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:::drooling::: So much educational gaming goodness.

This site was created to help students make sound decisions about the way they use media. Since intellectual property laws and guidelines are so complex and hotly debated, this site provides news and links to various perspectives on these issues.

Site has links to resources every subject area in schools today, and many of the links have lesson plans, digital content, and other lesson adders.

Holy cow! If I used Google Talk, I'd definitely use these talkbots. They do lots of things: post RSS alerts, suscribe to friendfeeds, post to twitter, etc.

Create your own multi-sentence talking squirrel animation!

Stream video directly from your mobile phone (like your iPhone, for instance).

useful interactive whiteboard resources for mostly teacher-led presentations and lessons

Promethean Planet blog with handy dandy resources. Not a lot of 'em, mind you, but the ones that are here are pretty good.

Online quiz site - free for teachers

Online assessment (quiz) service (subscription)

Mapping the Beat: A Geography through Music Curriculum for upper elementary school, integrates geography and music instruction into a single body of lesson plans. At the heart of this program are three concepts-environment, identity, and movement-taken from the standards outlined in Geography for Life, the national geography standards.

Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards-and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.

Listen to varieties of world music on this National Geographic site.

National Geographic's Travel site, featuring lots of videos, animations, games, etc.

Resources are provided by a geography lobbying site.

The Genographic Project is a five-year effort to understand the human journey-where we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages. If you choose to participate and add your data to the global research database, you'll help to delineate our common genetic tree, giving detailed shape to its many twigs and branches. Teachers can order Genographic Project Participation Kits at a special educator's discount, get free lesson plans related to the Genographic Project, and (coming soon) access other resources and discuss topics in forum boards.

Play your own version of the National Geography Bee

What do wild animals do when we're not around? Find out with National Geographic's Crittercam. Safely worn by wildlife, Crittercams capture video, sound, and other information, giving us rare views of the private lives of animals. By allowing us this animal's-eye view, Crittercams help to solve scientific mysteries. And what we learn from Crittercams helps us protect the very animals that wear them.

Toot & Puddle is an animated book/series hosted by National Geographic with games and such for preschoolers.

for preschoolers

Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is an animated television series that looks at the natural world from a preschooler's point of view. It introduces preschoolers to a fascinating world filled with loveable characters and stunning wildlife movies from National Geographic.