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Elementary Grades appropriate Classroom Connections: This website that explains to students how the U.S. Constitution came to be. Teaching 4th Grade social studies, I want my 9 year old students to understand what they are learning about and specifically the hard work our forefathers put into our government. This is a great site to do that. It also gives a section titled "show what you know" to give students a chance to review what they learned. This site also gives more information on governmental social studies topics.

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.

Grade level- 9-12 CC- A student can create their own social networking group to collaborate on a class and community project for a Project-Based Learning assignment. Overview- A user can create their own social networking group to their liking and control how it operates. Also it is free. Cons- Needs district and parent permission.

Grade level- 7-12 CC- A student can post a comment on the discussion board about the class debate on Islam to furher ehance their undertanding of the topic. Overview- This facebook like site allows a teacher to create a safe place for students to collaborate, discuss ideas, and enhance their learning by socializing over the computer. Cons- Needs district and parent permission

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

Elementary Classroom connections: This site puts social studies concepts into easy to read format for children. Although I tagged this on the Declaration of Independence, there are various topics throughout the site. It even has current events in the U.S., education, the world.

Grades 3-6 A resource of free educational podcasts of science experiments as well as other subject areas for students. Teaches can use these science podcasts as visual aids to go along with science experiments. The other aspects of the site can be used in a variety of ways but especially as a visualcompnent with concepts that go along with science and social studies contents.

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 Connections: There are tabs at the top to direct the viewer to the correct grade level. This site gives easy to read explanations of social studies concepts for kids.

All online newspapers overlaid on a Google Map. Search for content, zoom in and click on a placemark to view the paper. The website also has the ability to translate. Classroom Connection: *Foreign Language - read newspaper in the native language *Social Studies - compare/contrast a particular topic based on the location of the report; how would an incident in Egypt be reported out by American newspapers as opposed to an Italian newspaper?

Grade level- 7-12 CC- Students can analyze different perspectives on a current event by looking at all the different newspapers. Overview- Using google maps, a user can look newspapers from across the world. COns- Some newspapers do not correctly translate into English.

A Project that provides free online media for educators and offers training on the use of video content in the classroom.

Great for games, animations resources.

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Grade K-3 Provides educational movies, homework help, leveled quizzes, games and activities for kids. This site offes great visual aides and activiites to go along with many different topics across all subject areas. Teachers can use this site to introduce concepts to students as well as reinforce ans assess students understanding of concepts.

Farmville is an online virtual farm.

K-6 Farmville is not a traditional classroom activity, but there are characteristics from many content areas. Agriculture, Math, ELA, Literacy, economics, social studies, etc... Students can become one another's neighbors and help to build a community in which they care for one another's farms. A downfall to this application is that it is blocked by my district and I would suspect it would be blocked by many. If you choose to request permission from you tech department, please note that this is a web 2.0 tool.

K-12 Great for a class/ group collaboration in and outside of the classroom and great for personal use! Con: District permission, public to everyone, anyone can add or delete information.

K-12 Make phone calls, video chat, can be used for classroom activities and personal use. Con: Must register and download program, and new district permission.

K-12 Secure online class forum for teachers and students to extend learning outside of the traditional classroom. Con: Probably need your district's permission.

3-12 Students and teachers can create an online poster and also collarborate. Con: Everyone must register to use and must watch for bullying.

K-12 Online drawing easel. Students can draw anything and everything and then share it! Free, no registration. Con: No limit to what students can draw.

All grade levels Teachers enter in spelling/vocabulary lists that the site generates into interacive learning activities including games (hangman, word searches, matching games). Also includes a "teach me' and "test me" option- generated from entered words. Classroom Connections: * Literacy-Introduce spelling and vocabulary words * Whole group instruction of literacy- spelling/vocabulary words * Math/Science/Social studies- create lists for students to reinforce spelling and vocabulary in all areas * Independent practice- use as a choice for center work to reinforce spelling/vocabulary in all areas * Whole group practice- Interactively on SmartBoard

Grades 1-5 A resource for interactive activities to give students practice with weekly spelling words. This is a great activity for students to utilize at home when practicing weekly spelling words. It is a more engaging activity for students to complete spelling activities.

K-12 Online poster creator. User can make personal themed posters, using various fonts, images, videos and links. Classroom Connections: *Teachers- create a poster of vocabulary words in science social studies, literacy or math-- include images, fonts, words, videos to reinfoce concepts * Students- create posters to demonstrate what they learned about concepts in any content area- by including text, images, font * Students- Create posters of research done on various topics- or books reports

Grade level- 7-12 CC- Students can create a glogster for a Roman Emperor as to why they would be the best candidate to be Mr. Rome Overview- A great site to post ideas, important information, and great organizational tool designed with images and color. Cons- Need some time to get used too.

This is a tool to be used by students or by teachers to create an online poster. One con to this site is that students will first have to be familiarized with copyright law before reusing information. If the poster is intended to communicate research information, there is no built-in way of creating a bibliography. Check out "Today's Top Glogs" for fresh ideas.