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Subject: Math Date: 5/21/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Shapes that make structures strong
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Summary: In this activity, students study the various shapes engineers choose to make structures strong -- in particular, triangles, arches, and domes. They begin by experiencing firsthand the forces of tension and compression. Then they construct a variety of forms, test their strength, and discuss how tension and compression are distributed by triangles, arches, and domes. The multimedia resources used throughout the lesson show many applications of these shapes used in ancient and modern cultures. Students also discuss examples of these shapes that they have seen in their own experiences.
   
   
 

Subject: Math Date: 5/18/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: That Quiz
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Summary: ThatQuiz is a free online resource for math practice and testing. It was written in the summer of 2004 and later expanded according to teacher needs and requests. The original goal was to provide easily accessible software for schools which were not fully utilizing the computers they had in their classrooms. The site has also become popular for students who want extra math practice at home. Although the first tests available were most suitable for elementary school students, new areas have been added for higher grades: algebra, angles, triangles, probability and geometry.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 5/11/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Learning by Design
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Summary: Learning By Design in Massachusetts is a statewide K-12 architecture and design education program. Since 1999 over 15,000 children, educators and designers have taken part in LBD:MA architecture and design activities
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 5/11/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Design Share
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Summary: Leading source of innovative school design
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 5/11/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Great Place, Lousy Place
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Summary: Lesson plan: Through a series of activities that can be adapted to many different grade levels, children and teens learn how to evaluate community design. The students write about their own neighborhoods, draw buildings and streetscapes, and interview residents.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 4/30/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Scribd
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Summary: Scribd began with a simple observation – that there's a writer in all of us. And that even more fundamental than our desire for self-expression is our need to learn and be inspired. Today, Scribd is the place where you publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents. More than 50 million people each month are finding or sharing fun, functional or fantastical writings and documents on Scribd.com and tens of thousands of other websites that have embedded Scribd's document reader. With Scribd's iPaper document reader, anyone can easily upload and immediately share their original works on Scribd.com or any other website. iPaper transforms PDF, Word, PowerPoint and many other file formats into an elegant web display. Your work can be shared with Scribd's community of passionate readers, and because every word of your document is indexed for search engine optimization, your screenplay, novel or even sheet music and recipes also can be discovered by the world.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 4/27/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Fast Draw
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Summary: Original, animated takes on what's driving current events from CBS News. Many political things, but also many science and math related clips. Most are run just a few minutes.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 4/23/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
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Summary: The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation welcomes your application for a Grant-To-Teachers. The Grants-To-Teachers program supports the foundation's basic objective of recognizing and encouraging outstanding classroom programs. The Foundation can provide funds only to elementary and secondary secular schools in Ohio. Applications should be in by the 20th of the month preceding the month in which they are to be considered.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 4/8/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: World Mapper
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Summary: This website contains 366 maps, with associated information and PDF 'poster' file. Each map relates to a particular subject. The maps and data files cover 200 territories, mainly United Nation Member States plus a few others to include at least 99.95% of the world's population.
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 4/8/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Impact Calculator
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Summary: An absolutely incredible asteroid simulator. A must see for all science teachers. Great to put up on your teacher web page or use in class.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 4/8/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Clay Animation Made Easy
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Summary: All kinds of resources to get you started with claymation
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 4/6/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: NASA - Visible Earth
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Summary: From NASA - a catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
   
   
 

Subject: Social Studies Date: 4/6/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Our Documents
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Summary: We invite all Americans to participate in a series of events and programs to get us thinking, talking and teaching about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy. At the heart of this initiative are 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to “form a more perfect union.” We want everyone—students, teachers, parents, and the general public—to read these milestone documents, consider their meaning, discuss them, and decide which are the most significant and why. This initiative creates a number of ways to do that—through classroom activities and competitions, and votes.
   
   
 

Subject: Math Date: 4/6/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: The Eyeballing Game
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Summary: Adjust the images to check for your eyeballing skill. Great review for terms.
   
   
 

Subject: Language Arts Date: 3/18/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Figurative Language
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Summary: All kinds of lesson plans, links, and interactive activities great for the projector
   
   
 

Subject: Language Arts Date: 3/18/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Exercises at Grammar Bytes
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Summary: Interactive exercise for grammar
   
   
 

Subject: Social Studies Date: 3/18/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: National Geographic Geo Bee
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Summary: Test your geography smarts right here online. Each day we'll post ten questions from the National Geographic Bee. Some of them are real stumpers, but it's okay if you miss a few—you can play as often as you like. Come back everyday for a brand new quiz and another chance to beat the Bee!
   
   
 

Subject: Art Date: 3/16/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Pixlr
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Summary: Pixlr is a online image editor, that means that you can upload your images and edit them in your browser.
   
