Great New Teaching Resources from Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
October 2, 2007
Language Arts:
Language Resource Centers is a gateway to 15 centers that support foreign language instruction. Led by nationally and internationally recognized language professionals, the centers create language-learning materials, offer professional development workshops, and conduct research. Some centers concentrate on specific language areas; others focus on foreign languages in general. (Department of Education)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1966
Children’s Literature: Digitized Print Materials provides 50 digitized texts of rare books: The Arabian Nights, A Child’s Garden of Verses, Ballad of the Lost Hare, A Christmas Carol, Humpty Dumpty, The Grasshopper Stories, Mother Goose Finger Plays, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Rocket Book, The Secret Garden, Stories from Hans Andersen, The Three Bears, Three Little Pigs, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and others. (Library of Congress)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1961
Math:
Statistics Online Computational Resource provides online aids for probability and statistics education, technology-based instruction, and statistical computing. It includes interactive graphs and calculators for showing distributions, computer-generated analogs of experiments and popular games, web tools for statistical data analysis, simulations of real-life processes, modeling tools, a wiki, technology-based continuing statistics education, and more.
(UCLA, Multiple Agencies)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1960
Science
Understanding Alcohol: Investigations into Biology and Behavior provides simulations, videos, and lessons on the pharmacokinetics of alcohol, the biological and behavioral effects of alcohol, youth and alcohol, the consequences of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Lessons focus on body type and a person’s response to alcohol, factors that influence alcohol use and abuse, calculation of blood alcohol concentrations, and more. Discover how different doses affect the activity of mice. Experience a simulation of driving while intoxicated.
(National Institutes of Health)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1965
Art:
J.M.W. Turner features nine paintings by English Romantic landscape artist William Turner (1775-1851). The leading British artist of his era, Turner transformed the genre of landscape painting. He was known as “the painter of light” because of his startling use of light and color. Over six decades, he produced more than 20,000 oils, watercolors, and drawings. He achieved success throughout his career, inspired generations of artists, and is considered a predecessor of the impressionists. (National Gallery of Art)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1967