Starfall
Starfall: Reading Left to Right
A short animation that explains the left-to-right orientation of reading and writing the English language.
Other
Dana Sourcebook of Brain Science: It's Mindboggling!
Look through this online pamphlet to find brain exercises as well as explanations of how the brain works. Very complete and fun to read.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Place Value Expanded Form
You'll find an explanation of place value in expanded form in this lesson. There is also an interesting game that helps to show place value.
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Power of Ten
This website from The Math Page explains and defines basic arithmetic terms and place value concepts. There is even a practice section at the very end of the lesson.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
Curated OER
Frederica Annis Lopez De Leo De Laguna (1906 2004), Kaj Birket Smith (1893 1977)
Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) was an anthropologist associated in 1937 with the University of Pennsylvania Museum; she had studied at Columbia during the late 1920s and had done groundbreaking research in...