This Week's Online Find
RaceBridges for Schools, an outgrowth of a Chicago project called Catholic Schools Opposing Racism (COR), provides classroom tools to help kids explore issues regarding racial justice and inclusive behavior. The site's highlighted topic this month is "Disagreeing Without Being Disagreeable: The Search for Civility."
Wow! That's going to be a tough search in a lot of places this election year, but maybe it's a search we can facilitate in the future if we use some of these RaceBridges For Schools resources with our students today:
Managing Technology: Tips From the Experts
Do your technology lessons frequently turn into free-for-alls? The solutions may be simpler than you think.
Smile! Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day
Teachers across the country and around the world are discovering the many valuable uses for digital cameras; uses that both engage students and make their own professional lives easier.
Chatting the USA
Last year, third graders in Brewer, Maine, conversed through Web conference with classes from Florida to Alaska. Intrigued by their differences, it was the many similarities the children shared that forged special connections.
Learn what Total Reader can do for your students.
Doug Johnson: Tech Proof Technology and Design
In a world in which the visual is rapidly surpassing the verbal as the primary means of conveying information, design becomes as important as grammar, sentence structure, and organization.
Brenda Dyck: Brenda's Blog Listen Up!
Every day, teachers like you and me are joining the podcasting fever by using the handheld listening devices to give a facelift to an age-old learning tradition -- homework!
Nancy Willard: Cyber Savvy Youth Risk Online: An Overview
Online risks can be addressed by establishing safer online places for younger children, and by helping teens gain the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to make good choices online.
From the Reading Machine Upper and Lower Case Letter Matching reinforces a laundry list of letters. (Grades PreK-1)
From the Math Machine Addition Concentration is a fun Web site for teaching addition. (Grades 2-6)
From the Science Machine
Use Geyser Surpriser to explore earth science. (Grades 1-6)
Check out this week's site reviews:
Physics Education Technology
Interactive simulations of physical phenomena.
Map a Planet
Detailed online maps of the planets and various moons.
Becoming Human
An interactive documentary exploring human evolution.
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