Williamsburg historical kits

Colonial Williamsburg created kits to replicate what life was like in the 18th century. The titles are Soldier's Haversack, Lady's Pocket, and Slave's Bag. Each kit provides samples that look authentic, and give students a real feel for life in the past.

Science Models

A series of science models in the collection are the Book Plus Science Models on the subjects of rocks, water, earth, clouds, flowers, cells, brain, moon, and sun. There are also science models on the heart, ear, tooth, eye, skeleton, tree rings, leaf structure, water cycle, plants, lever, pulley, wheel, axle, and solar system.

CEMaT has some new sets of real bugs, frogs, plants, and sea life that have been preserved in acrylic blocks, making them hands-on for students to see these specimens from all angles, yet they will last forever.

Need Audio Files Without Fear of Copyright Violation?

SoundzAbound Music Library, accessible in the Lenawee Digital Depot, includes copyright permission for teachers and students to a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K-12. Perfect for use in podcasts, PowerPoint, PhotoStory, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more! To see what is available, go to Lenawee Digital Depot, and search in Advanced Search for SoundzAbound in the publisher list. Contact CEMaT for more information or training on how to use this great new resource.

Multimedia Rich Resource

Lenawee Digital Depot uses the Learn 360 interface to provide a safe environment, enrich teaching and learning, and easy searchability for locally created multimedia resources. That's in addition to the over 8300 digital video titles and thousands of images, over 25,000 Britannica Encyclopedia articles, audio files and podcasts by top educational publishers such as History Channel, Weston Woods, PBS, Sunburst Visual Media, National Geograhic, and thousands of audio files from Scholastic Audio, amoung many others. A recent addition is the entire award-winning collection from the Reading Rainbow series.
Look to see if you school district has submitted content, and if not, be the first. Contact your local building library media center staff or Lisa.Marlatt@lisd.us for more information.

New and Exciting Tools

A new time-saving addition to the CEMaT Creative Corner is the flash drive duplicator that can copy files to 21 USB flash drives at the same time. Available for checkout is the Califone AM/FM stereo listening center that has input capabilities from a CD, cassette, USB or SD card, and includes 6 headphones. Also available for checkout is a handheld pocket video camcorder that records hours of video on its compact hard drive in an easily transferable .mov format.

Signing Time

It's never too early to start your child with learning sign language to improve communication. CEMaT has the DVD series, CDs, and accompanying flash card sets.