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Last updated 19 June 2013

What's This is our ever changing list of recently added sites, plus the occasional oldie. These are not in alphabetical order. Generally, sites get added on the top and eventually get taken off the bottom.

BBC Scotland's interactive Skara Brae site for kids! Examine the evidence and play the activities! Make bead necklaces, decorate pots, find food and fuel, arrange things in the home, and plan a stone circle! Great educational site about Neolithic people living at the edge of Europe about 5,000 years ago. Going in Ancient History

Gaze upon all of Mercury for the first time ever Watch the closest planet to the sun as it rotates, in high-contrast false color! "This video is based on images taken by the MESSENGER probe, the first spacecraft to actually orbit Mercury." Going in Astronomy

model of blue whale heart The heart of a Blue Whale is so big that people could fit inside!

Don't worry, this is just a full sized model of the real heart.

Going in Animals and in Science & Nature > Living Things.

Eye of a fossa Animals that you didn't know existed Learn about 26 animals from all over the world. This imgur album has good photos and enough information to make you want to find out more! Going in Animals

Publo water jar Sung celadon The Pottery Page This is an old page, that was used for a summer project a few years ago. Learn about Pueblo and Chinese ceramics. There is also a good site about Sioux Pottery. It's all a way to expose students to another kind of art. Going in Art.

Greek Gods and Goddesses A new retelling of the principal dieties for students. "GreekGodsAndGoddesses.net (GGG) was created in 2012 to provide an informative, easy to follow, and attractive online resource for information on the Olympian gods in Greek mythology... From K-12 students to mythology enthusiasts, GGG offers anyone interested in the Olympian gods an opportunity to enjoy learning about them." The site will be expanded in future to include more bios and facts about other figures in Greek Mythology. Go to this site and enjoy it! Going in Ancient History and Art.

Click on the pic to see more photos from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.

Giant pink slugs of Australia, and The Most Amazing Slug You’ll Ever See These articles have photos and information about these unusual molluscs. Find out why they're pink! Going in Animals

"An open marketplace for educators where teachers buy, sell and share original teaching resources. TpT's mission is to empower teachers by bringing together those who create curricula with those who are seeking fresh new approaches in the classroom. Teachers work hard and deserve extra compensation for all those hours spent lesson planning. Newer teachers and those looking for ideas can save time and leap ahead in competency by learning from veterans. We strongly believe that the ensuing exchange lifts all boats and leads to the better sharing of best practices." This is HUGE! We urge you to stroll around the site until you feel at home. Teachers worldwide post here. Some of it's free, some of it's fee, and it's all good! Start a blog, share your stuff, make money. Going in Homeschool and Teachers & Parents

Utah's Dinosaur Record from the Utah Geologic Survey. (check out the whole site or buy posters at this link) Utah has a LOT of dinosaurs to be proud of. This pdf graphic of Utah's dinosaur history shows the eras/ages that make up the Mesozoic Era, and aligns them with local formations. From the Upper ("late") Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous, all known Utah dinos and their artifacts are listed by their place in time. Great for education, since it gives a sense of scale as to how long the dinosaurs were around!* This is an excellent graphic! Going in Dinosaurs & Paleontology and in Science & Nature > Earth Science

*You could take elementary kids out on a football field and have them step it off, too.

Rock Cycle from the Utah Geologic Survey. (check out the whole site or buy posters at this link) Utah has a LOT of geology to be proud of. This pdf graphic of the rock cycle is simplified for kids, but it shows all the important data. Nice graphic! Going in Science & Nature > Earth Science

Wild Horses of Shackelford Banks "The Shackleford Banks wild horses are a unique historic and cultural legacy. Historical research and genetics testing indicates that these wild horses descended from a core group of the old type of Spanish horses." Horses were left by Spanish and English ships in the 16th and 17th centuries, for various reasons. The animals adapted and survived on various islands of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This is a site about the horses so it has plenty of photos of them for kids who just looove horses! Going in Animals

Girl Rising Find out where this is playing and go see it! Watch the trailer on the site. Watch the teaser on YouTube. "Educate Girls and you will Change the World." Going in Teachers & Parents.

