• Keyboarding Practice

Sites to use for your modern retelling

• Bitstrips
• Hansel and Gretel: Storytelling example in Prezi
• Piktochart
• Prezi

http://www.webexhibits.org/greekgods/

Here are resources for Unit 4 in HighPoint: Communities Count.

Use these links and videos for research for your poster project or just to learn more about how to help save our "common ground."

• Environmental Protection Agency
• Paper University
• Weather_Smart__Ozone_and_Pollution.asf

Real Inventions by Students http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/eng06_img_younginvent/

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has an online database with every patent ever issued, as well as information on what a patent means and how to apply for one.

http://www.uspto.gov

The Innovative Lives section of the Web site of the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution features illuminating essays on several of the inventors featured in Inventing Modern America, including Ashok Gadgil, Wilson Greatbatch, and Stephanie Kwolek.

http://www.si.edu/lemelso

Marshall Brain's "How Stuff Works" is full of useful and detailed explanations of how things work, from computers to cell phones to locks.

http://www.howstuffworks.com 

  Theme: The Holocaust/Human Rights

Holocaust Memorial Museum Site Links

Student Page http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/tc.htm   

I.D. Cards  http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/a2z.php?lang=en&type=idcard

Personal Histories  http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/

Theme: Martin Luther King/Civil Rights

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/30629_websites.html