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Community Construction Kit Diorama Designer GO Solve Word Problems The Graph Club 2.0 Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 Neighborhood MapMachine 2.0 Timeliner XE The Timeliner XE can be used to layout a number of sequences outside of social studies.

PowerMyLearning Educational Games & Learning Activities for Kids. (n.d.). Retrieved July 14, 2014, from http://powermylearning.org/ Powermylearning.com is a site that contains a lot of multisubject activities. It is a site you have to sign up for but it is free. Students can pick activities, join classes, and track their assignments. It helps the student feel like, and become more, proactive in their learning.

Earthducation. Research and Design by LT Media.Lab Retrieved from http://lt.umn.edu/earthducation/ To date, the Earthducation team has completed 6 expeditions, beginning with a pilot expedition to the Arctic in 2010, and then journeying to Africa, Europe, Australia, South America, and Arctic North America for expeditions 1 through 5. This gives the student and the teacher virtual on site experience with the culture and environment of the different places. Student are able to make connections with what is happening in the real world. There is directed collaboration on education and sustainability in an international setting. There are some related lessons available and links to other sites like National Geographic for related leaning activities. This appears to require some added teaching strategies but is very authentic.

(LT Media Lab. 2011). University of Minnesota. Retrieved from http://lt.umn.edu/geothentic/geothentic.html This appears to be highly motivating and engages students in authentic leaning by using technological data to make and justify decisions on current issues such as where to build a hospital in San Francisco based on factors such as seismic activity and population density. Helpful for teachers with limited background knowledge in teaching geography. It has very good helps to assist teachers in the TPACK domains and even management strategies.