Welcome to the new school year - the eighth year of the Innovative Teaching Newsletter! Thanks to all of you who have showed continued interest and support in its publication. Innovative Teaching and the Surfaquarium continue to be free, open resources to educators everywhere.

With the 8th year comes a new streamlined format: a monthly collection of links on a topic without annotations or limitations. Instead of a short list of links, each month you will receive an extensive hotlist ready to explore and incorporate into your professional life. I hope you will appreciate the wealth of resources offered each month through ITN!

Of course, if you'd like to take the newsletter to the next level, I highly encourage you to subscribe to the Digital Dozen Newsletter (D12). D12 offers a list of twelve links oin a hot topic every week of the school year - forty issues in all! And at $25 for the year, that's less than sixty-three cents an issue. Please join us in the second year of the D12 newsletter - you'll be glad you did!

I hope the links below will offer you something you can immediately put to use in your classroom as your students arrive. Here's to a great school year ahead!

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Back to School Resources

Adopt-A-Ship Program
http://www.marad.dot.gov/education/adopt_a_ship/

American Journeys
http://www.americanjourneys.org/

Apples4theteacher.com
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/

Architect Studio 3-D
http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/index.html

ASCD Focus on Back to School: Starting the New Year Right
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd

Ask a Librarian
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/

Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education
http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html

Center for Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/

Centuries of Citizenship: A Constitutional Timeline
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/

ConnectED
http://www.notification.com/

Current Science and Technology Center
http://www.mos.org/cst/index.html

Curriculum Units by Fellows of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute 1978-2004
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/

eInstruction
http://www.einstruction.com/

Exploring the Nanoworld Teaching Modules
http://www.mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/modules/index.html

“Extreme Environments, Underwater Observatories and Technology --
An Avalanche of New Resources for the Classroom”
http://coexploration.org/ceo/

A Homepage for New (And Not So New) Math Teachers
http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/terri/terri.html

Hurricanes Spark a Storm of Classroom Activity!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson015.shtml

Interactive Constitution
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/

Language and Linguistics
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/index.jsp

Life of a Vertebrate Fossil
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/LVF/

Microsoft Student
http://www.microsoft.com/student/default.mspx

MyPyramid.gov
http://www.mypyramid.gov/index.html

Nationalatlas.gov
http://nationalatlas.gov/

OAH History Teacher Resource Center
http://www.oah.org/teaching/

Ology
http://ology.amnh.org/

Physics Education Technology
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/

Radio JOVE: Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools
http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Research in the Parks
http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/sites/NPSITES.HTM

River of Song
http://www.pbs.org/riverofsong/

Scholastic Back to School
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/k_2theme/bktoschool.htm

Seeing Math
http://seeingmath.concord.org/resources.html

Solar System Exploration
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/lessons.cfm

Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/07/ten_tips_for_ne.html

USGS Real-Time Information
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/explorer/topic_realtime.asp