This is a great visual explanation of how diamonds are formed. While explaining the process it's quite useful to have a detailed image to refer to.

This clip shows the process of diamonds coming up through a kimberlite pipe. My students begged me to show it over and over again.

This is a seven minute video that I found from MSNBC. It deals with the journey diamonds take from the mine to the store. My students were surprised at how much goes into producing a diamond.

I used this site with my students in our study of diamonds and their origins. It's great interactive site that allows students to not only see the countries discussed on a map but also take a look at information on that particular country.

I found this resource helpful in teaching students how to look at maps objectively as a document rather than something to be thought of as completely accurate.

This is a lesson I used in order to teach students how perception often determines how maps are made. This activity is especially good for students that struggle with reading/writing since there isn't much involved with the activity.

Considering our focus on economics for this week, I thought it would be prudent to take a look a the budget President Obama has laid out for the United States. The section on education could be used in our classes to discuss the impact it will have students.

Washington Post Magazine: D.C. 1791 to Today - Working with the Washington Post and washingtonpost.com, a team of students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill developed a series of images to digitally illustrate the myriad changes to the architecture and landscape of Washington, D.C. since the city's inception in 1791. Working from maps, plans, drawings, and photographs, the UNC students have represented the physical history of Washington in a set of time slices, showing side-by-side views of familiar landscapes, then and now, and modeling significant changes to important buildings and monuments.">