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" In this guide you'll find directions for using the measurement tools in Google Maps, directions for creating your own maps, directions for sharing maps, and links to additional resources about using Google Maps in education."

"A Beginner's Guide to Infographics and Data-Driven Storytelling"

A Guide To Free Economics And Business Data On The Web This guide to data sources on the web has been kindly written by John Sloman, the Director of the Economics Network. There are further links to these and many other data sources on the Economics Network Web site.

essons: Teens Financial literacy is a skill essential to future success and should be given the same weight in school as English or math. High school and middle school educators striving to augment their own financial literacy curriculum will find a wealth of material in these teacher's guides, student activities, and presentations. Log in or register to download the lessons.

Animated guide: Volcanoes

An 11th-century book by a revered Baghdad Muslim scholar turns out to be a tongue-in-cheek guide for party crashers, according to the researcher who translated the book into English.

"Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others."

History-Map Timelines: TimeMaps TimeMaps creates beautiful interactive history-map timelines: TimeMaps. They're either: Animated, Interactive TimeMaps for classroom presentation or as study guides.The FREE TimeMap of World History, which is an award winning website that shows the bigger picture of world history

"For classes in Social Studies, American Government, Current Events and Economics; Grade level 9th-12th "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?" provides a provocative examination of the impact Wal-Mart has had on the U.S. economy. "

I think you guys do something with walmart right?

Few places in the world have seen the dramatic effects of globalisation more than Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, which is experiencing an unprecedented IT boom that is transforming the prospects of the Indian economy. For Santosh, a tour guide in Bangalore, life is good.

"Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the twentieth century by giving them access to the primary material. For further information on the site, see the FAQ. New items are described in the GPA Blog. "

"This table provides a list of historical U.S. newspapers that are available online at no cost. Newspapers available for free through Google News Historical Archives and Newspaperarchives.com are listed individually as I identify them. Newspapers available through Chronicling America and state digitization projects are usually listed as a group. For instance, under "Wyoming" I have not listed every newspaper digitized in the project but simply described what is available. "