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Top Documentary Films is a great site for finding all sorts of documentaries. While not hosting these documentaries, it does provide links to them that are found on Google Video, You Tube etc.  Be forewarned that there are topics listed that are not suitable for children - as always, preview and choose from the larger collection before using them.

Create a floating timeline. Tell a story, map a historical event, or review a science experiment...

You can look at all kinds of interesting places in Google Earth and Maps if you search correctly and long enough. But if you're searching for something small and you don't know the coordinates, you might get very frustrated. Maplandia offers an categories to help you zero in on what you need. 

Infographic on bullying

Greatest Earth Day sites part 2

Remember playing telephone as a kid? You and your friends would sit around in a circle, the first kid would start it out by whispering a sentence or two into the next kid's ear. The sentence would move around the circle until it arrived at the last person and, inevitably, the end result would be completely different (and often pretty funny) from what was initially said. Now, with the help of Google Translate, a new site called Translation Telephone lets you simulate this experience online. You type in a phrase and click go and then watch as your sentence gets translated from language to language, until it finally gets translated back into English iLearn Technology

List of Flickr groups to use with students, such as Geometric Beauty for math lessons, etc. 

If the world was a village video

Video on how to use Chartle to create charts and graphs

A fake website that helps to teach students about thinking critically about websites.....

From the BBC, Children of World War 2 is a great resource for kids who want to get a better understanding of what life was like for children during World War 2.  History lessons will usually focus on the major events of the war: The Nazis  invade Poland, the German Blitz, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Auschwitz, etc. The human side of the story is often missed and that's where Children of World War 2 comes in.The well-presented, easy to explore site has 10 sections to delve into that inform kids about the war and what it was all about. From evacuations, to what homes were like,  food and shopping, daily life, and other interesting areas. Each section comes with some amazing photos with captions, some sections have writings (actual letters and speeches written by the various leaders), and also videos, and audio recordings of war-time events (Note: the audio and videos are not available in all countries).Also, within each section, there are activities, challenges, and quizzes that add a bit of fun to an often sad topic.

Google Earth Cool Places is a site that catalogs links and files for cool, interesting things found in Google Earth. You can search the database or just browse using the categories featured on the site's homepage. Take a look at the Statues and Monuments category to find the Arch in St. Louis or the Crazy Horse Monument in South Dakota.

Planet Pals: An environmental site for students: Nature themes, foodchain, habitat, seasons and more.