More Sheppard Software & More Lincoln

Adding to my previous posts about Sheppard Software and Lincoln....
Sheppard Software has done their homework (or can help your students' with theirs) on Presidents. Check it out! Here is the Lincoln one. This would be a great "jumping off" place for research and facts.
This "Fact of the Day" was not surprising, but some others are.
I hope the website authors will add our current President when they have more facts to write about him!

ANOTHER LINCOLN find**** Lincoln Images Has all the pictures of Lincoln you could ever want.

Legacy of Lincoln

Next week is the bicentennial of the birth of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. There are many resources for teachers available for Lincoln celebrations. First visit THE Lincoln Bicentennial Page and its teacher resources.

I love the idea over at History.com "Give a Lincoln for Lincoln" that is a great preservation campaign.

Speaking of pennies, the US Mint website has rich teacher resources for all ages about four the new pennies. C-Span had a plethora of resources to peruse over at its Lincoln 200 website.


Then view the exhibit at the National Gallery, The Mask of Lincoln.
PBS is on a roll with its Looking for Lincoln resources including a map of the location of all the Lincoln statues in the US AND an interactive timeline where students can put events in order.

Faithfully Larry Ferlazzo has posted in this "Best of..." series websites for President's Day.

If you want to get involved in an excellent telecollabrative project, there is still time to mosey on over to Jen Wagner's "Happy 200th, Mr. Lincoln!" project which I previously blogged about.
I even ran across a wiki collaboration between a school in Illinois and another in Florida, their Voicethread link (well done, kids) and the program planned for the IL school's assembly.

Arlington Heights School has a visually pleasing page titled "A Walk in Mr. Lincoln's Shoes" (ck out the Activities link at the bottom). Speaking of school hosted pages, this is a old faithful from 1st grade teacher Tammy Payton for resources on Lincoln.

Whew! that was a whirlwind tour of some things I have bookmarked. (and just think my husband wonders how I spend my time on my days off!)

Learn, Collaborate and Share!

One member of my PLN is the wonderful Jennifer Wagner. Even though Jen is in California, she loves to connect teachers all over the world using her creative Jenuine Tech projects. I just worked with a third grade class complete her Christmas Card exchange with 24 other classes across the US. The next project will help your class celebrate the anniversary of 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln. This project is open to all PreK - 6th Grade classrooms! Project dates are Feb. 1, 2009 to February 20, 2009. Registration is OPEN!

From Blogger Pictures

For Classroom teachers her projects have a great gathering of activties. Some will stretch YOU to learn new technology skills. Just by signing up you will want to learn your way around her NING!
Enjoy!