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Recommended Sites For Your Classroom

Enlist A Superhero To Encourage Reading

Spiderman can provide all the motivation and activites your kids need to inspire reading, writing and problem solving.

Dept. of Education's Spidey Project http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/spidey/

Write A Celebrity

The Internet brings the world into your classroom. Why not enlist celebrities to help raise funds and motivate your students to better letter writing ?

Chip's Celebrity Home and E-mail Addresses http://www.addresses.site2go.com/

Send Postcards From Space

The next time you take your kids on an out of this world lesson, why not top it off by letting them compete in a space design challenge? Look in the teacher area for more information of how to participate.

Space Day.com http://www.spaceday.com


Develop a Community
Reading Program

The Department Of Education offers everything you need to develop a community wide reading program.

Compact For Reading http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ CompactforReading/content.html

Help Prevent Bullying

The Internet offers some wonderful resources to help prevent bullying, this site offers some very good ones.

Bullying.org http://www.bullying.org

Character Development

Character development is becoming an increasingly important concept in schools. This site provides lesson plans for movies that can be used in classes as character education tools.

Teach With Movies.org http://www.teachwithmovies.org/character-development-index.htm