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Novelist K 8NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students. You can access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen.

Collaborative Digitization Program:  The following lessons have been created by educators from cultural heritage institutions and schools around Colorado, using digitized collections that are available through Heritage Colorado and other on-line databases of primary source materials. Many of these lessons are aligned with Colorado Model Content Standards and have been piloted in the classroom. Lessons are available on a range of subjects.

Colorado Virtual Library for Teachers:  For Colorado Teachers -- Search web sites and lesson plans by standards!

The Heritage of America Educational and Cultural Foundation has launched a beta Web site for its Spanish-language mathematics program for grades 1-3 at www.aprematusa.org. The site makes the Aprendamos Mathematica (APREMAT) audio math instruction program available via podcast to any student free of charge.  APREMAT/USA, a Spanish radio-based math instruction program that is used by more than a million students in five Latin American countries, was created in 1998 to help Spanish-speaking students improve their math achievement.  The program consists of 450 (150 each for grades 1-3) 24-28 minute Spanish-language math lessons that are broadcast free via commercial radio.  The program can be used either as an after school program or by parents on their own (the audio pod cast does not require broadband, so every public library in the U.S. offers access and students with a slow connection on their home computer will be able to access and use the programs). 

¡Colorín Colorado!   - This site provides "information, activities, and advice for educators, and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs)." The parents' section offers tips for helping children with school and learning to read and write. The educators' section offers strategies for teaching English-learning children. Also includes newsletters and links to related sites. In English and Spanish. From Reading Rockets, a service of public broadcasting station WETA.

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FactCheckED.org -  FactCheckEd.org is an educational resource for high school teachers and students. It’s  designed to help students learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day. Our site is a sister to the award-winning Annenberg Political Fact Check, which goes by the Internet address FactCheck.org. and monitors the factual accuracy of what is said in the nation’s political arena. Both websites are projects of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, with funding for FactCheckEd.org provided by a grant from the Flora Family Foundation.

Extra Credit - is an online newsletter, produced twice a year, designed to help teachers looking for timely information on economic and personal finance topics, lesson plans, and ideas for use in the classroom. Each issue also includes a calendar of upcoming teacher workshops or other events offered by the Fed or its education partners.

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