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 * Teacher Resources **

[|National Geographic for Kids] National Geographic for Kids is a great resource for science and language arts teachers. There are many links to articles, activities and games.

[|Primary Sources] Excellent resource for primary documents. This is the jackpot for social studies teachers who want to infuse voices from the past to enhance their lessons, as well as, allow students to get an actual first hand account of the ideas and thoughts that shaped the history from many great civilizations.

[|Tag Galaxy] Tag galaxy is a social networking site that allows users to share and view photographs. This is a great resource for showing students visualizations of places they have learned about. [|Online Education Database] Online Education Database has a section which offers hundreds of educational blogs.

[|Discovery Channel Lesson Plans] Excellent resource for teacher lesson plans. There are also many areas for interactive activities teachers could use. Great place for teachers to build on their bank of lesson plans!

[|Educator's Reference Desk] Educator's Reference Desk has over 2,000 lesson plans for almost any subject taught in k-12, plus 3,000 plus lins to educational information. This site is an exceptional resource for any teacher looking to enhance their lessons. [|E-Instruction] Official site of E-Instruction with tutorials [|channel one] Channel one is designed to help educators infuse current events and public-affairs programming into their classes. This is a great resource which is not only safe for k-12 viewing, but also posts many motivating and engaging articles and links for classroom use.

[|Jeopardy Game Creator] This is a website that allows for easy and quick creations of Jeopardy games. Make as many as you like and save them on the web.

** Social Networking  ** [|Jing - Screencasting] Jing is an application that allows users to create screencasts which can be useful in tutorials for teachers or students to learn [|Blabberize] Blabberize is a great way to add a little fun into your lesson. After downloading pictures of people or animals, you add audio and... you have a new and exciting way to present aspects of lessons. I have used it as an alternative to traditional warm-ups. Students can also use this resource to present information.

[|E-pals] E-Pals is a global community classroom which allows teachers and students to communicate with countries all over the world. Students can connect with other classrooms from any country to learn about their history, culture or way of life. Joining this site is absolutely free and easy to use. [|teacher tube] Teacher Tube is a great resource for sharing and uploading educational videos for classroom use. Teachers can also upload educational documents, photos, and audio clips. This is also a safe way for teachers to share what is "going on" in their classrooms. Students can post videos they have created in class for easy access and viewing.  ** Virtual Resources  ** [|British Museum] Much more than just a virtual museum! This site is a great area for social studies or art teachers. Students can explore various pieces of art from ancient times all the way to the present. There are great links to engaging games which help to reinforce learning. Also, each exhibit has a multitude of information to research.

[|Alice] Alice is a 3-D programming site used to create an animation for telling stories. It uses 3-D graphics and drag and drop tools for easy to use computer programming. [|Virtual math manipulatives] Great resource for math teachers. This is a virtual manipulative site that allows the user to visualize geometry, algebra, number and operations and more in a virtual setting.