The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) highlights civil liberty issues and how they affect young people today. The site gives true life, current examples of cases being heard (or just heard) by the Supreme Court of the United States. Great website for 8-12 grade.
Great site for learning Geography! Physical and Political quizzes for each continent as well as plenty of games to choose from. The site also has a Russian language tutorial.
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.
The site has a wide array of information from simulations that teachers/parents can conduct with students/children, a list of dangers on the web, true stories of children and child predators, and a list of ways to prevent online child victimization.
The site contains a parent resource center- hot topics, videos and tutorials (social networking, cyberbullying, etc..) family fun lessons that parents can conduct with their children, D.A.R.E. activity lessons. There is also games, wallpapers, screensavers, videos for online safety and a site for educators.
This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. Students love this!
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