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Previous Teacher Tools of the Week:

Easy Type
2/28/00- An incredibly well-designed web-based typing tutorial that's a blast for both kids and adults. And, best of all, it's FREE!

NASA's Solar System Simulator
2/21/00- Create a customized color image of any planet in our Solar System. All I can say is "Wow!"

United States President Drill
2/14/00- Your kids will love testing their knowledge with this easy-to-use quiz on presidential trivia.

Personal Educational Press
2/7/00- With this amazing tool, you can print flashcards, word lists, and worksheets from your own desktop printer. You can customize the format and even print items that correlate to popular primary age books.

Building a School Web Site
1/31/00- Real-life educator Wanda Wigglebits designed this fun and informative site to help even the most hesitant techno-phobe to build a quality school web site with little sweat and tears. Wanda walks you step by step through the process, promising "It's not that bad. You can do it!"

American Sign Language Fingerspelling
1/24/00- A wonderful web site that teaches and translates American Sign Language fingerspelling. Simply type in the word or phrase you need and watched an easy to follow, animated demonstration of it in ASL!

Research Paper Citations
1/17/00- Simply type in the specifics of the source you wish to cite and this incredible tool immediately produces a properly formatted research citation which you can simply cut and paste into your document! Includes citations for emails, web pages, and CD-ROMs.

How Stuff Works
1/10/00- Got a curious kid whose question you can't answer? Or, looking for a science problem to explore? How Stuff Works explains those mysteries of life, from the commonplace to the quirky.

Multi-cultural Calendars
1/3/00- With all of the hoopla about time and dates, now might be the perfect time to focus on the various types of calendars around the globe. Use the information and ideas here to examine Japanese, Hebrew, Islamic, Chinese, and Indian calendars in relation to the Gregorian system.

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