I've begun the study of Martin Luther King's life and accomplishments.Each year, I look for new resources to tap into and here they are: MLK Timeline with famous quotes Catchy MLK Rap CBS Interactive Links On another note, if you've not yet check out All Things Upper Elementary go scoot on over now.Each day one of the collaborative authors is ...

Documentary Dish: Awesome collection of videos!  Space | Nature | Technology | History | Environment | Health | Shows #elemchat #spedchat #scichat  #sschat #edtech mrsd5107: Online videos categorized and linked! Serving brain food for your mind!

Life Is produced by the makers of BBC Earth. It features a new theme each month. There are breathtaking videos, slide shows and more to go along with it. This month the theme is human.   Awesome photography as well as engaging content.

Via K. Tenkely from her article “28 Tech Tools to Bring Out the Story in History”  ”Awesome Stories is a collection of primary source materials separated by category. Primary sources include images, videos, narration, slideshows, artifacts, manuscripts, and documents.  Awesome Stories is essentially an interactive textbook.  With the ...

neoK12 offers videos, lessons, interactive diagrams, games, puzzles and quizzes for grades K-12. They feature an extensive science (videos, interactives, games,quizzes etc.)  collection where I believe it would be hard not to find something for your next science lesson. Below is a screenshot of the categories and subcategories in which you can ...

Yeah . . . you might able to track them down and, yeah, you might even be able to view and download them for classroom use. But it’s unlikely that you will be able to find an easier way to browse, view and download U.S. government public domain videos than you can at CriticalPast. CriticalPast is one of the largest privately held online archival ...

It's not a bad place to be: stuck between the vast and varied worlds of the picture books and the worlds of the novel. That's where many children find themselves at age eight (give or take), when they're trying to make the independent reading leap from picture books to more difficult chapter books. Is the language in chapter books that much more ...

I received a couple enthusiastic emails about my Women in Baseball post, so when I ran across this newsreel footage of the Racine Belles, thought I'd drop it in hear for my readers to get a good laugh. Not at the women, of course, but at the sexism of the era. Can't we get through a 90 second newsreel without showing some leg? And I love the ...

February is Black History Month, so my 10-year-old son is going to make an African-American book. Below are the people we are going to study: Sarah Boone (inventor of the ironing board; received a patent in 1892) - About.com: Sarah Boone George Washington Carver (plant scientist who made great contributions to the field of agriculture chemistry) ...