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Week #31
4/28/03 -5/2/03

Rubistar .4teachers.org
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics butdoes not have the time to develop them from scratch. Read more .Go to the tutorial (it includes information on changing categories, their headings and content).

Week #32
5/5/03 - 5/9/03

Print free.com

All sorts of useful printable materials
3 styles of printable monthly calendar (2003 & 2004)
Also yearly, picture, school year and custom calendars
School Related Items: Clock faces, Flags to color, lined papers, Award Certificates
Kids' Pages
All sorts of printable signs and greeting cards

Week #33
5/12/02 -5/16/02

 

Dinosaur Site

http://knox.link75.org/bcs/Publish%20C/dinosaur.html

There is lots of other good stuff on the Publishing Center Page. I have put the Printfree.com site from last week there permanently so it will be easily available.

Week #34
5/19/02 -5/123/02

IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY:

The Story of Memorial Day

Some CIVIL WAR SITES

Curtis Library Pejepscot Historical Society's

Joshua Chamberlain Area

Other Civil War and Chamberlain Resources (Links to many Civil War Pages)

Week #35
5/27/02 -5/24/02

SOME PUZZLE SITES

Discovery School's 'Puzzlemaker'

Make X-word puzzles online

JigZone.com: (Jigsaw Puzzles Online)

Great variety in topics, numbers of pieces, style of puzzle and levels of difficulty

Number & Word Puzzles

Week #36
5/27/02 -5/30/02

Week #37
6/2/02 -6/6/02

Week #38
6/9/02 -6/14/02

Week #21
2/3/03 -2/7/03

Town of Bowdoin Site

State of Maine "Do not call list"
This is on the Office of Attorney General Site which has lots of useful information!

Cornell Backyard Bird Count: 2/14 - 2/17
Fun, Easy, & Free

Week #22
2/10/03 -2/14/03

Happy Valentine's Day

Valentine Fun at Kids Domain

BETHANY ROBERTS' VALENTINE'S DAY FUN FOR KIDS
(and the Young at Heart!)

JanBrett's Valentines (e-postcards to send)

PrimaryGames.com: Valentine's Day

Week #23
2/24/03 -2/28/03

Internet Public Library
Presidents of the United States

Presidents' Day: The Holiday

Read Across America
March 3, 2003

Week #24
3/3/03 -3/7/03

TAXES

Federal

Internal Revenue Service: 'The Digital Daily'

Information & Forms, etc (a very useful site)

Educator Expenses Deduction:

State

Maine Revenue Services Homepage

Week #25
3/10/03 -3/14/03

March is Women's History Month

Women in History: a Page of Links

•About the women's movement,

•Biographies of famous women

US Census Facts & Figures: Women's History Month

St.Patrick's Day

St Patrick's Fun at Kids Domain

Happy St Patrick's Day: Billy Bear's Playground

Happy St Patrick's Day from Arthur Elementary School, Arthur, Illinois

Week #26
3/17/03 -3/21/03

Welcome Spring!! March 20

Jeepers/Peepers

Report and track the progress of spring with your class Send in the date your class observes the emerging & returning animals and plants (robins, peepers, sugar maples, dandelion)
Measure snow depth; record 'ice out'
Plus lots of good information about spring...(Activities alligned to ME Learning Results)

Springtime in Maine

Week #27
3/24/03 -3/28/03

Week #28
3/31/03 -4/4/03

April is Poetry Month
BCS Poetry Pages

•About Poetry
•Poem Forms
•How-To and Examples
•BCS Kids' Poems
•Famous Poets
•Links

Week #29
4/7/03 4/11/03

"Celebrate our Earth and spring with your class and the Maine DEP!"

Jeepers Peepers!
A Project for Students and Teachers Across Maine
"Celebrate Earth Day 2002 with the third year of Jeepers Peepers Spring Watch! You and your class can have fun reporting and tracking the progress of spring in Maine with other classes around the state." (Activities aligned to ME Learning results.)

FROGS OF NEW ENGLAND: The Spring Peeper

(A Super Think Quest Site) :

Week #30
4/14/03 -4/18/03

BCS International Week

United Nations

All Our Neighbors

Countries of the World

 

Week #11
11/12/02 -11/15/02

America Recycles Day: Friday, November 15

Planet Pals: Activities, Freebies, Lessons, clip art

 

Veterans Day:

Veteran's Day

November 11:Veterans Day

VFW Origins of Veterans Day

Week #12
11/18/02 -11/22/02

American Thanksgiving Tradition - Plimoth Plantation

Thanksgiving on the Net

The Mayflower Web Clothing, Letters, Pilgrim children

Plimoth on the Web Kids' Page

Kids' Domain Thanksgiving

Ben & Jerry's Thanksgiving Site

Week #13
11/25/02 -11/26/02

Ramadan (12/5/02-12/4/02

Ramadan on the Net

Islamic Holidays and Observances - Ramadan: The Month of Fasting

Ramadan

Celebrating Ramadan, by Tayyba, age 14, New York City
This girl wrote about Ramadan in 2001 so the date is different this year

