EDIT 7500 @ UGA

This lesson uses the CIA WorldFactBook to help students compare economic systems of different countries to the United States.

The Federal Reserve System maintains all sorts of educational tools, and this site is where they offer teachers and students lots of resources into understanding the Federal Reserve, which can often be tough for students to wrap their minds around, even though it's so important to the operation of the US economy.

This Day in Georgia History is a fun site that could be used at the beginning of the day in any Georgia History class to get students thinking and discussing history.

Georgia State Parks have a site that lists all of the Performance Standards that can be met by visiting one of their parks. You can even view the Historic Sites or State Parks by subject. There are also educational guides here for each state park.

This lesson plan from the Smithsonian uses primary documents, in this case letters from people in Japanese-American interment camps, to discuss a particular era in history. It offers insight into different views of history and the power of primary documents. It also uses lots of great material from the Smithsonian archives.

RM Podium is a podcasting software specifically engineered for educators. It starts with a 30 day trial, but is a little pricey.

The Wacom Bamboo is a cool pen tablet that allows one to "draw," so to speak, directly onto the computer with the virtual pen. You can also manipulate objects with it. Great for art classes and graphic-oriented projects

This is a helpful piece, targeted slightly to teachers of younger children, concerning how to integrate Wikis into a classroom experience.

Though maybe not au courant in terms of technology, this collection of java applets for Physics Education is really neat, with a lot of helpful animations to help explain Physics concepts.

On this site are some nice animations and graphs with accompanying explanatory pages related to economic concepts. Some of it is low-tech, but it still helps visualize these things

This economics lesson was developed by The Department of Treasury, Citigroup, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Here is one of the developers: Money Math: Lessons for Life teaches students responsible financial practices before they develop bad habits. For example, one path to accumulating wealth is to start saving at a young age and let compounding interest pay you for your effort. Another is to plan your budget realistically, by bringing your income and expenses into balance-minimizing spending so that you will have money to save. These two life lessons alone would reduce credit card debt, reduce financial pressures on families, and increase personal savings and wealth. It's a long, but thorough course.

From the website: Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs and professionals, includes, but is not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes. The wide variety of the collected visual images results from efforts by archivists from the Georgia Division of Archives and History who sought, between 1975 and 1996, to preserve Georgia's endangered historical photographs. Designed primarily for preservation, the project located, selected, and copied historically significant photographs held by individuals who wanted to share their pieces of the past with future generations.The Georgia Archives joins with the Digital Library of Georgia to present the Vanishing Georgia images as a digital resource. Support for the project is provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered through Georgia HomePLACE.

videos and music talking to kids about the internet and how to be safe online. really great!

Oregon Trail software game for westward expansion study

ages 7-10 could be used as an early finisher activity on the computer where students explore and think "outside the box"

Students can create, paint, draw, stamp, and write stories great to use in the classroom!

This is the encyclopedia software for students to use in your classroom. It contains so many great resources and easy research for students.

I use to use this when I was in elementary school. I wanted to purchase it for my students last year just never got around to it. Great game teaching different place and locations in the world. Students don't realize they are learning.

Great game for students to explore egypt while also solving clues and working on skills pertaining to all subjects. It mostly works on problems solving skills which is crucial for learning. Student would like whole "adventure" aspect of the software.

really neat tool that students and teachers can use. It looks like a remote control and operates like one too. Students can use it to answer questions in the classroom along with teachers using it to create rosters, present and develop lesson, collect student responses. These are just a couple of aspects of the "Beyond Question" device