Websites of the Week
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| Each week we examine ten websites worth a visit. | |
| Especially for Students . . . | |
| Visual Math Learning | |
| URL: http://www.visualmathlearning.com/ | |
| Interactive, online tutorials for elementary math up to pre-algebra. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 3-8 | |
| Save the Tiger Fund | |
| URL: http://www.savethetigerfund.org/index.htm | |
| Facts, research, games, tiger poetry, and more. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 3 and up | |
| The Reconstructors | |
| URL: http://reconstructors.rice.edu/ | |
| Travel into the future (23rd century) and solve medical mysteries from the past! "The Reconstructors is a web game where you are on a mission to rediscover lost medicinal knowledge. As you follow clues all over the globe to solve the mystery, you are also given the opportunity to interact with various aspects of the world—chemistry, pharmacology, neuroscience, medicine, public policy, history, and more." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 5 and up | |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | |
| URL: http://www.ushmm.org/education/forstudents/ | |
| Information, encyclopedia, resources, reference and more. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 6 and up | |
| Playing with Time | |
| URL: http://www.playingwithtime.org/index.html | |
| ". . . see amazing movies that show the changing world around us. Take a walk on the sliding scales of time. Go on an in-depth exploration of a place in time and find out what's happening behind the scenes." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 6 and up | |
| Especially for Teachers . . . | |
| Barron's Reader's Clubhouse | |
| URL: http://www.barronsclubhouse.com/ | |
| Activities, printables, and more to accompany Barron's new phonics series. | |
| Forensics in the Classroom | |
| URL: http://www.courttv.com/forensics_curriculum/ | |
| "The FIC program is designed for use in high school and middle school science classrooms. This complete, standards-based package includes five stand-alone units, each centered on a unique, realistic mystery." | |
| Education News | |
| URL: http://www.educationnews.org/ | |
| Headlines, commentaries, and reports. | |
| Biographical Dictionary | |
| URL: http://s9.com/ | |
| ". . . covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day." | |
| American Rhetoric | |
| URL: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm | |
| ". . . an index to a growing database of 5000+ fulltext, audio, and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and more." | |
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