The Butterfly Website "is the world's oldest and largest website dedicated to butterflies and moths. Here you'll find hundreds of articles about butterflies and moths, an extensive clipart collection, many photographs, videos, butterfly gardening tips, links to purchase butterflies for your wedding or special event, and a lot more." Also an FAQ page with 25 general questions and answers about butterflies, moths, and caterpillars; and page of links to butterfly curricula. Going in Animals

Geography Games from Coolmath-Games. "How well do you know your countries, states and capitals?" These are excellent! Learn The US states and capitals, the states of Mexico, the provinces and territories of Canada, and the countries of the continents! Not since Seterra have we found geography drills this good. Face it, the only way to become a geography master is to drill and practice. Most American students know next to nothing about geography. :( Going in Challenges and in Social Studies > Geography.

Teach Ocean Science Amazing, stupendous, colossal. This site features teacher resources (lesson plans) in three sections. (1) Ocean science curriculum "Teach an entire ocean science course or incorporate ocean concepts into your science classroom using this database of scientist and teacher-approved lesson plans." (2) Using the ocean to teach STEM has five interdisciplinary STEM activities ready to go as pdf files. (3) Modules - ten modules and a glossary covering various animal, vegetable, and mineral aspects of the sea. "Brush up on your ocean science content knowledge or find lesson plans to teach about the coastal ocean using these graphic interactive modules compiled by teams of scientists, teachers, and students." Going in Science & Nature >Biomes, Ecology, and Habitats, & > Earth Science and Teachers & Parents.

Earthquakes for Kids from the U.S. Geological Survey (the USGS). Consists of 12 kid-friendly sections: Latest Quakes, Links & Activities, Puzzles & Games, Today in Earthquake History, Science Fair Project Ideas, Animations, How to become an earthquake scientists, Facts, Pictures, Ask a Geologist, the science of earthquakes, and a glossary. Going in Science & Nature > Earth Science.

Explore.org's Live Cams Over 40 different live cams. Many of animals, birds, and fishes; others of beaches and exotic places like Hawaii. Quite a few "baby animal cams" - wild bears, birds nesting, pandas, puppies, kittens. This link defaults to the Beluga Cam at the Vancouver Aquarium. Scroll down to see more cams. Going in Animal Cams.

Storybud is a site with stories for the reading impaired and dyslexics. That doesn't mean that others can't enjoy this site as well! Readers may choose different text and background color combinations besides black on white (our fave was yellow on purple) and may choose different font sizes as well. "On Storybud there are text versions of stories, audio versions of stories, and combined text and audio stories. Storybud is not a business. Our mission is simply to share the joy of stories from around the world for free." They welcome your text/audio stories, your requests for stories, and would like to link to other ed sites. We believe this site is a worthy effort, and that it would be useful for many readers! Going in Homeschool, Literacy > New Readers and > Read Alouds, and Teachers & Parents.

History of life on Earth from the BBC. Their usual informative and creative treatment, this time in the form of an interactive timeline that keeps expanding, and again, and so on, and so on... The first timeline starts at 4.6 billion years ago and stops at 0.2 million years ago. To maintain a semblance of scale you can magnify the last 600 million years to make another time scale, and then another for last 250 million years. (This scheme was well thought out!) The last timeline stops at the end of the last ice age. Scrolling down from the timelines, you find Geological time periods. This covers 19 eras from 3.8 billion years ago to the present time. Click on the thumbnail for any era and you'll be drawn into a wealth of cool facts, pix, and information! Go down the page and there are more thumbnails - colorful sections about the Big Five mass extinction events, Mass extinction theories, and Ancient Earth habitats. If you do it all at once, your eyes'll be glazed! Tons of information to supplement your textbook, to use for a report, or just to wonder at the awesomeness of time. Going in Challenges and in Dinosaurs & Paleontology.

I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate A Spoken Word video from Suli Breaks, British recording artist. Over half a million people worldwide have viewed this video. Looks like maybe half of them left comments! A protest against standardized, one-size-fits-all education systems. It's a pretty gripping video. (Warning: This video will make you THINK!) Also an advocacy of finding a career that you enjoy, following your dream instead of being a wage slave. Don't want to put any more words in his mouth, out of respect. GSFK agrees with the plug: You Have To Watch This!! Choose your own POV and discuss this with other viewers. Going in Homeschool, Literacy > Speech and Speaking and Secondary School Literature, and Teachers & Parents.

Just in case Red Fish goes away (shudder), the good people at the site have provided stand-alone links to Amos from Outer Space and the awesome interactive encyclopedia Encyclopedia Interactica. Perhaps more parts of Red Fish will also be "spun off". Stay tuned and keep checking the Red Fish site!

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