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Two original albums of photographs of paintings and furniture looted by the Nazis were recently discovered. The albums have been in private hands since the end of World War II and will be donated to the US National Archives in Washington, D.C. These albums were created by a special Nazi task force engaged in the theft of cultural treasures in occupied countries. In the closing days of World War II, US soldiers entered Adolf Hitler's home in the Bavarian Alps

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make videos up to 30 seconds long--allows users to create short videos by uploading photos & videos. The videos can be customized to include various effects, music, text, and themes. Students can use the images and video to enhance their oral presentations as well as a visual reminder of what to say during the presentation. Registration is not required. (Loudoun Co Public Schools Assistive Technology Team)

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to introduce a group of high school teachers to the free Socrative student response system. The response from the teachers was overwhelmingly positive to the point that one math teacher stayed with me for an extra twenty minutes just to brainstorm more ways to use Socrative in her classroom. Socrative is a free service that allows teachers to post questions to students during a class and gather feedback through responses submitted from cell phones, tablets, and laptops. Socrative gives teachers a virtual room in which they gather responses from students. Students sign into a teacher's virtual room by simply visiting the Socrative website and entering the room number distributed by the teacher. There are a variety of ways in which teachers can pose questions to students and gather their responses. The simplest way to pose a question is to simply ask verbally or post it on a whiteboard and then telling students to submit their answers. Teachers can also create quizzes ahead of time, store those quizzes in their Socrative accounts, and then make the quiz go "live" in the virtual room when they want students to take the quiz. Teachers can activate an instant feedback option so that students know when they have answered a question correctly or not. A fun way to use Socrative is to host a team "space race." A space race is a competitive format for quizzes. Space race can be played as a team or individual activity. Each correct answer moves a rocket ship across the screen. The first person or team to get their rocket across the screen wins. I've included below, a video of space race being used in a classroom.

The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education has a great motto "Inspire...then Educate." The NCESSE is a great resource for STEM teachers as it creates and oversees different initiatives, projects, and educational resources in these areas, with a focus on Earth and Space. There are a lot of different resources, from professional development, to community projects, to science news and research. There are also free Education Modules for grade K-12 that are very comprehensive and include full lesson plans, background information, activities, assessments, inquiry based hands-on activities, rubrics, handouts and more. There are 5 modules available right now and each module is broken up into three (K-4, 5-8, 9-12) or four (K-2, 3-4, 5-8, 9-12) grade levels. The modules are on topics such as the solar system, earth science, extreme environment of space, human space exploration, and the search for life in the universe. You can download any of the lessons. There is also a Lesson Layout with descriptions of each section that you can download: Lesson Layout (PDF, 490 kb

PDFBinder is a free tool that allows you to merge multiple PDF documents into one. Simply click "add file" select the PDF documents you want to merge, and then click "Bind". That's it. This is a great resource for schools and teachers that use PDF documents often. Sometimes you have different files, whether scans of paper documents, PDFs of websites or already created PDFs, that you want as one file.

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Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's the site for basic information about classical music. Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company, it's built around Essential Classics, the series specially designed to introduce you to the best music of every period. All through the site you'll find almost 200 excerpts from Essential Classics.

"All Virginia Studies Standards The following are resources for all Virginia Studies Standards. LITERATURE RESOURCES Literature Resources for all Standards of Learning TEACHER BACKGROUND RESOURCES WEB SITES * http://www.myvirginia.org/ The official Commonwealth of Virginia home page is your gateway to Virginia . . . from the mountains of southwest to the waterways of Hampton Roads, state government to Virginia facts and figures. Use the buttons to explore Virginia. This site contains many informational resources. * http://www.Virginia.org The Virginia Travel Corporation Web site contains an extensive list of places in Virginia. You can search for a site alphabetically, by time period, by location, and by other categories (such as historic buildings). In addition, you may search for historic sites by city. Contact information, hours of operation, and other details are provided for these historic sites. Click your way around Virginia. * http://www.vahistorical.org/ The Virginia Historical Society founded in 1831 has provided visitors the opportunity to view, research, and learn about the ordinary and everyday artifacts of Virginia. These artifacts provide visitors with a comprehensive history of the Commonwealth. Online resources are also available. * http://www.virginiaplaces.org This comprehensive Web site contains a wealth of information about Virginia geography, places, and people. Teachers will find this to be a helpful resource about many topics, from the rocks and ridges of Virginia to "Virginia and the Internet." The Web site was created to support the Geography of Virginia class taught each fall at George Mason University. * http://marg.mhost.com/vahistory.html This site, developed by Tabb Elementary School in York County, has links to Web sites divided according to Colonial period, Civil War years, and miscellaneous. * http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects This Web s

