Personal Grab Bag unsorted, unedited links to archive or pursue
About The Lyceum in ancient Athens Einstein's Big Idea - PBS/Nova program available on DVD, with teacher's guide A History of US - tools and activities from PBS that accompany their 2003 series (and the books) Timeline Creator - free timeline tool from Johns Hopkins University. Timeline Creator allows instructors and students to develop a web-based, interactive timeline for teaching or student assessment purposes (faculty even plan to use it to present research data). The tool uses a generic Flash timeline template that is populated from an XML file. A Creator application is available to help users create the XML file automatically or import existing data from spreadsheets. All Round Magazine's list of Radical Stuff (great links) Darwin - Web site that complements AMNH's current exhibit Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast. Members of 11 Native nations in British Columbia, Washington, and Alaska created these 400 ceremonial and everyday objects. Through January 2007 at the National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, DC. 202-633-1000 or americanindian.si.edu Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address Chemistry - acid-base tutorial Music Activities & Arts Integration Lessons - Connecting music to reading, math, and science Shakespeare in the Square - open-mic event, annual in early summer, Princeton, NJ Homeschool discounts - NYCHEA card gets discount at Dick Blick in New York and Pearl Paint. --> Other art supply stores in NYC. Audible.com - audio books Virtual Fish Tank. The National Science Foundation and Boston’s museum of Science have created an incredible site that makes it easy to construct your very own fish, then release it into a 24,000 gallon virtual tank and watch it interact with dozens of others. You can even release them into the museum tank. ClassroomEarth.org (created by The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF)) is a “best of the best” collection of environmental education programs and resources for K-12 teachers, parents, and students. It provides you with program descriptions, reviews and useful information on how to obtain materials, training and more. Whooping Cranes. This website connects to an extensive selection of lessons, activities and information, about whooping cranes. www.learner.org/jnorth/fall2003/crane/ (this is part of "Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change", www.learner.org/jnorth/ , which also includes gray whales, butterflies, songbirds, etc.) Journey to Planet Earth. For grade levels 6 through 12. Series of six 25 minute episodes to understand more than just the physical sciences and to draw connections to politics, economics, sociology and history. Go to www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth/ California Standards. California Building a Presence for Science (CABAP) has posted a new web resource that correlates instructional materials with the California Grade 5 Science Standards. Find where your instructional materials cover each of the 5th grade science standards; Access teacher-oriented science content and links to other resources; and Understand the intent of specific standards as described in the California Science Framework. www.cabap.org/pub/cabap_docs/cabap/reshome.html Learners Online is a monthly publication that brings you the newest and best educational resources on the Net. Genius Denied - GT site by Davidsons. Here is a link to a great database of speeches (audio, text, and video) -- American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank Molecularium Project -- The Molecularium™ family of products and educational tools brings the nanoscale cartooniverse to life in any situation. On our Website, zoom into the molecular level, build molecules, and transform states of matter in the Nanolab of our interactive Kid’s Site. The experiments, activities and songs included in our Teacher's Resource Guide (available in the Parent/Teacher section) are free and fun for your home, classroom or museum. FUN Books catalog from Family Unschoolers' Network, has lots of interesting learning materials, including items from the former John Holt Book and Music Store. Recorded Books - audio books The Resourceful Homeschooler -- Materials to involve, inspire and support independent learners Carolina Biological Supply Co. Powers of 10 -- "View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons." Someone wrote: "For math we use the University of Chicago School of Math Project curriculum (I love it from pre-algebra through pre-calculus" Ask Dr. Math - math forum at Drexel Univ. Wolfram MathWorld - math site from makers of Mathematica Online Books (usually Project Gutenberg text)
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