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Websites that are interactive or have multimedia
Updated on 2009-03-27
Created on 2009-02-21
Category: Schools & Education
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Edheads - Activate Your Mind!
Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards. Activities include weather, simple machines, virtual knee surgery, virtual hip replacement, the odd machine, and crash scene.
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In Your Ear Shakespeare
"With today's students plugged into their MP3 players, this site offers a great way to attract students. It has posted podcasts (visit the "Chop Bard" link) that explains Shakespeare in a way that students will find appealing and more realistic than reading it alone or aloud in class. Several of the podcasts are geared specifically to Romeo and Juliet, a play often read in 9th grade which makes it familiar and an easy listen for students. The site includes a list of the chronology of plays as well as a timeline of Shakespeare's life."
A caution that there is language slightly bawdy in the podcasts, so preview them first. However, listening to the "Chop Bard" either as a class or as individual students, gives students a lift and a laugh, creating a link with Shakespeare that they have never experienced. -
History Video Guide
This cable network is known for its historic programs on a variety of topics, and now their videos come to the internet. On The History Channel - Video / Audio site, you can watch videos of PRESIDENT McKINLEY INAUGURATION, Funeral of John F. Kennedy, Sound barrier broken, and the Launch of space shuttle Columbia.
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Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
Academic Earth is a video depot for individual lectures and entire courses from some of the top universities in the United States. Visitors to Academic Earth will find lectures and courses from Yale, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. Many of the lectures and courses can be found at various websites on the Internet. What Academic Earth does is take all of those lectures and courses and put them in one, easy-to-search, place. You can search for lectures and courses by topic, popularity, professor, or by university.
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YoungChildren
The web's bedst student, teacher and parent reference resource. "KID INFO saves valuable time by providing students, teachers, and parents QUALITY links to thematic websites relevant to the Pre K-12 curriculum in ONE website directory. Kid Info also provides a collection of QUALITY fun, interesting, and informative non-educational website links!"
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Lemelson Center’s Invention at Play: Invention Playhouse
Want to Play?
Want to Invent?
What’s the Difference?
When asked what inspired them to become inventors, many adults tell stories about playing as children. Among their most frequently cited childhood play experiences are: mechanical tinkering, fiddling with construction toys, reflecting about nature, and drawing or engaging in visual modeling. There is something about the skills fostered by play that inventors value and keep using as part of their working lives. The playful approaches cited by creative adults form an interesting parallel to the four kinds of children’s play that child-development experts identify as more or less universal: -
MyPyramid.gov - United States Department of Agriculture - Home
MyPyramid offers personalized eating plans and interactive tools to help you plan and assess your food choices based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Be sure to check out the MyPyramid for preschoolers and the MyPyramid for kids sections for nutriton and health games.
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Ranger Rick Magazine – an award winning National Wildlife Federation publication
The National Wildlife Federation fun and games page has something for students of all ages. These interactive games include: Fish Food, where you must work your way up the food chain. It's eat or be eaten! Termite Maze, here students try to find their way through Termite Tower in this a-MAZE-ing game! Be sure to have them complete the bonus round quiz that tests for comprehension. Or try VaMoose! Warning: Extreme fun! Students will Jump ramps, clear moguls and catch some serious air in this snowboarding game! Matching Apes will test your memory when you match wits with these wacky primates! Matching Fish is a matching game and in Tree Frog students must hop to it and think fast. If you move too slowly, you will be gator bait!
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