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Track your t-shirt's journey at TrackMyT.com! Kids type in the lot number for their actual T-shirt or a random T-shirt and track its development from a seed to its final destination.

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This is a collaborative effort to post videos about your community to share with others.

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A visual real-time simulation that displays the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, birth rates, and death rates of every country in the world. Great for SMARTBoard

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Educational GAME and ATLAS on the worldwide geography, the GeoEdu software offers hundreds of free information on all the countries in the world, including interactive maps of the continents and countries with their capitals, main cities, dependencies, islands and atolls. The quiz is available for a free trial playing with North, Central and South America. More than 100.000 questions on territories, dependencies, capitals, flags, official languages, currencies, internet, city and currency codes, land and water borders with their lengths and two more features, "Numbers" with questions such as Which country has the largest population? the longest water border? and "Voyage" to travel, cross borders and even "transplane" to get from one country to a land of arrival chosen at random.

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Library of Congress site with historical thinking exercises for middle and high school students. The Image Detective activity leads students through the steps of posing a question, examining a photo for clues, gathering background information, and then drawing a supported conclusion.

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This section of flickr teaches social studies by inviting viewers to comment or tag the Library of Congress historic photo collection. I searched for Titanic and found some very poignant images with comments by the people who had viewed the picture already. Some of the comments had been made by very knowledgable history buffs and others were personal responses to the photos. This could be a very powerful learning tool. The photos are all creative commons, so you can use them in projects without violating copyright.

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Digital library of texts and photos from Ancient Greece and Rome, all under a Creative Commons License. The texts are available online and include links out to other information.

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A very large collection of instructions and/or graphic organizers for reading activties.

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Recommended by Kelley Tenkley. Similar to Virtual Museum Box in that you can create a poster or movie of archived historical photos.

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Unbelievably good video with rap. The Week in Rap provides a weekly summary of current events in a hip-hop music video for teens and students. If you're bothered by the mostly American content, issue a challenge to your students to create the Canadian version. Recommended by Kelly Tenkley at iLearn Technology.

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Very nice video model of the current world's population represented as 100 individuals. Very thought-provoking. Got this from the WAFMS diigo group.

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Best geography games I've seen. These are excellent tutorials and games that would work well on the SMARTBoard. The Canadian Geography activites are particularly good. For example, in the Province Names tutorial, you click on each province and its name appears on the map along with a sidebar containing information about the province. In other games, you drag the province into place on the map. World geography quizzes galore - over 250 fun online map games teach capitals, country locations, and more. Also info on the culture, history, and much more.

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A website that combines literary tours with Google Maps to show the locations in a book or social studies lesson. For example, a Google Lit trip may show the path of a character in a novel such as "Underground to Canada" , the canoe's journey in "Paddle to the Sea" or the path of the ducklings through Boston in Robert McCloskey's "Make Way for Ducklings". It's best to start by just downloading an existing trip. I've been trying to add content to placemarkers in Google Earth and discovered that it requires a knowledge of html I will have to acquire. In my spare time...

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Displays different data sets such as population or gasoline usage from province to province. You can also change values in the pre-created data sets of create your own data sets.

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Online multimedia lessons for teaching secondary. These are ppt type presentations on many different subject.

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Students can create a virtual museum box in which to collect items such as text, photos, video, and uploaded items needed to make an argument, describe a person or historical/geographical site etc. Students can also view other museum boxes and comment. For classroom use ideas, see Kelly Tenkley's Jan 06, 2009 post at iLearn Technology. This website was inspired by Thomas Clarkson who carried around a real museum box of artifacts to make a case for the abolition of slavery. Each compartment is actually a cube that expands into 6 more "sides" for storing information. Very cool.

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SMARTBoard guru James Hollis highly recommended this collection of SMARTBoard lessons by a South Carolina kindergarten teacher, creating a bandwidth problem on her website in the process. But if you can get on, it's definitely worth it. His readers have rated it five stars.

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The teachers at Mountain City have created some great book and novel studies with online questions, printable questions that are easy to convert to Kurzweil format, and suggested activites for each chapter. Many also have links to other websites. Recommended by Maureen LaFleche at the Jan 8 2009 Breeze meeting.

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Watch great videos, listen to famous speeches, and search thousands of clips from The History Channel.

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