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Nature Works Everywhere gives teachers, students and families everything they need to start exploring and understanding nature's fantastic factory - videos, interactive games, and interactive lesson plans that align to standards.

Don't just ask students to "identify the conflict" or "note the setting." Use Respondo! to click up some creative literature response questions.

Gooru is a free platform for 21st century teachers and students. We offer a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and curating content

Welcome to the Apps User Group website.  Our purpose is to connect and assist schools in the use of Google Apps for Education.  The site contains resources for implementing and using Google Apps, news from the Google blogs, links to schools that use Google Apps, a discussion forum, and more. All uses are encouraged to share resources, ideas, questions, and comments.

Adobe Air application for Smart Boards and teachers

via EdReach.us Edceptional podcast

"a list of 5 golden rings--5 great tips that everyone should know (but are especially useful for teachers and librarians to know about). "

Thinkfinity content providers are as follows:

* ArtsEdge, a program of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, provides art education resources.
* EconEdLink, developed by the Council for Economic Education, offers economic and personal finance lesson materials for K-12 teachers and students.
* EdSitement, from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities, includes information in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.
* Illuminations, created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), provides resources for teaching mathematics.
* Literacy Network, a program of the National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy, offers resources for literacy instruction and lifelong learning for adults and family literacy programs.
* ReadWriteThink, from the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), includes resources for reading and language arts instruction.
* Science NetLinks, developed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), provides standards-based science resources including downloadable 60-second science updates.
* Smithsonian's History Explorer, created by the National Museum of American History, features resources and artifacts from the museum's collections.
* Xpeditions, from National Geographic, offers geography resources including printable maps and an interactive atlas.

Professional Development

Thinkfinity provides a number of professional development opportunities. Many Virginia educators have become Thinkfinity field trainers through online training classes and have become certified trainers.

Resources

A special Educator section highlights the newest available resources.

Correlations between the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) and Thinkfinity resources are available in the following Excel spreadsheets

an activity pack is a set of educational resources focused on a theme and packaged in a widget-format that you can embed in your own class or social media web page. each pack includes links to pbs websites and a set of activities by grade level.

Fred,
You also can embed the html code in a Blackboard site. I just loaded it to test, it works great.