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The Busy Educator’s Monthly 5 Web Sites

By Marjan GlavaccloseAuthor: Marjan Glavac Name: Marjan Glavac
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About: Marjan is currently a gr.6 home room teacher at Wilfrid Jury Public School in London, Ontario, Canada where he resides with his wife and two children. For more information about Marjan Glavac, his books, keynotes, training and seminars, visit him at his site at http://www.thebusyeducator.com.See Authors Posts (29)

Each month Marjan Glavac, professional speaker, teacher and co-author of “How To Thrive And Survive In Your Classroom”, presents The Busy Educator’s Monthly Five — five websites for educators that are easy to read, simple to use and worthwhile to know.

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THE FINAL ANALYSIS (TEACHERS)
http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/the-final-analysis.php

For the end of the term here’s something to encourage you to rise above
discouragement, lack of appreciation and still produce your best!

SANTA’S SECRET VILLAGE  (PRE-K TO 3RD GRADE)
http://www.northpole.com/

Northpole.com is a year-round site geared to Pre-K to 3rd Grade students.

This site provides a wealth of useful, creative ideas and activities to enhance lesson plans for teaching counting, numbers, and letters. With stories to read and color, flash cards, mazes, math riddles, puzzles, and an online coloring book, kids learn while having fun.

MATHFROG (GR. 4-6)

http://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/mathfrog.html

MATHFROG is a free mathematics site of Fun Resources and Online Games for parents, teachers and students in grades 4, 5 and 6.  Great games and activities
are available here to teach patterning, probability, geoboard, geometer’s
sketchpad, pie charts, fractions, tangrams and more.

NEH SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES (TEACHERS K-12)
http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the Federal Government. Each year the NEH’s Division of Education Programs offers teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes. The dates and duration of each project are listed under each title.The application deadline is March 2, 2010 (postmark).

FROM CAVE ART TO YOUR ART: 30,000 YEARS OF NEW MEDIA  (Gr. 5-12)
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/caveart/

Cave painters first put charcoal to rock thirty thousand years ago. Ever since,
artists have created new media to help them express themselves.  Explore the
ways that artists use art media and make a video showing what they’ve inspired
you to create. Watch video clips showing artists at work, then make your own art
and upload it to the web site. Add text and music, and you’re ready to watch your
video. You can even download it to your computer to share with friends and family!

THE BIOLOGY BINDER  (GR. 9-12)
www.biologybinder.com

This site contains interactive quizzes and crosswords, genetics problem sets,
notes/study guides, and links to interactive activities on all biology topics.