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A lot of resources from parent, teacher, kid, etc.. perspectives, and has many categories, not a literal focus on environment. - At Earth's Kids we believe that children are our future. Their creativity, values, and choices will shape our society and create waves of impact that may some day be felt all over the planet - perhaps for centuries to come. It's up to us help them make that impact a positive one.

This book is a must have for parents and teachers alike! The author dedicated this book to her daughter that has been diagnosed with ADHD. The challenges of being a child whose life is sometimes so hard and the struggles of a parent trying to make the best out of both positive and not-so-positive moments in daily life are shared. I will admit I had tears when I read it, and I feel in our profession we will deal with children just like this little girl. Most importantly, we will need to find a way to help this child have the best day possible each and every day.

Thanks for linking this great teaching resource up to the Diigo group Brianna. Another wonderful connection, which also attests to the power of online petitioning, this time from a 4th grade teacher and his class, can be found here: http://www.change.org/petitions/z-let-the-lorax-speak-for-the-trees?utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert. Essentially his petition, which was signed by tens of thousands of individuals, helped shape the focus of the upcoming film version of the Lorax from Universal Studios. Isn't this a great?

Helpful handout if you want students to "look" for corn. Thanks Katie!

Helpful for illustrating that Gilded Age has a recurrent theme in the US and interesting for global comparisons.

Want to learn how to find those articles for your research? Some helpful videos here!

This doesn't fit Social Studies content in particular but thought it might be a helpful reference list for people someday...

Hello. I guess I am seeing if this works and I also liked this because it is a quick visual to see the growth of our nation. There are other links as well to see. I found a Civil War one which I might use for my research.

This is awesome! What a great find, thanks for sharing.

Animated map of US history.

The world in spatial terms

This site has a ton of really cool links to help students in the area of People, Places and Environment. Check it out!

If you land in a school with smartboards this will be helpful to have on file!

I labeled this generically with the NCSS label as webquests will be available in every topic area you could want in Social Studies. It appears this has some useful tools for helping design your own webquests.

Key Components of essential questions

Helps you understand the foundation of an essential question and how to form one.

This is a very helpful funny little film on the issue of global trade policy as it impacts America.

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Related commentary in this week's strib.

This site offers lots of links to help with psychology, individual development, puzzles and more.

This site provides different lesson ideas to help students build their historical knowledge.

This is a really cool webquest on the Louisiana Purchase to help students learn more about the subject.

I like this site because it talks about Canada and the pioneer life. It's easy to think that pioneers were only in the US. We need to expand our thinking which this site does a great job helping us learn more about pioneers in Canada.