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"Fun Facts" related to and explaining math properties, curiosities, etc.

"This archive is designed as a resource for enriching your math courses and nurturing your interest and talent in mathematics! Each Math Fun Fact is a math puzzle or short article that contains a cool mathematics idea. You'll can learn about the mathematics of things like card shuffling to poker to computer vision to fractals to music, just to name a few. This makes great enrichment material for gifted math students or problem-solving groups."

Powerpoint Templates: Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, etc

"Popplet is a unique combination of presentation tool, mindmapping, and online bulletin board. It is easy to use and a fun way to create. You simply create a new, free account, and then get started building your Popplet."

BigHugeLabs provides a great way to make posters and trading cards easily. Best of all, using the free education-specific login students won't see any advertisements. It's good for younger kids or an older kid who wants to put together a presentation fairly quickly.

Random name selector. Fun way to randomly select "victims" from your class roster that you input.

Quizdini is a free tool for creating online quizzes. The best feature of Quizdini is that you can create explanations of the correct answer for your students to view immediately after trying each question in your quiz. Your explanation can include text and or links to online resources like videos and images. Quizdini quizzes can be created in a traditional linear format or in a matching format that asks students to pair answers to terms.

The Google Maps Streetview Player was developed by Brian Folts. The purpose of the player is to allow you to plan a route on Google Maps and watch it carried out in Street View without having to click along the route. To use the Google Maps Streetview Player just enter a starting point and an ending point then press play. When you press play the Streetview Player will take you along the route. You can pause, rewind, and fast-forward at any time. There is also an experimental option to download a video of the route as it is played out.

"SuperTeacherTools.com is dedicated to providing technology tools for teaching that are quick and easy to download, learn, and start using in your classroom. In the site, you will find a variety of review games, classroom management software, and other miscellaneous tools for educators"

View them all in 360 degree interactive panoramas from internationally known panorama photographers.

Free web based tool for making stop motion videos.  A great way to show a time-lapse event.

Create and share a customized Google map.  

"Fakebook" allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes.

Tour the Smithsonian.  Panoramic, interactive views.