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Frank Potter's Science Gems has a collection of helpful sites for students of all grades.

PodBean is a website that you can join to create podcasts and share them with other users. PodBean features statistics on your podcasts, customizable themes, and powerful analysis tools. PodBean also allows you to easily share your podcasts by giving embedded codes and links. Podcasts are applicable for any time of educational use, from teaching to student projects.

PictishPuzzle is a site in which you help to reassemble an archaeological find. Archaeologists actually haven't figured out how to reassemble it yet so students actions on this site actually have real life impact.

This website compiles videos from YouTube and Khan Academy, and offers 8-day courses and free lessons in Spanish. You have the option to buy lessons, books, and other tools to aid your learning of Spanish language. Students who are taking online Spanish courses can use this to supplement their learning.

World's Greatest Math and Science Rap is a website that has short videos about various math and science topics. The interesting thing about this website is that the content is rapped, which helps to make learning about these topics more intriguing and memorable. Each video includes lyrics so that the viewer can see the words to the song (in case it is hard to understand what the rapper is saying). Students can use this website as a study tool for particular topics in math and science. It is a fun way to learn and understand science and math.

This tool allows students who may not be technically aware of the need for security to create personalized and easily memorable passwords for future use in sites that teachers may utilize with their class. Password Bird uses a special name, a special word, and a special date to generate this case and number sensitive password.