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Learn American History through interactive online games

Allows students to experiment with elements on the periodic table for reactivity and to see what results.

EDpuzzle allows you to find existing video content (i.e. Youtube or the like) and personalize it for your students by adding your voice or questions or by cropping the video to your needs.

This site contains over 500 of the best social change documentaries free to watch online, all via one massive wall of films on a single page. The landing page itself is visually exciting to look at and it is also searchable!

LMSs use this to create bingo cards for book fair. They use book titles from the Scholastic brochure given to students. Each homeroom teacher (in elem. I would give to each teacher) gets a bingo card. I read 2 or 3 titles each day of book fair over the morning announcements. Teacher/class with winning card get a book for the classroom and a doughnut for breakfast.

Mashpedia is an interesting service that matches reference articles from Wikipedia to materials from YouTube and news websites. The purpose of drawing materials from multiple sources is to provide users with a comprehensive view of news stories and reference topics. Mashpedia also presents Amazon lists of books related to your chosen topic.

Juvenile Series and Sequels - This database contains over 36,000 books in 4,900 series titles that are classified into three audiences: Juvenile Easy, Juvenile, and Young Adult.

A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sense-making and information foraging.

A good resource to use when looking for Dewey classifications.

Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology.