Lesson+Ideas



April - National Poetry Month
 * [|Instant Poetry Forms] - Educational Technology Training Center
 * [|National Poetry Month] - including April 29th [|Poem in Your Pocket] Academy of American Poets
 * [|The Amazing Middle School Poetry Quest] - an Internet Poetry Anthology
 * [|The Poetry Archive] - poets read their own work

Teacher Resources Page

[|Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs] Noodle Tools

Recommended Search Engines - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html

Ask Kids http://www.askkids.com/

Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/

Bing http://www.bing.com/

Clusty http://clusty.com/

Internet Public Library - For Kids http://ipl.org/div/kidspace/index.html

Internet Public Library - For Teens http://ipl.org/div/teen/index.html

Compare Search Engines http://www.ranks.nl/tools/compare.html

Blind Search: Compare Search Engines http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-07-n71.html

Google for Educators -- Web Search http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html

=**We're celebrating with a scavenger hunt. Download the document below into your WtT folder and follow the directions to complete it.**= [|March 1 Scavenger Hunt.doc]

[|Google Lit Trips]

Facebook Assignments
 * AP English Hamlet wiki

[|Best Search Tools] [|FactCheckED] - Annenberg Classroom Fact Check [|Think! Create! Share!] Nurturing a Generation of Information Fluent Thinkers
 * [|FactCheck.org]
 * Readers Rock! wiki

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