Pioneer+Library+Resources

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= **Thinkfinity** =

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This site was very imformative. I mainly spent most of my time in the National Geographic Education link. In this link it contained a lot of geography standards and over 500 lesson plans for each of the standards. It has all sorts of maps and interactive pages and other links to go to. It also has a virtual museum where you can see several different geographic journeys. You can climb a mountain, hover over the Earth, speed across Europe, visit an archeological dig, and even order sushi—plus games, animations, and more! The imformation is just amazing and I am amazed at how much information is out there on this website. It is current, for example it has lesson plans on the war in Irag and trying to become friends with people in Afganistan. This site was very easy to navigate through. When you click on particular links it takes you where it is suppose to take you. There is so much information in each link. I would definetly use it for the geography core. It has a lot of lesson plans and standards available just by clicking a button. It has all sorts of maps you can use. Each lesson has step by step things you can do with your class. Almost all the lessons have links to other activities. Yes I would have my students use this site. There is so much information they can learn about the world they live in. I am excited to introduce my future students to this site. ====== [|Thinkfinity]

= Learning Express =

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I clicked on elementary schools on this site and it provided a way to browse tests, courses, and eBooks for 4th and 5th graders. There are all sorts of math practice test for all the math subjects taught in 4th grade. It offers links to ebooks to help you prepare for the math assessments. The quality of the information is good and I would think that it would help students prepare for these math tests. I do not know a lot about what is required for 4th grade math and now I do from looking at these. I think the information looked current. It was ok to navigate but when I went to try to pull up some of the information on the website it was a little bit slow, but it may have been my cumputer. I would use this if I taught 4th or 5th graders to help them prepare for the math assessments. I would suggest to my students that they go to this site and download the ebooks to help them study for these tests. ====== [|Learning Express]

=** Culture Grams **= [|Culture Grams]
 * This site I spent the most time on because there was so much information. I was able to learn about all different types of countries. The information on this site is just amazing. You can go to the kids edition part and find out anything and everything about any country you want. The quality of this site is great. It has very colorful pages, lots of pictures, recipes, holidays and etc. I was able to hear the pronunciation of the country and their national anthem. It looked like they update the information often. On one of the side bars it said what is new about this country. This site was very easy to use. The only problem I had was trying to watch the videos. I would definetly use this site as an educator. On the bottom of the screen it had a curriculum standards PDF file which I thought was very useful. I would use it often in helping my students learn about different countries and their cultures. I would suggest this site for my students to use when they have to do country reports. This website has all that they need to do their reports. It has maps and flags. I will recommend my own children to use this site when they need to do country reports. I also think that they would actually have fun doing their homework it they used this site. **