Waste Free Lunches
Start a waste-free lunch program at your school, or simply learn how to make and pack lunches kids (and adults) will eat with little waste and reusable containers.
#Education
General thoughts on teaching and learning
What Will $1,000,000 Buy?
Reprinted from Exchange Every Day by Child Care Information Exchange: What Will $1 Million Buy?April 26, 2007 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.Helen KellerDid you ever play the game, "What would you do if you had $1 million?" Well, here are some ideas for you:For $1 million you can pay for....1. 22...
Make your own graph paper and other specialty grids
Incomptech.com provides free pdf generators for making your own graph papers and other specialty papers to print. Many allow you to set spacing and other variables.
Edutopia on Emotional Intelligence
Edutopia, the online educators magazine from the George Lucas Educational Foundation, has compiled a collection of resources on emotional and social intelligence.
The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.phpThe Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. By the way, the Internet Archive even includes a catalog of live Grateful Dead concerts for streaming and/or download.
Misunderstood Minds by PBS
Misunderstood Minds is a 'companion site to the PBS special on learning differences and disabilities.' Special areas on the site focus on attention, reading, writing and math. Stories, information and resources for parents (and teachers).
By-pass Pizza Hut’s BOOK-IT Program
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood writes:As part of our ongoing effort to counter commercialism in schools, CCFC is encouraging parents and educators to stop schools from using Pizza Hut BOOK IT! programs. BOOK IT! is one of corporate America's most insidious school-based brand promotions. It reaches 22 million school children in 900,000 classrooms each year. Through the BOOK IT! Beginners program (which runs this year from March...
U.S. health officials say autism rate about 1 in 150
The article below makes one pause... MIKE STOBBE Associated Press ATLANTA - The largest U.S. study of autism has found that the troubling condition is more common than previously understood. About one in 150 American children has autism, U.S. health officials said Thursday, calling the troubling disorder an urgent public health concern that is more common than they once thought. The new numbers are based on the largest,...
David Warlick on Web 2.0
Harnessing the New Shape of InformationI am sitting in a presentation by David Warlick for TRLD 2007 in San Francisco. I've heard him talk about millennial children, and now I'm here to learn more about Web 2.0... I've been blogging for a few months now, but I'm still trying to figure out the 2-way aspects of it - mainly because I haven't really pushed my blog much. It's...
EPN – The Education Podcast Network
In their own words, the Education Podcast Network is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century."