Think Infinity/Marcopolo NY - Goshen Central School District

Last updated: September 16, 2011 12:48 PM

Thinkfinity and MarcoPolo New York

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Thinkfinity Thinkfinity (formerly MarcoPolo) has contracted with eight K-12 academic subjects Content and Literacy Partners for instruction. Each of these partners is associated with national organizations and provides web resources, lesson plans, a calendar of events, student materials, and much more. Other partners are soon to be added!
Partner's Site	Examples by Grade Levels
1. Arts Edge: The Kennedy Center Look, listen, and view current and archived events in dance, music, theater, and visual arts.	All Levels: Start here for archived performances: Millennium Stage GHS Start here: Essentials of Music - Eras Online CJH Start here: Art Show with the Masters GIS Start here: Bodies Tell Stories (K-4): Poetry Listen to the Nightingale (3-4) Chinese Calligraphy (3-4) Missing Masterpieces (5-8) Capturing History (5-6) SAS Start here:
2. EconEdLink: National Council on Economic Education	GHS Start here: DataLink CJH Start here: GIS Start here: Ben and Jerry's Flavor Graveyard (Soc.Stud. 3-5) Clickety Clack, Let's Keep Track (Math 3-5) SAS Start here:
3. EDSITEMent The National Endowment for the Humanities Art and Culture; Literature and Language Arts; Foreign Language; History and Social Studies	GHS Start here: History in the Raw: Article Archival Research Catalog: Guide for Educators and Students CJH Start here GIS Start here: American Colonial Life in the Late 1700's Can You Haiku? Fables Trickster Tales Around the World SAS Start here:
4. Illuminations: (Mathematics) : National Council of Teacher of Mathematics	GHS Start here: Activities CJH Start here: Factor Game GIS Start here: Patterns That Grow Investigating Probability With a Native American Game SAS Start here:
5. Read Write Think: International Reading Association	GHS Start here: Activity: To Kill a Mockingbird: Character Traits CJH Start here: More than One Way to Create Vivid Verbs On line Activity: Acrostics Poems GIS Start here: A Bad Case of Bullying Be a Reading Detective: Compare/Contrast SAS Start here:
6. Science NetLinks: ASSS	GHS Start here: Earthquake Lesson Plan and Earthquake Site CJH Start here: A Touch of Class: Lesson A Touch of Class: Online Activity Classifying Critters GIS Start here: Break it Down (3rd) Garbage: The Roots of Trash (4th) What Data Can Tell Us (5th) SAS Start here:
7. Xpeditions: National Geographic Society	GHS Start here: World Atlas CJH Start here: Interactive Museum: Xpedition Hall GIS Start here: Lewis and Clark SAS Start here:
To be launched later this year 8. Smithsonian: Smithsonian National Museum of American History	GHS Start here CJH Start here GIS Start here SAS Start here:
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MarcoPolo New York MarcoPolo NY aligns the lesson plans on Thinkfinity with the New York State Learning Standards. Currently about 75% of the Thinkfinity lessons are aligned to the NYS Standards.