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Fact Monster is a reference tool with fact-filled articles for elementary school students. It combines an almanac, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia, and a homework helper. The site is owned by Pearson Education, the largest educational publisher in the world.

This section features essays written by renowned scholars , writers and artists. Every fortnight Public Domain Review publishes a long-form essay. All of these essays are arranged into different categories including: poetry, religion, philosophy, science and medicine,culture and history, and literature.

Shmoop, a publisher of digital educational resources, has added pre-algebra to its list of free learning guides. The online Pre-Algebra Learning guides contain hundreds of topics with succinct explanations, diagrams, interactive examples, practice problems, and real-world applications. Pre algebra is Shmoop's first foray beyond its core humanities offerings. At the home page click on the pre algebra tab

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Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. It is safe and simple, yet powerful enough to allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. The teacher maintains complete control over student blogs. Teachers can set up their class with no student email.

I have heard good things about this site. I like the fact that the classroom teacher controls the student blogs.

Story Jumper is an excellent site for digital storytelling that has lots of educational resources for teachers. It also has a parent link and would be a good site to share with parents.

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Gynzy.com Free embeddable interactive content for the classroom There are lots of really nice embeddable educational interactives that you can embed onto your teacher web pages.

Gynzy.com Free embeddable interactive content for the classroom. There are lots of really nice embeddable educational interactives that you can embed onto your teacher web pages.