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• the art of ancient Greeks and Romans at the Hearst Castle
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  ]]> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:05:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Social-Studies/US-States-California/Parks-Online-Resources-for-Teachers-and-Students.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Science-Websites-for-Kids/Computer-Science/LearnStreet-Online-Programming-Courses.html LearnStreet is an online portal focused on changing the way people of all backgrounds and skill levels learn how to code. Learn programming in Ruby, JavaScript Python with online programming courses. LearnStreet makes it incredibly easy for anyone to start

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  ]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:35:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Science-Websites-for-Kids/Computer-Science/LearnStreet-Online-Programming-Courses.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Language-Arts/English-Language-Learner-ELL/Interactive-Visual-Dictionary-of-English.html This "dictionary" provides several scenes with related vocabulary and sentences.  Students can choose from several activities to listen to the sentences and reinforce learning through word search, crossword puzzles, and identifying the hidden words in each scene.  The scenes incude bus stop, classroom, working table, science lab, art class, library,

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  ]]> Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:41:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Language-Arts/English-Language-Learner-ELL/Interactive-Visual-Dictionary-of-English.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Visual-Performing-Arts/Theatre/Stagestreet.html Kids will learn more about theatre and stage productions on this Culture Street website.  Children ages 9-13 narrate videos reviewing and summarizing popular plays in the UK.  Other videos deal with set design and costume design.  And there are a few videos of plays produced by students. 

  The videos are

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  ]]> Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:57:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Visual-Performing-Arts/Theatre/Stagestreet.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Visual-Performing-Arts/Studio-Arts/Artstreet.html Get inspired by the artists and techniques illustrated on Culture Street, designed for kids ages 9-11.  View video workshops on textile printing, digital photography, pottery, drawing, sculpture, jewelry and screen printing.  Learn from the examples of a broad range of artists.  Try your hand at jewelry design and painting using

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  ]]> Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:48:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Visual-Performing-Arts/Studio-Arts/Artstreet.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Visual-Performing-Arts/Film-Video/Culture-Street-Film.html These video workshops, designed for kids ages 9-11, provide instruction in film making topics of location, props, storyboarding, software, editing, titles, and sharing.  Other topics include film animation, use of the green screen and cut out animation.  There are also examples of student films. 

  The videos are short, generally less

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  ]]> Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:56:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Visual-Performing-Arts/Film-Video/Culture-Street-Film.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Language-Arts/Poetry/BBC-Poem-Pack.html This collection of eight engaging poems includes audio read-along, animation and activities for young children.  Each poem emphasizes a different vowel sound combination.  And the accompanying activities ask kids to identify the sounds in a passage and answer some short questions about the poem they've read.
  ]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:50:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Language-Arts/Poetry/BBC-Poem-Pack.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Language-Arts/Poetry/Children-s-Poetry-Archive.html Find a poem or browse a poem by theme, form or poet.  Poetry form examples include ballads, clerihews, couplets, haiku, kenning, limerick, list, monologue, rap, rhyming, and riddle, among many others.  There are detailed biographies of the poets, as well as background stories to some of their poetry.  The Poet

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  ]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:02:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Language-Arts/Poetry/Children-s-Poetry-Archive.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Learning-Tools/Graphic-Organizers/Text-2-Mind-Map.html Interactive Graphic Organizer Text2MindMap offers a quick, simple approach to creating a visual mind map from a set of organized words.  Select colors and line thickness.  Then click "draw the map".  Then you can adjust the placement of the branches.  Save it or download it as an image .JPG

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  ]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:57:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Learning-Tools/Graphic-Organizers/Text-2-Mind-Map.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Health-and-Fitness/Nutrition/StillTasty-Shelf-Life-Guide.html Learn how to best store your food and leftovers.  Find out how long you can keep different kinds of food in the pantry, fridge and freezer.  Is it OK to put hot food in the refrigerator?  Are eggs OK to eat after their expiration date?  Can you store opened cans

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  ]]> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:06:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Health-and-Fitness/Nutrition/StillTasty-Shelf-Life-Guide.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Health-and-Fitness/Nutrition/The-Eatery-app.html Use this free iPhone, iPad app to guide your toward making healthier eating choices.  Take a snapshot of the items you eat throughout the day.  Rate the health nutrition value of what you've eaten, and ask for the opinions of others.  Find out if you've eaten better or worse this

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  ]]> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:35:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Health-and-Fitness/Nutrition/The-Eatery-app.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Health-and-Fitness/Nutrition/Massive-Health.html This site provides nutrition data across the world in an informative and visually striking way.  Learn about our perceptions of how healthy we eat.  Learn about when to eat the time of day counts!  Learn where people eat healthiest across the country, and whether it's healthier to eat home

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  ]]> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:17:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Health-and-Fitness/Nutrition/Massive-Health.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Health-and-Fitness/Nutrition/Nutrition-Source.html Learn about nutrition from A to Z, with lots of advice for healthy eating and living from the folks at Harvard School of Public Health.  The site includes glossary of nutritional terms, what constitutes a healthy plate of food, portion sizes, ideas for staying active, and reducing salt and sodium

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  ]]> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:58:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Health-and-Fitness/Nutrition/Nutrition-Source.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Math/Geometry/Polyhedra-plaited-with-paper-strips.html Use these instructions to construct geometric solids, or 3D geometric objects - polyhedra - from folded strips of paper.  The author provides detailed, illustrated instructions for constructing many polyhedra, among them a cube (hexahedron), triangular prism, pyramid (Tetrahedron), on up to an 18-sided solid.
  ]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:25:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Math/Geometry/Polyhedra-plaited-with-paper-strips.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Science-Websites-for-Kids/Animals/Animal-Fact-Guide.html Did you know that elephants hold grudges or that cougars can't roar? At Animal Fact Guide, you can learn about interesting and endangered animals from around the world. Discover what makes an animal unique and get wildlife conservation tips on our Animal Facts pages. Share your opinion about recent

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  ]]> Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:36:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Science-Websites-for-Kids/Animals/Animal-Fact-Guide.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Teacher-Tools/Lesson-Planning/Incredible-Art-Department.html This site offer art teachers from preschool through college a large collection of lesson plans.  Browse them by grade level, subject, integration, art period, artist, and medium.  There are also plans for substitute teachers and art/drama combined.

  In addition, there is a teacher's toolkit of supplies, rubrics, activities, contests, free

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  ]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:24:00 GMT http://www.learningreviews.com/Teacher-Tools/Lesson-Planning/Incredible-Art-Department.html http://www.learningreviews.com/Visual-Performing-Arts/Studio-Arts/Artsonia-Student-Art-Museum.html Billing itself as "the largest student art gallery on the web," Artsonia provides inspiration and recognition to K-12 students for their artwork.  This online museum houses millions of works submitted by teachers of their students' pieces.  You can browse the galleries by type of media used drawing, painting, sculpture,

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