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Get a 3D perspective on human muscles,bones, and organs. Challenge your senses or map your brain. There's even an interactive on the changes the body goes through during puberty. Overall, good for middle school students to explore anatomy in depth (poor pun intended).

Primary source material from the time is interspersed with modern-day photos of the land the party encountered. Contextual information ranging from Native American beliefs to Natural history are included. Videos of people speaking about issues of the day and an audio presentation of Lewis and Clark day-by-day add further enhance this multi-modal presentation of history. The section on technology might provide a starting point for an interdisciplinary unit between Humanities and Technology for an MYP program.

History of The Wheel on Dipity. Dipity can be used to create historical timelines for class. I really like the sources feature available at the bottom of the timeline. Keep in mind, this is also an EXTREMELY social medium - it can pull your pics, tweets, blog posts, even your bookmarks together from all over the web and put them in a timeline or flipbook format. I think there is a tremendous amount of potential for that and I am interested to see how its use evolves. In the meantime these features also make it great to grab information on current events and global issues - which is probably the best use of the tool right now.

Videos, interactive presentations, data to visualize, labs. Lesson plans and resources to look at global issues and trends revealed in data. Handouts and lesson plans for teachers.

Fun games for middle school that cover Citizenship & Participation, the Constitution & the Bill of Rights, Separation of Powers and the Three Branches of Government. Content can be customized to your state standards and teachers can print out reports of student work for assessment. Great role-playing to understand content. Modules designed to fit in most class periods. Recommended by the ALA and Sandra Day O'Connor.

Online games and simulations to explore topics like refugees, world hunger, and natural disasters. Great example of content in games being great because of its link to a high-level institution.

Oceans, Nature, 3D Buildings

Library of Congress resources for teachers. The incredible amount of data available via the internet includes uploaded historical documents and images. As we teach students to express themselves through multiple modes, we can also explore with them how to use images and text from the past to help us understand other contexts. Exploration of primary texts with students is even more vital now than in previous times, and it is much easier, too, due to sites like this.

Intended for middle school classes, these units work well with the interdicsciplinary theme of "Environments," allowing students to view events and ideas with the perspective of place. Teachers can search for lessons in a variety of ways, including location, time period, or type of student work. A number of different skills can be utilized through the lessons, and primary sources are a focus for many units. Some teachers will be able to take advantage of the resources in their communities and explore these real-life historic places more thoroughly. If your area has no featured lessons, students could always be encouraged to find a local "historic site" to research and visit.

Trying to find a way to link time and place.. This tool is excellent for documenting current events. With some anachronisms (Country/city names), it can also be used for history projects. You can make a movie of the path - including comments along the way. (eg. http://www.tripline.net/trip/Silk_Road_Travels-35447507447210038F7CB9175B8803EE)

Intended to show how poverty is an obstacle to education, Ayiti is a simulation game set in Haiti. They player makes choices for a family of 5 regarding their work, schooling, and health. Of course, this process is more difficult than it should be - with disasters, disease, and lack of education plaguing every season. Upper elementary students would probably have the best experience with this game, but middle schoolers and up will probably be impressed because this life really isn't easy.

Activities to help familiarize students with congress, the roles of is members, and the importance of civic participation. One module directs students to look at their representatives' or senators' websites to see how they take on various roles. These activities could be engaging starting points for lessons, discussion, or student projects.

Like Project Noah, this citizen science project aims to involve people from all over in the process of gathering data. Focusing on the fireflies (in New England or elsewhere), this might be a little harder to work on in class - due to the hours, the timing of the school year, or location. It is a great example of partnerships - two colleges and a museum partnering together with the public for learning. Personally, I would probably visit the "Open Call" section with MS students and work on analyzing the data they have collected. You can use the Many Eyes site to make visualizations and maps based on their information from the past years. If you are in IBMYP, consider looking at this issue through negative side of Human Ingenuity - how does the bug spray we use to keep away mosquitos and other insects affect species that do not harm us?

Audio, video, images, text, and links to information about world religions, ethics, and current issues. Excellent quality.

"MapMaker Kits offer K-12 students the opportunity to work with key mapping concepts at a variety of scales and to see the world in new ways. Unique large-scale maps allow students to immerse themselves in the exploration of dynamic environmental and cultural aspects of the world. MapMaker Kit activities engage students in the manipulation and analysis of a variety of geographic information sets, helping them build skills in critical thinking, the representation of data, and mental mapping."

Browse the results of the US Census by topic like education, employment, agriculture or ethnicity. The information can be broken down according to periods of time across the nation or within a state. Once you have accessed the information you want - you can use it yourself or try their interactive maps that are specific to your requests. Good US history resource, MS +.

A map tool that allows students to look at the world in terms of different species, locations , and ecosystems. The site also features interactives students can use to discover more about certain areas and species, like gorillas. Videos, podcasts, and photos enrich the site. Teachers looking for data sets to use with older students may appreciate the information the WWF makes public (http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data/item1872.html).