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PUBLIC MARKS from knann

03 February 2008

Reach for the Stars

Practice multiplication with a space theme

24 January 2008

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for Kids

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Interactive activities for ancient civiizlations:timeline and art activities

14 January 2008

Resource: Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices

Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 is a video library illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish

Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Understanding of Spanish and appreciation of many Hispanic cultures increase as students become absorbed in the mysterious and entertaining story. Closed captioning in Spanish can be used as a teaching and literacy resource. The series is also appropriate for teacher professional development.

lingro: multilingual dictionary and language learning site

by 5 others
lingro is an on-line environment for people learning languages. lingro's dictionaries remember all your translations and help you learn the vocabulary most important to you easier and faster

Wikijunior:Languages - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

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The target age of this title is 8-12 years old. This is intended to be a basic introduction for kids to learn about different languages around the world. As a general survey, this project is more oriented to covering a large variety of languages rather than studying any particular language in depth. The goal of this project is to provide some basic language skills for younger children and introduce the idea of other languages, especially in areas where children are not exposed to some of these other languages.

Verbix -

by 4 others
Verbix is an independent non-profit organization that aims to promote and protect linguistic diversity [UNESCO Observatory: Multilingualism]. This site contains verb conjugations for hundreds of languages, ranging from national and international languages to regional and even extinct languages. Download the program or use WebVerbix

Spanish Vocabulary and Expressions Audio

The format is mostly the following: the word or expression spoken in English, then repeated twice in Spanish. Please note that the audio files are up to 7 Mb in size, so the built-in player may need a bit of time after clicking "play" to load the one you'd like to listen to.

01 January 2008

Cosmic Zoom

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This visual representation is to help give you an idea of the size and scale of the universe.(similar to the Powers of Ten site) Each image is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one that comes before it or after it. The numbers are written using exponential notation. This is a convenient way scientists use to write very large or very small numbers.

28 December 2007

BBC - History - Viking Quest

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Play the game of 'Viking Quest', which takes you back to AD 793. Can you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to claim your prize? Your chief has set the challenge, it's up to you to respond. Turn up your sound for the full Viking experience.

Historic Tale Construction Kit

by 3 others (via)
Online writing tool with picture and text tools to complement the study of medieval themes

Activities and learning resources to accompany the Bayeux Tapestry

Create your own Bayeux Tapestry with the online interactive. Complete the missing final stages of the tapestry or recreate your favourite scenes. There are further fun activities for all, build a Norman ship and make the helmet of a Norman Soldier, alongside more teacher orientated material like the topic web.

Launchball Educators’ guide

Info and resources for the Launchball site

Science Museum - Launchball

by 8 others
Slide, bounce, and spring your way through 30 obstacle filled levels using your creative problem solving skills. Need to register to save progress. Complete the training games first!

LoudLit.org

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LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player.

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein

by 17 others (via)
THE books which defined the way The West thinks now... In their own words... but condensed and abridged into something like readable

Tom & Jerry Trap-O-Matic

Create Rube Goldberg-like contraptions in this flash game

26 December 2007

Select Math

Math lessons for grades 6 - 12 aligned to standards and online manipulatives

24 December 2007

Myths and Legends from E2BN

Welcome to Myths and Legends. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends. Almost every town, city and village in Britain has its own special story, be it a Celtic legend, Dark Age mystery, strange happening or fable.

19 December 2007

Papunet games

large screen, accessible games including Soduko, dominoes, puzzles, etc