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I love children's museums, and their websites! Even if a trip to the museum is out of the question, websites often offer a virtual field trip from home. Students can explore exhibits, play games, and teachers can print out lesson plans. I do this before every trip to DC. Many of the Smithsonian's even have downloadable apps.

This site provides student with plenty of resources to find answers for their homework. It has dictionaries, translation sites, pictures, encyclopedias, geography, museums, sounds, thesaurus, math, measurments, grammar and other useful sites.

"This official site of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. features links to each of the Smithsonian's museums and their exhibitions, as well as special online resources in art and design, history and culture, and science and technology." I love this site because the student can through this Site Search any branch of the Museum of Smithsonian. Also this site the student can identify and look at the audience and other cultures to recognize it at first hand. The teacher can use this site to explain other cultures and civilizations to be presented to students in an interesting way to increase the knowledge of students.

great teacher resource- The water cycle check it out!

The new organization, named Collective Shift, wants to connect schools, businesses, libraries, museums, and city leaders in efforts to build new "ecosystems of learning."

This article is written by Dr. Campbell, it talks about the importance of integrating Technology into the classroom. She talks about how students love social media and using their phone. Therefore, it is important for a teacher to continuously utilize these tools to further interest and engage the students in the classroom. She also talks about various tools the teachers can use in the classroom to further interest the students in the curriculum. Such tools may include Prezi, Voicethread, Tagxedo, and Museum Box.

Art Babble is a video website designed and maintained by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The purpose of Art Babble is to provide a place for people to learn about the creation of art, artists, and collections through quality video productions. Visitors to Art Babble will find videos related to many forms of and formats for art.

Art Pad is a digital canvas supported by art.com. It similar to Microsoft Paint, but offers features such as splash painting, custom framing, online sharing and a museum gallery.

This is a link to The Museum of Obsolete Objects. This site has mini videos looking at the changes in technology.

A brief study of the current usage of the word "curate." This word has become popular especially among those interested in so-called 21st Century learning/skills. What information do you "curate," and for whom do you present it?

I curate everything for my child, and for my students....apps, websites, games, field trips, resources, books; anything i know they could use and benefit from and enjoy. I also curate info on plants, especially native and edible ones, and how to grow and preserve them, and present it to whoever is interested. I really could "curate" a lot of things, being the resourceful person that I am...but I wouldn't want to come across as a know it all, trying only to speak when I know the info would be appreciated.

This is so cool Storm In a Tea Cup MUST SEE!

My kid will love this! We saw something similar, on a larger scale, at the science museum in Ft. Lauderdale.

The Smithsonian website is an educational that provides links and activities for both educators and students. This site provides educational content for educators which they can easily access and use within their classrooms. It provides videos, interactive games and additional links for students to navigate their way through in order to gain a greater understanding of history and art. It is a great site that can truly help enhance to overall content of one's lesson.