School Vault: January 2008

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.

Friday, January 18, 2008

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