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Great idea to help colleagues get started on Twitter with a #WW ~ "Welcome Wednesday"

lessons and activities about science and technology in WW2

Since I've been exploring the @TESConnect site as part of the work I'm doing highlighting the best resources of TES that apply to US teachers, I've been drawn to some of the World War 2 footage from the site. This video is Children in World War 2 and I think it is especially helpful to pull video footage from other countries when talking about wars, etc. to gain multiple perspectives. What about drilling down to look at other wars as well?

8 Child-friendly coding projects with examples on Scratch

This sort of thing strikes fear in the heart of every administrator. So, I let them customize their lessons and they come up with word problems about how many times a slave would be beaten in a minute at a certain rate. It is offensive on so many levels but also because we see an uproar over slavery in words (in this worksheet) but not in deeds. Fact is, there are 29 million slaves in the world today, more than ever in history and they are being beaten and forced to work. We don't see an uproar over that and we should. Both the worksheet and the bigger problems deserve attention.

"Children of anxious parents are more at risk of developing an anxiety disorder. But there's welcome news for those anxious parents: that trajectory toward anxiety isn't set in stone. Therapy and a change in parenting styles might be able to prevent kids from developing anxiety disorders, according to research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry Friday."

Science website is interactive so students, parents, and educators can visualize science.

These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe.

"Career Day" \nby Roadside Productions \n\nScreened at AFI Silver Spring\non May 9, 2006 at 7pm. \n\n

As survivors become fewer, the young carried their memories on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Take a virtual tour of a World War One trench and experience the conditions under which World War One soldiers fought and lived.

Contemporary photographs, dramatised diary readings and interviews with veterans exploring key themes of World War One.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology.

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