Visuals

Real-world Writing

• Provide photos and ask students to
  • create a shopping list.
  • make a checklist of things to take on a trip, to the beach, to the park.
• Provide photos and sentences and ask students to decide
  • which sentence would be good in this thank you note?

Download and explore My Backyard. This starter provided pages of animals that can be used in student writing projects.

Create your own PowerPoint Sidekick.

Web Resources

Visuals

• Naturescapes Starters
• DK Clipart - excellent for school topics
• Earth Science Photos
• Fish and Wildlife Photos
• Pics4Learning - photographs
• Discovery School - clipart
• CalPhotos
• FirstGov Graphics - links to government sources
• Microsoft Clipart
• National Archives Exhibits
• Free Cartoon clipart - very cute, but limited
• Awesome Clipart for Educators - lots of ads
• Classroom Clipart - lots of ads
• Teacher Tap: Visual Resources
• Public Domain and Copyright-Free Sites

Sounds

• FindSounds - search
• Animal Sounds library from SeaWorld
• eNature - search by animal or zipcode
• Global Sound - songs from around the world

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