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Create "thinking guides" using Exploratree's endless options. You can fill in the guides online or print them out for student use--both options offer the option to save your work for future use. Thinking guides are divided into five broad categories for use by educators and students: map your ideas, solve problems, explore, analyse (they're British!), and different perspectives.

Are you looking for a way to connect your students with great explorers and great events in Science? You do not have to look any further than The Jason Project! Their free online curriculum is designed primarily for the middle grades but can be adapted to fit any grade level.

The National Archives’ Digital Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans that make historical periods come alive for their students or choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed and are featured here.

Discovery Education combines scientifically proven, standards-based digital media and a user community in order to empower teachers to improve student achievement. Free lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Here you will find hundreds of original lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school students. Use them as they are or modify them to create your own.

The National Science Digital Library includes a variety of educational resources to further STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. Browse the science literacy maps, short science refreshers, free multimedia downloads, or subject area collections to find just what you need to enhance student learning!

Check out this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social studies/history and foreign language.

Cinderella Disney Collection

Cinderella Story in written format, no narration

Cinderella play trailers, movie.  Can view and reference to other viewing books.  Photo, and video are available.

Cinderella on-line audio book 

The traditional tale of Cinderella is receiving new attention both online and off-line, thanks to innovative activities designed by teachers. In classrooms from kindergarten to college, Cinderella projects, book clubs, and WebQuests take advantage of the story's broad appeal and varied cultural history. And no evil stepsisters, midnight deadlines, or lost slippers can get in the way! Should you open your classroom door to Cinderella too? Included: Two classroom projects that show why Cinderella has such wide appeal for students and teachers!

Classroom KinderBach: School Version by Zephyr Games is a top musical app for iPad, iPhone and iPod for your kids (aged 3 to 7) to learn how to play piano and music theory using video from Karri Gregor, a Professional Musician and Artist with decades of teaching experience and thousands of students. Unique and original if offers a complete learning program with a total of 30 lessons, activities and various musical games for your kids to learn and enjoy music!  ( music for the ballroom setting)

This lesson is great to work with because it allows the teacher to work with books of shorter length and great variety. The lesson is used to enhance interest in both the story of Cinderella and in the countries and cultures surrounding the stories where they were written. Cinderella stories have been told all over the world, from Asia and the Middle East to the Americas and Africa, and they have also been told across the years, providing a wide array of Cinderella stories to choose from. This provides a teacher an easy way to integrate language arts with what ever country or culture may be being studied in social studies or geography. You can compare a Native American Cinderella to that of a girl from ancient Korea as just one possibility, with nearly endless possibilities for comparison.

List of Austins contributions

Ellas Jazz Cinderlla

Books Alive

Cinderella and face book social media site

Our oral tradition of telling ghost stories, with which most students are familiar, builds a useful bridge to the oral tradition of the ancient epic narrators. Students begin by examining ghost stories and brainstorming a list of qualities that make the stories vivid and interesting. They then use a literary elements map as they write a ghost story they have heard, but have never seen written, and then share their stories orally with the class. Finally, students explore the genre of epics and how they are related to oral storytelling. This lesson also includes support for English language learners.

"The Genographic Project, a partnership of the National Geographic Society and IBM, is a five-year study to understand the human journey—where we came from and how humankind came to populate the planet. Led by population geneticist Dr. Spencer Wells and a team of international scientists, this unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages. The project relies on the identification of genetic markers—occasional mutations to DNA that are passed on through generations. Different populations carry distinct markers. Following them through the generations reveals a genetic tree on which today's many diverse branches may be followed ever backward to their common African root. Scientists are collecting this data from people across the globe, particularly indigenous populations, before modern globalization further erodes the cultural groupings that could provide the geographical and historical context for interpreting the diverse genetic patterns."