   
 

Subject: Math Date: 3/16/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Floor Planner
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Summary: Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and share interactive floor plans. Using point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools, you can make your house plan in minutes, and rearrange it as often as you want. Then you can save, send, and print your designs to share them, or place them on your own website. It is easy to use and works in any modern browser, no extra downloads required.
   
   
 

Subject: Social Studies Date: 3/16/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: The Big Picture
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Summary: The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, entries are posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com's Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm's MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery - with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 3/16/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Academic Earth
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Summary: Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 3/5/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Science Friday
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Summary: Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide from 2-4pm Eastern time as part of NPR's 'Talk of the Nation' programming. Each week, we focus on science topics that are in the news and try to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 3/5/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Search Cube
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Summary: Have some visual learners? Check out this very different search engine.
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 2/25/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: eSchool News
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Summary: eSchool News — helping educators succeed by providing the latest news, resources and reports on the applications of technology to improve learning, providing resources and tools to evaluate the funding, purchasing and the evaluation of technology in the education systems, assisting educators in forming collaborative alliances and providing a valuable resource bank for the exchange of information, ideas and best practices.
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 2/25/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Siemens Science
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Summary: Teachers, engage and amaze your students. Here you'll find videos, tools and revealing hands-on activities for students in grades 4 through 6 to help reinvent your science class. New, original experiments with intuitive directions, materials lists and home extensions
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 2/24/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Science News
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Summary: Science News has been published since 1922. This award-winning biweekly news magazine covers important and emerging research in all fields of science. It publishes concise, accurate, timely articles that appeal to both general readers and scientists, reaching nearly 130,000 subscribers and more than one million readers. Audible.com distributes an audio edition of Science News. News from the Science News reporting team also appears at www.sciencenews.org. Updated daily, this site covers all areas of science. Science News is published by Society for Science & the Public, a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to the public engagement in scientific research and education.
   
   
 

Subject: Social Studies Date: 2/20/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Panaramas.dk
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Summary: Panoramas.dk is created by Hans Nyberg a commercial photographer in Denmark My intention with this site is to make immersive panoramic images also called VR Photography more known among the general public. Interactive panoramas is a young media and as such it has for many years been known among entusiastic photographers and multimedia creators. An interactive VR panorama can not be seen in a book or on a printed image. If you print the panorama it gets a completely different expression. Se examples here You can only experience the feeling of being at the place and look around, on a computer. You can only distribute Vr Panoramas by the Internet or on CD. With new fast internet connections Virtual Reality Panoramas has a large advantage in the tourist industri and in many other areas. As a dokumentary of cultural heritage VR Photography is an excellent media which within a much smaller download than videos can give you a full view of a church or an ancient temple. No other media can give you the feeling of being at the place like VR photos. And the ultimate feeling comes when you view it in Fullscreen
   
   
 

Subject: Language Arts Date: 2/19/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Awesome Stories
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Summary: AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.
   
   
 

Subject: Computers Date: 2/17/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: STEM Resources by Bartos
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Summary: All kinds of resources for STEM from our own Kathy Bartos.
   
   
 

Subject: History Date: 1/29/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Smithsonian
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Summary: The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for the education and museum communities. Great resources to be found here
   
   
 

Subject: Social Studies Date: 1/29/2009 Grade level: 5-6
Site Title: Online Map Quiz - Middle East
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Summary: Online quiz to test student's knowledge of middle east and northern African nations
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 1/6/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Interactives: The Rock Cycle
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Summary: Helpful activities on how to identify rocks and such
   
   
 

Subject: Math Date: 1/6/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Countdown
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Summary: COUNTDOWN is a challenging interactive television math program which has engaged tens of thousands of students through broadcasts on cable television in Chicago. Capitalizing on the one on one relationship a student viewer has with television, COUNTDOWN makes math “work”. Each week the program introduces a different math concept through direct instruction and reinforces lessons with literature, manipulatives, activities and related computer instruction
   
   
 

Subject: Language Arts Date: 1/6/2009 Grade level: 5-6
Site Title: Paragraph a week
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Summary: Paragraph a Week is a yearly writing program designed to give your fifth- and sixth-graders practice with writing various types of paragraphs. In addition it reinforces good study habits and preparation of long-term assignments. Moreover, it involves parents in their child's Language Arts curriculum.
   
