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At exactly 10:17am ET today the Jovian - Plutonian Gravitational Effect will impact the gravity on Earth. British astrophysicist Patrick Moore discovered that the combined gravitational pull of the alignment of Jupiter and Pluto will cause one to spend a significantly longer amount of time "floating" in the air when jumping up due to an increase in gravitational pull from the celestial objects. Experience the phenomenon by setting a timer and having your entire class jump up into the air at exactly 10:17am. The experience is said to be similar to that of riding a roller coaster or jumping in an elevator as it begins to descend. Experience Zero Gravity! The effect lasts for approximately one minute.

"The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is a hoax phenomenon stated to cause a noticeable short-term reduction in gravity on Earth that was invented for April Fools' Day by the English astronomer Patrick Moore and broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 1 April 1976."

Free open-source mindmapping application written in Java. Sample features include folding branches, save to XML, graphical links connecting nodes, web and file hyperlinks and much more

To get started, go to the Tutorials page and download a free ebook on the accessibility features of Apple's mobile devices, as well as our PDF Tutorials for iPad and iPod touch applications that support students with special needs. The Apps page includes

Pro's/Con's, Tips & Tricks, and sample apps for the itouch and iphone

Chris Oneal Blog on ipodclassroom. Management info, elem, middle, HS apps and more

Maryland resource to support education of all students in a UDL classroom

This is a place to find other Daily 5 folks that you might want to connect with. You may want to find another teacher working with a similar grade level or maybe you would like to connect your classes. I know we have members who have written collaborative stories together, follow each other's blogs and twitter accounts, and who use Skype for Read to Someone globally. You can use the Comments column to add any extra information.

Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.

WatchKnowLearn has indexed over 33,000+ educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness. The Web site invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers."

University of Arkansas Center for Math and Science Education wiki that provides links to instructions, templates, and sample foldables in many subject areas

This site contains web tools organized into sectiopns including research, collaborative, quiz and poll, converters, creativity, image, drawing, and more!

Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Other Helpful Sites Creative Commons Teacher Resources"

Inspiration 9 Getting Started User Guide

UDL Strategies Wiki: "Multiple means of representation - the 'what' of learning with varied ways that new information can be presented to students."