Websites of the Week
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| Each week we examine ten websites worth a visit. | |
| Especially for Students . . . | |
| Gawin's Word | |
| URL: http://pbskids.org/lions/games/gawain.html | |
Welcome to Gawin's Word, where brave knights make excellent words! "Our medieval knights blend words, "joust" for fun. Each joust allows five challengers to go lance-to-lance with a featured knight. |
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| Recommended Grade Levels: K-3 | |
| The Anne Frank Center, USA | |
| URL: http://www.annefrank.com | |
| The Anne Frank Center USA provides information and educational materials for students about Anne Frank, the history of the Holocaust, and discrimination today . . . in addition to materials to help students when studying the Diary. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 4 and up. | |
| Holocaust Survivors | |
| URL: http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/ | |
| From the site: " . . . history is not just about events, it is about human lives. Here we present history with a human face. Read the stories of the survivors. Hear them speak. Look at their family photographs. Consult our encyclopedia. Read a historical introduction to the Holocaust." | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 7 and up. | |
| American Presidents: Life Portraits | |
| URL: http://www.americanpresidents.org/ | |
| "The American Presidents website, created for the (C-Span) television series, contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, plus these additional resources: biographical facts; key events of each presidency; presidential places; reference material. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 5 and up. | |
| Study Guides and Strategies | |
| URL: http://www.studygs.net | |
| From learning to learn to taking notes to studying for tests. You will find terrific information here. | |
| Recommended Grade Levels: 8 and up. | |
| Especially for Teachers . . . | |
| LDOnline | |
| URL: http://www.ldonline.org | |
| "The leading website on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals. | |
| The Adventures of Cyberbee | |
| URL: http://www.cyberbee.com | |
| Curriculum ideas, research tools, web projects, links, and more. Created by Linda Joseph, a library media specialist. | |
| Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) | |
| URL: http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html | |
| Links to teaching and learning resources. | |
| i-SAFE: Internet Safety Education | |
| URL: http://www.i-safe.org | |
| " . . . a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. i-SAFE incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic community outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place" | |
| Rubistar | |
| URL: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php | |
| A free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics. | |
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