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Entries from May 26th, 2009

Where to look for photographs

May 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Classroom, Working with photographs

Many museums have placed their photographs online- and they are there for your students to use. The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the New York Public Library and the George Eastman House have their photos on flickr – NASA has their own site. Click here for a listing and comparison of what each site has [...]

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Virtual Forest Challenge

May 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Content - Science

Choices, choices, choices!  Every decision we make has an impact somewhere- and these days many of those impacts are environmental in nature.Test your daily decisions by visiting Virtual Forest (sponsored by Scholastic).  Your students select behaviors at home, and school, and their neighborhood.  The results are tabulated and they can see the consequences on the [...]

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