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Click below for a Hotlist of resources for Tech Tools you can use in your Middle or High School English classroom to support the Virginia standards of learning. Links for a cross-curricular project (with history) using many of these tools are included at the bottom of the page, including activities for analyzing primary source materials, examples […]
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Caroline LaMagna
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Click here for a Hotlist of Tech Tools you can use in your 3rd - 5th grade classroom to support social studies standards of learning. Many of these resources can be used in other areas as well.
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Caroline LaMagna
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Click here for a Hotlist of resources for tech tools you can use in your classroom to support social studies standards of learning. Many of these resources can be used in other areas as well.
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Caroline LaMagna
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Here are some Thanksgiving themed writing activities for K-5 students:
Kindergarten - this is a Word document tracer page. Students will trace the word “Thanksgiving” on the first line and then the second line just has the “Th” - they would have to try to write the rest of the word imitating the line above it. […]
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Caroline LaMagna
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History.com has a terrific site on Thanksgiving here:
The History of Thanksgiving
The site includes information on the first Thanksgiving, the origins of the Thanksgiving Holiday, and fun facts about Thanksgiving.
Scholastic has a site about the first Thanksgiving here:
The First Thanksgiving
The site includes information about the voyage of the Mayflower, the Pilgrims’ daily life, and the Thanksgiving […]
Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Caroline LaMagna
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It’s not too late! November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) - the goal is to write a 50,000 word (175 page) novel by midnight November 30, 2009. Click below for more details:
National Novel Writing Month
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Caroline LaMagna
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Animoto is fast, fun, free, and absolutely fabulous!! When you apply for a teacher account (it took 2 days for my application to be processed) they will set you up with an account - to which you can add your students. If you create a gmail account, you can create sub email accounts for all of […]
Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by Caroline LaMagna
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