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Buffy Hamilton - High School - 

Mankato, MN  doug_johnson  MN

Dictionary and translation services to schools (free?)  75 different languages. 

Federal Trade Commission provides lessons on advertising, marketing, recognizing scams, protecting personal information and other consumer concepts.  Designed for 5th - 8th graders.  Students play games, design ads, chat with customers and storeowners.  Play a game in which they protect citizens of Earth against identity-stealing invaders.

Terapixel from Microsoft and NASA offers a seamless, spherical map of the night sky.  Free, web-based program the functions as a virtual telescope.

students follow deep-sea exploration in real time.  Robert Ballard has created a website that allows people to follow his expeditions live and listen to scientists in the control rooms of his Okeanas Explorer and Nautilus as discoveries are made.   Facebook and Twitter send out alerts if it appears teams are closing in on an important discovery.

audio and video material form academic institutions and outlets such as PBS, the Discovery Channel, and leading museums.  Lectures recorded live along with video and supporting materials.

Spanish Channel featuring audio pronunciation and a Spanish "Phrase of the day"   Tools for creating flashcards, games, and more.

Make history come alive.  Online games, supplemented by PDF of historical documents and other resources.  Middle and High School students become "players" during the days of protest preceding the American Revolution and other pivotal moments in our nations's history.