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"Fonts are the style of "type face" used to display text, numbers, characters and other "glyphs" as they are often called in the typography industry. Typography refers to the arrangement and appearance of text. Typography concerns not only the look of the glyphs, but how they are placed on the page (page margins, the amount of empty space between paragraphs or lines, the alignment of text, etc.)."

"Fonts are the style of "type face" used to display text, numbers, characters and other "glyphs" as they are often called in the typography industry. Typography refers to the arrangement and appearance of text. Typography concerns not only the look of the glyphs, but how they are placed on the page (page margins, the amount of empty space between paragraphs or lines, the alignment of text, etc.)."

"Seasonal change is all around us. We see it in the length of a day, in the appearance of a flower, in the flight of a butterfly. Journey North engages students and citizen scientists around the globe in tracking wildlife migration and seasonal change. Participants share field observations across the northern hemisphere, exploring the interrelated aspects of seasonal change. Sunlight and the Seasons Discovering how sunlight drives seasonal change by tracking changes in day length, or photoperiod. Plants and the Seasons Exploring plant growth in tulip test gardens, running an experiment to track the arrival of spring. Seasonal Migrations Following animal migrations. Observing, reporting, and tracking travels across the hemisphere. Journey North is a free, Internet-based program presented by Annenberg Learner, a division of the Annenberg Foundation."

"The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) is a project led by five centers and 24 states, building an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The shared goal of the NCSC partners is to ensure that students with the most significant cognitive disabilities achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options. The wiki and the materials hosted here help educators accomplish the NCSC goals by supporting instruction aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The materials on the wiki can also be used in states that are not using the CCSS. Much of the content that is covered on the wiki will also appear in other Mathematics and English Language Arts state standards. "

Tutorials on the magnifier in Windows 7

During the school year, resources related to each Strategy-A-Day calendar page will appear here. If this is all you are seeing now, check back after the summer break and you'll find lots of great related resources for your classroom. Of course, you can use the tags and search features within Diigo to locate resources now--or anytime at all. To learn more about Diigo go to http://lcps.org/page/1710. To view our complete collection of tagged Diigo resources, click here https://groups.diigo.com/group/lcpsat

VocabAhead provides a full-brain learning approach to understanding and mastering tough English words especially those appearing in standardized tests such as SAT, ACT and GRE. Students, Teachers and Vocab enthusiasts of all ages find this site extremely useful.

Did you know that Windows 7 includes a Magnifier with a choice of three viewing modes that can be set to open automatically on login? Provides visual access by increasing size of cursor, toolbars, icons, text, and more on the computer desktop, web pages, software programs, and more. This website provides instructions for using this tool, and includes a video.

"Newsela will publish Post articles at five reading levels for 2nd-12th grade readers, including the original version exactly as it appears in the print or online edition of The Washington Post. All articles from The Washington Post are available at https://newsela.com/~washingtonpost."

"Cubing is a differentiation strategy where students roll a cube that has different activities/tasks printed on each face of the cube.  When a student rolls a cube, he/she does the activity that appears on the face."

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you

"n this online activity, a fictional character named Arnold is missing a number of body parts. You are presented with a body system and a variety of organs. You should drag and drop all the organs that belong in that particular body system to Arnold's body. Once all four systems are complete, a clothed Arnold will appear. "

VocabAhead provides a full-brain learning approach to understanding and mastering tough English words especially those appearing in standardized tests such as SAT, ACT and GRE. Students, Teachers and Vocab enthusiasts of all ages find this site extremely useful. Twitter ID: @VocabAhead

Cheat sheet created by the Loudoun County Public Schools' Assistive Technology Team on using the Boardmaker Plus v. 6 Symbolate tool. Type in the text, or copy and paste it from a document or the Internet, and the graphics will appear with the text. It also has a text to speech feature that reads the text aloud. Provides wonderful supports for struggling readers and English language learners!

WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. WAY COOL

StarTalk, from Curved Light Productions, is the first and only popular commercial radio program devoted to all things space and is hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. As Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, Tyson makes regular appearances as the "nation's expert on space" on major news programs and popular shows (Daily Show, Colbert Report). Tyson's writings (such as The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist) and NOVA specials (Origins, and NOVA ScienceNOW) have already won him a faithful media following. His most recent book, Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries reached the New York Times Best Seller List. Tyson was named Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential Persons in the World for 2007. StarTalk Radio bridges the intersection between Pop Culture and Science with clarity, humor and passion. Captivating subjects-such as space travel, extra-terrestrial life, the Big Bang, the future of our Earth and the environment, and breaking news from the universe-will all be explored. Hilarity ensues as Tyson is joined each week by comedian co-hosts, celebrities, and other special guests.

"Reading science trade books is the perfect way for students to build literacy skills while learning science content. The books that appear in these lists were selected as outstanding children's science trade books. "