Professor Garfield (www.professorgarfield.org)
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How does a famous cartoonist approach a national literacy problem? He starts a website, that's how. A collaboration between Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield (the cat), and Ball State University's Professor Garfield is a well designed collection of games and teaching ideas. It is the idea of cartoonist Jim Davis. Other content comes from Pearson's Knowledge Box curricula, for pre-K through 6th grade, the Schwab Learning Foundation's Sparktop.org site (with resources for children with learning and attention problems), NIH modules on getting enough sleep, and Scholarship America web content -- designed to motivate middle and high school students to get ready for college. Music on the site was prepared by singer Red Grammer. All in all, this is a nice collection of higher quality content that seems free of any underlying motives. It is worth a second look.
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Teaches: math, reading, science, health, attention deficit syndrome
CTR Rating: 92%