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This teacher chose to have his students create RSA Animate-style videos as "an easy way to make them visualize their information, make connections, and re-tell their facts in a story that had a very tight story line that flowed.  All skills that would transfer nicely to any traditional essay." He really emphasizes the preparation and planning stages, which is great. He also talks about the process, which is useful.  All said, a great resource.

interactive visual animation of brain development

Loved the graphics - thank you Rose for sharing this!

"Browse and use standards-aligned curriculum." Some free, some paid.

Awww, you missed your chance to take part in Star Wars!

"I used to have to tell my students about phenomena, or have them read; now I can show them," says Jim Doane, a science teacher at Scarborough Middle School, in Scarborough, Maine. When we begin adding digital demonstrations through video and Flash animation, we are giving students new, better ways to get information." This is sooo true - I love that I can show my kindergartners a video of a baby worm hatching from it's cocoon because the odds of us being able to see it in our worm bin despite the number of actual cocoons we may see are very,very low! Or videos of leaves changing color (in fast time) when we discuss chlorphyll and sunlight and fall. Or a magnificent closeup of our very own red wigglers as they "move" across the Promethean Board.

A slick interactive map of learning objectives according to Anderson/Krathwohl's revision of Bloom's taxonomy.

Interactive animation of Bloom"s revised taxonomies

A slick interactive map of learning objectives according to Anderson/Krathwohl's revision of Bloom's taxonomy.