Biology of Plants provides students with a clear, accurate introduction to plants as living things, plant growth, plant parts, making food, pollination, seed dispersal and adaptations.
Flocabulary “…uses the educational power of hip-hop music to foster literacy and promote academic success in the classroom and beyond.” In other words, get your kids to study by delivering content to a hip hop beat. You can listen to tracks online or purchase books and CD’s.
The Learning Toolbox, from James Madison University’s special education program, provides tools, strategies and resources to help students with learning difficulties become better learners.
When you arrive on the site, you can choose “I am a Student,” “I am a Teacher,” or “I am a Parent,” which takes you to an appropriate page for getting around the site. For example, the student page starts with an overview of how to use the site. Then students choose an area they need help in - organization, test taking, studying, note taking, etc. From there, students choose a statement that reflects their needs, e.g. “I have difficulty understanding the main idea when I read,” or “I read slowly.” At that point, the site suggests specific strategies to try.
The site does require some significant reading to understand the strategies, and therefore parent or teacher support may help. Also students (and often their parents and teachers as well) may need help specifying what their specific challenges are. This is a good resource to add.
Every now and then, a new product comes along that takes nothing for granted and comes up with a whole fresh new way of doing things …that actually really works. Enter Scribbles… a delightful new paint program for Mac OS X. Gone are the busy tool bars and obnoxious sound effects. Instead you’ll access 12 beautiful brush styles, infinite colors, multiple layers and quick easy tools for resizing your art. Getting your art where you want it to go is also easy, with menu option to export in a variety of formats, send to email or post to Scribble’s free gallery
Better yet, the individual price is only $20, just $14 for educators, and AteBits has a generous site license agreement for schools in the works. Download it, make a nice cup of tea, and have some fun… Your inner artist will thank you.
Screen shots, left to right: drawing screen, layer chooser, color picker…
Art cyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine - Search or browse by artist, work or museum. 8,700 artists, 2,600 art sites, over 100,000 links! Also, Art News, masterpieces and more. This seems like a great resource for students of all ages.
