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"Daily Science Trivia can be used as a quick class starter activity. Visit my Trivia Procedure Page page for more information on my trivia procedures! I also have several Trivia To Go sets on several areas of science. More resources and thinking games are available on the Trivia Challenge page at the Kid Zone!"

" MyPyramid Tracker is an online dietary and physical activity assessment tool that provides information on your diet quality, physical activity status, related nutrition messages, and links to nutrient and physical activity information. The Food Calories/Energy Balance feature automatically calculates your energy balance by subtracting the energy you expend from physical activity from your food calories/energy intake. Use of this tool helps you better understand your energy balance status and enhances the link between good nutrition and regular physical activity. Keep track of your energy balance history and view it up to one year. MyPyramid Tracker translates the principles of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and other nutrition standards developed by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. Click here for a NEW tutorial on MyPyramid Tracker. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 0584-0535 (expiration date: June 30, 2009). The time required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 31.5 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. "

" * Anxiety Disorders o Generalized Anxiety Disorder o Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) o Panic Disorder o Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) o Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder) * Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, ADD) * Autism Spectrum Disorders (Pervasive Developmental Disorders) * Bipolar Disorder (Manic-Depressive Illness) * Borderline Personality Disorder * Depression * Eating Disorders * Prevention * Research on HIV & AIDS * Schizophrenia * Suicide Prevention * Children & Adolescents * Older Adults * Men * Women * If You Are in Crisis and Need Immediate Help * Locating Services * Clinical Trials * Coping with Traumatic Events * Prevention o Prevention of Mental Disorders o Suicide Prevention * Treatments o Medications o Psychotherapies o Brain Stimulation Therapies * Visit BringChange2Mind.org t o find out about a national anti-stigma project. NIMH Video and Audio NIMH researchers talk about the symptoms of ADHD as well as the latest research.Frame from the video Does my child have ADHD? Watch this video about the signs, symptoms, and research.. * Does my child have ADHD? Watch this video about the signs, symptoms, and research. * Farris Tuma on Mental Health Concerns from the Gulf Oil Spill * Judith Warner on Researching Her Book, We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication * NIMH Radio: Dr. Ron Duman of Yale University talks about ketamine research and treatment for major depression * Raising Awareness: Learn About Two of NIMH's Partners Working to Prevent Suicide in Young Adults * Stress Hormone Receptors Less Adaptive in Female Brain "

"Preparing for college takes planning and organization. Paying for college takes financial aid. FAFSA4caster will help you get an early start on the financial aid process by: * Providing you with an early estimate of your eligibility for federal student aid. * Giving you an experience similar to FAFSA on the Web * Allowing you to transfer all of your FAFSA4caster data to FAFSA on the Web once you are ready to apply for aid. * Providing you the option to apply for your Federal Student Aid PIN. * Increasing your knowledge of the financial aid process, and providing information about other sources of aid. LightbulbAnother featur"

"FreeFoto.com is made up of 130587 images with 175 sections organized into 3581 categories. FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet (link back and attribution required). See FREE USE RULES. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site, offers images that are free for on-line use, with higher quality versions available for sale. Also non-commercial users may download our web size images to use off-line in school projects, church services, cards, leaflets, etc. Basically if your off-line use is not commercial you can download our web size images for free. FreeFoto.com features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every we"

"For hundreds of different types of jobs-such as teacher, lawyer, and nurse-the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you: * the training and education needed * earnings * expected job prospects * what workers do on the job * working conditions In addition, the Handbook gives you job search tips, links to information about the job market in each State, and more. You can also view frequently asked questions about the Handbook. Ways to use the Occupational Outlook Handbook site: 1. To find out about a specific occupation or topic, use the Search box that is on every page-enter your search term in the box. 2. To find out about many occupations, browse through listings using the Occupations links that are on the left side of each page. 3. For a listing of all occupations in alphabetical order, go to the A-Z Index and select a letter. About the Handbook: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years."

"Welcome to the Periodic Table of ComicBooks. Click on an element to see a list of comic book pages involvingthat element. Click on a thumbnail on the list to see a full comic bookpage. For technical information about an element, follow the link toMark Winter's WebElements. Werecommend that you start with oxygen to see some of our best stuff.There's something for everyone here! "