Week #14
12/2/02 -12/6/02

Hanukkah (sunset 11/30 -12/7)

Chanukah on the Net

Hanukkah :Festival of Lights

Virtual Chanukah

Hanukkah (World Book ) (Scroll in right column to World History & Culture / Click on Holidays Around the World /Click on Hanukkah)

Week #15
12/9/02 -12/13/02

Christmas (12/ 25)

Christmas on the Net

Merry Christmas.com

Christmas Around the World (World Book ) (Scroll in right column to World History & Culture / Click on Holidays Around the World /Click on Christmas/)

Christmas Around the World (Kids Domain)

Week #16
12/16/02 -12/20/02

Kwanzaa (12/ 26-1/1)

Kwanzaa Welcome Page

Official Kwanzaa Web Site

Kwanzaa:An African-American Holiday

Kwanza (World Book ) (Scroll in right column to World History & Culture / Click on Holidays Around the World /Click on Kwanza/)

Week #17
1/6/03 -1/10/03

The State Certification Site

"This site will give you info on many certification issues at the state level, including the Praxis and Fingerprinting.

Week #18
1/13/03 -1/17/03

MARTIN LUTHER KING

Martin Luther King Day on the Net

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scavenger Hunt

Holiday Zone: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Games, arts and crafts, discussion topics, songs, and other language activities

Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute
Life magazine's tribute includes both pictures of Dr. King and excerpts from his writings.

National Civil Rights Museum Virtual Tour
Visit this site to re-live the civil rights movement from Brown v. Board of Education to the present day; tour is presented in pictures and text

Week #19
1/21/03 -1/24/03

Kate's

SAD75 Certification Site

A WEALTH of information from Forms to A.A.R.B.E.C; from Representatives to the Praxis and much more!

Week #20
1/27/03 -1/31/03

REF DESK.COM

Links to Search Engines, Site, Thought, Word, etc of the Day, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, other references Auto Bluebook, News, Weather, Almanac, Tax Info, and much, much more!

 

Week #1
9/3/02 - 9/6/02

SchoolCatalogs.Net

Over 1250 of the finest school supply vendors waiting for you to explore and shop from their web sites... All grade levels and subjects.

Week #2
9/9/02 - 9//02

 

MarcoPolo

An Internet Integration Site/Program

Week #3
9/16/02 - 9/20/02

 

The Teacher List :Mastering the Web... One Site at a time
Education Web Adventures

Art & Art History
History & Geography
Science & Technology

Week #4
9/23/02 - 9/27/02

 

Dictionary.com

Look up a word in the Dictionary or Thesaurus
(definitions....part of speech....pronunciation....derivation)
also
Ask Dr Dictionary (ask ? about words, grammar, language)
Fun & Games (Daily X-word & word search)
Other language dictionaries
Roget's Thesaurus
Word of the Day
Writing Resources and more

Week #5
9/30/02 -10/4/02

 

iTEACH Math

Scroll Down for a LONG list of Math Sites to Support Technology Integrated Mathematics:
(General resources and lesson plans)
(Interactive Math Applets) Neat On-line Activities here

Week #6
10/7/02 -10/11/02

 

Columbus Day

Celebrate Columbus Day

The Explorations of Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus Time Line
A second grade's illustrated timeline

Extract's from Columbus's Journal (Medieval Sourcebook)

1492: An Ongoing Voyage
Learn about America before European explorers arrived. Discover how the arrival of Columbus affected many different peoples and cultures.

Columbus Day For Kids

Week #7
10/16/00 -10/18/00

 

Mt Ararat HELP Page

A number of informative downloads and links including

E-Mail setup, copying graphics, using Yahoo

About copyright on the web

Internet related words & Internet related resources

Week #8
10/21/02 -10/25/02

 

Parents' Math Night List of Math Web Sites

Kate Cason put together this list of neat math sites for the
4th-5th grade Parents' Math Night 10/22

Week #9
10/28/02 -11/1/02

 

HALLOWEEN!

13 Pumpkin Avenue - Halloween info and fun! Costumes, decorating, recipes, party planning, jokes, games, coloring, music, and holiday history.

Bear Country Halloween - Click around this haunted house

Kids Domain Halloween

Happy Halloween from Ben & Jerry's

Yahooligans Search

Week #10
11/4/02 -11/8/02

UNH DIMOND LIBRARY: Documents Department & Data Center

Historic USGS Maps of New England & New York:

Great topographical maps of Maine, etc
(1892 or 4, 1943 or 5, & 1957) Even shows houses

(Bowdoin is split on Bath and Gardiner maps)