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.
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Older beats younger when it comes to correcting mistakes Findings from a new study challenge the notion that older adults always lag behind their younger counterparts when it comes to learning new things. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that older adults were actually better than…
Source: SheetHacks: Discover the best tips and tricks for Google Sheets and Excel. Sometimes, you don’t know the problem you are having until you see the solution. Using spreadsheets fall into this category. There are things that you don’t know are possible with a spreadsheet, so you never ask or search for them. That’s where…
Source: Epic!: Read Amazing Children’s Books Online – Unlimited Access to the Best Books and Learning Videos For Kids 12 and Under I stumbled upon Epic! when I read about their free activity calendars. Although the service has a price for families, it is free to use in your classroom. Their quickstart guide is available…
For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithsonian has released 2.8 million high-resolution two- and three-dimensional images from across its collections onto an open access online platform for patrons to peruse and download free of charge. Featuring data and material from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo, the…
Source: Let’s Enhance – free online image upscale and enhancement with neural networks As soon as I find some of my old 640×480 digital pics, I’m going to try this out and see what the site can do to those pics. I started out with a Sony Mavica camera in the 90s, which was amazing…