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Earth Day-April 22nd
4/1/08 “On
April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first
Earth Day. It was a time when cities
were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around
the globe. Through the combined
efforts of the U.S.
government, grassroots organizations, and citizens like you, what started as
a day of national environmental recognition has evolved into a world-wide
campaign to protect our global environment. Learn about the history of Earth Day.”
(From: Earth Day/US EPA)
Check out the following Earth Day
Links:
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Planet Green Game from Starbucks
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Global Green USA
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WWF: Time for Change
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National
Environmental Education Week
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Earth Day Network
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Earth Day-April 22nd (cont.)
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Earth
Day: US Government Portal
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Earth Day 2008: Environmental
Crafts, Games Recycling, etc.
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Wilderness Soc: Teacher & Student
Earth Day Page
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Earth Day: The Nature Conservancy
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Earth Day Crafts and
Projects
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Earth Day for Kids
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Games worth investigating…
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Questionaut, from the
BBC, takes the player on a journey through several floating islands in the
sky. It’s a traditional “point and
click” adventure that rewards players for both their keen problem solving
skills while also providing a fine assessment of general knowledge. This site would be a great challenge for
5th grade and up.
§ PowerUp the Game, from IBM, is a free, online,
multiplayer game designed to help students use science and math to solve real
world problems. PowerUp allows
students to experience the excitement and diversity of engineering and it
comes complete with lesson plans!
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Persuasive Writing
§ Argument &
Persuasive Writing @ Web English Teacher
Lesson plans and activities for teaching argument and persuasive writing to
help develop web research and persuasive writing skills as students create
original works.
§ Unit
Plan Persuasive Writing: Grades 6-12
Students will interpret their thoughts about various pictures, symbols, and
slogans; create a visual representation of various feelings and emotions to
infer what the advertiser could be selling the consumer; and create an
advertisement using the various learned techniques.
§ ReadWriteThink
Lesson Plan: Can You Convince Me?
Through a classroom game and handouts, students are introduced to the
concepts of lobbying for something important to them (or that they want) and
making persuasive arguments.
§ McREL
Standards Activity: Persuade Me
As a result of this activity, students in grades 6-8 will be able to
recognize and use persuasive techniques.
§ The Basic
Principles of Persuasive Writing
This article outlines the basic principles of
persuasive writing, including appealing to the reader's sense of reason,
emotion, and good character.
§ Writing
Opinion Pieces about Meaningful Issues to Kids
In this lesson, students identify controversial
topics on which they have strong opinions. After examining a controversial issue,
students then model their own persuasive opinion pieces after the featured
article.
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Site Survey:
Websites that Educate,
Enlighten, Entertain, and Engage
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Mr.Nussbaum.com
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/
Teachers can find concepts, themes, ideas, and fact sets taught in the classroom
enhanced with the internet through interactivity. The site is free; however, there is a
membership fee for the premium activities.
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Education World’s Tools and
Templates
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml
Templates, forms, graphic organizers, letters, logs, holiday worksheets,
icebreakers, notepads, and much, much more!
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The Life of a Vertebrate Fossil
(K-8)
http://paleobiology.si.edu/LVF/#start
This site, from the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, takes visitors on a
multimedia adventure through each step that paleontologists take in locating
vertebrate fossils and preparing them for display in the museum.
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Astronomy and Space (3-12)
http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/astronomy/index.jsp
This site provides resources and information for teachers and students who
are teaching and learning about astronomy and space. There are four “big questions” that it
addresses: What is the universe made of, and how does it work? Where did it all come from? What is our place in the cosmos? And, Are we alone?
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