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Interactive 21st Century Skills framework. Information, resources, videos, and community tools for 21st Century Skills.

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Lesson Plan from National Geographic Xpeditions found via Thinkfinity to address social and cross-cultural differences.

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This student interactive from Illuminations (via Thinkfinity) allows students to investigate three different situations that involve compound interest: savings accounts, credit card debt, and stock market simulations. Users enter various parameters, including principal, interest rate, and time period.

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NETS Overview Page

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Lesson plans & guides, video tutorials, resources & best practices for technology. LearniT-TeachiT is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting business, industry, governmental agencies and other organizations to use the power of technology to prepare teachers, students, and learners of all ages to develop 21st century skills that will provide a basis for their ongoing engagement in learning and personal achievement.

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from EconEdLink | a premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic education lesson plans for K-12 teachers and their students

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Free lesson plans, student learning objects, homework help, and professional development for teachers, students and parents.

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Help character Gus clean up the park by picking up trash and sorting it as either recyclables, non-recyclables, or compost items.

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This page, from the EPA's Office of Water, provides an interactive image showing several characters performing everyday household chores. The way the characters are performing the tasks harms the environment, and when the student clicks on a character, a description of the particular type of environmental harm is provided. Found via Thinkfinity and recommended for grades 3 - 6.

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Roam the streets of Recycle City in this Web site from the Environmental Protection Agency to learn how reusing, reducing and recycling can help the environment. Use an interactive map to explore the city's homes, businesses and manufacturing plants and find out how the city once called Dumptown has become a model of waste reduction. Play games, do activities, and learn facts on this graphic-rich Web site. This Web site is referenced in the Science NetLinks lesson, "Engineering Solutions" via Thinkfinity.

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Get children outside and encourage them to explore the world around them. In this activity from ReadWriteThink via Thinkfinity, children look closely at living things in their natural environments and then make books about what they see.

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This resource, from National Geographic Explorer Magazine via Thinkfinity, features a movie and quiz about insect anatomy and behavior. After viewing the movie, users can test their knowledge by taking the interactive quiz, which provides immediate feedback. Recommended for grades 3 - 6.

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This page, from the University of Kentucky Department of Entomology, features a collection of over 50 riddles with bug names as solutions. Many of the riddles involve word play and require students to listen to the hints given. Found via Thinkfinity and recommended for grades K-5.

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In this activity, from the American Museum of Natural History via Thinkfinity, students identify links between different plant, animal, and insect species in a forest, bai (marshy clearing), or river at Dzangha Sangha in the Central African Republic. The activity gives students real-life examples of biodiversity and the delicate balance between species within their ecosystems. Recommended for grades 3 - 6.

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This interactive quiz, from National Geographic Explorer via Thinkfinity, features ten multiple-choice questions about parasites. Users are given immediate feedback, a chance to try again if they answer incorrectly, and when they choose the correct answer they are presented with more information about the topic of the question. Recommended for grades 3 -8.

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With this tool, reviewed by Science NetLinks and discovered via Thinkfinity, students will have fun making their own virtual bug at the Monster Bugs section of The Magic School Bus Web site. Students select from various wings, legs, and heads to create a virtual bug. As they click on a specific part, information is provided on it. Students can create a picture of an actual bug found in nature or they can put together parts from different bugs to create a fantasy creature. Recommended for grades K-2.

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This E-sheet, from a Science NetLinks lesson via Thinkfinity, directs students to a slide show illustrating the life cycle of periodical cicadas. Recommended for grades 3 -5.

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Interactive slideshow about insects. Available in Spanish too.

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In this illustrated, interactive quiz, from National Geographic Kids via Thinkfinity, users can test their knowledge of frogs. Ten questions are presented and immediate feedback is given for both correct and incorrect answers. There is also a link to a related "National Geographic Explorer!" article. Recommended for grades 3 - 6.

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View pictures of Journey North species by sight and sound. Then take a quiz on them.

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