The November issue of the NMSA Middle School Journal had a brief blurb about a site that sounded very interesting to me. The author writes: "In my opinion Marco Polo is probably the most comprehensive and sophisticated Web site on the Internet." How could I NOT check this out?!
I spent some time on this site playing around with the educator tools. I did some searches for "lesson plans, interactives, and more". I really like how this site has various drop down menus. A person can enter their usual search term. (I tried Ancient Rome, for example). But then you can limit to subject area, grade level, resource type, and content partners.
The resource types include: lessons, interactives, primary sources, worksheets, reference materials, media, and assessments.
Some of the content partners are: readwritethink, the smithsonian's history explorer, xpedition...
This site has a lot of potential. I can't wait to explore it more. I already added it to my delicious under "teacher tools".
http://marcopolo-education.org/
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
cool web sitr
Posted by Sarah Rother at 11:00 AM
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I am glad that you found the site! I work on the ReadWriteThink site specifically. For more information, all of the sites pay teachers to write for the site. Let me know if you are interested in more information!
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