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Students become engaged learners through this unit that prepares students for studying ancient Greece and combines learning basic research skills with digital storytelling skills.  While researching about Greek gods, heroes and creatures, students learn how to find main ideas in sentences and paragraphs in books and Internet articles, which they then learn to record in short phrases on index cards divided by topic.  Working with a partner, students turn these short phrases into the script for their digital story that includes music and pictures.

Math interactive tools for white boards

3D design is a great motivational and instructional tool. It exercises both left-brain and right-brain skills, and appeals to students of all abilities. ModelMetricks books contain easy-to-follow projects based on the free Google SketchUp application, to show how to model anything in 3D.

This site has a large number of  math puzzles and games.  Many can be used with an interactive white board

Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!

Links to interactive math tools and activities for students and teachers.

These are some educational java applets to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering. You should be able to view them with any Java-capable browser.

This site contains hands-on approaches for teaching the sometimes challenging concept of integers. Included are video clips, concrete models and Mat Board  for solving the problems. Quick-Time media player is required.

Animated timeline and map of the growth of the US

Become an archaeologist! Begin in Collect and Catalog to dig for Mesopotamian artifacts in Iraq. Then Curate a Museum Exhibition using photographs of the artifacts you found. Or you can jump ahead and Curate a Museum Exhibition using photographs of artifacts selected for you.

great math interactives for students