Infonews n°203 du 11/01/2004
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"A la Une" this week, discover a choice ofsites to prepare MLK
Day for
students from primary school to advanced students, and "In the News", sites
about the exploration of Mars. Then two resources for primary school, three
for secondary school, a free book online, a site about supervision in the
US, and a free cdrom to order....to learn how to build a house! ;)
Have a nice week!
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A la Une : Martin Luther King's Day
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WARNING
A picture biography
A booklet for kids
A very simple biography
Quizzes plus a biography and timeline to find the answers, or links with
each question
A quiz and a crossword
A quiz and word search
Webquests
*** Videos
"I have a dream"
Interview with MLK
Pages of links
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In the News : Exploring Mars
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from the Scout Report
See also Beagle 2
and from Canada
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Resources for Primary School
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Make a book
Activities sheets to print
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Resources for Secondary School
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BBC quizzes (from Aline Degenne one-teach)
Honky Tonks (country music)
Everyday economics
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Teaching practice
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Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn (2003)
Virtual supervision model
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Free CD Rom
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"Build a home of your own"
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A la Une : Martin Luther King's Day
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This year, it will be on Monday January the 19th. To learn about the
holiday, read:
http://www.holidays.net/mlk/holiday.htm
http://thekingcenter.com/holiday/info.html
WARNING: if you use a search engine to find sites about MLK, read the
sites carefully!
--> martin luther king .org is a very insidious white supremacist site,
which looks normal at first
--> sight, but, under the pretend of telling the truth about MLK, just
promotes its nazi ideas.
So select the sites you make your students work from!
Here is a selection of safe and useful sites:
A picture biography
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Life Magazine features a series of photos from its own collections, each
with a date and a short comment :
http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlkpics.html
A booklet for kids
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pages to cut out, color and staple together. For primary school.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6459/mlk.html
A very simple biography
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from a kindergarten. The pictures are rather babyish, but each date refers
to an illustration and a very short sentence and this is excellent for
beginners....
http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools-c/pages/buckman/timeline/kingframe.html
the same type, without illustrations (for older beginners...)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/timeline.shtml
Quizzes plus a biography and timeline to find the answers, or links with
each question
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/classroom/MLKquiz.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/quiz.html
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html
(for advanced studens)
http://www.newton.mec.edu/ward/hammer/mlk/quiz/quiz.html
(for beginners)
A quiz and a crossword
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http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/king-sw.htm
(requires Flash)
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/king-cw.htm
A quiz and word search
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http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/king.htm
Webquests
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http://www.monroe.k12.mo.us/shinn/mlkweb/index.html
http://www.monroe.k12.mo.us/shinn/mlkweb/process.html
(excellent, with
roles and links)
http://users.rcn.com/tstrong.massed/Martin2000.html
(with pictures,
questions and links)
http://www.newton.mec.edu/ward/hammer/mlk/mlk_webquest.html
( questions and
sites to visit)
*** Videos
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aiming at American 5th graders (CM1), they have no script, but clear
comments and a content appropriate for young children and easy to
understand. You can save it on your computer, and use the videos either
full length (10 to 14 mn) or in excerpts.
Excellent to introduce MLK day and black history month!
http://www.gp.k12.mi.us/ci/ce/elem/holidays/mlkk5.htm
"I have a dream"
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*** to hear the full speech and read the script as it runs (for advanced
students)
http://www.hpol.org/record.php?id=72
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/historicspeeches.html
to read the full speech:
http://members.aol.com/klove01/dreamsp.htm
http://members.tripod.com/jean2000/jc/jc9.htm#dream
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/michel.barbot/supports_ce/mlk/have_dream.htm
to hear excerpts from it:
http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/index.htm
(in several files)
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/march40th/speeches.html
(with some other
speeches)
several full length real audio files of his various speeches
http://database.library.northwestern.edu/hpol/master.asp?t=browse&s=speaker&id=12
Interview with MLK
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DL on e-teach pointed at the link as an interesting activity. The students
can ask MLK questions, or choose from a topic list, and receive an answer
from MLK. On my computer, the sound didn't come out, and MLK looked rather
stupid as he moved his mouth, but the text of the answers is interesting. A
site for motivated students.
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/head2head/mlk/frameset.htm
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/head2head/mlk/frameset.htm
Pages of links
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You can find some of those addresses on the page I use with my students
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/MLK.htm
and some more at:
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/civi.htm#mlk
http://www.ac-versailles.fr/pedagogi/anglais/civi/mlk.htm
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/fetes01.php
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/martinlutherking.htm
or choose from these other selections:
http://emints.more.net/ethemes/resources/S00000101.shtml
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr.htm
http://www.cumbavac.org/martin_luther_king.htm
http://k6educators.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkingjr2.htm
http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/mlking.shtml
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In the News : Exploring Mars
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from the Scout Report
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The scout reports directs you to several sites to learn everything about
Mars exploration, from Nasa, NYT and the BBC. Find everything online at:
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2004/scout-040109-inthenews.php#1
See also Beagle 2
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The British Led Exploration of Mars
http://www.beagle2.com/
and from Canada
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/mars/
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Resources for Primary School
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Make a book
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A teeny tiny book about MLK
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6459/mlk.html
A tiny alphabet book
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag5.html
Activities sheets to print
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Choose from all those pages of activities ready to print
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/activitypages.html
you can, for example, use "food to put on your plate", with drawings of
pizza, chicken legs and cupcakes:
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag4.html
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Resources for secondary school
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BBC quizzes (from Aline Degenne one-teach)
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Find there a list of illustrated quizzes to learn English.
http://www0.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/quiznet/archive_2003.shtm
Some quizzes could be useful to those preparing exams with grammatical
MCQ. At school, the fact that some wrong sentences are offered in the
choices can be questionnable.....
http://www0.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?quiz=1128_quiznet
Some others deal with vocabulary and include pictures to help the
students.You may consider using for example the 'football quiz' to learn
goal, referee, injury, etc.
http://www0.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/sport/football/shootout1.shtml
Honky Tonks (country music)
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"Each Friday from 07/4/03 to 09/12/03, Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues
highlights American musical traditions on NPR's Morning Edition. These
country sounds are the building blocks of America's popular music. The
weekly Honky Tonks segments explore the roots music with historic
performances, rare archive tape, and interviews with artists including
country legend Merle Haggard, bluesmen Honeyboy Edwards and Taj Mahal, and
fiddle greats Alison Krauss and Mark O'Connor."
(from the site)
[ you can hear and read interviews and songs and learn everything about
country music.]
Everyday economics
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From Library Hot 5, discover those 5 addresses about economics:
http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A2=ind0401&L=hot5&F=P&S=&P=62
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Teaching practice
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Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn (2003)
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an entire 286p book to read online for free! It looks like a thesis and is
sometimes overloaded with references, but the ideas are interesting. Read
especially the chapter about " family, community and peers" placing the
student back in his own environment.
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084350/html/
Virtual supervision model
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Read this article about how new technology can be used by the principals to
supervise the teachers' lessons! Yes, Big Brother is no longer a utopia (or
a nightmare) it is right here and now!!!!!
http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17000147
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Free CD Rom
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"Build a home of your own"
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To receive this free cdrom, register at:
http://www.homesofourown.org/default.asp?page=4
and read how a teacher used it in his class
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17000194
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