Introducing "My Curriculum"
We’re pleased to introduce an exciting new feature from Learning.com that lets you easily create and manage your own lessons and activities within our Digitial Learning Environment.

Now, when you create an activity for your class, you can save it on Learning.com's Digital Learning Environment, and even integrate it directly into your Learning.com assignments. No more trying to remember where you saved that special end-of-year activity, or that sure-fire language arts project you use for struggling students. It's all accessible and easy to assign when you log in to Learning.com.

"My Curriculum" also lets you save any Web links you want students to access, upload and embed files and graphics related to your activity, assign your activity to your students, and track and grade students' progress.

When you assign one of your activities to students they will automatically have access to that activity, just like they do for any Learning.com assignment. You can even create a set of lessons and activities into one package — your own EasySet.

Aha!Math and Compact PC Special Nearing an End
The deadline is March 31 to take advantage of our promotion for Aha!Math, our Web-delivered K-5 supplemental math curriculum:

• Get 10 ASUS Eee PCs for every 1,000 Aha!Math subscriptions — a powerful ultracompact PC — and access Aha!Math anywhere, anytime through the ASUS' wireless capability. For every 500 subscriptions, receive 5 ASUS Eee PCs.
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• Get 15 months for the price of 12. Be fully prepared for your summer programs, and ready to roll it into your classrooms at the start of the school year.

Purchase Deadline is March 31. Aha!Math subscriptions run June 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009 — 15 full months for the same price as 12 months. Call 877-284-0160 to talk with a sales representative, or request more information.

Learn More about Aha!Math and How to Fund it
Learning.com is presenting a complimentary Web seminar, "Aha!Math — an effective supplemental math curriculum and how to fund it," on April 1 at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time (1:30 p.m. East Coast). Hear from education industry expert Mona McCoy about innovative funding sources for supplemental curriculum. We will also discuss the features in Aha!Math that make it an effective tool for end-of-year and summer school use, as well. Register here.

April Classroom Project Ideas for Grades K-8
We've created projects appropriate for grades K-2, 3-5 and 6-8. Each of these activities meets a variety of state and national standards for technology and core subject areas.

Earth Day
On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. Today, Earth Day is celebrated around the world as citizens and governments take steps to protect and improve our environment.

Garden Month
Dig into springtime and explore the biology, beauty and fun of gardening by celebrating National Garden Month with your students this April!

Read a Road Map Week
The first week in April is Read a Road Map Week – but anytime is a great time to get students on their way to learning valuable map-reading skills.

Tip from the Field: Team Focuses on 'How and Why'
“At our school we have 10 computer labs. Four are used for check-out by our academic teachers and non-IT teachers. The remaining six labs are used by the IT Team. As an IT Team, we teach the 'how and why' of using the technology so when the academic teachers use the labs they can concentrate on the 'content' used within the technology. The teachers are trained in using the labs as well as the software so they can concentrate on their subject rather than the technology tools. This has helped in integrating more technology-based learning with the students.”

— Submitted by Cheryl Anne Watford of Discovery Academy in Polk County, Florida. She received a gift from Learning.com for submitting her idea. Tell us your tip for integrating technology or for using our products, and if we use it, we'll send you a gift, too! E-mail newsletter@learning.com with your name and idea.

Funding Source — Student Achievement Grants
These NEA Foundation grants are awarded for projects that engage students in critical thinking and problem solving and that deepen their knowledge of standards-based subject matter. Grants award is $5,000. (Deadline: June 1, 2008) Click to learn more.