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Message from the Principal

All of us here at Plank Junior High are very pleased with our first semester. Plank students have done a great job learning, exemplifying the Character Counts! pillars and doing helpful and caring things for others in our community. We look forward t Read More

 

Class Links Archives 2009-2010

Projects are listed in alphabetical order. Click on the name below to go directly to the section of links you want.

A Well Balanced Diet | Birth Defects | Celebrity Letter | Composer Webquest | Create A Graph | Diversity BiographiesEdmodo | ed.VoiceThread | Glogster EDU | Hildy's Memoir Genre Study | History Acts BrochureHolocaust | ISAT Practice | Marvel Superhero Squad Create Your Own ComicMath Concepts & Skills |  Museum Box | The Outsiders Quia | Printable Graph Paper | Pucci Quia Links | Romeo & JulietScientist ResearchTake a Vacation Webquest | Virtual Worm Tour | Wordle


A Well Balanced Diet


Birth Defects
Albinism - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5
Autism - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5  Link6  Link7  Link8
Cerebral Palsy -  Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5
Chicken Pox - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5  Link6
Crib Death (SIDS) - Link1  Link2  Link3
Developmental Heart Defects - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5
Diabetes - Link1  Link2  Link3
Down Syndrome - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5  Link6
Dwarfism - Link1  Link2  Link3
Hemophilia - Link1  Link2 Link3
Hepatitis - Link1  Link2 Link3
Hydrocephalus - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5  Link6 Link7
Leukemia - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5
Meningitis - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5  Link6  Link7
Muscular Dystrophy - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5  Link6
PKU (Phenylketonuria) - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5
RH Blood Disorders - Link1  Link2  Link3
Rubella - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5
Sickle Cell Anemia - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5  Link6
Spina Bifida - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5  Link6
Taxoplasmosis - Link1  Link2  Link3
Tay-Sachs Disease - Link1  Link2  Link3  Link4  Link5

Celebrity Letter

Fanmail.biz
Betsie's Literary Page
Caroline's Celebrity Addresses
Celebrity's Fans
Popular Snail Mail
Seeing Stars

Composer Webquest

Gale Group Database
World Book Online
Essentials of Music
Naxos Composer List
Matt Boynick's Composers Index

Create A Graph

Diversity Biographies

Explore links found in your print resources.
Go to Databases+ first for EBSCO, Gale, & World Book
Biography.com Bios Search
Encyclopedia of World Biographies/Notable Biographies


Thomson Gale Black History Free Biographies (May overlap with Gale in Databases+)
Biography.com's 200 Black History Notables
Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History: Biographies
The King Encyclopedia
African American Registry
Africans in America: People & Events (includes Benjamin Banneker, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Dred Scott)
Thomson Gale Hispanic Heritage Biographies (May overlap with Gale in Databases+)
American Indian Biographies A to Z
Academy of Achievement (includes Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, Elie Wiesel)
Americans Who Tell The Truth (Companion Website to the Book)
America's Story: Meet Amazing Americans (includes Benjamin Banneker, Leonard Bernstein, George Washington Carver, Cesar Chavez, Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall)
Top North American Athletes of the 20th Century (ESPN)
PBS Jazz Biographies (includes Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington)
PBS Kids' Jazz Greats (includes Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington)
Inventors Hall of Fame (includes George Washington Carver & Percy Julian)
Poets.org (includes Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley)


Edmodo

ed.VoiceThread

Glogster EDU

Hildy's Memoir Genre Study

History Acts Brochure
Check out Databases+
USHistory. Org: Tea Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act
Social Studies for Kids: Tea Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act
History.org: Stamp Act

Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Encyclopedia, ID Cards, Personal Histories, Mapping the Holocaust, Search at top right for photographs and more
Anne Frank Center
The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students (USHMM)
BBC History World Wars
British Library: Voices of the Holocaust
Children of the Holocaust
History Place
Holocaust Chronicle
Holocaust Cybrary
Holocaust Survivors: Photo Gallery
Jewish Celebrities
Pictures of the Holocaust (About.com)
Simon Wiesenthal Multimedia Learning Center
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Witness to the Holocaust
Voices of the Holocaust Gateway
Go to Databases+ for EBSCO, Gale, & World Book

ISAT Practice

ISAT Practice Sample Questions
ISBE ISAT Samples

Marvel Superhero Squad Create Your Own Comic

Math Concepts & Skills

Funbrain
Math Playground

Museum Box

The Outsiders Quia

Printable Graph Paper

Pucci Quia Links

Romeo & Juliet

Beane World Wikispace
Mrs. Beane's Wikiquest Handout (PDF)
Manteno Romeo & Juliet Webquest
Elizabethan Period Brief Intro
Shakespeare Resource Center
Elizabethan Sports
The Elizabethan World
Children & Families
Elizabethan Life
Elizabethan England & World of Shakespeare
Renaissance Links
Shakespeare Resource Center
Shake Sphere
Elizabethan Era

 Scientist Research

Museum Box
Museum Box Layout Template
Mrs. Lorenz's Example Museum Box
Gale Group Resources - Choose Student Resource Center - Junior
World Book Online
EBSCO Databases - Click on Student Research Center and then do a Biographies search with Full Text checked.
Biography.com
Encyclopedia of World Biographies – Don’t get tricked by all the Google ads at the top and side!
I Was Wondering: Women's Adventures in Science – Cynthia Breazeal, Inez Fung, Heidi Hammel, Shirley Ann Jackson, Nancy Wexler
Tycho Brahe Museum: About Tycho Brahe – Click on menus at left for more information
Inez Fung: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute – Click on Dr. Inez Fung at the right under Speaker Biographies


Take a Vacation Webquest

 
 
 
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