Resources, issues, for education
This material is not 'polished'!!
As I surf the net, I come across various things I wish someone had told me about. In theory, one day it will all be available in the polished sections of my website. In the meantime, if you're willing to 'dig' through some disorganised material, you may be rewarded with 'gems'!
In some cases, the text is snipped from other sources. Therefore, among other things, the personal pronoun may not refer to the editor of this page. If, on the other hand something is identified as coming from 'TKB', he IS the pages's editor!
Ad from page's editor: Yes.. I do enjoy compiling these things for you...
hope they are helpful. However.. this doesn't pay my bills!!! If you
find this stuff useful, (and you run an MS-DOS or Windows pc) please visit my freeware and shareware page,
download something, and circulate it for me? Links on your page to
this page would also be appreciated!
Click here to visit editor's freeware, shareware page.
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Reviews of children's software by parents, teachers, and kids:
http://www.superkids.com/
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Learn what the Educational Software Cooperative has to offer at:
http://www.edu-soft.org.
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Search engine to help you find things made available by US Federal government
http://www.fedworld.gov
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Promoting education without frontiers, and extending global
friendship through education. Real Competitions Real Winners
Real Good Prizes.
http://www.exam-ta.ac.uk/onlinere.htm
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A web site designed by students, with over 500 sites for kids in
over 25 categories. All sites are reviewed and rated by kids for kids.
For Zines - check out the Magazine Rack at the News Stand.
For Fun Sites - check out the great sites in the Playground.
http://home.ican.net/~guild/coollinks.htm
Regards,
Kim Sialtsis
Administrator
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Mrs. Young's Super Charged Educational Voyage
http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/garston/49/index.html
A ready reference of some education sites.
The focus is for ages 6-18.
Topics..
children's safe internet fun,
homework help,
parenting skills,
teacher resources.
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Interactive online astronomy lesson on the Hubble
system of classifying galaxies, with images
from the Hubble Space Telescope. Written for the SEGway
(Science Education Gateway) Project. Underwritten by NASA, the
National Science Foundation, and major science museums.
http://world.smv.mus.va.us/~hastings/galaxy.htm
There are links there to other interactive
astronomy lessons, too.
George Hastings, Space Science Teacher
Mathematics & Science Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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A site trying to addresses the needs of homeschoolers in math.
Samples of my monthly newsletter, whihc includes a Problem for anyone
to try, with a prize for the winner,
www.mathkits.com
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For English usage, letter, word frequency, etc...
try looking at the COBUILD/ Collins home page. (See below)
Teachers and learners of English may like to have look at the
Heinemann ELT Web site for other materials for use in the classroom.
Cobuild is part of the Department of English at Birmingham
University.
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/
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Spy Fox: The age range
on the box is for ages 5-10, but I would say more
7-10. It's a wonderful game, but a little
hard for 5 yr olds.
Kid's Domain Review
http://www.kidsdomain.com/review/index.html
Thunderbeam http://www.thunderbeam.com
Educational software The Mining Company
http://.edsoftware.miningco.com/mbody.html
Anise Hollingshead, Daily Editor, Kid's Domain
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Kid's Stuff at Suite 101.com http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/230
Wayne's Kids Place http://members.tor.shaw.wave.ca/~wdawe/kids1.htm
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Hello from The School Page. (Written in UK)
Our May Updates have been posted.
URL: http://www.eyesoftime.com/teacher/ukpage.htm
Web links to explore.
Sections for Bullying, Exam Boards and Distance Learning.
Hot Sites featuring:
* Theatre UK
* Data Communications Technology
* Distance Learning
* UK Parliament Education Unit
* Kids com
* Educational and Professional Development
* Obtaining Your First Teaching Post
* American Council for Drugs Education
* Easy Start Algebra
* Positive Discipline
The School Page - a division of PDRS UK
http://www.eyesoftime.com/teacher/ukpage.htm
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We are once again updating our school links pages. We are happy
to add your school to our list, without charge.
