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Dive into the SEA
Dive into the Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA), a treasure trove of aquatic science resources in English and Spanish for K–12 teachers and students. You’ll find Interactives, Lesson Plans and Explorer’s Guide related to Plants and Animals, People and Cultures, and Places: Land and Sea. You can browse the site by Topic, Concept or Grade Level.
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Turn Students into Aspiring Scientists
The Siemens Foundation and Discovery Education have launched Siemens Science Day, providing free standards-based videos, tools and hands-on activities for earth, life and physical science that educators can use to turn students in grades 4–6 into aspiring scientists. Each activity includes how-to information, step-by-step directions for in-class use, materials lists, at-home extensions that promote learning beyond the classroom and related video clips. More activities will be added to the site in the coming months.
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Call on Past Experience During Tough Times
When economic times are hard, Americans have learned to call on our past experience as a nation for lessons in fortitude, courage and creativity. This EDSITEment spotlight shines on lessons plans that focus on some of the hard times that challenged previous generations and the lessons they can still teach us. By incorporating the multimedia resources available on the Web, these lessons will help you bring the voices, the faces and even the songs of these turbulent decades in our nation’s history into your classroom.
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View the World Through Different Lenses
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the proportion of different resources they share, and by their contributions to human society. Presently the site includes nearly 600 maps. Maps 1–366 are also available as PDF posters. Use the menu at the top of the homepage to find a map of interest. Subjects range from Youth Literacy to Education to Pollution and even to Population in Year 1 and Year 2050!
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Helping children with language and the top 500 words spoken in primary grades, this site gives you downloadables for a rhyme a week to use with your Kindergarten classes.

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm

By visiting the White House You Tube Channel, you can watch all of President Obama’s weekly addresses entitled Your Weekly Address, and see lots of video from events, speeches, and more.

http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse

And you can use THIS site to compare Obama’s videos to Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats.

Compare Presidential Addresses to the Nation
An extensive (though not complete) archive of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” to the nation, between 1933 and 1945, can be streamed and downloaded from the Internet Archive. These are especially intriguing in light of President-elect Obama’s now giving weekly addresses to the nation via YouTube, as he faces international and financial challenges that invite comparison to those during FDR’s tenure.
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Explore Documents That Changed the Course of History
Our Documents features 100 milestone documents in U.S. history. Each week, the Web site highlights three documents. Speeches, treaties, Supreme Court cases, patent designs and Constitutional amendments are among the 100 documents that changed the course of history and helped shape our national character. Images of documents are accompanied by transcriptions and historical interpretations. A key resource for working with the 100 milestone documents in the classroom, the Teacher Sourcebook includes an annotated timeline, key themes, guidelines to primary sources and detailed lesson plans.
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Sort Fact from Fiction in the Digital Age
The News Literacy Project is an innovative national program that mobilizes journalists to help middle and high school students sort fact from fiction in the digital age. It is a response to the growing challenge of assuring that America’s young people get the information they need in order to become well-informed citizens in the 21st century. The project creates partnerships between active and retired journalists and English and social studies teachers, as well as after-school media clubs. The journalists and teachers devise units focusing on why news matters to young people, the roles of the First Amendment and a free media in a democracy and ways students can determine the veracity of what they read, see and hear. The curriculum is presented through hands-on exercises and the journalists’ own compelling stories. The curriculum also addresses new media tools from Google and Wikipedia. The Web site features a national directory of volunteer journalists, including their biographies, photographs and résumés. Participating teachers can request journalists in their regions who fit their subject area.
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Facilitate Project Learning in Science and Math
The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) offers a wide variety of inquiry-based science curricula that use real-time data; engage students in projects using pooled data from shared, Web-based sources; involve student publishing on the Web; and provide access to unique and primary source information. The curriculum Web site features links to projects arranged by type: collaborative projects, real-time data projects, projects using primary sources & archived collections and others. Each curriculum includes an overview of the topic, student activities and a teacher guide, data and references, a link for students or classes to submit their work and an ask-an-expert feature.
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Plus: Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy blooms digitally on this site.
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