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"Science News for Kids is a web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14. Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials. Our emphasis is on making the Web site appealing by offering kids opportunities to comment on and grade the subject matter, get ideas for science projects, and try out mathematical puzzles. At the same time, we offer teachers creative ways of using science news in their classrooms."

Get the Math is a new multimedia project from Thirteen. It illustrates how math fits in to exciting careers, such as development, and music. The materials include training videos, lesson plans, music fideos, and interactive tools designed to challenge and engage students in developing algebraic thinking skills.

Thanks to Jim Gates' for posting this site on 2/7/2009.

Blog about Courage Using Photos. This is a readwritethink activities that has teens think about the concept of courage and then find or take photographs from their own lives that they think exemplify courage.

Interesting idea for blogging. Think about how many concepts we teach, thus there are numerous ways an activity like this could be used in a variety of content areas.

"To engage students in making design decisions that affect the transfer of energy between a building and the outside environment. To help students identify and consider the types of decisions involved in improving a building's energy profile. To analyze the green roof option in economic and community terms."

Thinkfinity resource

"The LF10 is a loose association of middle school students in undisclosed locations in cyberspace dedicated to promoting awareness of important academic terms and concepts through absurd stop-motion films"

I checkd out some of the videos the kids made. This looks really engaging. What a great way for kids to demonstrate their understanding.

I checked out some of the projects. What a great way for students to demonstrate understanding of a concept.

The Chemistry Add-in for Word makes it easier to insert and modify chemical information, such as labels, formulas, and 2-D depictions, within Microsoft Office Word. Additionally, it enables the creation of inline "chemical zones," the rendering of print-ready visual depictions of chemical structures, and the ability to store and expose chemical information in a semantically rich manner.

Here is an add-in for word that can be downloaded

Free music downloads. New added every few weeks.