Curriculum

**ARTSONIA [[image:Artsonia_Splash.png width="336" height="188" align="right"]]**
My screencast this week is about Artsonia, which is an online art gallery for students to post and share their work. This is a great site for teachers, parents, and especially students. Here is my screencast- http://www.screencast.com/users/aclark02/folders/Jing/media/b292a19f-f476-4940-9b7b-fdec5caa4f3f

And here is the link to the site- http://www.artsonia.com/

MATH
The National Library of of Virtual Manipulatives is a site designed for educators and students K-12. You can search by main topic and grade level and then NLVM will provide a huge list of resources and online manipulatives to help you with your lesson. For example, you could look up Numbers and Operations for grades 3-5 and you'll find resources for bases, positive numbers and integers, factoring, fractions, and so much more. Looks like a site that would take a person a long time to see everything they have to offer. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
 * National Library of Virtual Manipulatives [[image:nlvm.jpg width="300" height="258" align="right"]]**

Illuminations is a web site dedicated to making math come alive for the online learner. The site is complete with activities, lessons, standards, and web links. I really liked how you can search by grade level and even topic to find the perfect online tool to help teach a certain concept. There are always highlighted lessons and activities on the main page to help illustrate some new tools you might not be familiar with. http://illuminations.nctm.org/
 * Illuminations** [[image:illuminations.jpg width="256" height="68" align="right"]]

**ART**
Put together by the National Endowment for Humanities, this is a site dedicated to bringing American art into the classroom through engaging and interactive means. It's a free site that offers an extensive interactive gallery and the site even offers lesson plans for teachers. Studying art isn't a focus in education but much can be explored and students can learn what it means to become a historian and this would be an important way to learn evaluating techniques. http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/index.php?sec=home
 * Picturing America[[image:picturing_american.jpg width="480" height="309" align="right"]]**

**MUSIC**
Here is a fun way to help keep your voice strong and beautiful. You have to register to get access to most of the site and then for a fee you can have complete access but users can get online and sing along to their favorite song and Karaoke Party will give you a score for how well you sang the song. Users can compete against themselves or other users in a Karaoke Party Battle forum. This would be great to use in a school setting for a vocal music class. There is even an educational forum where students are taught how to warm up their voices and there are also singing exercises to help strengthen and improve their voice. http://www.karaokeparty.com/en/
 * KARAOKE PARTY**[[image:karaoke_party.png width="265" height="96" align="right"]]