October 2000 Issue

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An Online Educational Community

A newsletter that educates parents, teachers, and
students.

October 2000 Issue #15
Zigmond Snook, Editor, mailto:editor@innovamultimedia.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> What's New at INNOVA
=> Feature
=> Contest - Win a Whale
=> More Great Education Web Sites
=> Whale Links for Whale Lovers
=> Feedback

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What's New at INNOVA
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We have just launched our new site! There are a few areas
still under construction! The site should be 100% functional
within the next few days! If you get a chance, take a look!

INNOVA will be at CUE and COMDEX in November
For demos and information on INNOVA's products visit us at:

Booth # 1018, National Fall 2000 CUE Conference, "Bridging
the Digital Divide", November 9-11, 2000, Sacramento
Convention Center, Sacramento, California

Comdex, November 13-17, 2000, Las Vegas Convention Center &
Sands Expo Center

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FEATURE
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Tips For The Frugal Teacher

A major concern educators have is the amount of funds that
are being removed from the education sector. Teachers spend
hundreds of dollars each year on classroom resources,
materials, and teaching supplies. Here are a few cost saving
tips and tricks that you can use.

1. Need some new ways to organize your students work or
another project, tangerine crates work well. Make some new
friends at the grocery store. Those people in the produce
department can be really helpful. Tell them what you are
going to use the crates for and ask them to save some for
you. I received 32 crates over 3 weeks from the local Loblaws
store, for one class project.

2. Do you know a new mother? Ask her for baby food jars or
baby wipes boxes. These are great for storing paint and
other odds and ends in the classroom.

3. Looking for another way to store those odds and ends or a
class project. Ask your pharmacist for empty pill bottles.
They are great for buttons, erasers and small things that get
easily lost in a classroom.

4. Is your classroom to noisy from chairs scratching at the
floor. Makes some friends at a tennis club. Ask for the old
tennis balls, split them in half, and glue them to the bottom
of the chairs. (A glue gun works the best)

5. If you teach small children and your classroom has a
linoleum floor, visit your local carpet store. They have
square carpet samples that your students can sit on.

6. Need an inexpensive desktop organizer use paper towel
rolls. Take four or five rolls and cut them into varying
heights. Glue them face up onto the cardboard.

7. Spruce up your old memo pad. Glue it to a heavy piece of
cardboard that is covered in wrapping paper. You can also
make some really neat shapes out of the cardboard for an
added effect.

8. Create pencil and pen holders to help organize your
students desks. Have them cover juice tins with paper or
paint. Use larger containers for bigger materials.

9. Do you want a safe place to store your scissors? Turn
an egg carton upside down and cut holes in the cups. You can
decorate it and then place the scissors in the cups.

10. Cans are great to store all those odds and ends in a
classroom.

11. Make a note holder. Glue a paper towel roll to a piece
of cardboard, face up. Slit the top of the roll. This is
where you can place the note. A great tool for reminding
students about classroom routines.

12. Use Styrofoam and wood pieces to make stamps. Cut out
your design and simply glue it to the wood, just like a
rubber stamp. Your students will have a lot of fun making
stamps.

Please feel free to share these cost saving tips and tricks
with other educators in your school or educational community.

Quentin D'souza
Editor
The Frugal Teacher
http://www.thecanadianteacher.com/frugal/
Copyright September 2000

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Contest - Win a Whale
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INNOVA Multimedia Ltd. is giving away TEN of our "A Whale of
a Tale" educational software lessons and the latest version
of LessonBuilder, a custom course creation utility, as a
FREE DOWNLOAD on our website! Visit
http://www.innovamultimedia.com/lbuilder.htm
to download your free copy. When you download LessonBuilder
you are automatically entered in our contest to win a free
CD-ROM from our "A Whale of a Tale" series. Good Luck!

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More Great Education Web Sites
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Check out some of these INNOVA recommended resource sites:

History's Home on the Internet
http://www.HistoryCentral.com
A key component of HistoryCentral.com is the timeline of
major world history events beginning in 10,000 BC and ending
with 1999. Links are provided to related web sites and to
additional information at HistoryCentral.com.

The CROSSROADS Elementary School Curriculum
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec3/index.html
Provides a series of lesson units on American history for
grades K-2. The lessons are aimed at telling rich, compelling
historical stories that lay a strong foundation for more
advanced history lessons in higher grades. (EdGate)

The Young Entomologists' Society
http://members.aol.com/YESbugs/mainmenu.html
FACT: There are more species of insects and spiders on this
planet than all other animals combined. We think people
should take time to learn something about them... A nonprofit,
youth education organization.

Health Teacher.com
http://www.healthteacher.com/
HEALTHteacher.com is provided as an alternative approach to
improving school-based health education. HEALTHteacher.com
provides a comprehensive, sequential K-12 health education
curriculum that consists of almost 300 lesson guides that meet
National Health Education Standards and provide skills-based
assessment methods.

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
Uses properties listed in the National Park Service's
National Register of Historic Places to enliven history,
social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP
has created a variety of products and activities that help
teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

The Animal Omnibus
http://www.birminghamzoo.com/ao/
The Animal Omnibus is a list of web sources indexed by the
name of the animal.

ExploreMath.com
http://www.exploremath.com/
Developed by members of the ExploreMath community, their
lesson plans provide strategies for educators to introduce
ExploreMath's unique multimedia activities into the mathematics
classroom, lab, or distance learning curricula.

Lives, the Biography Resource
http://amillionlives.com/
Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs,
diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more.
Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so
famous. Group biographies about people who share a common
profession, historical era or geography.

Poetry Pals
http://www.geocities.com/cponykid/index1.html
An internet project and resource site to encourage literacy,
technology skills, and global awareness

Insecta
http://www.insecta.com/
A Website devoted to insects, with photographs and information
culled from the Spencer Entomological Museum of the University
of British Columbia.

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Whale Links for Whale Lovers
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Check out these INNOVA recommended whale sites!

Beluga Whales:
http://www.uvm.edu/whale//BelugaWhales.html
They discuss the different characteristics of Beluga whales,
as well as their feeding and social habits.

Blue Whale:
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/whale/blue.htm
This site gives you some of the facts of the Blue Whale as
well a little history about this magnificant creature.

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Whale Trivia:
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Beluga males, when fully grown, average 14 ft. in length and
weigh approximately 1,400 pounds, whereas female Belugas
reach 13 ft. and weigh a stealth 900 pounds. Calves, at birth,
are about 4 ft. in length, and weigh in at around 100 pounds.

Belugas are not white at birth. The calves remain gray for the
first 12 months, with pigment leaving their skin after
approximately 6 years. Even then, there can be tiny pigment
traces on the edges of the flippers and tail flukes. These
whales have a between 32 to 40 small teeth but no dorsal fin.
They also have a remarkable abilility to make sounds, which
lead some early mariners to call Belugas "sea canaries".

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