   
 

Subject: Computers Date: 1/6/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Education Podcast Network
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Summary: The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century
   
   
 

Subject: Computers Date: 1/6/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: 100 Helpful Web tools for Every Kind of Learner
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Summary: For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 1/6/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: Kid Wind
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Summary: The KidWind Project is a team of teachers, engineers and scientists committed to innovative energy education. Our goal is to promote the elegance of wind power through affordable tools and training programs that challenge, engage and inspire students of all ages
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 1/5/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: An Awesome Book
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Summary: Check out this online book about dreams! Might be some good connections to STEM projects in the design stages. A MUST SEE site!
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 1/5/2009 Grade level: All
Site Title: PDF Converter
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Summary: Convert PDF files to Microsoft Word documents. This interactive PDF converter and document creator is quick and reliable. Try it yourself
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 12/11/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Journey North - Tulips
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Summary: How are plants affected by climate and the seasons? In this large experiment students across the Northern Hemisphere track the growth of the same plant as the season changes from winter to spring. They discover how temperatures, sunlight, geographic location, and other variables influence plant growth — and the full array of seasonal changes that take place in the springtime. These observations set the stage for a better understanding of the impact of a changing climate
   
   
 

Subject: Social Studies Date: 12/2/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Odyssey Online: Greece
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Summary: An online animated display of Greek history and culture.
   
   
 

Subject: Teaching Date: 12/2/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Teachers Pay Teachers
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Summary: TeachersPayTeachers®, founded by a teacher and now a division of Scholastic Inc., is an open marketplace where teachers come together to help one another succeed. Those who create original curricula use TpT to easily self-publish their materials such as lesson plans, unit plans, PowerPoint presentations, projects, exams and everything else teachers create. They then set their own reasonable prices and sell their work to others who are looking to save time and discover fresh ideas for their classrooms. Purchases are available for instant downloads. Any educator can sell
   
   
 

Subject: Math Date: 12/2/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Survey Monkey
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Summary: At SurveyMonkey, we give you all the tools you need to create your own surveys, and above all, we enable you to get it done quickly and easily. With both a free version and a professional version for only $19.95 a month, SurveyMonkey easily pays for itself many times over!
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 12/2/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Practical Physics
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Summary: http://www.practicalphysics.org/go/Default.html
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 12/2/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Interactives
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Summary: Interactive activities for the classroom. A must see for all disciplines
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 11/24/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: How Everyday Things Are Made
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Summary: This website was developed out of a brainstorming session between the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing (AIM) at Stanford University, and design4X - a company that develops online courses on design and manufacturing topics. The goal was to introduce kids and adults to the amazing world of manufacturing. Our vision was to teach people about manufacturing, but to do it in a fun way. The best way for this to happen was to actually show things being made. Thus, we have collected over 4 hours of video detailing how things we use everyday are manufactured. This resource is free for all - the only thing we ask is that you let others know about it. Enjoy!
   
   
 

Subject: Computers Date: 11/12/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Atomic Learning - Basics on ActivStudio
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Summary: Short video lessons on the basics of using Activstudio
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 11/11/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Science Online
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Summary: Science facts, videos, animation, diagrams, experiments and more. Available through Infohio (Subscription site)
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 11/10/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Ohio Stem Learning Network
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Summary: The Ohio STEM Learning Network (OSLN) is an unprecedented collaborative aimed at building and connecting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) teaching and learning capacity in regions across the State of Ohio. At its core, the OSLN is focused on student and teacher success, built from a slate of committed partners from Pre-K-12 education, higher education and business and industry.
   
   
 

Subject: Social Studies Date: 10/9/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Weekly Reader Election
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Summary: Click on election issues to see where candidates stand on the important issues in the news today (2008 Presidential Election)
   
   
 

Subject: All Date: 10/9/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Invention at Play
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Summary: Explore the playful side on invention and the inventive side of play in Invention at Play, a national traveling exhibit. Learn how play-the ordinary and everyday "work of Childhood" - connects to the creative impulse of both historic and contemporary inventors.
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 10/9/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Phases of the Moon
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Summary: Animation for classroom use in studying the phases of the moon
   
   
 

Subject: Language Arts Date: 10/9/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Story Corps
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Summary: StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening. By recording the stories of our lives with the people we care about, we experience our history, hopes, and humanity. Since 2003, tens of thousands of everyday people have interviewed family and friends through StoryCorps. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to take home and share, and is archived for generations to come at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our award-winning broadcasts on public radio and the Internet. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, creating a growing portrait of who we really are as Americans.
   
   
 

Subject: Language Arts Date: 10/1/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Grammar Bytes
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Summary: Interactive grammar activities and handouts. Great for use with the classroom projector.
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 9/29/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Earth-Sun Relations
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Summary: Great animation of the sun-earth relations
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 9/29/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Four Season
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Summary: Powerpoint presentations, links, and teacher resources about the seasons
   
   
 

Subject: Language Arts Date: 9/26/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Interactive Quizzes
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Summary: All kinds of interactive quizzes for grammar and writing
   
   
 

Subject: Science Date: 9/1/2008 Grade level: All
Site Title: Bytesize Science
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Summary: An all-ages trip to the frontiers of knowledge. Posted every Monday, Bytesize Science translates scientific discoveries from ACS’ 36 journals into intriguing stories about science, medicine, energy, food and much more Posted every Monday, Bytesize Science translates scientific discoveries from ACS’ 36 journals into intriguing stories about science, medicine, energy, food and much more