"Virginia Standard of Learning Students who graduate in 2004 will need to pass a prescribed number of Standards of Learning (SOL) tests to attain verified credits required for graduation. This web site has been created to assist students preparing for those exams by offering practice tests in history, math, science, English and computer technology. VirginiaSOL.com is not associated with Virginia's State Board of Education SOL Review Sites SOL Review Sites. Disclaimer: This web page contains links to one or more web pages that are outside the FCPS network. Quia - Class Page - 5th Grade Welcome to the 5th Grade SOL Web Page! ... Download SOL Answer Sheet in Adobe Acrobat ... 4th Grade SOL website! 6-8th Grade SOL WebPage! ... Instructional Services Standards of Learning Resources Virginia State Standards of Learning Science, Math and Technology ... All questions on this site are copyrighted by the Virginia Department of Education ... The SOL Practice Tests support strand selection and non-random tests SOLpass - Virginia SOL Test Practice and Review Review and practice for Virginia SOLs - Standards of Learning Tests - with fun, interactive activities and quizzes. Mrs. Wilborne's SOL Testing Page NEW SOLS Approved by State Department: Revised Math SOLs 2001 Released Tests These files are a form of the tests that students across the Commonwealth of Virginia took as part of the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessments. Salem Elementary-SOL Websites These sites contain practice tests to help students prepare for the SOL tests. ... Jefferson Labs SOL site. A great sites for students to take practice SOL ... SOL Practice Tests Welcome to the Wise County Alternative Education Center SOL Practice Tests &. Tutorial Sites webpage. This SOL Practice SOL links and tests - VirginiaSOL.com is not associated with the Virginia Department of Education. This VA-SOL A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Virginia's Site for Educators - Click here to go ho

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"This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was instigated (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient. As a result there is a process called "link rot" - which means that a "broken link" is a result of someone having taken down a web page. In some cases some websites have simply reorganized sub-directories without creating forwarding links. Since 2000, very few links to external sites have been made. An effort is under way to remove bad links."

"A library history buff, also sometimes referred to as a library history nut, is an individual with a passion for library history and its artifacts. Larry T. Nix is the library history buff who created and maintains this Web site. This site is divided into three broad categories. The "Library History" category includes Web pages with information about library history. The "Librariana" category includes Web pages with information about the collecting of library memorabilia and artifacts. The "Postal Librariana" category includes Web pages with information about the collecting of postal artifacts related to libraries. "

"A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps. Another word for a tessellation is a tiling. Read more here: What is a Tiling? A dictionary* will tell you that the word "tessellate" means to form or arrange small squares in a checkered or mosaic pattern. The word "tessellate" is derived from the Ionic version of the Greek word "tesseres," which in English means "four." The first tilings were made from square tiles. A regular polygon has 3 or 4 or 5 or more sides and angles, all equal. A regular tessellation means a tessellation made up of congruent regular polygons. [Remember: Regular means that the sides and angles of the polygon are all equivalent (i.e., the polygon is both equiangular and equilateral). Congruent means that the polygons that you put together are all the same size and shape.] Only three regular polygons tessellate in the Euclidean plane: triangles, squares or hexagons. We can't show the entire plane, but imagine that these are pieces taken from planes that have been tiled. "

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