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The Giving Tree
Through Open Culture The Giving Tree is available; the same film is available on YouTube. The video below is the animated short film narrated by Shel Silverstein. Share it with your students or yourself!

There are plenty of good places to find free ebooks online. Forgotten Books republishes thousands of classic works that are in the public domain. Forgotten Books offers all of their titles as free PDF downloads. If you desire a higher quality resolution for your PDFs, Forgotten Books offers those to their paying members. You can also order printed copies from Forgotten Books.

Planet Orange – Money Lessons for K-6 Students
by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne)

Planet Orange is a website developed by ING Direct for the purpose of helping elementary school students learn some basic money skills. Through a series of “missions” (games) to Planet Orange students gain or lose money. Students can design an avatar to represent themselves on their missions. The students gain invest or spend the money they gain to match their budgets and reach their goals.

Planet Orange offers teachers a series of lesson plans for students in grades K-7. The lessons are designed around student play in the Planet Orange environment. The highlight of the teacher section are two 65+ page activity books. The activity books include materials for pre-teaching important money-related vocabulary prior to having students go on Planet Orange missions. The activity books also include worksheets and lessons to build upon the student missions in Planet Orange.

Applications for Education
To use Planet Orange kids have to enter a parent’s email address so to use it in your classroom you will have to contact parents. That could be a good way to communicate with parents about what’s going on in your classroom. In the event that you can’t get students online to use Planet Orange, some of the lessons in the activity books could be used effectively without going online.

Learn how to use Google Apps in the classroom with a new bi-weekly
webinar series lead by Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers.
Webinars will be held weekly on Tuesdays, 4:30PM PT/7:30PM ET and will
also be recorded and archived.

Future webinar topics for this series include:
- Jan 25: Introduction to Forms in Google Docs -
https://google.webex.com/google/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=969555359
- Feb 1: Advanced forms in Google Docs -
https://google.webex.com/google/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=968743187
- Feb 8: Embrace your inner Einstein: Using Google Apps for the Google
Science Fair Online - https://google.webex.com/google/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=961203885
- Feb 15: Managing Google Docs with your classroom -
https://google.webex.com/google/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=961914912
- Feb 22: Building a class site with Google Sites -
https://google.webex.com/google/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=962684060

For more resources, check out the Google Apps for Education Online
Training center at edutraining.googleapps.com. View recorded webinars
in the Google Apps for Education Resource Center:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/resource_center.html

To have someone come and deliver customized professional development
at your school, contact a localGoogle Apps for Education Certified
Trainer: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/trainer_directory.html