Volume 5, No. 9
8 December, 2005
[To view this newsletter on line:
http://www.emck.net/eline/05_12_08.htm]
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Welcome new subscribers from Lexington KY, and Arizona!
The
Reel School received over 85 submissions! Look for an
 announcement of winners in January, with an awards ceremony at this
year's Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference! |
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 A look ahead....
As The E-Line closes out
another calendar year, look forward to upcoming issues on...
- Professional organizations and publications: Our
traditional winter break edition looks into the organizations which provide
publications, resources, national conferences, and a community of teachers
with like-minded goals.
- Black History Month: February is the month, so look
for an edition of The E-Line on this topic
early in January.
- Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference: Early
March marks the coming of one of the oldest and largest state education
conferences, in Louisville. Look for a quick look at workshops and other
opportunities early in February.
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Online Resources |
 The
Internet Public Library
http://ipl.si.umich.edu/ We
featured a small piece of this resource in our
October 25, 2002
edition - it's now 10 years old! Underwritten by Sun and Intel, and
maintained by the University of Michigan School of Information, this browseable and searchable database of web resources is simple but
powerful. But, most importantly, it is well-maintained and continues to
have content added daily. There are areas for specific age levels, and
an "Ask a question" service. |
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Resources |
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The Arts (and SS and everything in
between!) |
 Musée
http://www.musee-online.org/
Museums are not only great resources for the cities
in which they're situated, they often offer many wonderful resources
online! The E-Line has featured
sites from a dozen museums over the years. Musée is a directory
of over 37,000 museums worldwide, allowing you to browse by
subject/category/name. Links to museum websites are included for
those with web presences.
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| Mathematics
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 Math
Playground
http://www.mathplayground.com/
A project of Colleen King and
Math Advantage Learning, a
Boston, Massachusetts educational tutorial service and learning center,
Math Playground is aimed at young students. The site is primarily
self-contained math activities, most phrased in word problem format or
animated worksheets. There is a set of Flash videos on a variety of
elementary mathematics subjects. |
| Reading |
 Seussville
http://www.seussville.com/
Maintained by Random House primarily as an online commercial presence
for the books, this site nevertheless has online activities which use
the characters and story settings from the Dr. Seuss books. There is a
story construction activities, a biography of Dr. Seuss, print-and-play
activities, and online games aimed at young readers! |
| Science |
 Try
Science
http://www.tryscience.org/
From the New York Hall of Science (NYHOS) and the
Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), with funding from IBM,
this site has a bunch of flash-driven activities - virtual field trips,
narrative adventures, simulated online experiments, and other simple
experiments students can do on their own with household materials, aimed
at middle to lower high school. The site also includes teacher
resources, including lists of standards addressed by the site. |
| Social
Studies |
 Channel
One Network
http://www.channelonenetwork.com
At its introduction, this free video news service was
buried in controversy for broadcasting ads to its subscriber
schools. However, amazingly, almost all of the many embedded
instructional resources - quizzes, brief core-content-embedded
lesson plans, even the video stories themselves in streamed Real
format - are available freely online, creating an instant
current-events curriculum appropriate for middle and high school.
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Writing (and math too!) |
Handwriting for Kids
http://www.handwritingforkids.com/
Isn't this unusual...a website dedicated to writing
by hand! Linda C. Readman of Rockford, Illinois offers this
collection of resources in support of young writers. There is an
unbelievably extensive collection of printable practice sheets in a
variety of colors, in (also unusual) GIF format. There is even a
collection of simple math operations worksheets! |
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Professional Resources |
 Talk
with your Kids
http://www.talkingwithkids.org/
This is the support organization behind NBC's
The More You Know
campaign to increase parent-child communications. Offered through a
partnership between Children Now
and The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation,
and with a star-studded board, the site has information pages and
printable pamphlets on a variety of sensitive topics such as violence
and AIDS. There is a wealth of links and other resources. |
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