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Shmoop wants to make you a better lover (of literature, history, poetry and writing). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time. Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

"Two Hawaiian teachers have taken a new approach to teaching their students by reworking lyrics to popular songs by artists like Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani and more into some seriously cool visual history lessons ever."

This program offers classroom teachers streaming video resources with a focus on Asian history, culture, and language arts. The Asian Studies Collaborative provides all Pennsylvania school districts with free access to Learn 360.

Web-based timeline software for creating and sharing history and project planning. There is a time traveler in each of us. Whether you are a litigator or an 8th grader, TimeGlider can quickly enhance your experience of the past, present, and future. Once you've explored a TimeGlider timeline, you'll wonder why you've never seen information organized like this before.

This project is designed for 2nd and 3rd grade students studying York County geography and history. Through videoconferencing technology, your class will meet students in other classes while learning about different parts of York County! Prior to the videoconference each classroom will add information to this York County wiki with clues about their city, town, and school district. The other classrooms, using maps, the Internet, textbooks, and other resources, will try to discover the location of each participating classroom. Each class will get a chance to guess, "Where in York County Are YOU?"

National Archives ~ Digital Copies in the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). Grouped by National History Standard Era

This is the Safari Montage login screen for IU 12. Districts have free access for the 2010-2011 school year to videos from publishers such as PBS, National Geographic, Scholastic, The History Channel, Disney Education, and more.

Simply capture part of the screen or a specific window with the same shortcut. Simple. Don't bother to save screenshots on your drive, Screenpresso does for you. Practical Drag and drop screenshots from history directly to your favorite email editor. Webmails like GMail are also taken into account! Swift. Crop, spotlight an area or comment parts of captured image. Efficient. Can't fit it on the screen ? Make a unique image thanks to the stitching mechanism. Smart. Add effects Look like a pro. Add drop shadow, round corners and reflection and more. Sleek. Need to export images or create thumbnails at specific size, one click. Easy share screenshots on Twitter thanks to Twitpic integration.

Excellent videos explaining the history and meaning behind 60 different scientific symbols

The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.

Recently launched science and technology news website from Discovery Communications. It features breaking news and in-depth articles related to the Earth, Space, Tech, Animals, Dinosaurs, Archaeology, Human and History.

Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

The Week in Rap is a weekly summary of news headlines in the form of a short rap video. The site was created by Flocabulary, and the songs and videos are written by Flocabulary artists.

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.

Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.