Celebrate Math Holidays (and listen to Monty Python's Galaxy Song...)
Instacalc looks like it might be amusing to play with.
Make math worksheets
Random numbers
Writing:
Read what kids are thinking at the NY Times' Student Opinion page
Recently, the Times had this to say about this project:
One thing that’s surprised us is the number of posts we receive from students on holidays, over weekends, and late at night — comments that seem not to be written because a teacher assigned them, but because the student has something to say. We’ve been impressed by the homeschooled community, in particular, since quite a few of the articulate kids who post at these times identify themselves as part of it. Read more here.
Reading:
Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children
By JULIE BOSMAN
A quote: Parents have begun pressing their kindergartners and first graders to leave the picture book behind and move on to more text-heavy chapter books. Publishers cite pressures from parents who are mindful of increasingly rigorous standardized testing in schools.
“Parents are saying, ‘My kid doesn’t need books with pictures anymore,’ ” said Justin Chanda, the publisher of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. “There’s a real push with parents and schools to have kids start reading big-kid books earlier. We’ve accelerated the graduation rate out of picture books.”
Booksellers see this shift too.
“They’re 4 years old, and their parents are getting them ‘Stuart Little,’ ” said Dara La Porte, the manager of the children’s department at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington. “I see children pick up picture books, and then the parents say, ‘You can do better than this, you can do more than this.’ It’s a terrible pressure parents are feeling — that somehow, I shouldn’t let my child have this picture book because she won’t get into Harvard.”
The article has generated controversy because one parent quoted in it, who is portrayed as extremely pushy, has stated that the quote was taken completely out of context.
Dinosaur related:
When T Rex Became Tryrannical
Milky Way panoramic image
Eye position and numbers
Fanged venomous raptor discovered.
T Rex's little cousin
Dinosaur with red tail
New Tyrannosaur species
Dino relative
Velociraptor's cousin
Dwarf Dino from Transylvania
India's Jurassic Park
Horned dinosaur
Kickboxing raptor
Humped Dino
Dino discoveries
More dino discoveries
Striped dinosaur
New long necked dino
Dino skin impressions
Long horned dino
Terror birds
Other:
Do cricket moms pass on predation knowledge in the absence of maternal care>
Buzz Aldrin raps.
Habitable planet?
See the ISS and/or Space Shuttle fly overhead (Link takes you to NY info, but you can click around from there to find info for any area.
Mannahatta curriculum
Music as a CPR tool.
Some of this stuff is brand new, some a bit old, all interesting, IMHO...
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