Best School Web Site of the Month: two prizes each month, one
for Primary and one for Secondary Schools. Entry is free. You
can nominate your own school or another.
http://www.educate.co.uk
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Interactive English language exercises for students at:
http://www.ilcgroup.com/interactive/
If you're a teacher of English and would like to publish an exercise on
our site, have a look at the format we use and e-mail us your text.
International Language Centres Group
International House, White Rock
Hastings, East Sussex TN34 1JY England
http://www.ilcgroup.com
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Information on weather for teachers. Similar to
material in "The Weather Classroom" television program.
http://www.weather.com/education
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Someone said: Limited ways of answering a question is the
result of being inattentive to the myriad ways in which it
has already been asked.
Someone agreed:
This is so true. How many of you have seen teachers who have two
ways of explaining a concept. The first way and THE FIRST WAY AT HIGHER
VOLUME. :=)
To which someone replied: When you get down to it, doesn't the change
in volume constitute two ways of saying something?
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Shareware2001 has a section for kids 2-8, and for-prizes competitions:
http://www.shareware2001.com
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Free resource for teachers and parents:
http://w3.one.net/~rplogman
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Visit the WEF site at :
http://www.nexus.edu.au/schools/tarleeps/wef1.htm
to learn more about current and innovative ways of teaching and
education.
The World Education Fellowship (WEF) is a voluntary international
educational association. The central aim of the WEF (Australia) is :
to work for the establishment of a world community through education.
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To achieve this, the WEF endeavours to :
(a) identify and pursue changes in policies and practices to meet the
varying individual and shared educational needs of people of all ages.
(b) promote greater social and economic justice and equality through
achieving a high standard of education for all groups worldwide.
...etc
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Children's shareware by Lawrence Goetz. Programs for Windows 3.1/95:
http://pages.prodigy.com/goetz
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Recommended for good kids' games, some (all?) on-line. You have to
have Win95 and enable java to play. Membership is free. There are
even some games that I (parent) like to play to relax.
www.bonus.com
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A game called "The Tea Race": This was discussed favourably in a
newsgroup. It seemed to be some sort of awards program to encourage
reading for the 6-13 yo's
....The kids at our school have been doing it for about 3 years now.
It has become a standard part of the first year school etc.
In the end I made a Vis Basic map
and put a html map etc., on the web. If you want the pages and the
game please use it.If anyone wants the Vis Basic version I'll stick it
on disks for them.
* Roger mailto:Roger@Halsham.karoo.co.uk *
* Visit http://www.karoo.net/halsham/ *
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EDF site... I made a note to recommend this.. and then forgot to note
WHO I should recommend it to. If you find it isn't useful to parents,
teachers, kids, please email me, TKB? (Sorry!)
http://www.edf.org/
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A free site by a Canadian music teacher for begginner music pupils...
The site is set up in lessons. It starts right at the beginning
("this is a note..."). Each lesson has a test, with answers.
http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca
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Intel had a site said to be an outstanding resource for
educators. I (TKB) had trouble finding it when I looked,
but I don't doubt that it is there someplace.
It was said to offer many online resources, one of which is free
curriculum for grade 5-9 science, math & technology teachers.
The site provides free resources, information and services
applicable to teaching science, math and technology as well
as using computers in the classroom.
Here's the link I was given. If you have no joy there,
start at http://www.intel.com/ (Let me know if you get the
right url?)
Intel in Education
http://www.intel.com/education/
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I think the following was a link to a highly commercial site,
sort of an amazon.com place, but maybe not, and in any case
an educator found useful things there. He/she said:
If you don't find what you want on this page, you can browse or search hundreds
in all categories, from interactive books to science and testing as well as
just games and activities.
http://www.biznest.com/children/
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Mathematics page...
http://www.securenet.net/members/smedleg/mathpage2.html
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See
http://shell.ihug.co.nz/~educator/about.htm
EDUCATOR DISCS AND VIDEOS
A DIVISION OF JOHN & ROSALIND STINCHCOMBE ASSOC. LTD.
