USC Bestows Lucas with its "Highest Honor"
4/18/2010, TheRaider.net
Not only has George Lucas received fortune and glory from his film creations over the years, he is now getting an honor from the place where he honed his skills. The University of Southern California is bestowing Mr. Lucas with its Presidential Medallion on April 26th.
Ford Says Indy 5 is "Full of Opportunity"
1/11/2010, TheRaider.net
Waiting for news on Indiana Jones 5 has been like the Grail Knight waiting for someone worthy to take his place but while it hasn't been 700 years, it sure feels like it! Finally we hear some news from the man himself!
The Lost Ark: Fact or Fiction
9/28/2009, TheRaider.net
Recently, a discussion took place amongst some scholars at Penn State on whether the chest that contained the actual Ten Commandments that Moses brought down from Mount Horeb and smashed
Our Mission
The mission of Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones is to provide educators with teacher-tested, standards-based lesson plans and resources that will allow them to integrate everyone’s favorite archaeologist into classrooms across the curriculum. Too often, students complain of history as boring or uninspiring. They shouldn’t anymore! With teaching ideas designed to motivate and inspire, Adventures in Learning with Indiana Jones can help you bring to life a variety of topics that will capture the imagination of your students.
This will always be a work in progress and we welcome all input as we strive to serve as a hub for the sharing of innovative and creative ideas that will benefit both teachers and students. So come along for the ride and don’t forget your whip and hat!
Leonardo da Vinci – Paleontology Pioneer
Smithsonian.com
6/11/2010
Although he’s been dead for nearly 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci is still remembered as the quintessential Renaissance man, a polymath whose curiosity and creativity ranged widely among the arts and sciences. One of his interests was the study of fossils. In a new paper in the journal Palaios, Andrea Baucon shows that he was a pioneer in the study of both “body fossils,” or the remains of once-living organisms, and of “trace fossils,” such as the footprints, burrows and coprolites organisms left behind.
George Lucas Pledges the Majority of His Wealth to Education
8/30/2010
Indiana Jones creator George Lucas
George Lucas has joined Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and 37 other billionaires in pledging the majority of their wealth to charity. Lucas has pledged the majority of his wealth to education, saying that "a good storyteller is ultimately a teacher -- using the arts as a means of making education emotionally meaningful." Lucas concluded his pledge by saying, "I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race."
Educational endeavors have long been a passion for Lucas and this pledge signals the pinnacle of his dedication to our future. We would like to thank George Lucas for his continuing efforts to improve education.
Site Search Added!
6/19/2010
For your convenience we have added a Google search tool to the website. In addition to the new navigation, we hope this search tool will help you find what you're looking for more easily. Keep those cards and letters rolling in, we love hearing from you!
The New Menu is Here... Finally
5/16/2010
After much trial and error, Indyintheclassroom.com is pleased to reveal our new and improved navigation menu. Yes, it looks like the old one, but it's now a pop-out menu. We hope that this new menu will make navigating our extensive website much easier and time efficient (especially our Young Indy section). If you see a long list of links (really, really long list), try the following solutions:
1) Simply refresh your browser.
or
2) Go to your Internet Options and clear your cache.
As always, thanks for checking out the site. We know it's slow going with site development, but we're still here and trying to keep the educational value of Indiana Jones alive!
Site Tutorials Now Available Thanks to CamStudio
7/6/2009
If you’ve ever checked out Indyintheclassroom.com and really spent some time here, you’ll know that our site is rather extensive, especially in the Young Indy section. We realize that our content can be overwhelming so we’ve created a series of video tutorials that highlight the main features of our website. We’re not trying to insult your abilities to navigate a website, but we want to make sure that visitors are using our site to its full potential. Click here to check out these tutorials.
The tutorials mentioned above were created using CamStudio, a free program that allows one to record what they see on their monitor. Please know that the quality seen in our tutorials is not how your CamStudio recordings will appear. Because we placed our tutorials on the web the videos had to be compressed, resulting in the grainy appearance you see. CamStudio can be an effective way to guide students through complicated assignments or for out of class communication. To download CamStudio click here.
Remembering the Internet- The Wayback Machine
5/23/2009
The Wayback Machine
Have you ever been teaching or having students work on a project and wished you could teach them about life in the early days of the internet? Now you can thanks to the Wayback Machine. This awesome internet archive catalogs websites and allows browsers to examine websites as they existed years ago. What did the first White House website look like? Use the Wayback Machine to find out. This archive helps students see just how far web technology has come in a very short time.