Monday, November 10, 2008

The Mishoona or Wampanoag Canoe - YouTube

How the Wampanoag Canoes were made:


How the Wampanoag Canoes were used:

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Comic Strip Creators

Comics as Literacy
Edutopia Article - A New Literary Hero: Comics Make for Colorful Learning

Have some fun writing your own stories in comic strip format.
Here are some links to some versatile comic strip creators.
Charlotte's Web Comic Strip Charlotte's Web Characters and props are used
Make Beliefs Comix A variety of characters, 2, 3 or 4 panel comics
Read Write Think Comic Creator
Garfield Comic Creator
Kabam Comic Creator Help the Bam Bunch through stressful situations and create your own comic.
Boys' Life Comic Creator Characters, backgrounds and objects to use in your comic.
Comic Creator at Surfwell Island A Disney character comic creator

Resources for Printables

MES English.com Free resources for teachers of young learners. All of the resources are designed to be versatile and useful in many K-6 classrooms. There are free flashcards, worksheets , phonics cards, ESL games printable certificates and printable stickers ready for printing.


Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Volcano Animations

Here are a few more of the volcanoes done this winter by third graders.
Students drew volcanoes in sequence using Windows Paint, saving them as bitmaps. Then they brought the images into Windows Movie Maker and added sounds of volcanoes and music clips found online at:


http://www.freesfx.co.uk/
http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/
http://music-for-video.com/free-sound-effects-for-video-makers.html
http://www.pdsounds.org/
Other free sound effects may be found at:
Absolute Sound Effects Archive
SoundBoard






Friday, June 13, 2008

Create Your Own Comic Strip

Have some fun writing your own stories in comic strip format.
Here are some links to some versatile comic strip creators.
Charlotte's Web Comic Strip Charlotte's Web Characters and props are used
Make Beliefs Comix A variety of characters, 2, 3 or 4 panel comics
Read Write Think Comic Creator
Garfield Comic Creator
Kabam Comic Creator Help the Bam Bunch through stressful situations and create your own comic.
Boys' Life Comic Creator Characters, backgrounds and objects to use in your comic.
Comic Creator at Surfwell Island A Disney character comic creator

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Fun Elementary Links

Webrangers: Visit National Parks around the country and earn Certificates. Sign up or just visit.
Three difficulty levels from ages 6 to 13+.
Study Jams States of Matter: Animation video from Scholastic that talks about the three states of matter and what matter is.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Friday, April 18, 2008

Peru

Some fifth grades are communicating with Colegio America in Callao, Peru, so I've included some links to more information about Peru.

Lima Easy - Welcome to Lima weather and climate, animals, history, festivals, etc.
Machu Pichu pictures and information
Enjoy Peru - El Callao near Lima, where the school is located
Colegio America the school's website
Two older websites where we learned about their school through a stuffed animal exchange
Moose on the Loose 2003-04 and Moose on the Loose 2004-05

Monday, April 14, 2008

Earth Day - April 22, 2008

Here are some interesting links to Earth Day activities and information:

Tox Town

FunSchool Earth Day
Earth Day Clean Up Your World
Food Chain

Monday, March 24, 2008

Maine Industry

Click here:

for Secretary of State's Kids' Page for information about Industry in Maine.





Potato Planting



Potato Processing



Burning the Blueberry Fields


Lobstering



Woodsmen and River Drivers

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Spring is Almost Here!

Read a comic. Go to Sticky Burr.
Make a comic. Go to Comic Creator or MakeBeliefsComix.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Third Grade Volcanoes


Here is A volcano animation made by a third grader. More will be posted as time permits!

Friday, February 22, 2008

An Album from BubbleShare

You can post pictures in a variety of formats at BubbleShare.com. They may be viewed by everyone or viewed only by invitation.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Links to Free Sound Clips

Some links to free audio sounds for your animations:

http://www.freesfx.co.uk/
http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/
http://music-for-video.com/free-sound-effects-for-video-makers.html
http://www.pdsounds.org/

Please make sure to credit your source for sounds in your animations.

Volcano Animation

Using Windows Movie Maker and Windows Paint, this animation was created of a volcano erupting. Third graders made their own which we will publish shortly.

Here are links to some good educational volcano sites:

Volcano World
Volcano information, project ideas, legends, virtual field trips..
Virtual Field Trip to Volcanoes
See photos of lots of volcanoes
How Volcanoes Work
The science behind volcanoes.
Annenberg/CPB: Can We Predict Volcanic Eruptions?
How can we predict how and when volcanoes will erupt?
FEMA For Kids: Volcanoes
Explains what a volcano is and shows where the active volcanoes are in the U.S.A.
National Geographic: Forces of Nature-Volcanoes
Lesson plans and activities on the nature of volcanoes.
Xpeditions: Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Compare and analyze plate tectonic maps with population density maps.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Maine Indians Resources

Passamaquoddy Facts for Kids

Access Genealogy,Indian Tribal Records
Native Americans of Maine, vocabulary, tribe areas and names.

Native American Tribes of Maine

Wabanaki of Maine from the Abbe Museum page

Aroostook Band of Micmacs with history of Micmacs link

Houlton Band of Maliseet current website

History of the Penobscot

Learn to Speak Penobscot

Maliseet - Passamaquoddy Dictionary English to Passamaquoddy/Passamaquoddy to English dictionary

Malecite and Passamaquoddy Tales stories told and transcribed. Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine

Learning to Type - Free!

Peter's Online Typing Course Turn yourself into a typing hero! Very focused typing training. No frills.

Keyboarding Practice from Davis School District, Utah.

Touch Typing Use "Previous English Version" to type the exercises.

Monday, January 7, 2008

Free Images

Here are links to some free images for use on web pages and other works by students or teachers. Some ask that you link back to them or credit them in written works. That seems only fair!

Free nature pictures:
http://www.freenaturepictures.com/

Good photographs, free for non-commercial use:
http://www.freefoto.com/

http://classroomclipart.com/
Government Wildlife site:
http://www.fws.gov/dls/

Whimsical, vector drawings:
http://www.webstarwest.com/Standard/clipart.html

Moon Phases

Here are some great links to teach your students about the phases of the moon, giving them an understanding that it isn't the shadow of the earth, but the illumination that we can see from our angle. Enjoy! Maybe you will come away with a better understanding yourself!
http://www.collinseducation.com/resources/ict%20activity/earth_FULL.swf
http://www.wonderville.ca/v1/activities/phases/phases.html
video interactive, moon phases, legend of the sun and moon
http://www.amnh.org/ology/astronomy/stufftodo/moon2.html
see phases, pdf of printable moon phase flip book to make after observing moon for 29 days.
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html
see current moon phase and phases for any day between 1800 and 2199 - find your birthday!
http://www.spaceday.org/conmgmt/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=156&op=page&SubMenu
drag the moon around the earth and see the phases change - you will need a plug-in if it doesn't work
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/moon/moon_challenge/moon_challenge.html
lunar challenge...Put the phases of the moon in order...three levels of difficulty
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/moon/lunar_phases_main.html
written and interactive tutorial with a quiz
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth
see earth from moon (or sun)...check out earth from different angles, see phases as of moon