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This website from the U.S. Energy Information Administration is chock full of information about energy; from energy basics to forms of energy, and from using to conserving. Visitors can go on virtual field trips across the country with Energy Ant through engaging photo journals, and teachers can find lesson plans, guides, links, and suggested ways of using the website in the classroom.

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

A surprising examination of the original book jacket art to The Great Gatsby the great gatsby

Video of Roaring 20's - backdrop to The Great Gatsby

iPads need an additional script to have DiigoLet in Bookmark bar. Stepwise instructions are available at this link.

BBC News School Report gives 11-16 year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience. It is a collaborative project run by BBC News and BBC Learning. Using lesson plans and materials from this website, and with support from BBC staff and partners, teachers help students develop their journalistic skills to become School Reporters.

Video about first part of The Great Gatsby.

Science: 5.3.4.A.3 Essential functions of the human body.

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"Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0, Social Media, and Participative Technologies in the classroom. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues. We have over 79,000 members from 200 countries! "

This is a very powerful video that will help students prepare for assessment and PARRC testing. Help students with the 12 powerful words found on every assessment test.

Article from LearnNC's Instructify blog that describes how to use the advanced search function in Google to filter search results by reading level - basic, intermediate, and advanced.

Article from LearnNC's Instructify blog that describes how to use the advanced search function in Google to filter search results by reading level - basic, intermediate, and advanced.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run. Teachers control the questions and games on their laptop, while students respond and interact through their smartphones/laptops. Run it as an app or on any web browser

Site where you can upload videos or link to YouTube, etc and students can comment on the video, thus allowing you to provide high-quality feedback

Looking for help on how to use search engines better? This page provides a guide to key material within Search Engine Watch, resources across the web and articles written about searching better.

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Meeting the common core with Flocabulary. This is fun esoecially for upper elementary, middle, and high school students.