Frogs, Butterflies and Birds Oh My!

Congratulations! Your peers have selected you to run for office! You could be the next mayor, governor, or president. Will you accept the offer to run? After investigating the ins and outs of holding an office, you will report your findings to the class and your team will give us your final decision.

Review information students already know about fractions.

An investigation of the artistic style of Johannes Vermeer as seen in the mystery novel Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

Students will write a creative narrative describing their day trip in space using factual information gathered about the planets and compile an accurate map detailing their travel through the planets.

K-2 Introduction to Matter

cracking the reading code with the brain in mind... saw this at waller mill last friday and thought it was great... take a look!

I just thought this was really cool and possibly a way to introduce a unit on oceans

Shows you how to use Google Earth, provides you with student controlled lessons and teacher controlled lessons

answers those all important questions about data visualization.

Edward Tufte is coming to Arlington, VA

VDOE's Internet Safety Guidelines

An interactive way to understand what being a digital native means.

similar to the one done at the University level. The theme here is "engage me" to motivate and inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways

Although really short, this provides quick links to instances where there are copyright exceptions for teachers... interesting.

Great ideas for creativity lessons. Includes lesson ideas on drawing, thinking/feeling, design and composition thinking, etc...