LINKS
Here is
a short summary of the many internet resources used to support student learning and creative teaching.
Organizations |
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Go to the central website of Hidden Villa
to learn more about the numerous programs that they offer. |
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Find out more about the library project in Nicaragua.
This site will tell you all about how it started and
explain its numerous projects. |
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There are many wonderful things happening at this school.
Find out more at this website. |
Habitats,
Ecosystems and Watersheds |
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This incredible site, created
by the Missouri Botanical Garden, allows kids
to travel through out the world biomes and provides a
wealth of information. |
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This site, created by the Australian Museum, has a wonderful, easy to use, interactive
site that allows students to study the defining atributes
of the major habitat types. |
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This site presents several major environmental and social issues
and links within the National Geographic site
to find information on each one. This is also where students
can find several "virtual worlds" of various
ecosystems. |
Nutrition |
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This
is a beautifully crafted website for kids that examines
food advertising.
Kids can get a "behind the scenes" look the
decisions made to make food seem appealing to customers. |
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This is a fun, interactive site about nutrition. You
can enter it in many different languages, including English
and Spanish. |
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Kids Health has organized a wealth of kid-oriented
articles about healt, is easy to navigate and
includes a few games. |
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The Edible School Yard is an inspiring
collaboration between chef and writer Alice Waters
with an urban middle school in Berkeley, California. This website
shares how this project was created and is carried
out, providing information about school gardens
and teaching ideas for integrating food into the curriculum,
even without a nearby garden. |
Native
Americans |
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Navigate this site on California History through an interactive timeline. |
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Developed by the Carnegie Museum, this gorgeous
site divides the United States into the major geographic
regions, with detailed descriptions
of the Native American Tribes in each region and the
defining features of the ecosytem that sustained them. |
Social
Justice |
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This is a wonderful organization committed
to the vision that public education is central to the
creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy.
Rethinking Schools offers a magazine and many books filled with a wide range of teaching ideas and educational
theory. |
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Teaching Tolerance provides a wealth of information
and curriculum suggestions for creating anti-bias communities,
both in our schools and in the larger community. |
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As media inflitrates
deeper into our lives, we should equip
our students to understand how different media attempt
to inform, disinform or outright manipulate its audiences.
Get ideas
for ways to teach your students media literarcy with the information on this website. |
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Global Exchange is an international
human rights organization dedicated to promoting social,
economic and environmental justice around the world.
Its website does a wonderful job of explaining the root causes
of injustices in our society and offers a wealth of information
on a variety of subjects. The fair trade section describes how school children took action against
Hersheys for its use of child labor in Africa. |
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This is the website I am currently working on as my
partner and I get ready to travel through the Americas
and Southern Africa. We hope to work with students in
each country we visit and help them share important information
about themselves, their schools, their communities and
their environment with kids in other countries. We will
also be adding kid-appropriate accounts of our adventures
and information about each country's history and culture.
On the interactive section of the site, students can
ask us questions and "dialog" with other students about
social justice issues. |
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