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My personal comments: Watchers beware! I stopped eating meat for 8 months after watching this. I started eating meat again after getting pneumonia and getting too weak. Now I try diligently to KNOW WHERE MY MEAT COMES FROM! This is the pre-made website intro: EARTHLINGS is a powerful and informative documentary about society's treatment of animals, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix with soundtrack by Moby. This multi-award winning film by Nation Earth is a must-see for anyone who cares about animals or wishes to make the world a better place.

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

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?

This site has a ton of information about the U.S. government. It is seperated into grade appropriate games, activities and information, which makes it user friendly.

Wow, this looks really interesting for information on the courts.

Gives information on current issues before congress. "Soapbox" feature for comments.

"Get informed, get involved"

I guide to government grouped by grade level.

Even As Iran, North Korea, and terrorists race to get them, President Obama says his goal is a world free of nuclear weapons. Six decades after Hiroshima, is it possible?

The power of connections in today's world.

Primary Sources

An interesting dissection of the fall of journalism. Told from the Left but truth for all sides.

Has many lessons and is helpful in determining which standards the lessons will address

How to for Googleearth

Recommended in my Ed Psych class, I thought also relevant here.

Activities for teaching government to students.

Zoom in on any location on earth!

Geoscience References