November Web Picks

Ria's Web Picks

Switcheroo Zoo Create new and exciting animals by morphing two animals together. This is pretty cool! Lesson plans are available for language arts and science. There is also an animal game available. Go to http://www.switcheroozoo.com/default.htm.

Xpeditions This is a great site from National Geographic, with 1,600 outline maps, a virtual museum that is organized using the 18 Geography Standards, online activities and lesson plans. I was very impressed with this site. It's part of the MarcoPolo program but can be used independently. Go to http://nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions.

PowerPoint Design Tips Many of you are using PowerPoint with your classes. Here are some design tips from a PowerPoint tutorial that you might want to share with your kids. (Might as well teach a little design while you're at it! I KNOW like you needed one more thing to teach!):

Try to make only one point per slide.
Use no more than two different fonts on one slide.
Make sure your font is no smaller than 24 point.
Include no more than four bullets on a page.
Keep bullet points in the range of five to seven words each.

To get more tips, go to:

http://www.uwf.edu/coe/tutorials/technolo/powerpnt/powerpnt.htm?ti2Xdw=www.uwf.wdu/~coe/
tutorials /technolo/powerpnt/powerpnt.htm.

Rebecca's Web Picks

Cool Teaching Lessons and Units Along With Resources for Teachers and Students According to the developer of this award-winning site, it's designed as a resource for teachers K-12 who wish to find high quality, ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or who wish to develop their own units. Go to http://www.coollessons.org/.