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sponsored by scholastic an online magazine for students to access about current and historical events.

Footnote helps you find and share historic documents. We are able to bring you many never-before-seen historic documents through our unique partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions.

Plenty of universities, nonprofits, organizations, museums and more post videos for the cause of education both in and out of schools. The following list compiles some of the ones most worthy of attention, as they feature plenty of solid content appealing to their respective audiences and actively try to make viewers smarter.

This article was posted earlier today on MSNBC's website. The author completely disagrees with teachers being involved with students on facebook at all. He states that Facebook is "a minefield for school districts".

This site ranks sites for teachers. You basically can go to this site and find sites to help with adding hands-on activities to lessons or to help come up with creative activities for your class.

This site is interesting because it actually sorts through the most popular sites that teachers use. It is a great place to start if you're not really sure what you're looking for.

This is a really great way for teachers (particularly within CMS) to stay connected with one another. It keeps them up to date on thier curriculum and new ways to teach it. I think if each school district had something like this, the educations system in our country would be excellent.

An Earth Science teacher resource showing the evolution of early earth.

Here are some collections of information about the interplay between music and mathematics

A visual presentation of the highest and lowest points on Earth

Mathematics Illuminated is a thirteen-part series for adult learners and high school teachers. The series explores major themes in the field of mathematics, from humankind's earliest study of prime numbers, to the cutting-edge mathematics used to reveal the shape of the universe.

GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. It has received several educational software awards in Europe and the USA.

A movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature

Social Networking site in which teachers can learn how to use web 2.0 in the classroom. Also allows you to talk to other educators on here.

You have to sign up but a great resourse and networking tool. Have several meeting for staying current

Extreme Science is a website that has a lot of simplistic definitions and explanations for many of the common themes and topics of the Earth Sciences and Biology.

NASA home page has loads of science and technology based information, that is put into a graphical and interactive format. It covers a wide range of topics beyond space related topics.

The home page for the Discovery channel. It is a wonderful resource for science and tech interactives, videos, and images. A great place to find recent issues and topics in conservation and environmentalism.

This sight is an interactive resource for teachers of all content areas in Highschool. It has flash games and visual aids on core subject content, that can help create a more interactive and visual class. Pbs also has blogs for parents and teachers to connect on many of the content areas.

The US national website for everything education related including news. blogs, best practices, and information about becoming accredited and getting grants.