September 2018 Infotopia/Kidtopia Newsletter

September 2018 Infotopia/Kidtopia Newsletter

 https://www.infotopia.info/newsletters/Sept_2018_Infotopia.pdf

Be sure to check out our Science recommendations on Kidtopia for Grades K-4. Don’t forget to send us your requests for science topics to be included. Here are just a few of the fourteen science resource pages. 

 

https://www.kidtopia.info/measurement.html

https://www.kidtopia.info/matter.html

https://www.kidtopia.info/energy.html

https://www.kidtopia.info/science.html

October is International Dinosaur Month

Here are some recommended websites with dinosaur names, images, information about when and where they lived, and more.

The National History Museum (UK)

(Images, diet, country, period in which it lived, who named it, etc.)

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory.html

The Smithsonian:  Dinosaurs in our Backyard

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/exhibits/backyard-dinosaurs/

DinoBuzz

(Current topics from UC Berkeley concerning dinosaurs)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinobuzz.html

The Dinosauria

(More about dinosaurs from UC Berkeley)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html

Science Kids:  Dinosaurs

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/dinosaurs.html

Kidtopia:  Dinosaurs
https://www.kidtopia.info/dinosaurs.html

Artists and Art History

Are your secondary students researching artists?  With links to over 100 artists, the Academic Index is your best resource for information about artists and their works. 

www.academicindex.net

Art History

(by form, by movement, by region, and more)

https://academicindex.net/art/art_history.html

Artists from A to Z

https://www.academicindex.net/art/art_history_artists.html

English Language Arts Teachers

https://infotopia.info/english_lit.html

     Infotopia has resources for all of the following, all on the same web page:

·      Literature in English (American and British Literature)

·      English/Language Arts

·      Grammar

·      Poetry

·      Folktales and Fairy Tales

     For literature in languages other than English, check out our web site:

https://infotopia.info/non_english_lit.html

     One of the best sites for all literature in languages other than English is Voice of the Shuttle from the University of California Santa Barbara.  Just scroll down and you’ll find African, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Eastern European, French, German, Greek, Guatemalan, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian,

Spanish,  and more.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719

June, July, and August 2018 Newslettter

June, July, and August 2018 Infotopia/Kidtopia Newsletter

https://www.infotopia.info/newsletters/June_July_Aug2018_Infotopia.pdf

Check out some of the articles in our newsletter:

Cool FREE Websites for a Hot Summer

https://cooltext.com/

Cool Text is a FREE graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. 

http://textanim.com/

Animate your text for web pages and for presentations in just a few seconds.   

https://storybird.com/

Write a story and integrate their art into your work. 

http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/

Find amazing writing prompts in this website.  They have a random prompt button with pictures to accompany the prompt. 

http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/

Find that word that you've been thinking about all day but just can't seem to remember.

Folktales and Fairy Tales

     Find American, Mexican, and Canadian folklore, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, Russian folktales, and more, on our resources pages. 

https://infotopia.info/folktales.html

Monday, September 17^th

Constitution Day in the United States

Check out these resources:

https://www.infotopia.info/constitution_day.html

One of our favorite websites is Larry Ferlazzo’s edublog on the Constitution (and many other topics.):

https://bit.ly/2n6e1yh

YouTube has a link to the SchoolHouse Rock video on the Preamble to the Constitution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EfnNUt_nwY&feature=youtu.be

Ask an Expert

Do you and your students want to ask important questions of experts in the field of science? Try “Ask An Expert” below.

http://www.k12science.org/materials/resources/askanexpert/

Why Use Infotopia instead of Google?

https://www.infotopia.info

1) Infotopia, a site created by school librarians for students and their teachers, is a directory and search engine including only websites recommended by teachers, librarians, and library and educational consortia.

2) Infotopia is a Google custom search engine of selected sites, so you get reliable resources in your search results, while still enjoying Google`s cool search features.

3) You can recommend topics for which you need information and we will prepare new resources for inclusion on Infotopia.info

Attention: Teachers for Grades K-4

     Are your students trying to do online research and discovering that the resources are just too difficult for their understanding?  Our website/search engine https://www.kidtopia.info is designed to be age- and subject- appropriate for these students.  Websites are selected only if recommended by teachers and librarians for these levels.

     If you need additional resources, please let us know.  Many of our resources were developed based on requests from teachers and librarians.

May 2018 Newsletter

 

 https://www.infotopia.info/newsletters/May_2018_Infotopia.pdf

The May newsletter includes the following:

• Do you need an idea to start class and improve your students’ English every day? Try the Phrase Finder, with more than 2,000 English idioms, phrases, and proverbs that we use in daily life.  https://www.phrases.org.uk/index.html
• Check out our Texas History Resources 
  http://www.infotopia.info/texas_history.html
• Hey Guys! Let’s Have a Comic-Con at our School or Library! Find resources/links to school and/or library comic-conventions to celebrate reading, support STEM, and promote graphic novels!
• How can your students tell “fake” news from real news?  Just read the news from a balanced selection of news sources and compare.  http://www.infotopia.info/news.html  http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
• Are your elementary students studying the ancient civilizations of China, Greece, Rome, Egypt, Iraq, or India?  Check out our resources.  http://www.kidtopia.info/ancient_civilizations.html
• Do you need to move photos or files from one computer or device to another?  Check out our easy recommendation.