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Edte.ch: Maths Maps
Maths Maps is a collaborative project where participants use Google maps to choose a location within one of the cities highlighted, then create a Math problem about the site. The problems are marked on the map with various colors...
PBS
Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: Mapping an Empire
In this instructional activity, students will compare a map of the Roman Empire in 44 BC with one of the Roman Empire in 116 AD. Using these two maps as a reference, students will use critical reading skills to learn about the expansion...
Other
Project Happy Child: Mind Mapping
This British web site gives a basic overview, answers questions about mindmapping, and offers suggestions on this topic. Several books are recommended. Explore the links for more information.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Directions Around Town 1
This site has an exercise designed for English language learners that tests map reading and survival listening skills. The exercise incorporates a small street map. Students listen to statements about the map, then, using the map for...
Read Works
Read Works: Learn About Maps
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, the basic terminology associated with map are explained in this informational text. A question sheet is available to help students...
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Web Japan: Cities: Map
By clicking on the city names on this map of Japan, you can read a little about each city and see a picture.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Map Sense
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the basic components of maps: legend, scale, Compass rose and labels. Clips from United Streaming video are included to illustrate these concepts. Student assessment and a student...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Movie Theater: Number: Count to 20
On this interactive site, students practice basic number concepts which include reading numerals up to twenty, grouping objects up to twenty, and forward counting to twenty.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
A&E Television
History.com: Washington, the Evergreen State
A great site for learning unique things about Washington as well as the usual facts. You can also read about the history, watch a brief video, find images and statistics.
Other
Basket Math Interactive
Explore more than twenty math concepts such a perimeter, rounding, exponents, decimals, sign numbers, and more using this interactive basketball game. A Spanish version is also offered. Students results are tabulated daily.
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Hhs: Physical Activity Fundamental to Preventing Disease
Here, read statistics from the US Department of Health and Human Services concerning exercise and its key role in preventing chronic illness and premature death. Use these findings from medical studies in which diseases were studied in...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Tornados in the Us
[Free Registration/Login Required] Overview: In this lesson, students will learn the basics about how tornadoes are formed, and when and where they are most likely to occur. They will learn that the United States is the country most...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Working With Formulas
As part of the "Basic Atomics" section of the Virtual Textbook, this site examines formulas and how they are read and written. Other topics covered include a concept map, simplest formulas, and masses.
Other
Bringing History Home: The Great Depression
This 4th grade unit introduces basic concepts of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and to historical analysis processes. Following a trade book and video documentary overview of the 1920s and 1930s, students examine photos, letters,...
University of Washington
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization [Pdf]
The goal of this "visual sourcebook" is to add to the material teachers can use to help theirstudents understand Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed to standalone; we assume that teachers who use it will also...