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1. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Exploring Intersections between Digital and Disciplinary Literacy: Leveraging Synergies for Deeper Learning
   This interactive Web seminar will examine digital practices essential for learning in the disciplines.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Go Wild with Webcams!
   Can't make it to a zoo? After reading a book about apes, observe animal habits and habitats using one of the many Webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
   The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts)
   Join NCTE for the web seminar "Literacy in Social studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts)" hosted by Jan Clinard.
6. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   On Demand Web Seminar Package: Literacy Across the Disciplines
   Take the guesswork out of choosing the best on demand Web seminars while building your professional library on teaching literacy across all content areas.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 27
   On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.
   Students learn about Rachel Carson, explore different environmental websites, and write a Diamante Poem about a particular habitat.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Paying Attention to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology
   Students complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology. They compare their opinions to the ideas in a novel that depicts technology (such as 1984 or Fahrenheit 451).
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 26
   Sally Ride, first American woman in space, was born in 1951.
   After exploring information about Sally Ride on the StarKids Who's Who site, students write a letter using the Letter Generator to Dr. Ride's foundation, Sally Ride Science.
10. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki
    Through Voki, a Web 2.0 tool, students create customizable avatars for class presentations for various purposes, such as presenting biographical information, expressing an opinion, or reading a poem.

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