Lemurs…who can resist them? The Madagascar Lemurs activity set gives students a chance to digitally travel to Madagascar and meet nine different kinds of lemurs.This activity set includes two books, writing activities, comprehension tests, and off-computer materials such as vocabulary cards and maps. Bonus: Lemurs Photo Collection and valiha (folk instrument) activity!

Review of the website ARKive, a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world’s species that teachers can download and use in school projects. Bonus: Code to set up an ARKive search box on your web page!

Did you know you can make an instant HyperStudio 5® stack from a folder of photos or other graphic images? This trick works with pretty much any graphic format that could be loaded as a background in HyperStudio 5. Bonus: PDF file of this tip to use as a handout!

The dialog window for the action Another card…. is a small square. A scrollbar lets you move between cards, but only two cards at a time fit in the window. With over thirty cards in my stack, I could not position the scrollbar precisely on the card I wanted. It kept landing between cards! This Quick Tip from Roger Wagner details a much easier way to create this link. Bonus: A PDF version of this tip to use as a hand out!