This year, Gallopade International is introducing mysteries to young people by declaring 2010 The Year of the Children's Mystery Book and offering parents and teachers some interesting activities to get kids reading mysteries this summer -- and all year through.
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Principals Blog to Share School News
Blogs are a free and easy way to connect with the world, observes Principal Pattie Thomas...a special place to allow others to see our school as we do each day.
Teaching and Learning About Technology
Find out how you can use your vacation to update your computer skills.
Teach Jeff Corwin Spanish
Chris Craft's sixth graders use video productions to teach Spanish vocabulary.
Doug Johnson: Tech Proof Concerns About Creativity
"Why Robots Make the Best Students" (a riff on Kathy Sierra's "Why Robots Are the Best Employees").
Brenda Dyck: Brenda's Blog Embracing Technology With "Eyes Wide Open"
On your way to learning improvement, watch for not only what technology will do for teaching and learning but what it will undo.
Bernie Poole What Every Teacher Should Know About Technology
Six essential technology-related skills every good teacher should possess -- or acquire.
From the Math Machine Building Sandcastles is a fun Web site for teaching shape recognition. (Grades Pre-K-K)
From the Science Machine
Explore The Virtual Body to learn about the human body. (Grades 4-12)
From the Reading Machine The Best Trampolini Game reinforces suffixes. (Grades K-2)
Check out this week's site reviews: The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project
A big archive of public domain children's literature.
International Digital Children's Library
An online library with nearly 2000 books in 39 languages.
Reading Rockets
A wealth of information for helping children learn to read.
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Anatomy of a Project: Soil Superheroes
Seventh graders work with community experts to advance their understanding of bacteria in the environment -- and then share their findings.
Reference Resources You Can Use
Discover great reference resources.
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