The Exploratorium continues its tradition of offering engaging activities for your students.  Check out the many "science snacks" (activities) available to you!

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Active Learning Practices for Schools

 Project Zero at the Harvard School of Education presents strategies for meaningful teaching and learning.  This is "a learning community of educator's dedicated to the improvement of education."

Scienceworks

Scienceworks Museum in Victoria, Australia presents nine different exhibits. Visit the Planetarium for an online tour of the constellations and an in-depth study of the sun, moon, planets, and stars. Other exhibits cover forests, photography, prehistoric life, wasps, and spiders.
 

Multiplication Mystery

Your students will enjoy this multiplication grid puzzle.

Smart Board Users Take Note!

ToFU is Good

Tools for Understanding is a web site for middle and high school teachers of special education and remedial math. Topics covered include fractions, decimals, geometry, functions, and problem solving.

Ribbit's Math Ventures

This web site houses three detailed problems that demonstrate real-life problem-solving techniques. Students will explore the site and gather facts which they ultimately need to solve the problem. A reasonable math challenge for all elementary students.

Incredible Art Department

This site contains a wealth of Art lessons dealing with such topics as masks, origami houses, storybook art, murals and batik. A variety of integrated lessons are offered on topics such as  ceramics, textile painting, sculpture, portraits, etchings collages and triptychs.

The focus of this space is world history Web sites that consistently display exemplary content.

History Teacher.Net

Wonders of the African World