Paper Plate Education is an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations. This website promotes innovative hands-on Activities that you can experience across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, and at a low price-all with common paper plates.
Categories: Teacher Use
Brief Description: A LiveBinder of resources, materials, websites, reference materials, lessons, and more for teaching the book, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
Categories: Teacher Use, Student Use
Brief Description: IThinkIcon is a search engine designed to simplify the process of finding high quality, free icons. We're constantly adding to our database of icons in multiple formats and sizes. We've tried to provide both ease of use and high functionality all in one for both the web designer/developer and for the personal user. A database of over 200,000 copyright-free, royalty free icons. Many are downloadable in different sizes. It was created with the website developer in mind, but it works for student projects also.
Categories: Student Use, Teacher Use, Simulations
Brief Description: "Little Librarian is the first personal library kit made just for kids! It encourages reading and is powered by creativity and imagination, not batteries! Little Librarian provides book lovers with everything they need to transform their book collection into a library. Kids can practice the important skills of organizing, sharing, borrowing, and returning. Book pockets, check out cards, library cards, and bookmarks are just like the ones from the real library. Little Librarians will issue overdue notices and awards. Favorite books can be stored in the reading journal and shared with friends.
To get started just add books!"
Categories: Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration, Interactive Learning
Brief Description: Fairly comprehensive set of links to popular culture and US history decades sites.
Categories: Student Use, Teacher Use, Exploration, Simulations
Brief Description: Science360 Knowledge Network immerses visitors in the latest wonders of science, engineering, technology and math. We gather the latest science videos provided by scientists, colleges and universities, science and engineering centers, the National Science Foundation and more. Each video is embeddable to put on your own personal websites, blogs and social networking pages. Science360 engages the general public, science junkies and students alike in the cutting-edge discoveries and big science stories of the day.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Science360 is an up-to-date view of breaking science from around the world.
Categories: Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration
Brief Description: Resources about journalism not produced by PEJ. These include tools for consumers, students and producers of news from our former sister organization, the Committee of Concerned Journalists. There also links to journalism schools, other journalism organizations, ethics codes and Committee of Concerned Journalists.
Categories: Student Use, Exploration, Web-Based Learning
Brief Description: The TimeMap of World History is an all inclusive look at world history. It combines maps, timelines and chronological narratives that work together to enhance historical understanding. New content added daily.
Categories: Teacher Use, Student Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration
Brief Description: Earth Day websites "pinned" which will link back to CLRN (California Learning Resources Network). It tells the website, subject areas and curriculum, grade and reading levels, and media format types.
Categories: Teacher Use, Professional Development, Interactive Learning, Web-Based Learning, Tutorials
Brief Description: Information and tutorials on technology, assessment assistance, Daily Dose of the Web, online practice modules, and links for students and parents.
