This is an excellent resource if you are interested in history or simply finding out what happened on the exact day you were born. DMarie Time capsule allows you to enter any date in history and provides you with detailed information about what happened that day!
This is a great resource for creating a community map. You can add markers to your map and include descriptions. Perfect for the young and old cartographer alike!
Amazon Prime member? Now you have access to a wide selection of free e-books on Amazon. Even more reason to purchase a Kindle Fire! :) Plus, admit it...free shipping just isn't the same unless it's free AND there the next day!
An excellent resource from scholastic for the Thanksgiving holiday. With teacher registration, you are granted access to the following:
*Video tours of Wampanoag dwellings, canoe construction, and daily life
*Replay of webcast including interviews with interpreters from the Plimoth Plantation
*Series of classroom emails from a Pilgrim girl and a Wampanoag boy
*Reminder emails for virtual field trips and webcast replay
Interested in integrating technology into holiday lessons? This is an excellent place to start for Thanksgiving!
This is an excellent resource for technology integration at a variety of grade levels. There are 100's of videos of classroom lessons and ideas for you to explore and it is up-to-date, launched in February 2011. This tool was designed to help principals and teachers evaluate the levels of technology integration into the classroom.
According to Scribd, "Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing company. " Scribd has over 75 million readers each month making it "the largest book club".
EasyTech makes it so simple - even tech novices get on board. Need time saving ways to teach critical 21st century skills? Accoring to the site, "EasyTech makes that possible too. An award-winning, K-8 technology literacy curriculum, EasyTech helps students efficiently integrate technology skills with digital literacy, higher-order thinking and core curriculum."
This website contains a map of the US and a list of the natural disasters that can occur. When you click on the disaster, it hi-lights the states that are effected by the natural disaster.