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"Lesson Plans for Teachers The Museum has created these Lesson Plans that you may download or print from this web site for your classroom use. Each lesson comes complete with directions, enrichment suggestions, and reproducible handouts. "

"The Math and Science of Junk Mail Project A Problem Based Learning Activity for Environmental Issues "

"Connected to an exciting new world of hot and lively current information, students make meaning and develop insight while the teacher shows them how to navigate and reason through the labyrinth of new sources. The front of the room disappears as 5-8 networked computers support investigations, explorations and excursions."

This is amazing, you need to READ it!!

This is very cool, check it out.

"Check out this video- based off the flashmob Oprah/Black Eyed Peas show!!!! "

"Today's technology tip is just a reminder that not everything you see on the internet is real. "

"TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students."

"Time to MOVE ON! Technology Integration into Core Curriculum Written by Lisa 18 March 2010 8 Comments If you believe "integrating technology into the classroom" should mean more than just having an interactive whiteboard sitting in the room…you NEED to read this post… And join me for an online Show and Tell (click here for details)."

"Kindergarten Is the Model for Lifelong Learning Let's keep teaching creativity throughout school and adulthood."

"A free service that removes ads from websites"

"John Abbott speaks about how schools have it wrong."

Digital Wish Digital Wish is a nonprofit organization that operates similarly to a gift registry. Teachers create technology wish lists, donors select wish lists to fund, and Digital Wish matches every dollar with an additional 2%-10% in funding.

Donors Choose Donors Choose is an online charity, non-profit organization that makes it easy for everyone to help students in need. Teachers create classroom project requests, donors choose which projects to fund and receive photos and thank-you notes from students in return. Projects under $400 have the best chance of being funded, but larger requests are possible.

"26 Learning Games to Change the World by Jeff Cobb darfur-is-dyingThe 5th annual Games for Change Festival is coming up soon, and while I don't think it is in the Mission to Learn budget for me to attend, it seems like a good time to poke around and see what sorts of games might be out there that are geared towards teaching people something that will make a difference in the world. Fair warning, you could easily eat up a big chunk of your day following the links in this post. Buy hey, you'll be helping out the world a bit in the process. Here's what I found :"

"Stupid math video" form old movies and tv shows. Pretty good, really, very useful