional careers, wage-earning potential and economic self-sufficiency. A section on getting started, exploring careers and planning for the future is organized around 16 career clusters and pathways. The publication includes a 9th- to 16th-grade career planner applicable to high school and community college populations.
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