Pioneer+Library

1. Culture Grams is a great resource that you can use to learn all about the world. this is a site where you can navigate through every country and learn in detail about it. These sites teach you what their culture is, what holidays they have, what kind of food they eat, and even what life is like for a kid who lives there. The quality of the information on this site is very great. if you are just a learning child they you can click on Culture Grams Kids Edition and they make it simple to understand and very intriguing so that you want to click on everything and learn more. The normal Culture Grams is even more informative and often has activities to do on the side and slide shows to better improve your knowledge of it. The information on Cultural Grams is very current, so you know that when you visit the site you won't be getting old news. Culture Grams is very easy to navigate as well. When you arrive at the site you can click on what section you want to learn about and then it shows you a map of the world, you click on the continent you want, and then the country you want as well. As an educator i would use this site to help me prepare lessons for my kids also i would feel confident in sending them to a computer lab to have them do research on a country. This site would be very helpful for them to do reports on a country. 2. Think Quest is an awesome site where students can learn about a variety of subjects by clicking on websites that were made by kids for kids. the information of this site is wonderful, it has almost any elementary topic on it and the quality of it is very good because people have to judge a website in order for it to go into the library and as a part of judging it they have to make sure that the information is correct. This web site is very easy to navigate, you click on the library and all these topics come up. You click on what general topic you want and then a more specific search comes up so that you can find just what your looking for. As an educator i would use Think Quest to show my kids good internet cites on the topic we are learning about. also i would have them get together and create a web page and submit it in to be judged. This way the children will really get to know the information well. 3. If you are looking for a great place to get media to use in your classroom then i would use the eMedia website. This cite is a great place to collect all sorts of media to assist you in teaching. EMedia has videos, images, audio, interactive bits. This website is pretty updated and has a media thing for tons of different subjects. Another good thing about this website is that it is very esay to navigate. It has labeled tags where you can find exactly what catagory of media you want and what kind of subjects. As an educator i would use this site to give my students different ways to teach the subject, and a movie or audio clip is a different way to get the students interested. I would have them watch or listen to the clips found on eMedia.