Great+Web+Sites

=Great Web Sites=

// **http://www.thefutureschannel.com/ The Futures Channel** // Videos and Activities Deliver Hands-On, Real World Math and Science Lessons for the Classroom.

// **http://theweekinrap.com/ The Week in Rap** // provides a free weekly summary of current events in a hip-hop music video for teens and students.

[|http://www.qwiki.com]

[] Provides online textbooks, videos, and other resources for algebra, American government, biology, calculus, enrvironmental science, physics, psychology, religion, statistics, and U.S. history

[] Quicktopic is a free message board that provides teachers and students a place to discuss anything. The messaging sessions have a unique url for teachers to post for students to discuss classwork and the sessions can be archived for reference.

www.qwiki.com This is a site that takes information from wikis and makes a presentation. It is not an end-all resource for students, but it is a great tool for teachers to use as an ice-breaker!

http://wonderopolis.org/ - A place where parents/teachers seek and nurture a brighter world for their children/students through the power of discovery, creativity, learning and imagination.

[|**The Khan Academy**]is "an organization on a mission". By providing absolutely free of charge instructional videos on topics covering anything from Algebra, Banking, Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Astronomy, Economics, History, Geometry, Physics, Statistics, etc.,

Buck Institute - [|www.bie.org] - WONDERFUL website for finding project based learning ideas. Ideal in that you can search by grade level and subject.

[|http://thinkfinity.org/home]-Great resource for lesson plan construction and innovative tools.

http://www.brainflips.com/ - Teachers love this. They can make their own flashcards for their students or they can select completed decks that other educators have created. Students can create cards for a learning project also.

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