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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

“Photography On The Final Frontier” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Photography On The Final Frontier” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Photography On The Final Frontier”

Photography On The Final Frontier is a slideshow from National Public Radio of some amazing photos taken from space.
I’m adding it to The Best Images Taken In Space.

More “Language Maps”

Here are new additions to The Best “Language Maps”:

Not-To-Be-Missed World Cup Resource

The site 2learn.ca has a really exceptional site on the World Cup 2010. It’s filled with resources that can be used in the classroom.

“Free books block ’summer slide’ in low-income students”

Free books block ’summer slide’ in low-income students is the headline of an article in USA Today.
Here’s an excerpt:
For a study to be published later this year in Reading Psychology, Allington and colleagues selected students in 17 high-poverty elementary schools in Florida and, for three consecutive years, gave each child 12 books, from a list the students provided, on the last day of school.
In all, 852 students received books each year, paid for mostly by federal Title I money. Three years later,

Today’s Oil Spill Links

Here are today’s additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Gulf Oil Spill:
The Gulf Oil Effect is an AP interactive.
Hurricane Season 2010: Storms Could Cross Massive Oil Spill is another AP interactive.
Methods That Have Been Tried to Stop the Leaking Oil are a series of excellent graphics from The New York Times.