Graphing Our Snacks
Students graph the fat content of their favorite snack foods.
Larry Ferlazzo's Best...
The best sites for learning about St. Patrick's Day and April Fools Day.
Sites to See Nutrition
Help keep kids up-to-date on the latest nutritional information with regular visits to some of the Web's best nutrition sites.
Umbrella Chart
Students organize their thoughts with this fun umbrella chart.
This Week's Techtorial A Techtorial
Learn how to create a coloring page in Word.
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You might have noticed that Education World has begun running a new ad campaign recently. Were always running ad campaigns, of course. Its the only way free sites like ours can survive. This one caught my eye, however, because it gives readers the opportunity to sign up for free offers, coupons, newsletters, online tools, and more.
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So in the spirit of getting noticed, Id like to share with you some of the free-for-educators resources Ive come across recently. Read more.
Fifth Graders Soar in the Blogosphere
Gillian Ryan asks her fifth graders to respond in writing to the topics they discuss across the curriculum, and their ideas become posts to classroom blogs.
Technology an Educator Can Love
Members of the Ed World Tech Team explain how technology can improve teacher productivity or student learning.
Video Game Review
Lynn Endres' French classes design original video games to practice skills.
Doug Johnson: Tech Proof Not All Who Twitter Are Twits
The concept behind Twitter is simple. You post short statements -- tweets -- about your current activities. Other Twitterers sign up to follow your tweets.
Brenda Dyck: Brenda's Blog Visual Literacy: Do You See What I Mean?
How do we teach learners to interpret and create visual, digital, and audio media in a contemporary culture, and how is visual literacy in education being redefined through technology?
Bernie Poole More on Word Processing
Lesson 2 of Bernie Poole's Essential Microsoft Office 2007 focuses on formatting, from fonts to picture bullets -- and more.
From the Math Machine Logic Zoo is a fun Web site for teaching about sorting, math attributes, and problem solving. (Grades 2-5)
From the Science Machine
Use Tongue Map to explore the sense of taste. (Grades 4-8)
From the Reading Machine Anagram Sleuth reinforces anagrams and comprehension. (Grades 4-8)
Check out this week's site reviews: BAM: Body and Mind
Health information for kids and teachers from the CDC.
Plastic Fork Diaries
An engaging site about food and its influences on the body.
Sports and Nutrition: The Winning Combination
Exploring the relationship between exercise and food.
Explore our Site Review Archives for more great sites. You also can keep up with our latest reviews by signing up for our Site Review Newsletter.
Gotta Keep Readin'
Ocoee (Florida) Middle School's flash-mob dance promoting reading is based on the Oprah/Black Eyed Peas flash-mob show.
Three Steps to Meaningful Web Research
Quality Web research for grades 4-12 can be as easy 1-2-3.
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