Infonews n°154 du 05/05/2002 

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This week, some sites of news to see what they say about the
elections en France and in the UK , the days to celebrate in May, various
resources for teachers in primary and secondary schools, sites for teens,
about self-esteem and gender equity, two sites about Environment and one
about Art, and two sites of teaching practice.
There won't be any Infonews next week, but you'll find it again in
your mailbox on the following Sunday.....
Have a nice week!
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In the news
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Senior Tory sacked over racist joke
To the barricades!
Some News Servers
Pictures
Elections in Great Britain
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May calendar
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May Days
National teacher Day : May 8th
May 6-12: Teacher Appreciation Week
National Apple Pie Day : May 12th
World No-Smoking Day : May 31st
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resources for secondary school teachers
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So you want to own a business.... (classroom Flyer 05/02/02 )
Useful grammar exercises online (from Annie Gwynn)
Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond
UK 2002: The Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
Discover Idaho (PBS Teacher Previews: April 28-May 5)
Shakespeare Quiz (PBS Teacher Previews: April 28-May 5)
Autralian under-water world's dangers (PBS Teacher Previews: April 28-May 5)
Why the towers fell (PBS Teacher Previews: April 28-May 5)
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environment
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Self Access - "Fridge Mountains"
GM food
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For Teens
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Juvenile delinquency
Self Esteem ( FREE> [FreeThings4Educators Update] )
Title IX : gender equity law
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Art
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Amazing Animals in Arts (The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 05/03/02)
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Resources for primary school
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Songs for Teaching (Blue Web'n Update: May 3)
Animal Sounds and Color Book (The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 05/03/02)
Art for Kids
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teaching practice
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Once More, with Style
Encyclopedia of Psychology

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In the news
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Senior Tory sacked over racist joke
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1969000/1969377.stm
See how the English react to a rugby club party joke.....

To the barricades!
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,707211,00.html
French universities are bracing themselves for weeks of turbulence
stretching beyond Sunday's presidential poll to the legislative
elections in June reports UK's Guardian.
[ found in a newsletter from New Zealand.]

Some News Servers
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http://news.google.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/
http://www.reuters.com
http://www.afp.com/english/home/
http://news.bbc.co.uk
http://www.cnn.com


Pictures
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http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/WORLD/europe/05/05/france.polling/top.posters.ap.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1965000/images/_1969299_rennes100ap.jpg

Elections in the UK
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http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.politics.html
http://www.ukonline.gov.uk/NewsRoom/NRHome/ (in English and Welsh)
http://www.electionglobe.com/ (in England and in France)

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May calendar
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May Days
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Homeschooling Guide Bev Hernandez provides this calendar of fun activities
and projects for May.
http://homeschooling.about.com/library/weekly/aa050100a.htm

National teacher Day : May 8th
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http://homeschooling.about.com/library/blmay9a.htm
[Discover the history of that day and what you can do to celebrate ir in
class...]

May 6-12: Teacher Appreciation Week
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http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~STU~72950~~
projects for this whole week....

National Apple Pie Day : May 12th
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/5059/apple.html
[ recipes and activities for young children]

World No-Smoking Day : May 31st
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/nosmokingday.htm
[ dont miss the meter, the spoofs adds and the posters and preventions kits
to download. ]

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resources for secondary school teachers
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So you want to own a business.... (classroom Flyer 05/02/02 )
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http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/webquest/entre/index.htm
Ambitious high school entrepreneurs can practice their
business skills using this webquest. Working in groups
of three, students will choose a role as an interviewer,
a market researcher, or an accountant, and produce a
business plan to propose for financing. Assessment
strategies suggest actually letting students present
their plans to local bankers, practicing cover letters
and executive summaries.
[ for students studying business, an excellent webquest and a very
interesting simulation.]

Useful grammar exercises online (from Annie Gwynn)
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http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/trouindx.htm
on this site, you'll find many grammar exercises on subjects like count and
non-count nouns, articles, adjectives in -ed or -ing....
from the upper forms od lower secondary school onwards.

Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond
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An introduction to the magic behind movie special effects.
Highlights include a game called Attack of the 50 Foot
Chicken, a special effects timeline, interviews with special
effects creators, and an interactive still from Titanic that
allows you to guess which portions are real and which were
computer generated. Based on the NOVA program of the
same title.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/
[ lots of interesting texts, but not enough specialFX!!!]

UK 2002: The Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
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"The definitive overview of the UK in text, figures, tables,
maps, charts" includes statistics in areas such as education,
health, science, agriculture, and much more. You can view
the entire yearbook online or download the information to
your computer. Formerly known as the Britain Yearbook.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=5703&More=N
[ free recent text, figures, tables, maps, charts to download.]

