Music Theory

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http://www.musictheory.net/index.html

An interactive website with music theory tutorials for students and teachers by Ricci Adams. Lesson topics include: staff, clef, and ledger lines; note duration; measure and time signatures; rest duration; dots and ties; simple and compound meter; odd meter; steps and accidentals and more. A chord calculator, staff paper generator, and matrix generator are available for online use. You can download the stand-alone version of the trainers and utilities. There is also a forum for sharing information and asking questions. Nicely done, Flash intensive.

Mughal, India

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http://www.mughalindia.co.uk/room.htm

The British Museum produces this interactive website on Mughal India. Totally Flash-driven, the site is set up to simulate a room filled with various items including a globe, file cabinet, books, and a calendar. When you roll over interactive items in the room, you can click and learn about paintings, coins, weapons, jewelery and models from The British Museum’s collections. Don’t miss “the Staff Room”  (http://www.mughalindia.co.uk/staff/main.html) — pages developed to help teachers. Several lessons are included as well as practical guidance on classroom set-up, using the website, printing, and navigation.

Essentials of Music

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http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/

This site, a collaboration of Sony Music and W. W. Norton and Company Publishers, is like having a music textbook online. Check out the glossary, where you can read the definition for saxophone, then click to hear an example of tenor sax in Ravel’s “Bolero.” Eras and Composers round out the offerings on this great site. Not all sections have audio files linked, but the variety of information and audio clips offer students of all ages a wonderful resource.

Certificate Creator

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http://www.CertificateCreator.com/

Create a certificate for that special someone, whether it’s your child, a student, or a co-worker. Look in the Free Area. Easy to use and fairly quick to print and currently 21 styles of certificate from which to choose. This site works best with the browser Internet Explorer.

Ancient China

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http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html

The site is divided into five ‘chapters’ which address themes or topics relevant to ancient China. Within each ‘chapter’ there are three sections: Story (narratives), Explore (pupil controls the order in which they access the information) and Challenge (historical, analytical, mathematical, or observational activities). Main topics include Crafts and Artisans; Geography; Time (how time was kept in ancient China; Tombs and Ancestors; and Writing (nature and uses of writing in ancient China).

A Brush with Wildlife

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http://www.wildlifeart.org/Rungius/index.html

How do you use balance, contrast, movement, and proportion to compose a powerful work of art? This marvelous website is both a tutorial with animated examples and an interactive tool. You can select a background, select subjects, position and resize them within your composition, create a final draft; then submit it for Critique. See the Teacher Guide for an explanantion of the multidisciplinary approach to the creative process which draws on language arts, math concepts, social science, and natural science. Requires Flash and Java.

Module Maker

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http://fno.org/module/module.html

This site guides teachers through the process of creating online research modules for their students. The research model presented here is intended to “challenge your students to make up their own minds while supplying them with rich information to support such thinking,” and the guidance includes advice on asking good questions, scaffolding the assignment to direct student efforts, and setting up the online module in stages. Authored by Jamie McKenzie, publisher of the From Now On Educational Technology Journal, Module Maker includes examples and templates to help teachers get started with their own online research modules.

M.I. Smart

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http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/curriculum/MISmart/mi_smart.htm

Refresh your knowledge of multiple intelligences, then get to the good stuff. Units of study in the sciences are available online so that recognize and highlight all the intelligences into your classroom. Teachers in grades 1-8 will be especially interested in this site.

Journey to a New Land

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http://www.sfu.museum/journey/

The Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Media Production Group, Simon Fraser University created a web site on the first peopling of the New World with funding from the Virtual Museum of Canada. This multi level educational resource was designed as a series of reusable learning objects, thus maximizing its educational potential. Based on a spiral curriculum approach, the site targets multiple learning styles as well as cognitive, affective and other domains to present complex current research in a public forum. The stunning visuals, engaging games, interactive timelines and video interviews with leading scientists can be accessed by a large variety of viewers. From the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Instructor Magazine Online

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http://www.scholastic.com/Instructor

Instructor is America’s oldest magazine for elementary school educators. In their Web site, you’ll find curriculum integration strategies, professional development opportunities, help with assessment, and more.

In Search of Shakespeare

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http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/

The educator section contains resources designed around six thematic strands: Shakespeare’s Language, Shakespeare on Film, Performance, Primary Sources, Teaching Shakespeare to Elementary Students, and Teaching Shakespeare with Technology. You’ll find professional development strategies, lesson plans, a multimedia library of curriculum resources, and much more. Each component integrates the study of Shakespeare’s greatest works with his life and the times that defined him. The “investigation” sections contains entensive information based on countless hours of research that went into PBS show. The investigation includes sub-sections entitled: Dossier (timeline), Players, Locations, Evidence (primary source materials), Glossary, and Works. There is also a game.

Grey Matters:From Molecules to Mind

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http://www.ucsd.tv/greymatters/

Grey Matters is an educational series that seeks to enhance awareness of recent developments in brain research. Topics include stem cells, brain development, perception, addiction and sleep, the brain and how it develops, diseases of the brain and nervous system. Each lecture can be viewed in its entirety in streaming video (about an hour each). Each topic includes short video presentations to demonstrate key concepts, background, and supplemental reading materials and lesson ideas created by teachers. Also available in Spanish (http://www.ucsd.tv/greymatters-spanish/) and standards aligned.

Don’t Buy It!

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http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/

By dissecting pop culture and advertisements, media literacy education can help students build critical thinking and analytic skills, become more discriminating in the use of mass media, distinguish between reality and fantasy and consider whether media values are their values. Activities are intended for children ages 9-11 and are designed to touch on the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. In addition, each lesson is aligned with the Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) Standards. Sections for parents and for teachers.

Creative Chemistry

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http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/index.htm

Creative Chemistry offers worksheets, teaching notes, and fun activities. There are over two hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides, chemistry puzzles, interactive revision quizzes, molecular models, and the “Tune-up Garage” to help improve science investigations. Nigel Saunders, Harrogate Granby High School, North Yorkshire. Requires Java.

Microbeworld Brings Science to YOU!

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ESL Printables, the website where English Language teachers exchange resources: worksheets, lesson plans, teaching activities, etc. Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers.

You can download 10 printables for each contribution that you send.

http://www.eslprintables.com/

Everything’s Sudokular!

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On sudokular.com everything deals with the sudoku puzzle. If you want to play Sudoku online here you are right! Face up to the Daily Challenge or solve a QuickGame on the coffee break.

Sudoku is the puzzle fun for everyone!

  • Daily Challenge
    Solve a brand new puzzle every day
  • QuickGame
    A little game in the meantime?
  • Sudoku Solver
    Problems in solving a Sudoku puzzle?

http://www.sudokular.com/

Awesome Educational Games

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This site, brought to my attention by Shane Archer at BHS, is an INCREDIBLE resource for teachers. Provided by Sheppard Software, the site offers games at levels from beginner to expert in:

  • Geography
  • Vocabulary
  • Chemistry
  • Animals
  • Math
  • Science
  • Health
  • History

And so much more! There is something here for EVERYONE - K through 12! Doubt it? Try an expert level game and see if you get stumped!

Visit this site now….and thank Shane!!!

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/