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Video clips from PBS Nature series. Some clips have companion sites. Requires Realplayer. The Animal guide provides basic description information and a "critter fact". Try the "Fun and Games" section under the Cool Interactives heading at the bottom of the main page.

Portal site for studying ancient Egypt. Try the Mummy Maker-- a simulation of the mummification process.

The Favorite Poem Project has been dedicated to celebrating, documenting and promoting poetry's role in Americans' lives.

This Web site lets you take an inside look at Ernest Shackleton's amazing 1914 Antarctic expedition.

Online geography game for the United States and World. Games are centered on the 5 themes of geography.

Upload a picture, add some text, and create your authentic "Wanted" poster online!

Pack your computer for a virtual tour from a wide selection of nature spots across the country. Investigate wildlife inhabitants in Who Lives Here and view narrated movie clips on your virtual tour of America. Includes Northeast Kingdom in Vermont

Compelling flash presentation which simplies statistics by scaling world population down to just 100. This thought-provoking presentation is a perfect launching point for class room discussion.

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.

This site contains activities that explore statistics and probability, algebra, geometry, decimals, percents, negative numbers, and more. Students take on the role of a secret agent and use their math skills to thwart the corporate menace, Villainy, Inc!

Middle School problem solving videos. Click Rollem'em to choose from the different episodes. Could be used for individual, small group and whole class problem-solving activities. Demonstrates the reasoning needed to solve the problem.

Games for foreign language learning

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

Collect and contribute to a genetics traits database

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.

Excellent site for teaching concepts about maps and statistics through interactive graphing tools. Mapped to standards. Check it out!

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.

Links for various web resources about Canada.

Good reference site for Canada appropriate to elementary school students

This site is designed to help you use classical music as part of your daily classroom activities. Classical music not only has the power to stimulate the mind, enrich the heart and soothe the soul; it can also help you meet the educational objectives of your students.

The Canada e-Book uses sound, images, tables, graphs to look at Canada—The Land, The People, The Economy and The State. The text, photo, and some sound files may be appropriate for upper elementary students.