While it is commercially oriented, you'll find the media intriguing and time-saving. The Multicultural Classroom - PBSonline's TeacherSource focus for October is designed to help your students develop an understanding and appreciation for different cultures through activities, related PBS Web sites and PBS programs. Although this attractive site was developed for K-7 science teachers in British Columbia, science educators around the world can benefit from the resources available here, especially the lesson plan exchange for earth and space, physical and life sciences. There's even a Classroom area just for educators. This site may already be on most history teachers' lists of favorites, but teachers of other subjects will find it to be a wealth of curriculum material, too.
Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions.
It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or supress your appetite. . . It contains over 5,100 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world, in addition to a dizzying amount of articles on everything mythilogical from gnomes to How the Man Got in the Moon. It is truly designed for learning AND fun, especially for K-8 kids.