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Transforming Education

allows you to create a detailed of any continent, country or location. Can be customized.

There are a few of these downloads that may be especially helpful for the teaching and communications we are trying to provide to the district. should we look at these as a resource for our training plans? NEW! A Parent's Guide to 21st-Century Learning Discover the tools and techniques today's teachers and classrooms are using to prepare students for tomorrow -- and how you can get involved.

This is a game that poses real issues that cities face on a regular basis. Participants need to allocate resources appropriately in order to solve the issues correctly.

This website is used to attract high school aged students to compete in cyber defense and security events. The expectation is that if they know enough to compete in this environment they will be able to pursue a career path in the security industry.

Fun arty website

On Earth Day (April 22) of 2010 Dave ad Amy Freeman began a three year, 11,700 mile journey across North America by kayak, canoe, and dogsled. Their goal is to use their journey as a platform for gaining support and protection for North America's waterways and wild places, while actively engaging over 100,000 elementary and middle school students in their journey though this website and live school assemblies. Through lesson plans and daily Web updates, elementary and middle school students will learn alongside the explorers through www.wildernessclassroom.com and adults can follow their progress through www.NorthAmericanOdyssey.com.

This website allows you to manage and share all the websites you may use throughout the year. Students just need your URL, this is automatically given to you when you sign up for the free site, and they can access these websites from any computer inside and outside of school.

Mentioned in discussion 6/7 as tool for pbl grouping.

Watch real animals live. There are other zoos that have these as well. Great for doing an animal study/behavior if you can't go to the zoo.

An electronic poster. Students place information on an interactive poster that can then be viewed by classmates or published to web. Students can also create own video and use in the glog.

This is a link to programs that have to be downloaded inorder to be used. Microsoft Mathematics includes a full-featured graphing calculator that's designed to work just like a handheld calculator. Additional math tools help you evaluate triangles, convert from one system of units to another, and solve systems of equations.

Multi-user whiteboard, live audio, image collaboration, text-chat and more

Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

Dagget wrote "Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships". A book about how to work with and develop students for careers in the 21st Century. This website features his materials and resources.

Create a free website and blog.