Recently found … 04/12/2009

  • A Program of the National Environmental Education Foundation … website delivers activities and resources for six high school subject areas and 14 topics to help teachers incorporate environmental content into lesson plans for LA, math, science, social studies, etc.

    tags: environment, biology, science, cross-curricular, lesson plans

  • Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th Birthday Celebration … website dedicated to Poe’s works and life. Materials for students and teachers.

    tags: literature, poe, english, language arts

  • Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4 million digital items.
    -Images: paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
    -Texts: books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
    -Sounds: music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
    -Videos: films, newsreels and TV broadcasts

    Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe’s museums and galleries, archives, libraries, audio-visual collections.

    Organizations ranging from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library in London, to the Louvre in Paris.

    You can use My Europeana to save searches or bookmark things. You can highlight stuff and add it to your own folders. This website is a prototype. Europeana Version 1.0 is being developed and will launch in 2010 with links to over 10 million digital objects.
    Europeana.eu is funded by the European Commission and the member states.

    tags: reference, culture, library, history

  • Virtual game that teaches K-6 students responsible uses of the Internet and cooperative behavior offline. Free for kids, $7/month for “Honors Program.”

    tags: internetsafety, interactive, elementary

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.