May 2000 Newsletter.
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In This Issue:
*TIM'S TEACHER TIP
*SCHOOL GRANTS
*K-12 HIGHER EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (KHEP) GRANTS
*JORDAN FUNDAMENTALS GRANT PROGRAM
*WILDLIFE TRACKER
*WILLIE BROWN ELEMENTARY
*WOODLAND GRANGE PRIMARY SCHOOL
*ALL ALONG A RIVER
*TIME TO GET IN TUNE
*MRS. BELICEK AKA WEBDEB DESIGN
*COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS
*TEACHER TIDBYTES
*ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ODA) COMMITTEE PROJECT
*BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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TIM'S TEACHER TIP
Tim Bedley
http://www.eleMENTOR.com
Lead a verbal brainstorm: Ask open-ended questions and call on numerous students to
answer in a rapid-fire manner. For instance, after teaching a new vocabulary word like
spherical, pose the open-ended question, “Name something that is spherical. I am going
to give you about 30 seconds to think. I want you to have at least three answers ready.
Try to think of creative answers, answers that no one else would think of. In 30 seconds
I will begin calling on students to give an answer. You will not be allowed to repeat an
answer given by another student. If you have no answer, you will only be allowed to say, ‘pass.’ Start thinking of your three answers now.” As you hastily and indiscriminately
call on students, be sure you call on at least one student twice to show the students that
they need to be ready at all times. This type of activity is fantastic not only for involving
all students, but also for checking for unde rstanding and as a prewriting exercise.
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SCHOOL GRANTS
http://www.schoolgrants.org
SchoolGrants offers elementary and secondary teachers and administrators a
one-stop site where they can find a myriad of federal, state, and foundation grant
funding opportunities. In addition, the site features grant-writing hints and resources,
links to a variety of related Web sites, grant and contest related news, and a message
board. A free monthly electronic newsletter is also available.
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K-12 HIGHER EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (KHEP) GRANTS
http://www.nsf.gov/home/programs/ehr.htm
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is helping students in inner-city areas by
offering supplemental grants to urban school districts that are currently using NSF
funds to support math and science education reform projects. The new K-12
Higher Education Partnership (KHEP) grants will assist districts by funding
collaborative efforts between urban schools and institutions of higher education
(IHEs). Contact: Celeste Pea, NSF at (703) 306-1690, email cpea@nsf.gov or
http://www.nsf.gov/home/programs/ehr.htm (NSF Number 00-45).
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JORDAN FUNDAMENTALS GRANT PROGRAM
http://www.nfie.org/jfask.htm
The National Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE) is offering the
Jordan Fundamentals Grant Program, which recognizes outstanding, creative teaching
techniques in public secondary schools. Through the program, the Foundation awards
grants to applicants who develop an outstanding lesson plan or thematic unit (a series
of lessons with related learning objectives, united by a common theme). Each grant is
for $2,500 and up to 400 grants will be awarded. Grants may be used for resource
materials, supplies, equipment, software, professional fees, field trips, and other
resources needed to implement and assess the proposed lesson plan or thematic unit.
Application deadline: May 15. For more information, contact NFIE at (202) 822-7840
or http://www.nfie.org/jfask.htm.
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WILDLIFE TRACKER
http://www.wildlifetracker.com
Wildlife Tracker is an animal and environmental portal, directory, and
community. There are many extra features, such as the city guide ( find any information
in any city in the US), facts, news, online greetings cards, bookstore, giftstore. Also
available is a weekly e-zine featuring news, site reviews and more.
All proceeds are donated to the World Wildlife Fund.
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WILLIE BROWN ELEMENTARY
http://members.home.net/williebrown
Willie Brown Elementary in Mansfield, Texas USA is located in a rural town
outside the Dallas - Fort Worth area. This is their second year of operation,
with a population of about 500. The site was designed to facilitate communication
between parents, students and teachers. Updated weekly are a list of upcoming events,
spelling words, areas of studies, supplies needed, teacher's wish lists etc. New to the
site this year is the PTA page that has many links for parents and families. There is also
an extensive "teacher's lounge" with educational links for teachers and a "children's
corner" with links for the students.
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ALL ALONG A RIVER
http://library.advanced.org/28022
This interactive educational website enhances the learning of rivers. Get to know more
about rivers of the world from their source to their mouth and how pollution has affected
the Singapore River and River Rhine. Online worksheets and lesson plans included.
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TIME TO GET IN TUNE
http://users.massed.net/~carrier/
Linda Carrier , a middle school music teacher at Dr. Wm. R. Peck Middle School in
Holyoke, Massachusetts USA, has developed this site for her students (grades 6-8).
The site engages them as they research selected topics in music. It includes a World
Wide Web music activity and resource page aimed specifically at this age group.
Topics include music history, instruments, and one miscellaneous category of fun things
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MRS. BELICEK AKA WEBDEB DESIGN
http://www.coupland.isd-tx.net/~debbie/index.html
This site is a bright interesting site for children, educators, and parents.
Within the site you will find information about the teacher through picture
pages. Children always have a hard time relating to when adults were small
people like them. The site contains pages that relate to what is being taught in
the kindergarten classroom, child safe links, and two projects that class is
participating in. The site also contains pages in which the students in
grades 4-8 are learning about building webpages.
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COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS
http://www.cl.ais.net/rlevine/coolunits.htm
Cool Teaching Lessons and Units is designed as a resource for K-12 teachers who
wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or who wish to
develop their own units.
This site emphasizes WebQuests and Problem-Based Learning as unit formats,
but links include other forms of lessons, tutorials and projects. Included also are
sites to help teachers build your own units as well as some examples of sources to
help students do research.
Even if teachers have one or no computer in their classrooms, these units can be
of much help. Most of these units are great learning experiences not because of
technology, but because they involve students in activities that challenge them,
have them make sound theories, do quality research, do analysis, make judgments
and then create interesting products to communicate their results. Technology can
be used as tools in making these exciting learning experiences even deeper, richer
and more motivating."
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TEACHER TIDBYTES
http://www.teachertidbytes.com
TeacherTidbytes, is a well organized and informative teacher reference resource
created by a 30-year educator. TeacherTidbytes offers offers educators links to
the best educational web resources, student/teacher tutorials and slide shows, and
web-integrated lesson plans TeacherTidbytes also links to its sister site, KID INFO,
a leading homework helper site, recommended by the American Library association's
Icon Connect Magazine, and recently added to the search engine, Metacrawler, Top
100 Hot Kids' sites. Links in TEACHER TIDBYTES are checked weekly for dead
links, and new links are added weekly!
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ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ODA) COMMITTEE PROJECT
http://www.indie.ca/oda/action-tip3.html
Here's a project for anyone who teaches or has responsibility for grades 7 and 8 in
Ontario schools: a very dynamic unit on the Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA).
The ten component activities were recently developed to address "Disabilities and
Human Rights" by the Toronto District Board of Education (Canada) in conjunction
with the Chair of the ODA Committee. These project ideas can also be used in non-
Ontario schools as well. This is but one page of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act (
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BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
If you have a web site or know of one that you feel merits the Busy Educator's
Award, please feel free to send me your suggestions. The award is given out to
web sites that contain excellent content for busy educators.
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