An excellent resource from scholastic for the Thanksgiving holiday. With teacher registration, you are granted access to the following:
*Video tours of Wampanoag dwellings, canoe construction, and daily life
*Replay of webcast including interviews with interpreters from the Plimoth Plantation
*Series of classroom emails from a Pilgrim girl and a Wampanoag boy
*Reminder emails for virtual field trips and webcast replay
Interested in integrating technology into holiday lessons? This is an excellent place to start for Thanksgiving!
This website enable students to take a virtual, self-guided tour the Smithsonian Museum of National History without leaving the classroom. It includes the option to view past exhibits that are no longer displayed. This can be a great way to enrich instruction and allow students to investigate topics of interest.
Adult ELL lessons designed by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL). The lessons were designed to have a mixture of vocabulary and games for beginning intermediate students designed around work skills.
A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System: one star, eight planets, and more This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system. Each page has our text and NASA's images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
A tour of Web 2.0 resources for the classroom. Great Bookmarking source for teachers to organize Websites.
Have you used LiveBinder in the classroom with your students or colleagues? This is a great bookmarking tool.
This is a great resource for students learning about different locations. Different from the traditional travel videos which show the normal tourist attractions and provide no personal connections to the audience. Students are exposed to authentic travel experiences and they feel as if they are there. Great for virtual tours.
This website allows students to tour the technology, mathematics and science that went behind many of the inventions of WWII. It also gives lesson plans for teachers to utilize the site in the classroom.
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.