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Sites I choose specifically for the weekly reader assignment.
Updated on 2009-11-16
Created on 2009-07-08
Category: Schools & Education
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Six Billion Others
Forty or so questions that help us to find out what separates and what unites us. These portraits of humanity today are accessible on this website.
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Argument mapping, critical thinking and all thing's argumentative!
Argument maps to help with critical thinking, school debating, and pub debates. Based on informal logic, aMap is an argument mapping application for fun and education.
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Three-Minute Fiction : NPR
How long does it take to tell a good story? We're betting you can do it in just a few minutes, three, to be exact.
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Student News - Stories and Video from CNN.com
The latest news and video about high schools, colleges, and universities, and the issues that affect youth learning.
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National Gallery of Art
Interactive art you can make online. Very cool site. Choose an activity then reflect about it for your assignment.
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50 Best Websites 2009 - TIME
Clear out your bookmarks. You're going to need the space for 50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web....
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Drain the Ocean | National Geographic Channel
Drain the Ocean is a virtual scientific expedition to the deep as we explore one of Earth's last great frontiers - the ocean.
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Fourteen Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. -- W. Somerset Maugham Somewhere after lose
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30 Dumb Inventions - Photo Gallery, 30 Pictures - LIFE
The 20th century saw many astounding technological innovations. The automobile revolutionized the way people live and work, the internet changed the way people think about information, and the U.S. of A put a man on the moon. But some technological advances that came in the earlier part of the 20th centry weren't exactly meant for the history books. Because they were stupid. Take, for example, this M3 sub-machine gun with a curved barrel for shooting around corners. It's the perfect gun for the "shoot first, look where you're shooting later"; kind of guy.
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18 Creepiest Landscapes On Earth
Landscapes are usually associated with rolling hills and lush meadows, the tranquil quiet broken only by occasional birdsong. Not these landscapes. Full of fiends and strange faces, some of them might make you think a wizard muttered incantations to invoke nature's sinister spirits. Others appear as gateways to other worlds best left unexplored, while still others seem like sets straight out of a horror flick director's sick dream. Muhahahahahahaha!
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Pinky Show
"We focus on information & ideas that have been misrepresented, suppressed, ignored, or otherwise excluded from mainstream discussion."
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Science Podcast
Do you only have about a minute. That's great because all of these podcasts are only 60 seconds long! If you are short on time, and like science, these are for you.
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Promise and Peril in South L.A. - Stories, Photos, Videos - Los Angeles Times
multimedia series from LA Times on gangs and gang intervention.
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea: Series Preview | PBS
Watch short preview clips from Ken Burns newest documentary. Perfectly sized for the weekly reader!
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PicLits.com
"PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture."
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Madagascar's Remarkable Flora and Fauna
"Madagascar slideshow from Time magazine shows wildlife in Madagascar. It has a lot of cool images and simple captions."
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