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AAM Electronic Newsletter
Published by An Adventure of the American Mind at Mars Hill College
Vol. 8 Issue 30 - May 4, 2007
Free is Good!
Continuing our free resources for teachers theme, here are just a few.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Also known as FREE! This website makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government all across the
curriculum. With content for teaching math, science, language
arts, social studies, the arts, health and fitness, and even special collections, you'll find more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources from dozens of federal agencies.
New sites are added regularly.
If you maintain your school's website, you are invited to link to FREE to direct your teachers to this great resource.
http://www.free.ed.gov/
Eat Breakfast, Drink Milk, Play Xbox
How do you combine health and fitness with video games? How about Dance, Dance, Rovolution? It "sustains the kids because of the nature of the game," says Nidia Henderson, health promotions director of West Virginia's Public Employees Insurance Agency. "It's challenging, it's high-tech, it's easily accessible." And, above all, it's aerobic.
Kids who would normally avoid regular exercise gravitate to DDR's light and sound. Did we mention, it's fun!? Read about this and more health centered video games at
http://thejournal.com/articles/20467.
By the way, this is another free journal - in paper and print.
Visit them at http://thejournal.com/ and register. It's worth it.
Free Clip Art
From the Teacher's Guide, here is a cool gallery of clip art in black-and-white and in color. The site itself has its own clip art to share plus links to other free clip art sites.
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Freebies.html
National Archives Regional Education Resources
More than just the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, NARA's holdings are located in a nationwide network across the United States. The Regional Archives provide a glimpse into the history of our country through documents, photographs, and artifacts found only in their unique holdings.
Find out if there is a resource near you with a somewhat local flavor at http://www.archives.gov/education/regional-resources.html.
Here's just one example: If you are teaching or studying about the Great Plains states, NARA has free CDs for teachers. The version available here has original documents related to Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas and tied to national standards. It also includes teacher notes, suggested activities and analysis worksheets.
http://www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city/education/primary-sources-cd.html
Plotting Terror
This website uses Google Maps to plot situations going on in the world. From bomb scares to stolen radioactive material to rebel attacks, alarming things happen all day, every day. Morgan Clements, founder and publisher of the Global Incident Map, talks about why it's important to map them.
http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
Your editor first heard about this on NPR's program, On the Media.
Here is a link to an interview with founder Morgan Clements:
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/04/27/04
Rearranging the Desks
It's not too late to breathe a little change into your classroom.
Move things around a little to be sure that no student has a bad seat. From your friends at
Edutopia.
http://beta.edutopia.org/node/1296
Sharing Resources
May is a great month. The school year is winding down and your students may have less concentration that they did in October, but the deadlines are being met. Time to look back at this school year and start planning next year.
One way to get next year off to a great start is to look at valuable resources that you have used and want to share with your colleagues. For those of us who teach with primary sources, May has been declared Free Stuff Month!
Send me your links to free resources you like and that other teachers might want to know about and use. Many museums, libraries and foundations have materials that they want to get in the hands of teachers. Share what you have found and we'll pass it along to other teachers who read this newsletter.
Send it to the AAM Newsletter staff at awalter@mhc.edu. I'll pass it along in upcoming issues.
Spread the Word!
If the teachers in your school or AAM program are not receiving this newsletter, please send me their names and e-mail addresses. Also, feel free to share this newsletter with a colleague. And we encourage new readers to get their own subscription.
More input + greater diversity = better newsletter. Be part of the equation! Thanks to everyone who has sent submissions to me. Please continue to send your favorite resources and successes to your either of your editors, Liz Lang at elang@mhc.edu, or AnneMarie Walter at awalter@mhc.edu. I will feature them in coming newsletters and on the AAM program Web site.
Don't forget to contribute your favorite links to the Useful Links section!
Contact aam-teachers@aweber.com to be added to the mailing list.
AnneMarie Walter
AAM Associate Director
Mars Hill College
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