Children’s Poetry Archive

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The Children’s Poetry Archive is an ever expanding archive of poets for children reading their own work…

KB…Konnected’s insight:

Wonderful resource! Nice archive of poetry that can be explored by subject, theme, author, or form. Many of the poems have audio so kids can read along. Students can also learn about poets through biographies featured on the site.

I’ve added this to Kool Kids Write Poetry.

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=45372


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Strange Matter

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Play and learn online with the Strange Matter of Materials Science.

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“What’s materials science? You could call it the study of stuff! Just about everything you use every day - the shoes you wear, the dishes you eat from, the CDs you listen to, the bike or skateboard you ride - it’s all made of different kinds of stuff.”

This is a really interesting site geared for kids gr. 5-8. “Strange Matter” features online interactives as well as fun things to do in the classroom.

Downloads and guides included for teachers.


See on strangematterexhibit.com

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ClassBadges - Free Online Tool to Award Badges…Customize for Your Class!

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ClassBadges is a free online tool where teachers can award badges to students for accomplishments or academic mastery. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. Badges can easily be aligned to academic goals or associated with existing school awards.


KB…Konnected’s insight:

Very nice visualization tool to help students keep track of their achievements/accomplishments. If you’re interested check out the Teacher’s Guide to Using Badges in Your Classroom from Edudemic. It gives lots of ways to use this tool.

http://edudemic.com/2013/05/teachers-guide-to-using-badges-in-your-classroom/


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Teacher Appreciation Sale at TpT Starts Tomorrow! May 7-8 #clipart #TpT #teacherappreciation  All of my products will be included in the sale including my new “Mix and Match Collections”! Click on images for more details. My clip art, frames and papers are regularly $3 or less including my newest collections. During the sale they will $2.16 or less. Amazing deals if I do say so myself. Hope you stop by my store and check out my products. All clip art products are commercial/personal use. Check out my TOU for details.  Don’t forget the coupon code: TAD13
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Teacher Appreciation Sale at TpT Starts Tomorrow! May 7-8

#clipart #TpT #teacherappreciation 

All of my products will be included in the sale including my new “Mix and Match Collections”!

Click on images for more details.

My clip art, frames and papers are regularly $3 or less including my newest collections. During the sale they will $2.16 or less. Amazing deals if I do say so myself.

Hope you stop by my store and check out my products.

All clip art products are commercial/personal use. Check out my TOU for details.

 Don’t forget the coupon code: TAD13

IfItWereMyHome.com

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IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration.

You can also use our visualization tool to help understand the impact of a disaster. The Pakistan Flood and BP Oil Spill are currently featured. 

Screenshots below.

Comparison of U.S. and Japan.

Map compares the size of countries with overlay.

KB…Konnected’s insight:

Excellent resource!  Easy to use tool that lets you compare 2 countries of your choice. Results based on 10 key statistics are compared. Google maps are also used.

I’ve added it to Countries for Kids LiveBinder 


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Lame to fame: 4 tips for optimizing presentations for Twitter

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Presentations and slideshows have been historically one of the most boring and standard corporate media currently available to employees and management.

KB…Konnected’s insight:

Some unique ideas. Many of which can be used in classrooms using Twiter. Perfect ideas to jazz up a professional development presentation too.


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My Top 43 Weather Resources for Kids #meteorology #scichat #weather List includes interactives, games, kid-friendly information, online quizzes,  how-tos, videos, raps, ideas, crafts, calculators, projects and more! Weather Wiz Kids Tree House Weather Kids Weather Report for Kids Weather Spark Weather Calculators EdHeads: Report/Predict the Weather The Farmer’s Almanac for Kids Weather Channel Kids Space Weather Center Fossweb: What’s the Weather? Web Weather for Kids Weather Watch What is Weather? SciJinks Games/Interactives  Interactives: Weather Weather Dog Quiz Franklin’s Forecast Storm Watch Bad Weather Joke Machine  Weather Cams National weather Service: Playtime for Kids Global Climate Change for Kids MythBusters Weather Quiz Interactive Weather Maker Citizen Science Project: Precipitation Fact Monster: Weather The Weather Game How Fast is the Wind? Make Your Own Weather Station Weather Proverbs Make a Rain Gauge Take the Wind Speed Challenge Temperature Charts (printable) Owlie Skywarn’s Weather Book (printable) Readers’ Theater: The Water Cycle Weather for Kids Part 1 (video) Weather for Kids Part 2 (video) Bill Nye the Science Guy Weather Rap The Weather Rap (Use this great idea and create your own.) Weather Poetry My Weather Report (printable) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Official Trailer (Fun intro to a weather lesson) Weather Blog Hop (Lots of weather related ideas shared by others.) Check out this freebie! The Daily Scoop!  Includes a space to report the weather. 
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imageMy Top 43 Weather Resources for Kids

#meteorology #scichat #weather

List includes interactives, games, kid-friendly information, online quizzes,  how-tos, videos, raps, ideas, crafts, calculators, projects and more!

Check out this freebie! The Daily Scoop!image  Includes a space to report the weather. 
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