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from the site: "Founded in 2004, Games for Change is a non-profit which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of digital games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change. Games for Change serves as a platform for organizations, individuals, government agencies, academics, journalists and the game industry to share best practices, exchange knowledge, incubate new projects and provide access to those seeking to use digital games to positively impact society. "

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.

American Memory Project - "Lessons - by Themes,Topics, Disciplines or Eras"

The Copyright Alliance Education Foundation is the 501(c)3 non-profit charitable arm of the Copyright Alliance dedicated to developing educational programs aimed at helping America's next generation of creators succeed. The Foundation develops and implements educational projects designed to meet two goals: 1. Help maintain a copyright-aware environment in the nation's classrooms to ensure creators' long-term ability to thrive; and 2. Provide educational resources to future creators.

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"Our Courts is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. Our Courts is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support."

"Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links"

" School librarians have been identified as the "go-to" people for digital content in a recently published report by the national education non-profit group, Project Tomorrow. The report, "The New 3 E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged and Empowered - How Today's Educators are Advancing a New Vision for Teaching and Learning (PDF)," shares the teacher, librarian and administrator findings from the group's Speak Up 2010 survey."

"Disney's Planet Challenge (DPC) is a project-based learning environmental competition for classrooms across the United States. DPC teaches kids about science and conservation while empowering them to make a positive impact on their communities and planet. Beginning this year, DPC will offer two tracks of competition: the Elementary School track (Grades 3-5) and the BRAND NEW Middle School track (Grades 6-8)! "

music for student projects

In order to download the Volumes of music, a purchase of a license is required. You can visit www.soundzabound.com/pricing-ordering for more information. However, you can access our FREE music. Simply click on "Volume" under "Browse By" located directly under the log-in on the left hand side bar, then click on free music. These are completely ok to use in your student's projects. You MUST create an account in order to access the free music.

There's actually a way to share scratch projects on your website or in a folder on a CD or computer without posting them to scratch.mit.edu first. To do it, you need to download the following files to the directory on your website (or a folder on your computer):

Through our interactive projects, journals, games and publications, this treasure trove from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages with affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and sense of fun, and words of comfort and healing." />s Make Beliefs, make beliefs for children, make beliefs for adults, make belief, make beliefs cartoons, make beliefs comics by Bill Zimmerman