Monday, February 27, 2012

Kozzi Photo Site

Here is another great site to add to your list of places students can find free photos for projects.

Kozzi
 earns revenue for the advertisements placed on its page. This allows them to provide their professional photo images free. I stumbled upon this site today and found it to be an incredibly rich resource for finding pictures. Using a simple copy/paste was much easier than downloading the images from the lightbox.
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Lessons on the Presidents

http://lessonsonamericanpresidents.com/ seems to have some great lessons on presidents! Worth checking out!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Mouth Power- Fun Game About Brushing

Mouth Power (http://www.mouthpower.org) can be done individually by students in a lab, but would be better on an interactive board as a class. Users take a trip through a lab to learn about dental hygiene and work through activities to earn teeth for their smile. The activity goes beyond the basics of telling students to brush and shows how to brush and the correct way to floss. It also has a neat time lapse feature to show what happens when you don't take care of your teeth.

Cons: There isn't voice audio on everything, so non-readers will need assistance. Picture

Friday, February 10, 2012

Inspirational Blog Post

Check out http://blogush.edublogs.org/2012/01/24/20/, an insipirational blog post from Paul Bogush about giving students 20% of their time for free learning and exploration. I may consider doing something like this next year!