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.

Love & Logic

Need help with discipline, parenting, or grandparenting? Love & Logic has a wealth of ideas, even for the most difficult situation. CEMaT has the entire collection of Love & Logic resources.

Blow up students' learning opportunities

Students learn differently and another resource that helps those students who need visual and tactile input to learn are the new inflatable objects. Models include weather, eclipse, solar system, skeleton, parts of a plant, life cycles of frogs and butterflies, and a set for each season of the year.

Are You Puzzled?

Do you need a puzzle? We've got it for you at CEMaT. In fact, we have 235 puzzles available for checkout on all subjects, from firemen, farm, and fruit to Green Eggs and Ham, gardens, and Goldilocks. Puzzles range from 3-piece wooden knob ones, to 35 piece giant floor puzzles, to puzzles that are magnetic or have sound effects. Just search the online catalog to see the wide variety.

CEMaT in a Box by author

CEMaT in a Box requests more than doubled during the 2009-10 school year, and kept us scurrying to find resources to fill some requests for resources by specific authors. You can now search on our online catalog for Tomie de Paola, Jan Brett, Eric Carle, and Dr. Seuss and find, not only books, but puzzles, games, puppets, DVDs, and lesson plan ideas using these authors' books. Which of these authors do we have the most resources for? Dr. Seuss came in just ahead of Eric Carle with 68 and 65 respectively, and Tomie de Paola and Jan Brett tied with 44 each. One of the new hands-on resources is The Mitten, a real mitten with animals to stuff into it as you read the Mitten by Jan Brett. If you have another favorite author, just let us know.