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Using the StudyStack web site, you use your computer to display a stack of "virtual cards" which contain information about a certain subject. Just like flashcards, you can review the information at your own pace discarding the cards you've learned and keeping the ones you still need to review. However, unlike traditional flash cards, each card can show multiple pieces of information; and the whole stack can be automatically sorted by any one of the pieces of information. Also, when you enter the data for a studystack, the same data can automatically be displayed as flashcards, a matching game, a word search puzzle, and a hangman game.

Students can use StudyStack to create banks or stacks of electronic cards that can be reviewed online, printed, or exported to a pda, cell phone, or iPod. Email registration is required in order to create a Study Stack, but students can use public study s

Collection of case studies in science -- great resource for science teachers looking for relevant real-world data.

Collection of case studies in science -- great resource for science teachers looking for relevant real-world data.

Study using voicethread for online discussion

"A fine example of this emerged in January of this year, with release of a study by University of Western Ontario neuroscientist Daniel Ansari and Harvard's Aaron Berkowitz, who studies music cognition. They put Dartmouth music majors and nonmusicians in an fMRI scanner, giving participants a one-handed fiber-optic keyboard to play melodies on. Sometimes melodies were rehearsed; other times they were creatively improvised. During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously."

MacArthur Foundation ~ Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online - often in ways adults do not understand or value.

MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, and even databases. They could be rendered graphically to the screen or to picture files. MathCast can be used freely by anyone: students can create equation sheets to help them in their studies, educators can write handouts or study guides, webmasters can add mathematics to their website, and the list goes on and on.

Folkstreams.net has two goals. One is to build a national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. The other is to give them renewed life by streaming them on the internet. The films were produced by independent filmmakers in a golden age that began in the 1960s and was made possible by the development first of portable cameras and then capacity for synch sound. Their films focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different regions and communities. The filmmakers were driven more by sheer engagement with the people and their traditions than by commercial hopes. Their films have unusual subjects, odd lengths, and talkers who do not speak "broadcast English." Although they won prizes at film festivals, were used in college classes, and occasionally were shown on PBS, they found few outlets in venues like theaters, video shops or commercial television. But they have permanent value. They come from the same intellectual movement that gave rise to American studies, regional and ethnic studies, the "new history," "performance theory," and investigation of tenacious cultural styles in phenomena like song, dance, storytelling, visual designs, and ceremonies.They also respond to the intense political and social ferment of the period.

"Study the effects of the Great Depression and World War II on specific groups such as African Americans, women and children by studying images, maps, documents and life histories. Trace the history of labor unions. Access photographs taken by Works Progress Administration photographers and read expert commentary on Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" picture."

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Steps for creating cross district study groups.

Top nineteen sites for Social Studies by Larry Ferlazzo!

Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online - often in ways adults do not understand or value.

A wikispace created by CFF coaches providing resources, lessons, and activities for social studies instruction.

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News story about an independent study that shows: Based on two years of reporting, the data show that frequent usage of Discovery Education streaming is associated with higher achievement scores in grades 3-8 in math and reading.

A collection of resources for the study of Africa, including links to country-specific information, multimedia resources, information about Africa's languages and environments, & lesson plans.

A comprehensive resource for Asia-Pacific studies. It includes a searchable index and a link to Pacific Island discussion forums.

Presented by the Library of Congress, this site contains in-depth studies of 100 countries throughout the world, covering each one’s political, social, economic, and national security systems.

An in-depth collection of materials for the study of the Middle East and North Africa. It provides access to Columbia University’s Middle East library collections.

"The 33-member Pennsylvania Virtual High School Study Commission has completed its work, culminating in a final report. Per statute, the report was submitted to the Governor and the leadership of the Pennsylvania General Assembly in December, 2009. "