Friday, April 10, 2009

Websites for Learning

Why say Learning? Not Education? Because it sounds fun!

I was looking through a book with links to various sites and found some of theirs and extras too!
http://www.aplusmath.com/www.aplusmath.com is great for fashcards and simple math games that back up the flashcard work.

http://mywonderfulworld.org/ - Geography initialtive from National Geographic for National Geography Week Awareness. My kids loved seaching for treasure, the pyramids and other map led adventures.

http://www.learner.org/# - Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming across the curriculum -Annenberg Media resources can be accessed for FREE at Learner.org

http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonsList.aspx?grade=1&standard=2&aa=1 - Math Lesson Site with Solid Design and pleasing layout

http://www.thinkquest.org/competition/website/evaluation.html Thinkquest has a competition for building a learning website hosted by Oracle Thinkquest Foundation. There are also posted websites that were submitted from students that can be used to assist in teaching a variety of subjects.

http://www.usps.com/about/welcome.htm?from=home_header&page=aboutuspsandnews Information on the US Postral Service - Look into the Who We Are sections for history, photos and link to the Postal Museum at the Smithsonian

http://www.hurricanehunters.com/ - The Hurricane Hunters have a CyberFlight (at the top of the page) as well as a very nice and informative website. There are descriptions of what each of the crew do, specs on the aircraft and of course meteorology information.

http://www.artjunction.org/index.php - Art Juntion, a collaborative art space for teachers and students -

http://www.origami.as/home.html Origami Art and instructions - basics and information on symbols

http://www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstoc.html -The Art of Renaissance
Science:

http://www.olejarz.com/arted/perspective/ - Drawing from One Point Perspective online lesson