TWIRP: The week-in-review post
February 5, 2010Read milestone documents from American history at Our Documents
Our Documents is a completely free-to-use, wonderfully cataloged and explained collection of 100 milestone documents in American history.
Build your own educational games at ProProfs BrainGames
ProProfs Brain Games lets you create simple online games for your class without expending much time or effort. The game varieties include crosswords, word finds, jigsaw puzzles, and so on. Not super-complex, but perfect for test reviews and elementary classrooms.
Find STEM resources at BioED Online
BioED is an online repository of lesson plans, teaching resources, full blown presentations and interactive contests for students. All the materials are aligned to academic standards, available for PDF download, and presentations are usually broken into components so if you wanted to use a slide or image from a presentation, they are available separately.
Actors read books to kids at Storyline Online
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation has produced Storyline Online, a streaming video site where SAG members read a wide selection of children’s books.
Misquoth Poe, nevermore: Poestories.com
You can find an excellent online repository of Edgar Allen Poe’s work at Poestories.com, which hosts many of his complete stories, poetry, and a link network to locate works not hosted.
