Educational Products and Services
- Skookum Jump Rope Company
-- Colorful, durable, and fun jump ropes for schools, toy stores, and
people of all ages. Rhymes for kids, by kids. Plus nifty jump roping
tricks are shown.
- Hands-On Astrophysics
-- Describes a flexible set of hands-on educational materials, activities,
and investigations, based on an electronic database of variable star
measurements. These materials, which are available for purchase, allow
students to "experience the excitement of doing real science with real
data."
- Taking the Bully
by the Horns -- A book and web page dedicated to helping children
and young teens deal with bullies and self-esteem issues
- Landfall Productions
-- Distributor of an award-winning documentary film (video) on eight
public school teachers who use Waldorf education methods in their public
school classrooms
- passports -- A company
that provides educational travel tours for high school and college students,
their teachers and professors, and adults. Travel trips are scheduled
year-round to Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, and
Australia.
- The Hampstead Players
-- This children's theatrical touring company visits schools around
the country, bringing a taste of Shakespeare and other drama to kids
in grades K through 8.
- Bilingual Books
for Kids -- This site offers a large array of books with text in
both English and Spanish, and allows you to order the books via mail,
fax, or e-mail.
- Silly Billy's World
-- At this site, you can read online stories about Silly Billy or order
books and videotapes. The page also provides information about author
Bill Dallas Lewis's visits to elementary schools, during which he gives
a multimedia demonstration of how he creates the illustrations for his
books.
- Educational Software -- Small Planet's list of sites that offer educational software, either for free or for purchase
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