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Copyright

 

Fun, interactive way to teach kids about copyright:
http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/schools/jones/Copyright%2DKids/
 

 Go to:http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listpreventiau.html
 then to * A Visit to Copyright Bay - This award winning site aims to
 inform and entertain educators about copyright issues. Learn while you
explore Copyright Bay. Take a multimedia trip around the bay to discover
the issues of copyright.There is a text version available.


 Copyright for kids - This website is especially for kids. Go on an
 interactive adventure. Take part in all the activities. Discover what
 copyright really means. There is a test you can take at the end to see
 what you really do know! There are six questions with full answers
 provided on the next page.

 

Educational Copyright Knowledge

Educators should understand the copyright issues related to education including multimedia and Web-based copyright issues. See the following Web sites for helpful information and tutorials.

Copyright with CyberBee

 

'A Values Approach to Copyright': http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/curriculum/copyright/copy7.htm

 

From Pokemon to Picasso: Art Rights and Wrongs
   Written by fifth-grade students, this award-winning
   Thinkquest Junior project discusses copyrights, trademarks,
   licensing, music copyrights, and counterfeits. It includes
   pages on how to write letters requesting permission to use
   images or text on a Web site, how to keep track of
   permissions, how to find copyright rules on Web sites, and
   how to acknowledge text and images.
   http://library.thinkquest.org/J001570/

 

Runaway stars

This is a segment from Science News for Kids and includes an article and a word search

 

 

A page of names and links for Australian landscape painters

 

 

Make a Rainbow Tank

Looking through the tank, you should notice that objects several metres away appear to be edged in rainbow colours.  Instructions here ...

 

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