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Created at a 3rd Grade level. It is a student lead web quest and assessment on Native Americans.

This web site takes students through a scientific investigation about a large number of absences in a school district. Students work through the scientific method by looking at data, doing research, coming up with hypotheses, and drawing conclusions to determine what is making students in a school district absent. Very well explained for the teacher to implement.

This site totally rocks! I love science as inquiry, and this gives you a great activity to put best practices to use.

Empressr is a web-based application similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. This application is free and allows its users to create and upload slideshows online. Empressr allows users to incorporate media (e.g. video, images, and audio) into their presentations. One special feature of Empressr is the use of Flash to stream videos to make slideshows more dynamic by expanding its media limitations

Great site for internet safety for all ages. This site offers a special kids link for an animated web tour on internet safety and other ways they can remain safe. On the main internet safety link it offers a variety of links and documents.

This site covers 5 web strategies for keeping children safe when using the internet. The article discusses the pros and cons of custom browsing, filtering software, prefiltered browsers, net playgrounds, and monitoring and locking software.

This is site where you create web like maps with others. The site look really amazing however I have not been able to spend more time on it yet to really see the true value yet. There is a section for educators that lowers the fees. There is also a free option where they strip down the functionality.

We are a mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and upload audio for your friends, family or the rest of the world to hear.

This site is like some other sites we have looked at where you can colaberate with others on a web site. The thing I liked about this site is you can add pictures and documents when you are working.

This is an interactive site for young students, including content for most subject areas. It has great games to help kids have fun and learn.

This is a website over different subjects. There are many games and quizzes for the students to play and develop their knowledge. You can create different vocabulary list for your students to practice.

Great web site with a ton of information. Many different subjects however, the site is very busy and sometimes I was unsure where to click on the site.

This is a site from the student sites list. I didn't find much that would be used by students though. It is a good resource for economics teachers with links to Nebraska standards and sample lesson plans.

The site has a wide range of lesson plans that can be used in any K-12 grade classroom. Lessons include simulations as well as college and web lesson plans.

This web site is from an organization that has created a set of criteria for website to use to be family friendly. It members are responsible for policing there own websites in order to maintain their status with the organization.

Barrier -free Education is a web site dedicated to the quality education to students with disabilities. It is a work in progress with little information to offer. I like the premise because I am a new teacher that imagines my attempts at differentiation with disabled students end in failure or worse boredom. Because it is funded by an NSF grant, I look forward to returning to the site to see progress on this topic.

Interesting alternative to LiveBinders. Knotebook allows you to pull in content from all over the web into an online sort of customized website that contains only the information you want. Could be a useful tool worth exploring.

LiveBinders is a place where users can place websites, documents, images, text, and videos into virtual 3-ring binders. Easy, attractive, and free!

I nominate LiveBinders for one of the top 10 web tools for 2011. Wow!

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.

The site contains internet safety tips, information on how to stop child predators, cyberbullying, statistics, and web acronyms.

For secondary students. My eighth graders love Bill Nye. This is a good web site for Bill's daily log and weekly quiz. Students will use their reading skill to follow the interesting science created on this website.

A web site that has ads but also some great puzzles, videos from the cable channel and even games. You might get stuck in Whizzball. A rube goldberg type puzzle. Have fun creating and solving.

A web site from the History Channel where students can use an interactive tool to get information about some of the aspects of our universe, see actual and computer generated images, and see in detail some of the components of our universe.

Web site intended for teenagers with information on how to stay safe while surfing the internet. Teens can either read or listen to the information on the website.