National Geographic Education Teachers Beta

National Geographic has a completely redesigned beta website for teachers. The site is still under development. This is a seek preview. They appreciate your feedback as new content and features are added. According to the website, "This beta site is just the first phase of a next-generation website with a wide range of free educational resources that bring geography, science, and social studies to life for educators, learners, and their families".

Please visit http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/edu/ to check out all the new features.

Check out Scholastic's live vocabulary competition on April 27th with Word Girl at http://scholastic.com/wordgirl/. Sign up for the free webcast which includes a free ebook.

Vocabulary.com helps you learn new vocabulary in a fun game quiz format by tracking the words you miss, then adding them to a list of words that you are learning. Based on those words you miss, a prediction is made about words you don't know and then they teach them to you. Your progress is tracked as you master new words and grow in your vocabulary knowledge.

Check it out. It is fun and free at vocabulary.com!