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Text message reminders to students / parents. Students and parents also have the option of receiving email alerts instead of text messages.

National Geographic Mapping resources. Online map making tools ideal for geography projects for students to label rivers, capitols, and/or points of interest. maps can be downloaded as an image or PDF file.

This site is a new multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set throughout U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: For Crown or Coloni? puts players in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14 year old printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. As players complete tasks throughout the city, they meet everyone from merchants to soldiers, sailors to poets, Patriots to Loyalists. The game reveals rising tensions threatening to come to a head, and, ultimately, players must choose where their loyalties lie. Teachers can use the website to manage classes and track student progress.

"Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?," puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. As Nat navigates the city and completes tasks, he encounters a spectrum of people living and working there when tensions mount before the Boston Massacre. Ultimately, the player determines Nat's fate by deciding where his loyalties lie. Mission 2, "Flight to Freedom" (working title), which focuses on resistance to slavery, will launch in spring of 2011. Other missions, as well as a broadcast special, are planned for release in 2012."

Interactive games to learn about American history - The Revolution and Underground Railroad.

Students can explore Anne's house in a super cool 3D interactive environment. The Secret Annex gives students an authentic feel for the place where Anne wrote her diary while listening to stories of everyone who lived in the hiding place.

Timeline tool coming out from Microsoft. Looks similar to Dippity, interested to see what advantages it may have.

Samples for all types of writing pieces. Each sample is labeled with descriptions like " attention-getting paragraph" or " summary of main points." Very helpful if you are starting a new assignment that you do not have past exemplars for.