Websites for you to explore!

I have a few websites I've read about today that some of you may be familiar with--but hopefully, some of you will enjoy exploring!

The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (Free) Web site has been redesigned. This site is worthy of your time, and has a massive amount of sources for all disciplines, even Health and PE! There is a new subject map that features more than 100 topics and resources for each. You can also search by discipline. Over 1500 resources are included on this site! Disciplines covered include Arts & Music, Health & PE, History and Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Science.

I know many of you may be familiar with the Web English Teacher site, but thought I'd just remind you of this resource. To find Language arts curricula, share ideas, and find new ways to complement what you are already doing, so to http://www.webenglishteacher.com/.

For you science folks, go to Court TV's education division to find resources for using Crime Scene Forensics in the science classroom. Students see so much of this stuff on TV that they are fascinated by it! Check out Court TV's Forensics in the Classroom (FIC) . They are also offering a $1000.00 grant for educators!

NCCAT

If you noticed there were no posts last week on this blog, it is because I had the BEST week of my educational career at NCCAT! I was lucky enough to attend NASCAR: Science on the Racetrack last week and I don't have the words to tell you how much I enjoyed it, and how much I learned! I feel renewed and envigorated! I got the privilege to attend with the best group of educators our state has to offer--people who were fun and caring! We met the most amazing people--the Petty family, engineers, employees at Petty Enterprises, Sam Bass, even people we talked to in restaurants that were involved with the motorsports industry (just to name a few)! The NCCAT staff is beyond incredible! We spent part of the week at Victory Junction Gang Camp and the rest of the week in Mooresville, where we toured Penske, participated in a pit crew exercise at PitCrewU, and toured the Sam Bass Gallery and Lowe's Motorspeedway! You just haven't lived until you've ridden around the Charlotte track in a 15 passenger van! On the right side of this blog, I've included links to a blog on our experience created by Robin Sawyer--from their you can see our web albums with pictures of our experience, and a photo of our pit crew! I am in the Motorcraft hat on the left! I urge each of our faculty members to apply to NCCAT--the options for learning are many!