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FREE RESOURCE KIT: Science and our Food Supply by the USDA and Nation Education Association (if you go to the web site: www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/tchcuric.html they will send you a complete resource kit – free)

Ideas for teaching out of the box . . . or sometimes on the box, as with cubing . . .

http://www.tag.ubc.ca/about/institute/documents/bu_cubing.pdf

http://www.teach.virginia.edu/files/nagc_cubing__think_dots.pdf This site has two useful strategies, and a printable pattern for making the cubes.

http://www.2learn.ca/construct/graphicorg/concept/conceptmapindex.html Fifteen blank graphic organizers

http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ This site provided by the Texas Teaching Fellows Newsletter has a whole library of graphic organizers. You can modify them online and save or share them once you register.

http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratMap.html

Information on vocabulary and comprehension

http://keithhampson.wordpress.com/ Want to read this sitemore–online learning in Ontario, Canada

A Collection of Easily-Adaptable, Best Practices From Narragansett Teachers Gathered from presentations at the Understanding by Design course offered Spring, 2004 Paolucci/Warner – Instructors http://www.narragansett.k12.ri.us/Curriculum/Narragansett%20Ideas.htm

How to Teach Yourself How to Do Almost Anything
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121010184067071377.html?mod=fpa_editors_picks