Website of the Week: Money Management (Gr. 2-12)

Money Management International – Improving lives through financial education This site contains a wide variety of tools and resources on topics ranging from budgets to financial wellness to how loans and debt work. For educators, click on Lesson Plans under the Resources menu to access 55 different lesson plans and activities, almost all of which [...]

This American Life Episode #449: Middle School

I just finished listening to an episode of This American Life from NPR on the topic of “Middle School.” The topic was requested by who else, a middle school student who listens to the podcast. The entire podcast is available online as well as the individual segments. I just thought it was interesting to here [...]

Website of the Week: Historvius

Historvius – Discover historic sites (Gr. 3-12) Part search engine, part map, and part reference guide, Historvirus helps you find historically important and sometimes forgotten sites. Search by destination and choose from over 200 possibilities or search by time period and enter a date (4000BC to present day), enter a historic period (70+ to choose [...]

Website of the Week: TimeSearch History

TimeSearch History – Search the web through timelines (Gr. 3-12) TimeSearch uses timelines to connect students and teachers with events in world history so that they can be analyzed in the proper contexts. Simply enter a year in the search bar at the top of the page, specify BC or AD, and click GO. The [...]

Website of the Week: Rag Linen

Rag Linen: An online museum of historical newspapers (Gr. 6-12) Rag Linen is an educational gold mine that contains archives of rare and historic newspapers. Most of the collections focus on news and events from North America and U.S. history. In addition to newspapers, the site also offers video resources, recommended books on the history [...]

Website of the Week: News Map

News Map – World News by Location (Gr. 6-12) News Map is a “mash-up” of several information gathers including Google Maps and Yahoo! Search, organized to make it easier for you to view current event news based on location. First, select from one of the eight regions list at the top. Once the Google map [...]

Website of the Week: Snag Learning

Snag Learning – Documentary films as educational tools (Gr. K-12) An educational division of Snag Films, Snag Learning offers free access to documentary videos on a variety of topics. Snag has collected videos from such sources as National Geographic, PBS, Sundance and more. You can browse their archive of over 275 films by subject, grade [...]

iTunes U Introduces FREE eBooks

If you haven’t been to this section of Apple’s iTunes Store, iTunes U is a powerful engine for distributing educational content and getting into the hands of students. Colleges, universities, even state departments of education have content available here and much of it is FREE. Now Apple is introducing FREE eBooks to its media collections. [...]

Website of the Week: The Week in Rap

The Week in Rap – A week’s worth of news, rapped. (Gr. 6-12) The Week in Rap is a streaming media site that takes the prominent news stories from the week and summarizes them in the form of a short rap video. New rap videos are published every Friday. Music and vocals are generously provided [...]

WatchKnow.org – A YouTube Alternative

WatchKnow.org – Videos for students to learn from. Organized. (Gr. K-12) WatchKnow is another YouTube alternative site providing teachers and students with access to educational videos that are also safe for the classroom. The site pulls video resources from other video sites like YouTube, TeacherTube, Google Video and more and rates them. Each video comes [...]