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 [...]
Entries from May 26th, 2009
Where to look for photographs
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Classroom, Working with photographs
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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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WolframAlpha- a different way to use the web
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Classroom
Wolframalph.com is not your typical website. It is not a search engine but rather “long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.” WolframAlpha tries to answer your question- not just present a list of websites (but there are links in the border). Here is an overview. Here are a few examples: -Quickly [...]
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“Give a man a fish…
May 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Content - Science, Working with photographs
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ” (Chinese proverb) Do you suppose the same would apply if you give a student a seed? Will that help them grow to be life-long learners? I think the Photopeach below has the answer. Lisa Payne’s [...]
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