P/NW BOCES E-Community

Here's a great new resource!  http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/escuela/eng/eschool_about.shtml The Electronic Schoolhouse is a bilingual educational resource from the New York State Archives, the Archives Partnership Trust, and Time Warner that focuses on using historical records as learning tools in elementary, middle and secondary ...

One of our high school social studies teachers shared this with me. Here is the content from the email she forwarded:   Greetings, I thought you'd like to know that teachers in New York are eligible to receive one free DVD per year from http://www.izzit.org. These videos are very popular and deal with subjects in social studies, character ...

Here is the link to download and play the wide angle Back to School Videos. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/

A new resource ''Legacy: Conserving New York State's Biodiversity'' is available free for 4th grade teachers.  It is a 100-pagr, full color book all about our life and beauty in NYS - birds, lakes, tundra, forests, animals etc.  Email your request and contact information to BRI@mail.nysed.gov  Enjoy! Mirla

An online newsletter I subscribe to is featuring sites related to the branches of government this week. We do use many of these in the curriculum, but here is a link to that site: http://www.eduhound.com/cttarchives/020708ctt.cfm  By the way, this newsletter used to be called Eduhound. It's a good reference, and targets new areas with each ...

Here is a link to that resource we shared with the fourth grade teachers on Tuesday, Oct. 2: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/throughout/index.shtml You will find a multitude of documents (images, maps, and more) and a customizable worksheet form to help you differentiate your instruction.