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Thinkport is the state of Maryland's educarional portal. Use the advanced search tool to locate rich resources, including video clips, to support your lesson plans. Search with keywords, grade level, subject area and type of resource.

The Sense and Dollars site was developed to help middle and high school students come to grips with some of the basic principles of personal finance and economics. Lots of interactive activities and teacher guide.

Search for high quality resources via this PBS site, All subject areas for k-12

More than 14,000 Science Resources sorted by Category, Subcategory, and Grade Level for k-12

These statistical agencies provide special webpages for kids in elementary through high school. The webpages include fun facts, games, project ideas, and career information.

Autoassign allows teachers to quickly create online assignments for their students using only a web browser. Students later return to this site to "do" the assignments. Assignments created here may consist of multiple choice, short answer, numerical, or true/false-type questions. Assignments can be automatically graded

Great site to play with the laws of physics. Teachers can use. Linked with AutoAssign.com which enables assignements and quizzes to be created from the site.

Free PC software for educational use. Great for design and technology classes.

Nicely done flash animation!! Enjoy the music:)

American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, their students, and even students' families. Materials are arranged by subject area and grade level, making it easy to locate lesson plans and associated web resources quickly

Engage and Inspire K-12 Learners! Teachers' Domain is a multimedia digital library for the classroom that provides learning experiences in ways no textbook can. This ever-expanding library currently includes collections on: Science: Life Science, Physical Science, Engineering Social Studies: The Civil Rights Movement, Brown v. Board of Education

Standards based literacy lessons for K-12 students. This page links to the student tools. Teachers can search by grade-level, standard, or literacy engagament.

The twentieth century has seen great deeds of heroism and bravery by significant leaders and the average people. It is also a time when some of those who have have risen to lead countries might classified as 'Villains'. Based on little seen documents from the National Arhives of events or episodes surrounding Churchill, Kennedy, Truman, Stalin, or Mussolini, you are asked to judge whether the figure in question is 'a hero or a villain?'

http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/exhibitions.htm This is an investigation into life on the home front during the Second World War. There are seven galleries: preparations for war,evacuation,,bombing of Britain,Empire home front,everyday life,women at war, spies Each gallery is broken into various topics with sources and questions. The visual material is accessible to all pupils with or without teacher input. There are worksheets, timelines and a glossary. There is also a diary facility so pupils can save, edit and access their work directly from the net. The gallery contains a video archive using clips from the Imperial War Museum on many of the topics. Some galleries have additional activities to play: Lights Out; Escape the Blitz; Shelter from the Blitz; Empire Home Front; Shopping in the War; Spy Catcher. More resources available from Great Britain's National Archive.

Collection of Physics, Astronomy, and Environmental Science. Appropritate for high school, college, and gr8 Physical Science units.

Many interactive physics applets that demonstrate various concepts. Appropriate for HS and college. Some applets useful for grade 8 Physical Science units.

This is a simple but effective applet that allows students to measure free fall times and average velocities as a function of distance.

The goals of Project Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and math.

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan

Explore visual patterns and symmetry with this online tool

Cool tool to make a virtual flower

eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms.

The definitive site for webquest creation. Watch for the new tool, QuestGarden, which debuts in September. This tool will make the process of creating a webquest simpler and less time consuming. Many templates and resources will be provided!