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Created a list of 10 websites for students for a PD at our school.

Ten Outstanding Free Websites for Students

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Websites Worth Futher Exploration

We Are Teachers (http://www.weareteachers.com)

I Love Schools (http://www.iloveschools.com)

Donors Choose (http://www.donorschoose.org/)

Grant Gopher (http://www.grantgopher.com)

Classwish (http://classwish.org/)

Non-Profit Guides (http://www.npguides.org/)

Vernier Software and Technology: Good Resource on Grant Writing (http://www.vernier.com/grants/)

Grant Opportunities Each Year

List of Corporate Grants: http://www.vernier.com/grants/corporate.html

Touching Lives through Theater Grants (http://www.touchinglivesthroughtheatregrants.com/requirements.htm)

Riordan Foundation (http://www.riordanfoundation.org/)

The Teach@15 Award program (https://www.at15.com/contests_scholarships/teach)

Toyota Tapestry Grants (http://www.nsta.org/pd/tapestry/)

Toshiba Grants (http://www.toshiba.com/taf/)

Verizon Foundation (http://foundation.verizon.com/)

Edupedia Grants (http://www.edutopia.org/grant-information-resources-to-get-you-started)

Book: Granted: Teacher Writing Winning Classroom.  (http://tinyurl.com/43p7y5h)

Book: The Only Grant Writing Book You’ll Ever Need (http://tinyurl.com/43hmzl9)

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Vimeo  (Veteran Foley Artist — http://vimeo.com/11436985)

TED Talk Video in Education – Salman Kahn — http://tinyurl.com/4gmfejq)

TED Talk Debate: Nuclear Power — (http://tinyurl.com/32lc237)

Khan Academy: CAHSEE Sample (http://tinyurl.com/http-www-khanacademy-org-vid)

Common Craft: Twitter (http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter)

Snagfilms – Documentaries (http://www.snagfilms.com)

Free Documentaries (http://www.freedocumentaries.com)

Smart YouTube Channels (http://www.openculture.com/smartyoutube)

Five Best YouTube Channels (http://tinyurl.com/26lm9lx)

100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers (http://tinyurl.com/5l68zc)

Lincoln HS Videos of the Week (http://tinyurl.com/3o5dswl)

Lynda.com (Paid Technology Videos) (http://www.lynda.com)

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• Art: The Noun Project offers a free collection of clipart.
• Careers: What is a Foley Artist? Good video on the art of movie sounds
• Economics: National Financial Capability Challenge
• Education: Elev8ed: Student Videos about Education Reform.
• Geography: Maplandia and Google Earth Cool Places helps you find cool places in Google Earth.
• Literature: A cool animated video about Mark Twain’s views on publishing a book.
• Math: Math Games teachers can monitor at Manga High.
• Music: Interactive Music Theory Lessons at MusicTheory.net.
• Music: The New York Philharmonic Archives are now available online.
• Performing Arts: Touching Lives through Theatre Grants.
• Photography: Smithsonian Wild is a new Smithsonian website that houses more than 200,000 images of animals in the wild.
• Photography: Great public domain photographs of nature can be found here
• Reading/Literacy: Open Library offers is a collection of more than one million free ebook titles.
• Science: Sheppard Software offers a number of periodic table games.
• Science: Video: 132 Shuttle Launches in 132 seconds.
• Science: Videos Fukushima Reactor Explained and Tsunami 101.
• Social Studies: If It Were My Home offers a good comparison of different countries.
• Technology: Salman Khan Academy: Video: Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education.
• Technology: A site of good teacher training videos on a variety of topics, including Web 2.0 tools.
• Writing: New discussion features have been added to Google Documents.

Other Sites Worth Exploring:

• Cool Big City Wallpapers
• Uploading.it gives you a place to store documents on the Internet.
• Zendo: A note-taking site that turns notes into flash cards.
• PuzzleMaker: A good site for creating a variety of puzzles in all academic subjects.

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We had a day off on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. I have gathered a number of websites and online resources celebrating our upcoming holidays and the significance surrounding these dates.  Take what you will from these sites and tweak to your heart’s content.

Martin Luther King Jr.
King Center:
King Institute Home:
Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech:
Martin Luther King Jr. Online
Teaching With Documents: Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers

Presidents’ Day

American Rhetoric:
Lincoln Memorial Interactive
Gettysburg Address Revisited
Studying the U.S. Constitution through Documents
Who Wants to be President? Infographic
9 Resources about Learning about U.S. Presidents
Get a free American Presidents Poster

Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year: Moon Phases and Zodiac
Chinese New Year Lessons Plans: Science Heroes
Chinese Dragon Puppets

Jackie Robinson Day

Jackie Robinson’s Official Website
Teaching with Documents – Beyond the Playing Field with Jackie Robinson

Other sites worth exploring:
DocsTeach – Use documents to teach history
Vote Easy – Great website on voting and politics
Picturing America – Exploring the connection between the arts and history

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