Epic offers free activity calendars
Epic is an online digital library that is free for educators but a paid service for families. Without an account they offer free monthly activity calendars.
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library has 150,000 images and sketches available for free
Source: About BHL – Information about the Biodiversity Heritage Library Their Flickr album is probably not the best way to find images, but their Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal has a search feature. The publications are pretty high level, so the site is more of a resource for teachers and high schoolers instead of elementary students.
Icons and graphics for your multimedia needs from Phosphor Icons
A flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations — whatever, really. — Read on phosphoricons.com/ There is a never ending supply of graphics you can use in your multimedia projects, and here is another. Phosphor Icons is directed toward developers, but you can download the icons as PNGs and use them in your own creations.
Check out Google’s Fact Check Explorer
Source: Fact Check Tools Google has a cool Fact Check Explorer, which allows you to enter a search term and it will show how that term is portrayed online and what facts are true. This would be a great starting point when investigating sources of information.
US Dept. of Ed starts #GoOpen, promoting the open licensing of educational materials
U.S. Department of Education Launches Campaign to Encourage Schools to #GoOpen with Educational Resources The U.S. Department of Education announced today the launch of #GoOpen, a campaign to encourage states, school districts and educators to use openly licensed educational materials. As part of the campaign, the Department is proposing a new regulation that would require…
Did you know that NASA offers a bunch of free eBooks?
Source: NASA e-Books | NASA This is an amazing resource. NASA has a lot of eBooks covering all sorts of science and history of science. The eBooks are available as .mobi for Kindles, .epub for other ereaders (including iOS), and .pdf.
Sharing: #LearningIs making
#LearningIs making | Learning with ‘e’s Learning where children create meaningful products, Nick said, is a more powerful way of learning, because they need to negotiate the problems and challenges as they develop their skills to make. This echoes the work of Seymour Papert who argued that the best kinds of learning occur when children…