This is a great handout with illustrated instructions for creating placemarks and tours in Google Earth created by David Jakes. If you click on the little yellow comment bubble in the upper-right corner of the first page, you can find the Word doc version to adapt for your own students/teachers.
INTRODUCTION
Using the news in the K-12 classroom is an excellent way to engage young people. Reading, writing and creating projects related to the news is part of most state's teaching standards.
Students should be exposed to news via print (newspapers and magazines), and non-print (radio, Television, the Internet.) Both mainstream and non-mainstream sources should be included.
To incorporate media literacy into your existing teaching, I recommend you download the core concepts of media literacy and the critical thinking questions handouts as a way of getting started.
The features on this Web site enable educational communities to:
* Browse primary sources that teachers have used with students.
* Teach primary source-based learning experiences from the Teaching Materials Collection.
* Design learning experiences using MyPortfolio.
* Share discoveries with others through field-testing and publishing.
* Use our professional development programs to uncover the breadth and depth of LOC.gov resources.
* Learn through primary source-based online activities and samples of student projects.
* Create digital documentaries using University of Virginia's Primary Access or make a handout for students.
MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, and even databases. They could be rendered graphically to the screen or to picture files.
MathCast can be used freely by anyone: students can create equation sheets to help them in their studies, educators can write handouts or study guides, webmasters can add mathematics to their website, and the list goes on and on.
Free K12 Online Software Tutorials
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