The Friday Five: Images October 9, 2009
Posted by Wendy Wolfe in Friday Five.Tags: Images, Photos
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Who doesn’t like to explore art and what students don’t gravitate toward images? Today’s “Five” include five great image collections, I hope you find something of interest to you.
Thanks to Christie Burke, our new Library Specialist, I learned about the first resource, Minnesota Reflections, a collection of nearly 31,000 images and documents “shared by more than 95 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a broad view of Minnesota’s history for researchers, educators, students, and the public.”
Second, thinking regionally, is the Arts Collection, part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The Arts Collection “brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the creative arts.” Here you can search a growing collection of art including images of pottery, architecture, and other artifacts.
Third, yes, it has appeared here before, but I use it so often, I couldn’t imagine an article on images without it! The morgueFile is a great place for educators and students to find quality images for just about anything.
Fourth, part of the Pics4Learning is a free image library intended for educational use. Teachers can also submit their photos to be included in the collection. (An “Advanced Search” for photographer is an easy way for students to find their teacher’s photos.) If you submit your images, you retain your copyright but grant your permission for them to be used for education. FYI, it does take a couple of days for the images to be approved by Pics4Learning.
Finally, images from Craig Blacklock. Not able to be downloaded but beautiful to explore, Craig’s Lake Superior images are wonderful.
Happy Friday!
Spending the Friday Five at the Supreme Court May 1, 2009
Posted by Wendy Wolfe in Educational Resources, Friday Five.Tags: SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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Today’s Friday Five is brought to you by Justice David Souter’s announcement of retirement and my general interest in the Supreme Court. Recognizing that we have only had 110 Supreme Court Justices, it is quite an elite group. The following five resources are useful in teaching about the Court.
1. This TIME for Kids website was designed for Justice Alito’s confirmation, it includes small biographies of recent justices, a look at Landmark Cases, some Supreme Court basics, and a quiz over the content.
2. An outstanding resource for Landmark Cases comes from Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society: landmarkcases.org. This collection of readings (3 different reading levels) and activities surrounding each case is a great resource for a wide age range. (If you are an educator and would like the link to the answer site for landmarkcases.org, please send me an email!)
3. A 2-for-1! SCOTUS Blog and SCOTUS Wiki are a pair of related sites which do a tremendous job watching the current Court. Contributors publish statistics on the actions of the Justices, update on daily news from the Court, give excellent reports on specific cases and decisions, a great pair of current resources.
4. PBS created a wonderful resource to support its Supreme Court series. With an interactive history of the Court, there is also a great educators site with lesson plans, a day in the life, a memory game (can be tricky), and other supportive links, definitely a rich resource on the Court.
5. The National Constitution Center has an interactive Constitution which is searchable by Supreme Court case, a different approach than some for studying the way the Supreme Court works with the Constitution.
Happy Friday!
The Friday Five at the NYPL April 17, 2009
Posted by Wendy Wolfe in Educational Resources, Friday Five, Web resources.Tags: Friday Five, NYPL
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Taking five minutes to explore this great resource will only scratch the surface. This fall, the New York Public Library published its “Treasures of the New York Public Library” website.Organized by theme and content, this site is a rich repository of resources excellent especially for literature, science, history and art classrooms. There are 3-5 minute videos on topics including the Harlem Renaissance, art deco, and mapping the world, as well as images and text resources supporting the studies of art, history, world history, New York, science and inventions, and others. A wonderful repository to explore.
Happy Friday!
Friday Five: For the Love of Words March 27, 2009
Posted by Wendy Wolfe in Friday Five, Uncategorized.Tags: Vocabulary
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The power of words is amazing and this site can definitely take more than five minute of a person’s Friday. Save the Words is a site dedicated to the words which have been removed from the Oxford due to lack of use. Words have been reinstated into the dictionary, but for this to happen, they need to be used. From vocabulary lessons to a fun study of words past to a casual use of a new but old word, Save the Words is a wonderful place to “take five” and investigate.
Happy Friday!
