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MAGAZINES:

HISTORY AND WORLD CULTURE

 
Cobblestone Magazine
An American History magazine designed for students aged 9-14.  It covers a wide range of topics including politics, people, medicine, art, and more.  This magazine includes games, book reviews, and relevant web sites.  Be sure to point your students towards this wonderful resource!

Cobblestone: Discover American History

Appleseeds
General social studies for grades three and up.
AppleSeeds: for 7 to 9 year olds
Footsteps
African American heritage for grades four and up.

 

Footsteps: African American History
Social Studies and the Young Learner
Published by the National Council for the Social Studies.

INFORMATION AND LITERATURE

 
School Library Journal
This journal is designed for children, young adults, and school librarians.  It provides information needed to integrate libraries into the school curriculum and create high-quality collections for children and young adults through book, website, and software reviews and articles on related subjects.
Book Links
An American Library Association magazine dedicated to linking children with high-quality books.  It includes book reviews and book suggestions for a variety of curriculum areas. 
The Reading Teacher
Every issue includes practical, hands-on ideas for the classroom, regular columns on such topics as struggling readers, family literacy, urban education, technology, and reviews of children’s books and professional materials.
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MATHEMATICS

 
Teaching Children Mathematics
Offers activities, lesson ideas, teaching strategies, and problems through in-depth articles, departments, and features.

SCIENCE AND NATURE

 
Odyssey
A great resource for ages 10 and up including the historical aspect of science as well as current scientific news.  Visit the website for the teacher's guide to every issue and upcoming topics for planning ahead. 
April 2005 -- Earth Lab: Mount St. Helens
Science and Children
The National Science Teacher Association's professional journal for elementary school teachers. 
Zoobooks
Zoobooks are an all-in-one guide to the world’s most fascinating animals, birds, reptiles, and insects. Zoobooks are concise, accurate, colorful, fun to read and appropriate for ages 5-12.  Each issue features 24 pages of striking wildlife photography, insightful writing, colorful illustrations, and diagrams that explain animal facts in simple terms.
Ranger Rick
The number one nature magazine fore kids, published by the Education Department of the National Wildlife Federation.  

Kids Discover
A beautiful commercial-free magazine that helps children ages 6 and up to become involved, interested, and to understand. Kids Discover satisfies their natural curiosity, and makes it fun to learn about our world!

GENERAL CURRICULUM

 
The Mailbox
Ideas and activities for teaching and reinforcing basic skills.
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TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

 
Classroom Connect
Classroom Connect is the leader in helping teachers use technology to improve learning. The company's high quality professional development programs and online instructional materials meet the changing needs of K-12 school districts nationwide.

ONLINE RESOURCES:
Many of our magazines have very useful online resources as well, click on their titles above to see what they offer.

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The State of Vermont Department of Education

 

Vermont's Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities

American Library Association: Great Sites For Kids
Great Web Sites for Kids is a product of the American Library Association.  This site contains links to a variety of web sites for children.  There are also links to sites for parents, teachers, and caregivers.  A free downloadable brochure is filled with valuable Internet safety tips.
Vermont Information Technology Grade Expectations
"Grade Expectations for Vermont's Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities for Information Technology,"
Child Safety on the Information Highway
This site provides information on Internet safety for children.
Read-Write-Think
Read-Write-Think is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.  NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
ReadWriteThink, International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English, MarcoPolo
Virtual Math Manipulatives
This is a NSF supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). The project includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation.
3-5 Geometry Resources6-8 Geometry Resources
United Streaming
Unitedstreaming is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you by Discovery Education.
YOU WILL NEED TO ENTER THE SCHOOL CODE INTO THE NEW USER SECTION TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT: 9A86-2944
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators at Discovery School
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

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