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Cette semaine, un travail autour d'un évènement d'actualité, un
dossier sur
Graham Bell et une énorme liste de sites de ressources pour enseignants .....
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Black history month et 'la
semaine de la presse'
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Testé avec mes élèves : Man guilty in Texas dragging death (InfoBeat
February 24)
the avalanche! (Geography Newsletter - Feb. 22)
OUR FEATURE OF THE WEEK/LESSON PLANNING ([EW-Newsletter] Education World
Newsletter February 22)
PBS KIDS! The African-American Journey (PBS Teacher Previews: March 1-7)
AFRICAN AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT CELEBRATED ON PBS WEB SITE (USA Ed.Net Briefs,
February 22)
MSBET Black History Month Channel (Cool Web Sightings February 20)
Black History Month Activities ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
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SCIENCES
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Testé avec mes élèves : inventions
NASA Human Spaceflight (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
Center for Educational Resources (CERES) Project (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
NASA QUEST PRESENTS WRIGHT FLYER ONLINE (USA Ed.Net Briefs, February 22)
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Special Graham Bell (surfnetkids February 21)
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
Alexander Graham Bell: The Inventor
American Experience: More about Bell
Brain Spin: Alexander Graham Bell
Cyber Telephone Museum
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Resources for teachers
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free Instant Lesson ("The English To Go Team"maillist 22 Feb)
drug abuse prevention (C L A S S R O O M F L Y E R February 25)
Self esteem (CLN UPDATE for Monday, February 22)
Schoolhouse Rock (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
SCORE History/Social Science (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
No Sweat (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
Bookmarks that Teach ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
Mini Lesson Plans ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
Metaphors That Tickle the Mind ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
TEACHER RESOURCES ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
Virtual Blackboard (The ED's Oasis Oracle February 22)
"How to Create Your Own Online Project" (The ED's Oasis Oracle February 22)
Filamentality (The ED's Oasis Oracle February 22)
Teen Hoopla: An Internet Guide for Teens (PBS Teacher Previews: February
22-28)
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Black history month and 'la
semaine de la presse'
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Testé avec mes élèves
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La semaine de la presse commence la semaine prochaine. A cette
occasion,j'ai commencé un sujet sur la presse avec mes premières. A partir du site1st
Headlines (Weekend Web Picks 2/14/99, voir Infonews n°25)
--> http://www.1stheadlines.com
J'ai fait analyser les titres du jour à mes élèves et deviner le
contenu des articles à partir de plusiers titres sur le même sujet, plus un travail
grammatical sur le style éliptique des titres et comment les remettre en langage normal.
Le travail qui consiste à reconstituer les passifs est particulièrement intéressant.
Puis ils ont choisi un sujet et l'on exploré à travers les articles
de ce site (assez pauvres) et ceux de CNN, Time Daily et BBC. Les sujets traités ont
été entre autre les avalanches et surtout le procès du crime raciste.
Cela va déboucher sur un exposé du contenu, débouchant sur un débat, au choix, sur le
racisme aux USA ou la peine de mort. Voici les articles que j'ai trouvé cette semaine,
qui retracent le déroulement du procès:
DNA link found in dragging death ( InfoBeat February 22)
Dragging victim's pain described (InfoBeat February 22)
Sides rest in dragging death case (InfoBeat February 23)
Update: Man guilty in Texas dragging death (InfoBeat February 24)
King's dad speaks in dragging case (InfoBeat February 25)
Update: Witnesses say King still threat,
Update: King gets death in dragging case (InfoBeat February 26)
Also: Jurors say King posed future danger,
And: Joy overcomes hate in Jasper,
[les articles précédents ne sont plus en ligne, mais la démarche reste valable]
sur les avalanches:
the avalanche! (Geography Newsletter - Feb. 22)
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In this week's article, we look at the deadly hazard of the mountains -
--> http://geography.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa022299.htm
--> http://geography.miningco.com/msub56.htm
OUR FEATURE OF THE WEEK/LESSON PLANNING ([EW-Newsletter] Education World
Newsletter February 22)
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The Road to Freedom: Using the WWW to Teach About Slavery.
