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"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."

"If you've been looking for a crash course in basic logic - or just want to explain to a friend exactly what a logical fallacy is - turn your attention to these simple, easy-to-understand videos, which lay out the basics of critical thinking."

Primary sources, videos, timeline creators, animation creators. Don't be put off by the "elementary" look of the site. There is lots for middle and high school levels.

British Library site that has animated stories from the sacred texts of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism

An Open Educational Resources site OER; in beta now. "Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru's content experts, so you don't have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself. Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with. Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study."

Not sure what resources are here for social studies but still looks like a very interesting site. Think you should check it out for resources and to share with students.

"Born to learn is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn."

interesting website that deals with how we learn

Best 100 tools for learning in 2011

good list of resources with links to further info on each tool

"Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time."

This site looks amazing. Takes google maps to a whole new level.