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Project Plant It! has lots of fun ideas to get your students actively involved in learning more about trees. The "Get Active!" section contains links to PDFs of ready-to-use activities for your class. Because it's designed to incorporate the arts, science, math and physical activity, there's no shortage of fun ways to get your students excited about Project Plant It!

Creative Book Builder is a fantastic app that allows students to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. There are a variety of instructional uses for this app, from using it as a publishing tool for project-based learning to a summative assessment at the end of a unit. Students can embed images, audio files, video files, and write text. The advantage of an epub document over a PDF document is that all of the media will be preserved and available for readers to interact with when the final product is published.

A group of Harvard researchers is teaming up with schools in Oakland, Calif. to explore how kids learn through making. Through an initiative called Project Zero, they're investigating the theory that kids learn best when they're actively engaged in designing and creating projects to explore concepts. 

Exploring Weather is a comprehensive website that explores all of the different types of weather from hurricanes to winter storms. 

Cornell Notes: a blog speaking about Cornell Notes as well as youtube videos.