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K-12 Similar to YouTube, but teachers and students can search for school appropriate videos to show in class.

3-12 A virtual sticky note wall for teachers and students. Teachers can post updates for a class or just allow students to use it for collaboration. Cons: must monitor student activity.

6-12 Teachers and students are able to use an online chat room for various reasons, in and outside of school. Cons: District approval, monitor student activity.

3-12 Teachers and students can create or search voicethreads. Images, videos, documents can be uploaded and students can collarborate and/or add comments to voicethreads. Cons: must register and limited access for Free version.

6-12 A social networking site, similar to Twitter, but for educators. Teachers can sign up for Free. Cons: need district permission.

K-12 With budgets becoming a henderience on field trips, efieldtrips allows teachers to take their class to places they never thought they would see. Con: Not all places are available.

3-12 Teachers and students can create a hotlist, treasure hunt, sampler, scrapbook, or webquest.

Elementary K-6 Classroom Connections: It is a magazine in which students can look at for current global events. It is a great supplement for social studies, stories can be shown on the smart board. Cons: has ads

Grades K-12 Classroom Connection: Gives students finance and real world lessons for economics. This gives scenarios to real life dilemmas. Cons: Although it is for all grades, it is primarily the older grades.

Framework, activities, resources for reading comprehension strategies Can be adapted for all grade levels Classroom Connections: * Comprehension activities can be used to set a purpose for reading and to organize and make sense of information in the content areas and literacy * Activities can be used to differentiate learning in the content areas * Framework and activities reinforce skills needed for the NYS ELA tests--without "teaching to the test"

Grades 3-8 A website for teachers that explores comprehension and content reading strategies and when to use them in social studies. This site can be used to help teachers enure their students have the necessary strategies to understand social studies content.

Grades 3-6 Interactive animal study graphic organizers- broken down by facts, babies, interactions and habitats. Classroom Connections: *Whole group practice: Interactively fill out organizers using SmartBoard and class set of animal books *Independent practice/assignment: students fill out online, or graphic organizers can be printed out for students to fill out at their own pace- based on their independent books.