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Using
Technology As a Tool in the Classroom:
Making Connections Training
Teachers
Curriculum Links and Teaching Resources
Art &
Music
- ART Capades
- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/capades/
- This site has easy, fun, educational activities for
young students (K-3), including monolingual Spanish
speakers. The site distributes the activity to the
student without linking to external sites. Hypertext
links provide flexible navigation within the application
for browsing and art selection and elaboration.
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- Crayola
- http://www.crayola.com
- Do you know how many crayons a North American kid
wears down by his 10th birthday? You can find out at the
recently redesigned Crayola Site. You'll also find craft
ideas, stories, games, and pictures to print and color.
Be sure to see the teacher section for product and
technique information, educational programs, and
more.
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- Mozart's Magical Musical
Life
- http://www.stringsinthemountains.org/m2m/1once.htm
- Kids will love this interactive biography of Johannes
Amadeus Mozart. Thestorybook is embellished with
pictures, hypertext links to details, and audio files of
Mozart's compositions. This site also provides a
corresponding U.S. historical context by including the
history of Steamboat Springs, CO, the Yampa Valley, and
the Ute Indian Tribe.
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- KINDERART: A Website with Art
Lessons, Drawing Materials, Ideas, etc.
- http://www.kinderart.com/lessons.htm
- Over 100 free art lesson plans of every kind
including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture,
multicultural art and cross curricular art lessons and
coloring pages. Lessons include: African Drums, Chalk
& String Designs, Maracas & Shakers and much much
more. Lessons are appropriate for grades K-8.
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- Pro Cartoonists
Index
- http://www.cagle.com/teacher/
- Use the lesson plans and cartoons at this site to
find out how to use editorial cartoons as a teaching tool
in a variety of disciplines. The lesson plans "include
games like scavenger hunts, tic tac toe and cartoon
bingo, which engage students as they explore and
interpret the symbolism in cartoons." Student handouts
are also included, and a "Teachers' Tour" helps orient
educators new to the site. Developed by Los Angeles
teacher Peg Cagle with her husband Daryl, syndicated
cartoonist and first vice president of the National
Cartoonists Society.
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