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  • Yahoo! Teachers
    By Staff - 10/01/2007
    Spread the word: Yahoo! has developed a free social networking site that lets librarians create, modify, and share standards-based curricula. Yahoo! Teachers lets educators search a specific subject and then pull up a list of preselected sites that adhere to state standards in math, science, social studies, and language arts. More

  • Campaign for Politically Savvy Students
    By Gail Junion-Metz - 05/01/2008
    Countdown to Election 2008 teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/election2008.htm Kids seeking information on the presidential election should visit here. Designed for students in grades 3–8, 'Countdown’ also offers a game called “You’re the President” in which kids select their own advisors and create a balanced budget. More
  • IXL Math
    By Kathy Ishizuka - 05/01/2008
    www.ixl.com/math For members of the right-brain camp—like me—math can be a particular challenge. So it’s especially important for young learners to get a firm handle on the basics. And you know what that means—practice. The online resource IXL Math is a welcome alternative to dreary worksheets, presenting math quizzes for students in Pre-K to grade 3 in a visual way. More
  • Froghoo!
    Gail Junion-Metz - 04/30/2008
    Celebrate frogs by reading Mark Twain’s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and then encouraging kids to visit Froghoo (a Yahoo-type directory that contains tons of links to sites about frogs). 
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  • Global Youth Service Day
    Gail Junion-Metz - 04/16/2008
    April 25–27 is Global Youth Service Day. Its purpose is to make kids aware of the ways they can help by getting involved in school, church, or community-based projects. More
  • Arbor Day
    Gail Junion-Metz - 04/09/2008
    Arbor Day is April 25th. To plan some tree-related activities, check out this wonderful site for upper elementary and middle school kids—it will make your library’s celebration simple to plan and fun for kids to attend. More
  • Lookybook
    By Kathy Ishizuka - 04/01/2008
    lookybook.com You certainly can’t judge a book by its cover, especially a picture book, in which the illustrations tell a good bit of the story. Now, parents, educators, and other fans of the genre can peruse picture books from cover to cover on Lookybook. If you haven’t already seen—the beta site launched last fall—do give it a whirl. More
  • Celebrate Library Week
    Gail Junion-Metz - 03/26/2008
    April is School Library Media Month and April 13–19, 2008 is National Library Week. This wonderful Web site is full of ideas, activities, and lesson plans gathered from librarians and teachers around the country.   More
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