For black slaves in America, the road to freedom was a long and difficult
one. This week, Education World observes Black History Month by providing
activities to help your students trace that journey and to learn about some
of the heroes who paved the way to freedom. Included: Activities for
teaching about slavery across the grades and the curriculum. [all about
slaves and runaways]
--> http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson101.shtml
PBS KIDS! The African-American Journey (PBS Teacher Previews: March 1-7)
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Educate kids about African-American history with several interactive activities such as
designing a postage stamp, writing a short story about invention, and planning a
Juneteenth celebration.
[voir le concours sur les inventions, une bonne idée d'essai]
--> http://www.pbs.org/aajourney/kids/
AFRICAN AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT CELEBRATED ON PBS WEB SITE (USA Ed.Net Briefs,
February 22)
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The richness and vibrancy of the African American experience is available
on "The African-American Journey" Web site from PBS ONLINE. Organizing
content into arts, living, history, politics, and people categories, the
African-American Journey site provides an
annotated, categorical index of more than 100 sites, interviews and
articles on PBS ONLINE that address the African-American experience.
Additionally, it offers a monthly guide to PBS television programming with
African-American themes, an area just for kids, and links to
African-American content on the Web sites of PBS's member stations across
the country. PBS ONLINE (http://www.pbs.org), PBS's award-winning site on
the World Wide Web, produces high-quality Web programming as it pioneers
the convergence of television and the Internet. PBS ONLINE features more
than 65,000 pages of content as well as companion Web sites for more
than 300 PBS programs and specials.
--> http://www.pbs.org/aajourney/
MSBET Black History Month Channel (Cool Web Sightings February 20)
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MSBET offers a rich collection of resources in recognition of Black
History Month. This month's features include: Everything you never knew
about the real Black Panther Party, Medicine has used a steady stream of
subjects — especially the poor and Blacks —in secret, often dangerous
experiments, It wasn't literally a railroad, but it was the way that
Blacks made tracks for freedom in the mid-19th century and many more
features.
--> http://www.msbet.com/channel/blackhistory99/
Black History Month Activities ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
Lesson plans and resources.
--> http://7-12educators.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa011099.htm
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SCIENCES
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Testé avec mes élèves : inventions
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J'ai commencé un cycle sur les inventeurs avec mes secondes, avec le cours
de eplay :
http://www.eplay.com/1998-12-26/teachers/lesson-unitedstates2.adp
puis j'ai enchainé sur Philo Farnworth, inventor of the week :
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorweek.html
je pense poursuivre en leur faisant écrire un texte pour le concours de PBS kids:
http://www.pbs.org/aajourney/kids/inventkids.html
NASA Human Spaceflight (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
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View the International Space Station and much more from this comprehensive
Spaceflight site developed by NASA. Included are real-time trackings of the
station, status reports and news releases, a video and image scrapbook, and
mission recaps. Also, see how your school can participate in NASA's
Educational Outreach Programs.
--> http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
Center for Educational Resources (CERES) Project (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
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With classroom-ready online activities, NASA data search engines, and
distance learning courses for K-12 teachers, CERES is a must-see for K-12
science teachers. Learning activities include inquiries and collaborative
"spacequests" and are categorized by NASA themes, grade level, and duration.
--> http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/
NASA QUEST PRESENTS WRIGHT FLYER ONLINE (USA Ed.Net Briefs, February 22)
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In early March NASA will begin wind tunnel tests on an authentic replica of
the Wright Flyer, the first powered airplane. Right now, online, you can
get involved in these historic tests. Built by volunteers from the
Los Angeles chapter of the AIAA, the Wright Flyer model will be tested to
better understand flight characteristics. This will help identify safety
issues to be addressed before a future piloted flight on the 100 year
anniversary of the first flight. Many related online resources are
available for schools and others: (1) Wednesday, February 24,1999; 10:30
-11:30 AM Pacific, Live chat with Orville and Wilbur Wright; NASA time
machine lets you talk with these famous brothers; (2) Biographies of key
players; (3) Grade appropriate lesson plans in which students use real
tunnel test data to meet standards-based learning goals; and (4)
Elementary and middle school students work together to improve glider
designs. There is much more if you participate in history on NASA Quest.
