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This seems awesome for presenting wonders of the world.

This site contains free lesson plans on consumption, energy, food, transportation, and water. The site has limitless opportunities, whether you use it as a starting point for a lesson, to teaching the whole curriculum. Note that the site is FREE, and the lesson plans can be adapted to the younger grades.

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.

Farm and Fun: Agriculture in the classroom. Facts, quizzes, games, information, and science projects for kids.

By answering a series of questions about major issues, you can quickly learn which candidates are most closely aligned with your views. You'll be able to learn more about each candidate and find out how your results compare with those of others who take the survey. The Select A Candidate survey is available for the 2012 Minnesota GOP Presidential Caucus. Watch for additional races later in the election season.

This is new to me. Seems to have potential as a challenge project for something!

Tool for connecting with other classrooms.

Students work with global partners using web 2.0 technology (wikis, videos, blogs, web pages, etc.) to study and discuss real-world topics. This would be a great way for students to make class to world connections and expand their computer skills.

Multicultural Resources

Great resource where teachers can link to sites that provide multicultural lesson plans, project ideas, papers with suggestions for incorporating multiculturalism into the classroom, epals, multilingual search engines, etc.

World War I - Cause and Affect

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.

I posted a note about making scale designations and referenced cartograms. Thought this might be useful in relation to that.

What do you think of this homework policy idea? I've often thought that soon we will be able to assign movies as homework and just have students watch a 2 hour movie at home and then process it in school rather than using critical time with them for the viewing part. I know that seems far away for some areas, but in the metro area I think we are getting close.

It goes back to that 1 out of 100 video. So many people do not have technology whenever they like. It makes me nervous that the more we phase out traditional, and include technological, the wider the learning gap might become? Also, I'm not sure how parents would feel about their children being on the computer or TV at night after school for a 'school' related project. Whether parents capitalize on evening hours or not, that might be the only little bit of time students have to interact with their parents during the day, I wouldn't want to take that away.

Citizen action project