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Although this is aimed at slightly younger kids, there are many topics to explore (mostly Social Studies) and it is highly interactive.

Virtual Field Trips is a website that takes teachers and students on field trips via the internet. Categories are Career Technical, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Library media, Professional Development, Science, Social Studies, Technology and Other. As I searched around it looked like several of the field trips use our Sea Monkey as their web site composer of choice. Uen.org is the URL. At the bottom of the page we can click on "contact us" which takes us to a page where we can put in our contact information so they can get back to us. There is an 800 number to call. The website is based in Utah. Uen stands for Utah Education Network partnered with Utah State Office of Education and Higher Ed Utah, which is in Salt Lake City.

Over 300 Social Science lesson plans in the following areas; teaching Tolerance, Art, Literature, Math, Music, Science, Social Studies, Women, Hispanics, African Americans, Civil Rights, Gay/Lesbian, Asians, Immigration, Homeless/Refugees, Native Americans, Jewish Americans, Russian Americans, Arab Americans.

This site offers students elementary students animal information, activities, games, and videos. It is ver user friendly.

Games, stories, activities, videos, and even blogs for kids.

The National Geographic website is a great resource for both students and teachers. The site has activities and games that students can use to help guide learning.

This is a great way to teach about economics to students in about 5th grade and up. Lots of lesson plans and how to play the game. Awesome stuff for gifted kids!

Teachers can get information about life in areas all around the world. Site is about ten years old but is still available and accurate. This is a good one!

Lesson plans for a unit on how diverse cultures are portrayed in film, fiction and non-fiction. Allows students to think critically about the portrayal of groups and how it leads to stereotyping, racism and prejudice.