Volume 4, No. 7
29 October, 2004
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Thanksgiving is coming!
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The Thanksgiving Issue...
We have added some new links to the "big
three" featured in our past Thanksgiving issues of The
E-Line (see
October
31, 2003). Scholastic's
First Thanksgiving remains largely unchanged,
but is an excellent K-8 resource. Caleb Johnson's
Mayflower
History has some new resources, and the
Plimouth Plantation
now includes curriculum framework tie-ins for its
materials.
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Lessons from the
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
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http://www.wampanoagtribe.net/education/outreach.htm
- The Wampanoag were the "other" participants in the
First Thanksgiving, and offer a few lesson plans of
their own, from their very informative tribal web
presence. Be sure to look at the
Gay Head interactive map (under "Wampanoag Way: An
Aquinnah Cultural Trail") for some interesting
facts.
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Teaching about
Thanksgiving -
http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/lesson-plan.html -
This collection of teaching documents comes originally from
The Center For World
Indigenous Studies, and was written by Native
American Chuck Larsen in collaboration with Cathy Ross,
Mary Robertson, and Roger Fernandes. Caleb Johnson takes
issue with some of its inaccuracies, but it scores high
for sensitivity.
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The Educator's Reference Desk
- http://www.eduref.org/
- offers a dozen or so lesson plans from the ERIC database
on Thanksgiving, from several perspectives. Click "Lesson
plans" and search the word "Thanksgiving." The Educator's
Reference Desk was featured in the
January 23,
2004 edition of
The E-Line
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On-line lesson
planning |
 ProTeacher
http://www.proteacher.net/
Since
The E-Line
has little patience with sites
that seem to have no visible human
management, this one almost got
passed. The work of former
elementary teacher George Hein, ProTeacher has been around since
1999. It's a simple idea - a
bulletin-board-style, searchable
collection of user-supplied ideas,
website links, resources, and
other communications. It's
strictly elementary and middle
school, but there's quite a
lot...and you can add to it by
participating! We're glad we
googled it! |
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Content Area
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Practical Living |
 The
Mint
http://themint.org/teachers/
As we might expect
from lesson plans from the U.S.
Mint, the focus here is budgeting,
credit, and the stock market. This
small cluster of lesson plans is
aimed at grades 6-12. |
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Mathematics |
 The
Data Library from Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/
High school (and
middle school too!) math classes
need data for their statistics
studies. It's best to gather it, but
Math Forum @ Drexel gives some
instant datasets on this page,
delivered in Microsoft Excel format, on a
variety of subjects. There is also a
collection of online data gathering
collaborative project links. |
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Science (and Language Arts too!) |
 Journey
North
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
This wonderful
resource from Annenburg/CPB's
Learner.Org umbrella focuses on
migration of species. There are
dozens of lesson
resources, ideas, and links on the
site...including helps on including
Journey North topics in
reading and writing lessons
(look in the "How to use this site"
for full teacher's resources).
Interactive participation in some
projects requires free registration. |
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Social Studies |
 Mr.
Donn's Pages
http://members.aol.com/donnandlee/SiteIndex.html
Lin & Don Donn of
Corkran Middle School, Glen Burnie,
Maryland, provide this wild
collection of online lesson plan
resources for grades 6-9 social
studies. They
prepared a lot of the plans
themselves, but there are lots of
off-site links sprinkled in, some of
them dead or out of date. It's a
rich general resource, if a bit
cumbersome! |
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Writing |
 Wacky
Web Tales
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
It's a simple
concept - use "Mad-Lib"-style
exercises as a way to reinforce
parts of speech lessons with
elementary students. Publisher
Houghton Mifflin supplies this
resource...we first mentioned it
when we reviewed the umbrella
Education Place in our
Jun 21, 2002 edition of
The E-Line. |
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Grant Resources |
 HP
Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative
http://grants.hp.com/us/programs/tech_teaching/k12_main.html
The updated HP K-12 grant is
aimed at teams of five teachers, and include
a tablet PC plus support hardware and
training as its prize. Winners qualify for
more extensive awards based on the submitted
use of their new equipment. The application
deadline is a ways off, but an "intent to
apply" form is now available. |
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