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An American Indian website for children and teachers. Amazing site!

Holly, I love this site. It has every Indian trible available to explore. I especially thought the Native American picture dictionaries were very neat and students would find then fasinating.

A great comprehensive list of Native American information for students. I am going to recommend this site to a teacher I know whose students are researching different Native American groups throughout the United States. This will be a valuable site to reference again and again.

My personal comments: Watchers beware! I stopped eating meat for 8 months after watching this. I started eating meat again after getting pneumonia and getting too weak. Now I try diligently to KNOW WHERE MY MEAT COMES FROM! This is the pre-made website intro: EARTHLINGS is a powerful and informative documentary about society's treatment of animals, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix with soundtrack by Moby. This multi-award winning film by Nation Earth is a must-see for anyone who cares about animals or wishes to make the world a better place.

This website has some interesting information on Milk and our consumption of it. I for one cut milk out of my life years ago. I do still eat small amounts of cheese and Greek yogurt. I can tolerate those items better than a straight up glass of milk. They say the bacteria in Greek yogurt is better to digest.

What do you think of this homework policy idea? I've often thought that soon we will be able to assign movies as homework and just have students watch a 2 hour movie at home and then process it in school rather than using critical time with them for the viewing part. I know that seems far away for some areas, but in the metro area I think we are getting close.

It goes back to that 1 out of 100 video. So many people do not have technology whenever they like. It makes me nervous that the more we phase out traditional, and include technological, the wider the learning gap might become? Also, I'm not sure how parents would feel about their children being on the computer or TV at night after school for a 'school' related project. Whether parents capitalize on evening hours or not, that might be the only little bit of time students have to interact with their parents during the day, I wouldn't want to take that away.

It is important to show students how women in history have had an impact in their lives today. This site is a great resource for students and teachers.

I am so happy this is one to share. Women history is very important because it seems like most students think of Men in history. This is another great resource for us-I think I may share this with some current teachers now to see if they can use it.

Thank you for adding a site that describes so much different technology. I love the use of technology in the classroom and so do students. This is a great tool to use when I need to add something new in the class.

A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer for genetic experiments: a female newscaster and the daughter of the musician may be the only missing links around. Why them? And where have all the Mexicans gone? Even the border guards grieve. The state and its economy grind to a halt.

I don't know if this is an appropriate video or not, but one of my friends mentioned it at Bunco last night so I thought I would share it.

A great site for educators and students alike. Has different areas for educators, students, a place to ask questions, etc...

I like that this site includes interaction activities for the students. That's important for their learning. I tried out some of them, but my favorite was classifying the animals.

This is a great site! Thanks for sharing, I love Cool Science!

Thanks to Laurie A for this one!

After learning about so many different cultures in Human Resources I have learned that I didn't know a lot before. I am so glad that you added this site so that we can teach our students more about different cultures before they leave high school and get into the working environment.

I recently came upon this reflection on the value of simulations and play for facilitating learning. I concur!

I love how this stuff just arrives in my inbox. Serendipity?

Here's an interesting article on the benefits of same sex parenting. I would guess sooner or later we'll each have students with same sex parents at home.

After reading Omnivores Dilemma and hearing about the mis-truth's we are told about organic, free range, cage free food. I found this article that supports that the shopper should be wear. Is organic food good? Yes, but is the truth about it's claims the truth, it seems the truth may be stretched in the marketing.

I was interested in the effects of advertising on children and happened upon this documentary. "Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car."

I love these virtual field trip opportunities. I always think of my grandma, who had one book with one map to teach world geography to all her students in a one room school house. We've just got no excuse not to be exciting these days. ; )

Hey Social Studies, This seemed like a film that would be a perfect match for the movie assignment in class!  I haven't seen it yet, but look forward to and would love to hear your thoughts on it!