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http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html - The helping your child series, from the US Dept. of Ed. Its good stuff, though directed to adults instead of kids. Still, easy enough to understand, and fun enough to include?
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html - The helping your child series, from the US Dept. of Ed. Its good stuff, though directed to adults instead of kids. Still, easy enough to understand, and fun enough to include?


teams.lacoe.edu - almost certainly free, electronic classrooms from Los Angeles Country Dept. of Ed. Good stuff.
http://teams.lacoe.edu - almost certainly free, electronic classrooms from Los Angeles Country Dept. of Ed. Good stuff. Direct link to the classrooms.<http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/classrooms.html>

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades35.htm - Scholastic (not free), however we're in talks to receive some of their content.
=== Geography ===
=== Geography ===



Revision as of 23:22, 20 March 2007

The intent of this page is to gather references and source of content that can be used to demo the XO around.

Currently, the constraints are:

  • In english (the intended targets are Nigeria and Rwanda
  • In spanish (the intended targets are Argentina and Uruguay).
  • In portuguese (the intended target is Brazil)
  • Open - compatible Creative Commons licenses are: CC-Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc) & CC-Attribution (by)
  • Subjects (in descending priorities) literacy, math, health, great images, geography/science/landmarks/art/history

Literacy

Math

[http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/mathhome.html http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/funmath.html] - Some simple math exercises geared toward parents trying to informally teach their youngish children.

Health

The milk matters campaign! (Some decent kids materials, re: calcium, brushing teeth.) [1]

Great Images

Actually this is part of a collection of several CD's published by educ.ar that (afaik) holds the copyrights... I tried to determine the actual license but didn't find any.

Other

http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html - The helping your child series, from the US Dept. of Ed. Its good stuff, though directed to adults instead of kids. Still, easy enough to understand, and fun enough to include?

http://teams.lacoe.edu - almost certainly free, electronic classrooms from Los Angeles Country Dept. of Ed. Good stuff. Direct link to the classrooms.<http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/classrooms.html>

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades35.htm - Scholastic (not free), however we're in talks to receive some of their content.

Geography

Science

Landmarks

Art

History

Multiple areas

This is a CD titled "Activities with Free Software" (Actividades con Software Libre) with subjects ranging mathematics, language, drawing and transportation/road-sign codes.