Volume 6, Issue 4 April 2016 Monthly Newsletter

Welcome! Welcome to the students and teachers of Anderson, South Carolina! We’re happy you are using Infotopia.info, Infotrek.info and Kidtopia.info for your research needs!

Have your students explore our collection of recommended resources on the Holocaust. With resources from the United States Holocaust Museum, the Jewish Virtual Library, Shamash, the Jewish Network, The History Channel, and more, your students will be able to read personal histories, view photographs maps, and artifacts, and view historical film footage about the holocaust.

http://www.infotopia.info/holocaust.html

Virtual Field Trips As field trips get more expensive and difficult to manage, why not take students on virtual field trips? Below are just a few of the amazing free trips students can take online. The Solar System http://nineplanets.org/tour/ The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History http://www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas/ Just click on desktop or mobile for a panoramic view. Explore Google Sky http://www.google.com/sky/ Google Cultural Institute https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home Choose from the following: Art Project, Historic Moments, and World Wonders. These amazing virtual field trips “visit” famous art works, world history exhibits, and wonders from around the world. 3D Buildings from Google Earth http://www.google.com/earth/explore/showcase/3dbuildings.html Take virtual tours of cathedrals, castles, art museums, sports stadiums, and skyscrapers from around the world. Airpano Top 10 Panoramas—360o Virtual Tours http://www.airpano.com/List-Aerial-Panoramas-Top10.php Explore Antarctica, Iceland, Jordan, the 7 Wonders of the World, the Great Wall of China, a volcanic eruption, the pyramids in Egypt, and many, many more incredible locations from Airpano.

Explore National Poetry Month resources for students and teachers from Edutopia http://edut.to/1lmo9e3

Five Tools for Integrating Daily

Poetry in the Classroom http://edut.to/Ogj6jc

Math Practice Resources for Grades PK-4 on Kidtopia

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April Events

• National Kite Month http://www.nationalkitemonth.org/

• National Garden Month http://www.nationalgardenmonth.org/

• National Poetry Month http://www.infotopia.info/poetry.html

• World Health Day, April 7, 2016 http://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2016/event/en/

• National Library Week—April 10-16, 2016 http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek

• Earth Day—April 22, 2016

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Kidtopia Arts has newly updated links to recommended web sites for the art history, coloring pages, crafts, dance, drama, music, pottery, printmaking, artists and children’s illustrators, drawing and painting, sculpture, and images. In addition, there is a short YouTube video about each topic on each subject. Don’t forget that you can always perform a keyword search for any art-related topic.

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