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Join us for Experiencing Shakespeare—the Folger Shakespeare Library's first-ever virtual field trip! During the program, students will explore the Folger Shakespeare Library and discover dynamic ways to engage with Shakespeare's work.

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Experiencing Shakespeare takes students inside the Folger Shakespeare Library, the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and a leader in how Shakespeare is taught in today’s classrooms. ...

The Smithsonian is offering teachers a multidimensional resource for expanding and enriching curriculum with Shout, a free environmental exploration program. Through interactive webinars, comprehensive lesson-planning materials and

hands-on activities, In February, March and May, the program will look at water from the Smithsonian’s many points of view, from marine biology to American history. Students will explore both water quality (how we can ensure that water is saf...

Interactive science & engineering (for nine- to eleven-year-olds) includes games involving light, sounds, forces & motion, earth & beyond, and electricity. Students can go undercover with Silicon Spies, brave the rides with ParkWorld Plot, launch themselves into Alien Attack, immerse themselves in Ocean Odyssey and take a giant leap into Astro Adventure. They’ll also find out how engineers use science to help people and what exciting new inventions we’ll be using in the ...

Join in Commemorations Year-Round
Celebrate! Holidays in the U.S.A. discusses the 10 federally recognized holidays in the United States, as well as many celebratory days, such as Valentine’s Day. There’s also a section addressing four recognition months commonly acknowledged in the United States: Black History Month (February), Women’s History Month (March), Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) a...

A free, challenging online game makes civics and economics accessible and fun for students. Budget Hero lets students try to balance the federal budget. First students choose one to three “badges” that reflect their political values. Then they try to earn these badges by choosing from more than 70 policy options. The game is built on the Congressional Budget Office model, which incorporates pro and con arguments for each policy, drawn from dozens of sources and vetted to...

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The school-based Promising Young Writers program was established in 1985 by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to stimulate and recognize students’ writing talents and to emphasize the importance of writing skills among eighth-grade students. Students who are eighth-graders in the present academic school year are eligible to be nominated by teachers for the program. The nomination process requires that students each submit two pieces of writing; one is theme...

Mobile Learning Explorations 

Co-hosted by edWeb.net and CoSN

Sponsored by AT&T   

edWeb.netand CoSN announce Mobile Learning Explorations, a webinar series and online professional learning community that provides a forum for the education community to collaborate on the implementation of mobile technology in education. This innovative program is sponsored by AT&T.   This free webinar series and online community provides information and supp...

Flight to Freedom

PBS is thrilled to launch MISSION US: "Flight to Freedom," the second in a series of free online games designed to teach American History to middle school students. This second installment takes students through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old girl enslaved on a Kentucky plantation in 1848.  With its accompanying educator materials on the MISSION US website, "Flight to Freedom" demonstrates the historical concept of cause and effect, and enables students to build ...