--> http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright
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Special Graham Bell
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Alexander Graham Bell (surfnetkids February 21)
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Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
March is also the anniversary of his most famous invention: the telephone.
In 1875, after receiving a patent for the transmission of multiple telegraph
signals on a single wire, Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson, set out to
invent the telephone. Success came on March 10, 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
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This Library of Congress exhibit currently contains 1400 items documenting
Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone
company. It will eventually triple in size. Included among Bell's papers
is his experimental notebook containing the entry from March 10, 1876,
describing the first successful experiment with the telephone, during which
he spoke through the instrument to his assistant the famous words, "Mr.
Watson -- Come here -- I want to see you.'"
--> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
Alexander Graham Bell: The Inventor
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Although the telephone is Bell's most famous invention, it is not, by a
long shot, his only invention. "Alexander Graham Bell's first invention, a
device for cleaning wheat, was developed when he was just eleven years old.
At the age of 75, a year before his death, he received a patent on the fastest
water craft in the world: the HD-4. Between these two inventions, Bell's
fertile brain formulated hundreds of new concepts." Air conditioning, CD-ROMS, and
solar heating panels are a few of the many modern conveniences that can be traced
to Bell.
--> http://www.fitzgeraldstudio.com/html/bell/inventor.html
American Experience: More about Bell
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At the age of fourteen, "while visiting London with his father, Aleck was
mesmerized by a demonstration of Sir Charles Wheatstone's 'speaking
machine.' Upon their return to Edinburgh, Melville Bell, Sr. challenged
Aleck and his older brother to come up with a model of their own. Working
out of their home, the industrious pair created an apparatus consisting of a
facsimile mouth, throat, nose, maneuverable tongue, and bellow lungs. What's more, the
contraption actually produced human-like sounds." This PBS site tells the
amazing story of Bell's prodigious talents and the empire he created.
--> http://www.pbs.org:80/wgbh/pages/amex/technology/telephone/mabell.html
Brain Spin: Alexander Graham Bell
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Take your brain out for a spin with this fabulous fun site (my pick of the
day) from AT&T Labs. Don't stop after you've perused the Bell pages, learned
how he taught his dog to talk and played the mix-and-match game. Click on the
spinning red brain to play Switch a Roo (Can you route calls as fast as a
telephone switching computer?) or take a ride on the Infobahn and learn
about Building the Network of Networks. You'll need Java and Shockwave to
take full advantage of the interactivity. Try it. You'll like it.
--> http://www.att.com/attlabs/brainspin/alexbell/
Cyber Telephone Museum
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When you think of an old-fashioned telephone, what image comes to mind?
Whether it's a crank wall phone or a potbelly desk set, you'll likely find
it in Ron Christianson's antique telephone collection. The best clicks are
Interesting Facts you'll find listed under History, and the Picture Index.
If you want to wander off topic, try an excursion along the Unusual Museums of the
Internet WebRing.
--> http://www.cavejunction.com/phones/
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Resources for teachers
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free Instant Lesson ("The English To Go Team"maillist 22 Feb)
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Last week's free Instant Lesson is entitled 'Deforestation In Brazil' and
is about the deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil increasing by nearly 30 percent in
1998. The lesson can be
found in the achives at :
--> http://www.english-to-go.com/lib/990211envf.htm
(User name: guest / Password: nv4588)
This week's lesson is about Kate Moss and addictions :
http://www.english-to-go.com/tolesson.htm
sites to go on about addictions and self esteem :
drug abuse prevention (C L A S S R O O M F L Y E R February 25)
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Janice McNair from Copeland Elementary School in Augusta, Georgia,
recommands The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
website.
You can order a number of free posters -- including: "Live the Dream --
Say No to Alcohol and Drug Abuse," "Alcohol...We're Not Buying It!," and
"We Have Better Things to Do Than Drugs" -- from the website.
