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Dan Meyer, a math teacher from Santa Cruz, CA. Dan used a videos of himself doing various things to teach graphing to his algebra students. The premise is simple: cross an arched bridge; descend a flight of stairs; all within a time frame that the students are shown. What would the graph of that look like in terms of elevation change over time? The lesson, which is downloadable, including the videos, is detailed at his blog here. You can download one, or all of the videos. Entire lesson is 45 minutes

Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own image created on the fly.

Harness the power of the Internet... wisely. WISE is a simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine realworld evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. Our curriculum projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your grade 5-12 students will find them exciting and engaging. A web browser is all they need to take notes, discuss theories, and organize their arguments... they can even work from home! Our Teacher Area lets you explore new projects and grade your students' work on the Web. Best of all, everything in WISE is completely free.

Links for Students & Teachers There are hundreds of environmental education websites. We've divided a few of the best ones here into three broad categories based on grade level. Almost all of them have links to additional websites, as well. Have fun exploring!

The Historical Voices Educator's; Forum is a rich collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers and their students. The Historical Voices Educator's; Forum provides an opportunity for teachers and students to explore and experience primary historical aural artifacts, traditionally unavailable to classrooms. This site engages educators in more intensive ways to incorporate aural resources into the teaching practice, and at the same time allows students to explore beyond the limitations of a text book. The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics.

Helping educators quickly find and use primary sources related to specific curriculum standards with Best Instructional Practices for all subjects.Includes differentiated instruction, literacy Instruction, and technology integration models.

We are constantly updating our resource library with new flash games, quizzes interactive animations and videos in a growing range of subjects, including Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English, Mathematics, French, German, Geography, Physical Education and Business Studies. Our e-learning resources are designed for use on PCs and interactive whiteboards. They can be used to assist the teaching and learning of a whole class, as a small group activity or for individual students as homework or revision exercises.

An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!

Don't have access to Photoshop? Here is a list of image editors that you can use online.

Annotate any video

Welcome to i-Lighter! A one-click way to: * Save only what matters to you * Add your annotations * Find it when you need it * Simply include it in your email, documents and blogs * Most importantly, never lose any of it Free Download

USE the ISBN number for your book to get the MLA citation

Science audio and video Podcast Collection

TeacherTube an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

The Learning Resource Collection Digital Library contains the following: * Images, video, audio, Web interactives and articles * Hands-on activities * Exhibit descriptions to help plan field trips * Teaching tips * Correlations to national and state curriculum standards

More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE Web site. FREE stands for Federal Resources for Educational Excellence.

Open Educational Resources, or OER, offer new ways to engage with free-to-use learning content from K through college, from algebra to zoology, open to all to use.

Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library.

Interactive resource for students and teachers. May be helpful for the Academic Fair.

Companion site to Discovery Channel's new 11 part series which premieres March 25th.

Companion site to the PBS special on learning differences and disabilities. Has activities to simulate the challenges students face in the areas of attention, reading, writing, and mathematics.

A blog that highlights some of the class projects in this district which use blogs, wikis, other web-based tools, and software such as MovieMaker/Photostory.

Short slide show highlighting the use of wikis in terms of participation, teacher redirection, student created help centers, and authenticity.

Quick way for students to create map markers with photos and descriptions then share via a link. No signup required.

A text to speech addin that works on web pages