Bethells Road, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Primary school orientated websites:
Leon's All Souls Website
(http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/allsouls/index.html)
Roger's Halsham Site - Home of the staffroom
(http://www.wats0n.freeserve.co.uk/)
Teaching Ideas (Mark Warner's) (http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/)
Mathsphere Numeracy Resources (http://www.mathsphere.co.uk)
Educate On-line Mag (http://www.educate.co.uk/)
Teacher's Library Of Resources (Siad to be at http://www.lotus.com/ukteach/, but I couldn't find, though a search of their site for teacher education uk turned up 1400 docs)
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A recommendation for teaching children ages 9-12 about programming:
Use 'Python'. Said to be cross-platform, available more places
than Java. I myself currently use it on both Mac and Win95, but
it is also available for any variety of Unixes, BeOS.
Python is free.
It can be embedded in apps and be extended by other languages to
extend its capabilities. It can be used with any number of
cross-platform GUI libraries such as Tk, etc.
Python site includes articles you can study before downloading
language.
http://www.python.org
Quote from Python site....
"Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
"The Python implementation is portable: it runs on many brands of
UNIX, on Windows, DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga... If your favorite system
isn't listed here, it may still be supported, if there's a C
compiler for it.
"Python is copyrighted but freely usable and distributable,
even for commercial use."
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Recommended program: Depth of Knowledge.
(For test generation, I think it was.
http://www.flash.net/~gspirit/
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Resources about Victorian England:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html
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Please check out the online biology book I have developed at
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/BIO181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html. Any
comments and help would be welcomed.
Mike Farabee
Biology & Geology Faculty
Estrella Mountain Community College
Avondale, AZ
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Information & pictures for 13-18 year old pupils to use in their work:
http://www.academyonline.com
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Bad Astronomy: Discusses common misconceptions about astronomy
seen in the media and in everyday life. They are aimed at the
intelligent layman, and you don't need to know a lot of
astronomy to understand them.
http://www.patriot.net/users/badastro/bad.html
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Material for 13-18 yr old chemistry teachers/ pupils..
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/ChemTeamIndex.html
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Material for English teachers, pupils
Failed to load, 1st 2 attempts, but okay on 3rd:
http://www.netcom.com/~fmaxsc/
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Site on WWII. Over 200 pages of text, photos, maps, etc. the
story of Canadians, British and Americans and the battle for
Normandy in WW II. Forums, threads, etc.
www.valourandhorror.com
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Free IQ test
http://www.iqtest.com
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Information on Egypt, much more than a travel resource
http://interoz.com/egypt/
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list of schools on web... small, but seems to include a number of
interesting NYC schhols, incl, if I'm not mistaken, the inspiration
for 'Fame'
http://ns2.con2.com/schools.html
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[TKB view: This is excellent]
The Ziff-Davis web page has a freeware/shareware search engine,
kids' programs and lots more
They have nearly 100 preschool educational shareware programs and they
are all reviewed and rated (1 to 5-stars). Two one user's kids liked
were: Living Letters (alphabet) and Living Numbers (counting).
Click here
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Now this is someone who's classroom I'd like to visit!!
The site has other ideas for teachers.
Again, quoted from a newsgroup...
"PC DEMOLITION:
"This is an activity in which middle school kids totally disassemble a
working IBM XT type computer down to an empty chassis. They then connect
the 'absolute minimum' parts together to make a working computer (on
the tabletop with no case). Then they "build an IBM XT" back in the
original case and configuration and get it all working again. All this
is usually done in a 80 to 90 minute period. (Some 5th graders have
built a perfectly working XT in 9 minutes!)."
Click here
There's also some good electronics & tech teaching ideas, and parallel port software
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Educational Shareware Coop
Click here
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The BIODIDAC project
Project
produced good digital material to
support the teaching of biology in
french.
http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca
Alas, they seem to have taken their archive offline. There's always the WayBack machine. Anyone know of another way to access it?
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Why do leaves change color in the Fall?
How does a refrigerator work?
Why is the sky blue?
Get answers to these questions and more with "Simply Science" at
http://www.waterw.com/~science/kids.html
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Under the Western Sky... http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/3612
.... a FREE webzine of astronomy and lore for the Western United States.
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Good school's site, with pupil material, too
John Fisher, IT Manager, Taunton School, Taunton, Somerset TA26AD
(+44) (1)823 451269
http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/taunton/index.html
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