[eMINTS] Bi-Weekly Update 6/9/08

[Beglau, Monica M.]

Congratulations to Cindy Lane, First Missouri Educator Selected for
Google Teacher Academy: Congratulations to Cindy Lane, certified eMINTS
instructional specialist from the Lindbergh School District in Missouri.
Cindy will join 49 other innovative educators selected from around the
world (thousands of applications were received) to get hands-on
experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn
about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share
with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate
environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google
Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other K-12 educators
in their local region. To learn more about the Google Teacher Academy go
to: http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html To learn more about Cindy,
see her district website at: http://www.xrl.us/Lane or visit her blog
at: http://www.login2lane.blogspot.com/ 

 

New eMINTS Classroom Website Feature: Over the summer months, eMINTS
staff will be removing their old "cluster" websites in favor of newer
Moodle spaces where teachers in professional development can learn about
session dates and other information important for those who are in
professional development programs. Since many classroom websites are
linked from the current "cluster" websites, the eMINTS National Center
wants to provide a place for those website links that is more accessible
to everyone in all of our states (and countries). If you are interested
in having your classroom website linked from the eMINTS National Center
site, you can submit your classroom website link for posting. eMINTS
teachers from all over the U.S. (and soon from Australia) are invited to
participate. Information for teachers who wish to submit links to their
classroom websites so they can be linked from eMINTS National Center
website and instructions for submitting a short online form can be found
at: http://www.emints.org/resources/teachersites/ Watch the eMINTS
website for announcements of newly organized listings of classroom
websites by grade level and subject area.

 

Remember we are going to bi-weekly updates for the summer. The next
update will appear on 6/23/08. 

 

New and Updated eThemes for the Week of June 9, 2008

 

Newest eThemes

 

Literature: "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00002320.shtml 

These websites are about the books "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow"
by Orson Scott Card. There are study guides, quizzes, worksheets, and
discussion questions. Included is an eThemes resource on children of
war.

 

Phases of the Moon

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00002333.shtml 

These sites are about the phases of the moon. Learn why the moon
displays phases and find out whether there is a dark side of the moon.
The resources include online simulations, games, and in class
activities. eThemes Resources on the earth's moon, eclipses, planets,
rotation and revolution are also included.

 

Utopias

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00002239.shtml

These resources are about Utopias, dystopias, and planned communities.
Read about several historical intentional communities and the dystopian
tradition in literature and film. Find out what these communities had in
common, how they differed, and why some of them have failed and others
continue to exist. Compare existing or historical experimental
communities to fictional Utopias. Includes eThemes resources on "The
Giver" by Lois Lowry, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, and forms of
government.

 

Updated eThemes

 

Solar System: Earth's Moon for Elementary

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000083.shtml

These sites are about the moon that revolves around Earth. Learn about
the waxing and waning phases. See video and photographs of the moon.
There are also sites that have information about the moon as a solar
body with quizzes, puzzles, and activities to help learn the moon's
phases. eThemes Resources on eclipses,planets, rotation and revolution
are also included.

 

 

Monica M. Beglau, Ed.D, Director

eMINTS National Center

University of Missouri

103 London Hall

Columbia, MO  65211

573-884-7202

FAX: 573-884-7614

Email: beglaum at emints.org