This is an excellent tool to help kids learning the 50 states and capitals. This is specifically useful in 5th grade as they are studying the states and the capitals.
K- 5 grade interactive internet activites. This site is targeting Math, Literacy, Social Studies, and Science it has internet games but also resources to help in those areas.
This activity pack through PBS teach has many ways for students to investigate some ideas surrounding the American Revolution. It is good, but not as comprehensive as I had hoped.
An experiment from IBM Research. A collection of data visualizations and a new social kind of data analysis. View and discuss, or create visualizations from data sets.
Graphic organizers galore! Help those students with writing, problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Permission is granted to print and copy for classroom use.
Using this technology, students can experience literature by building the geographical journey that takes place in a story. They can work with this platform that integrates Google Earth in a way that can enhance literature learning engagement.
Square of Life: Studies in Local and Global Environments, hosts collaborative projects in which students investigate their local environments and share that information with other students from around the country.
Pdf image and word stories highlight student accomplishment. In the gallery there's even one entry from a first grade class in Japan.