Our program brings together enthusiastic young learners and distinguished college faculty to read and discuss Great Books and Big Ideas. Your student will discuss the likes of Plato, Jefferson, Tolstoy, Borges and Vonnegut with other young people who love literature just as much as they do! Join discussions on Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Henry Ward Beecher led by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Doris Kearns Goodwin, Joseph Ellis, Debby Applegate or one of our other Guest Speakers. This summer Great Books welcomes authors Richard Reeves to Stanford University and Dennis Lehane to Amherst College. Great Books helps students find their voices in the classroom and gives them the opportunity to grow academically and socially as they prepare for high school and college. Open discussions encourage students to express themselves and give power to their ideas. Have your high school student go beyond Great Books and explore Great Films! We take our unique style of learning through discussion and apply it to the medium of film. Students learn to apply critical thinking to a visual medium and develop their listening skills through discussion. Experience a week or two away from home and spend it at a top liberal arts college - students can choose from two campus settings: Amherst College in Massachusetts and Stanford University in California. This is the perfect opportunity to preview life on a college campus! Flexible 1, 2, or 3-week programs fit nicely into any summer schedule. Students may come solo, with a friend, or better yet, with a group of classmates. Round out a summer of leisure and sports with some engaging, thought-provoking fun! Great Books has welcomed students from 43 states as well as Hong Kong, Singapore, Jordan, Korea, China, Switzerland, England, Canada, France, Mexico, Denmark, Croatia, Italy and more. This is the perfect opportunity for international students to come to the U.S. for summer learning and

"The internet has become the reference source of choice on just about everything. It is invaluable, but just as students need to learn how to examine critically information presented conventionally in newspapers, books and magazines so they need to apply those skills to the cyberspace world. The reading below offers a student introduction to some of the skills needed to use the internet critically. Also available on this website are the following sets of materials bearing on the teaching of critical thinking: "Teaching Critical Thinking," "The Plagiarism Perplex," "How to Stop Cheaters," "The Essential Skill of Crap Detecting," and "Thinking Is Questioning." The website of education technology specialist Alan November (www.novemberlearning.com) provides an internet "Information Literacy" quiz that might be a useful starting point for discussion with high school students. "

Behold is a search engine that is designed to help you find the best Creative Commons licensed images for your blog, slideshow, or video project. Behold searches the catalog of more than one million Creative Commons licensed images on Flickr. What makes Behold different from just searching by using the license filter on Flickr itself is that Behold searches not just by image tag but also by the quality of the content of the images. When it works correctly if you used Behold to search for images of "buildings in New York City" you would not only be searching the tags people assigned to their images, but you would also be searching the actual content of the images.

presents articles discussing Shakespeare on stage and on the page.

STUDENT OBJECTIVES Students will investigate the influence of advertising on their daily lives **Engage in critical inquiry of mass media ** Identify hidden media messages ** Interpret messages presented through advertising ** Discuss the effect of advertising on culture

Categories: Student Use, Web-Based Learning, Simulations, Interactive Learning Brief Description: offers interactive 3D models of human anatomy. One can turn on and off different views according to which body systems you want to view. The models can be rotated 360 degrees and the labels have an audio play-back option.

What is Dipity? Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. Who is Dipity for? Dipity timelines are for anyone who uses the Internet. Newspapers, journalists, celebrities, government organizations, politicians, financial institutions, community managers, museums, universities, teachers, students, non-profits and bloggers all use Dipity to create timelines. Why use Dipity? Dipity allows users to create free timelines online. Digital timelines are a great way to increase traffic and user engagement on your website. Dipity is the fastest and easiest way to bring history to life with stunning multimedia timelines."

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.

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.

"A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. Please use this form or e-mail to add entries, provide corrections, or make comments on its utility. Those who have recently submitted new and revised entries are acknowledged. Guidelines for the inclusion of sites on this list are available."

"Gallery Banner Beginning in 1946, two XS-1 experimental research aircraft (later redesignated X-1s) conducted pioneering tests at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base) in California to obtain flight data on conditions in the transonic speed range. These early tests culminated on October 14, 1947, in the first piloted flight faster than Mach 1.0, the speed of sound. The XS-1 was the first high-speed aircraft built purely for aviation research purposes. The model was never intended for production. The XS-1 was designed largely in accordance with specifications provided by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) [now National Aeronautics and Space Administration], paid for by the Army Air Forces, and built by Bell Aircraft Inc. The XS-1 #2 (serial number 46-063) was flight tested by the NACA to provide design data for later production high-performance aircraft. The research techniques used in the X-1 program became the pattern for all subsequent X-craft projects. The NACA X-1 procedures and personnel also helped lay the foundation of America's space program in the 1960s. The X-1 project defined and solidified the post-war cooperative union between U.S. military needs, industrial capabilities, and research facilities. The flight data collected by the NACA in the X-1 tests then provided a basis for American aviation supremacy in the latter half of the 20th century. As a result of the X-1's initial supersonic flight, the National Aviation Association voted its 1948 Collier Trophy to be shared by the three main participants in the program. Honored at the White House by President Truman were Lawrence "Larry" Bell for Bell Aircraft, Captain Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager for piloting the flights, and John Stack of NACA for the NACA contributions. "

"On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body."