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This website has a ton of websites that you can use with students, some are informative while others are more games and puzzles.

Links to museums around the world.  This is a great way to start a new topic and introduce your students things beyond the classroom

AWESOME student blog by a second grader!!

This is an interesting video about the geometry of seeing, there are also more photo essays on various topics

Speech Therapy Apps

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Alternative to Wallwisher

Math Apps

28 Creative Ways Teachers Are Using Twitter

The Frog Dissection App is an ethical and educative alternative to live animal dissections. Help your students learn all about frogs and their biological functions, without the messy lab work or controversial questions

Another site that could be shared with parents that are looking for examples of problem solving activities to do with their child

Really interesting online tool for helping young writiers.  Heck!  I even enjoyed it!

Here is a list of all of the skills that cover word problems! The skills are organized by grade, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to see a sample question. To start practicing, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will even increase in difficulty as you improve!

Social Studies - 5th Grade Educational Links

Terrific look at boys development and teaching writing.  Practical and fascinating.

The BBC has excellent educational games, activities, and resources.  The BBC Science Clips are a collection of science related activities and games for students who are 5 to 11 years old.  Students can grow virtual plants, experiment with pushes and pulls, hearing and sound, forces and movement, electricity, rocks and soils, simple machines, light, solids and liquids, friction, habitats, life cycles, changing states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes, forces, and much more. 

Not sure about the above comment, but this is a GREAT site with lots of USEFUL ideas for incorporating digital storytelling into a classroom.

As you can see in the video, technology has brought a human element back into the classroom making it more interactive and tuned to specific kids' needs. Why limit this to students? Why not use this model to help improve health outcomes? In fact, we may not have a choice with the ever-increasing shortage of primary care physicians. One can look to what happened after Romneycare was implemented as a preview of what is to come. The shortage of primary care providers only increased. Simply trying to put family physicians on a faster hamster wheel isn't the solution.

Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens. It also has music by C418! So far 23,633,8778 people have registered and 5,184,2845 people bought the game. More stats here.

A father and son from Brooklyn, New York sent an iPhone into the stratosphere a few weeks ago to record a video of the earth's curvature. The two spent eight months researching and testing their homemade craft, which was made of a weather balloon and a styrofoam case for the iPhone, before launching in Newburgh, NY. The phone apparently braved winds of 100 miles-per-hour and temperatures as cold as 60 below zero (the iPhone was smartly packed with hand warmers).