Discover Idaho (PBS Teacher Previews: April 28-May 5)
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PBS offers us an interactive tour of Idaho, with an interactive map, a page
about activities, like rafting or following Lewis and Clark's tracks..;and
a useful page of links. Ideal to build the last webquest of the year in
upper secondary school...
http://pbs.org/idahoportrait/

Shakespeare Quiz (PBS Teacher Previews: April 28-May 5)
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take this quiz about Shakespeare and his most famous plays...
If you can't find the answers, or want to know more, you'll find everything
you may need in those comprehensive pages of links:
http://www.allshakespeare.com/index.php
http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/
[ useful resources for teachers and advanced literature students (sections
L) ]

Autralian under-water world's dangers (PBS Teacher Previews: April 28-May 5)
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a text, a site, and a video :
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/australia/
explore the companion website and take the test:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/australia/main.html
[ for secondary school.]

Why the towers fell (PBS Teacher Previews: April 28-May 5)
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
this site will captivate all those who want to really understand how,
technically, such a catastrophe could have happened : with figures,
testimonies and drawings.

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environment
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Self Access - "Fridge Mountains"
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This week's lesson looks at the problems of waste disposal and
recycling. You can practice using the passive form and write an essay to
governments and individuals suggesting what they can do to reduce the
amount of rubbish produced.
http://www.selfaccess.net
[ note: this site can be accessed for free only this week!!!]

GM food
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http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/04/042902t_gmfoods.jhtml
[ for upper secondary school : a text and ideas of activities around the
subject of GM food, and especially tomatoes.]

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For Teens
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Juvenile delinquency
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Take a behind-the-scenes look at America's young offenders and find out
what happens to those who reach the "end of the line" in the juvenile
court system. Explore various rehabilitation efforts used to prevent future
criminal behavior.
http://pbs.org/frontline/shows/juvenile/
[ on the site, you'll find the complete stories of 4 young offenders, video
extracts from them telling their story, facts and figures and the opinion
of "the other side". All the stories have a record of what happened to the
youngster after prison. See also the various reactions in "discussion". A
good basis for a class debate or discussion.]

Self Esteem ( FREE> [FreeThings4Educators Update] )
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A site for young people, in the style of magazines like Teen or Seventeen.
http://www.selfesteemclothing.com/home_low.htm
click on "fortune Cookie" and see hos self confident you are!
Don't miss their 'homework help' links:
http://www.selfesteemclothing.com/10_0.htm
On the site, you will also find a contest (open to people from Europe too!)
where you write a 100/200 words essay about Self Esteem and can win a
shopping spree....or just register to get a special giflt on your birthday.
http://www.selfesteemclothing.com/5_0.htm
the rest of the site is music to listen to and clothes to look at....

Title IX : gender equity law
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1972 : title IX education Amendments of 1972
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/Title_IX.html
http://www.dol.gov/dol/oasam/public/regs/statutes/titleix.htm
http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/20/1681.html
(not very easy to understand, I didn't really get the meaning of all those
exceptions...)
1997 : 25 years of progress
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/TitleIX/
see the figures in the indicators of progress:
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/TitleIX/part2.html
Your rights and title IX (in Geena, women sports foundation)
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/issues/geena/index.html
resources to infuse equity
http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/resource/title9/

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Art
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Amazing Animals in Arts (The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 05/03/02)
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http://www.artsmia.org/animals/art_activities.html
Various activities here support the exploration of
animals in art. Try making your own animal design
printing plate with styrofoam, an animal wire sculp-
ture, or continuous-line drawings. All exercises
can be illustrated with the images link available
at page bottom.
[ idéal pour un IDD ou TPE Art Plastique/Anglais. Chauque sujet renvoie à
un tableau, plutôt moderne, et aboutit à une création. Les idées peuvent
même être transposées et adaptées au primaire ou aux maternelles.]

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Resources for primary school
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Songs for Teaching (Blue Web'n Update: May 3)
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http://songsforteaching.homestead.com/index.html
On this website, you can find research about music in the classroom, as
well as great ideas for songs by discipline. Suggestions for mood music
and songs that call for physical activity can help you focus on the
different learning styles of your students.
[ songs, raps and chants, and some songs to be performed with movement. It
is all well explained, but no video, demonstration or sound tracks....]

Animal Sounds and Color Book (The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 05/03/02)
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/whatdoisay/titleprint.shtml
Print out copies of this animal book for your
kindergarten students; they will put it together
and learn the colors and sounds of each animal.
[ on sounds online, just their name written....you will have to make the
sounds yourself!]

Art for Kids
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http://wz.com/people/ArtforKids.html
Mainly links to coloring books nad pages, but can be useful....

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teaching practice
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Once More, with Style
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Everyone knows high schoolers are highly individual, or at least they
pretend to be. Secondary School Educators Guide Melissa Kelly provides
resources on assessing learning styles.
http://7-12educators.about.com/cs/learningstyles/index.htm
[Homeschooling offers a page of links to learn about learning styles and
discover how they can change your way of teaching.]

Encyclopedia of Psychology
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Links to psychology sites on the Web divided into various
categories such as Environment Behavior Relationships,
People and History, and Paradigms and Theories. There
are also links to psychological organizations and
publications and a section on careers in the field of
psychology. From the Department of Psychology, Jacksonville (Alabama) State
University.
http://www.psychology.org/
[ for university students and future teachers. useful psychological theories.]

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