The Virtual Schoolhouse is here to provide you and your students with informative and enjoyable ways to cruise the Information Superhighway during the summer months. Please let us know what you would like to see more of in this space, and also stay tuned for ongoing summer projects at CEARCH.
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In an effort to keep you updated as to what has been added recently, we at the Cisco Educational Archives offer this handy-dandy weekly reference guide. Keep checking back weekly for our finds, which are all stored under each respective topic (hotlinked for your convenience).
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Periodic table of the elements, from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Very cool interface allows you to select an element and obtain further detailed information on it.
Prentice Hall Books,a division of Simon and Schuster Publishing. Features information on reference books and academic titles (on topics in engineering, science & math; business; humanities & social sciences; & education, career & technology).
Stone Soup Magazine - "Stone Soup is the international magazine for home, school, & library. Written and illustrated by people aged 8 to 13, it inspires young readers and writers everywhere." Site includes projects and ideas, a sample issue, contributor's guidelines and artwork. A good site to use in a beginning-level English class on the elementary/middle school level to encourage young writers to hone their skills.
teachnet.com - sort of a teacher zine, if you will; an attempt to present resources on very nearly everything that affects an educator - anything and everything from classroom management to getting organised to lesson plans to humor (which is certainly one of the more important facets of being an educator!) "Teacher's Edition Online is published by Lajean Shiney (fourth-fifth grade loop at Lawrence Elementary School in Wichita, Kansas, USA) and Lee Shiney (artist, graphic designer and writer)."