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Public domain pictures and clip art

can search locations and find pictures from the past, pretty neat 

This free online tool is used to make photo slideshows for webpages. Easy to upload pictures and add text.

This site offers social stories and picture cue cards to aid students in learning everyday routines. Some of the topics include personal care and hygiene, safety, food and eating habits as well as calendar practice. These pictures would be great to use as a reference tool for the students, and have them review in the morning before their daily begins.

One of my coworkers works for this family and I cried when she shared this video with our classroom teachers. The family made this video because their son/brother has Autism and they wanted to educate the public about the impact of Autism. The boy's sister wrote a song for her brother and performs the song along to slideshow of family pictures. 

A sophisticated picture dictionary for visual learners, combining "wiktionary content with Flickr images."

This is a really cool website that is about an iPad trial in schools in Australia. The website provides case studies, information on the benefits of using iPads, classroom ideas, videos and pictures, and more. My favorite part of the website is that it also provides a list of great educational apps broken into different categories and subject areas.

This packet contains the principles of problem solving by George Polya, a renowned mathematician. It contains numerous strategies like guess and check, draw a picture, work backwards ... The packet consist of walking you through 12 different strategies with examples and practice problems for students. For an extended list of problems for practice, Go to: http://www.austintown.k12.oh.us/~aust_tr/PSS%20Student%20problems%202001.pdf For a worked out answer key go to: http://www.austintown.k12.oh.us/~aust_tr/PSS%20hand%20solutions%2013%20to%2083.pdf

A website that has free photos to use for education.