Resource Picks

Recommendations on materials and resources for your classroom

National Geographic

 This site not only provides you with geographic and historical concepts, issues and events but it also links to countless other web sites.

Mother's Day Activities

 Mother's Day is on the second Sunday in May in most of the countries that celebrate this day. Look at these activities provided by hotchalk.com

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial

 This website gives the history of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Students can learn the background on the selection of the design and what the designer intended.

Referenced in: Walking by the Wall: A Virtual Trip to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Frog on a Log

 A wonderful resource2 for teaching a kindergarten or 1st grade science unit on frogs. Complete with fun, engaging songs and terrific classroom activities. You will soon here your students sing to themselves, "I want to be an F-R-O-G frog and sit all day on an L-O-G spells log!" Includes cassette tape.

Referenced in: Ribbit! Ribbit! A thematic unit on frogs, Amazing Animals.

Journey North

 Engage students in the exciting study of wildlife migration. Students from all over the United States and Canada join this journey and take part in the actual data collection.