--> http://www.health.org/posters/index.htm
You can also find more drug abuse prevention information from the main
website:
--> http://www.health.org/Pubs/Catalog/index.htm
There is also a lot of useful information on the Partnership for a
Drug-Free America website.
This site includes a section called Drug Information that has a
database on what drugs look like and what they do -- drugs listed
include Special K, inhalants, steroids, alcohol, marijuana, and
more.
--> http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/
Self esteem (CLN UPDATE for Monday, February 22)
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The Schwab Foundation for Learning (http://www.artschool.com) "offers a
wide range of services for
parents and educators to provide information, support and resources to
improve the lives of students with learning differences." Check out the
section on Resources for Educators and, once there, search their collection
under "self esteem." They have a theme page on self-esteem with about a
dozen links to resources and lesson plans. Here is one of the resources :
Talking to Children About Their Strengths and Weaknesses: An article
describing a process for helping students who are showing a deteriorating
attitude toward school, defiant behavior, depression, and plummeting
self-esteem.
--> http://www.cln.org/themes/self_esteem.html
Schoolhouse Rock (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
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With catchy tunes like "Conjunction Junction," "I Got Six," and
"The Energy
Blues," this colorful site has words and audio to help kids master grammar,
multiplication, science, and American history. [voir la grammaire mise en
chanson. Original!]
--> http://genxtvland.simplenet.com/SchoolHouseRock/
SCORE History/Social Science (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
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Linking teachers to social studies resources, this site offers
age-appropriate Web links categorized by grade level, California standards
and frameworks, and more. [des exemples de démarches, des lessons sur
l'utilisation du web]
--> http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
No Sweat (Blue Web'n Update 2/20/99)
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Students can navigate by topic or search by keyword for homework help at
one of the "No Sweat" directories: Homework Central Jr. for 1st-6th grade,
Homework Central for middle and high school, and Encyclopedia Central for
college. [ressources et pistes d'exploitation par McGraw Hill]
--> http://www.nosweat.com
Bookmarks that Teach ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
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Use bookmarks as instructional aides.
--> http://7-12educators.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa010399.htm
[démarche intéressante, et en plus l'auteur propose de faire des recherches pour
vous!]
Mini Lesson Plans ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
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End of the period activity ideas. [de riches idées voir par exemple Creating Mnemonic
Devices]
--> http://7-12educators.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa100498.htm
Metaphors That Tickle the Mind ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
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Instruction and worksheets. [riche et original]
http://7-12educators.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa021398.htm
TEACHER RESOURCES ( BONUS POINTS February 21)
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[ensemble riche et utile]
http://7-12educators.tqn.com/msub62teachsourceindex.htm
Virtual Blackboard (The ED's Oasis Oracle February 22)
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--> http://www.virtualblackboard.com
[voir en particulier la leçon sur les présidents, pour Presidents' Day l'an prochain...]
--> http://www.virtualblackboard.com/modules/history/prez/prz-o.htm
"How to Create Your Own Online Project" (The ED's Oasis Oracle February 22)
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"How to Create Your Own Online Project", from OnlineClass
( http://www.onlineclass.com) is an excerpt from
the February OnlineClass
newsletter that describes various steps and strategies for teachers to
develop their own online projects. [des conseils et des idées]
--> http://www.edsoasis.org/OCnewsFeb.html
Filamentality (The ED's Oasis Oracle February 22)
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"Filamentality" ()is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that
guides the user through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good
Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities appropriate for
learners. So it helps combine the Filaments of the Web with a learner's
mentality. Support is built in through Mentality Tips, so users will be
guided along the way and end up with a Web-based activity that can shared
with others.[comment se poser les bonnes questions avant de se lancer]
--> http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
Teen Hoopla: An Internet Guide for Teens (PBS Teacher Previews: February
22-28)
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If you're in search of sites for young adults (ages
12-18), Teen Hoopla connects you with great resources
selected by people who know what teens are looking
for -- the Young Adult Library Services Association.
--> http://www.ala.org/teenhoopla/
[ voir la préparation de Teen Read Week from October 17 through 23, 1999]
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