What do you love?

What do you love?
Enter a topic and possibilities open up. I tried some recent school research topics: American Bison, The U.S. Constitution, Malawi, and realized this would be a good springboard for a student team investigating a topic. 

The American Family Through Time

As the American family has changed, so has the actual census. For instance, a total of 5 questions were asked in the 1790 Census as opposed to 42 questions in the population section of the 1950 Census.

The timeline below gives you access to all these incredible insights. Simply click on each decade in order to understand what has changed and what has stayed the same. Each decade has a link to a list of its respective questions. Click on the buildings for some quick comparisons between 1880 and 2000. Use the "Fun Census Fact!" cards to further your census knowledge.

Most of all have fun learning about what life might have been like for your ancestors and uncover The American Family Through Time!

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The American Family Through Time

Historypin | Home

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.
    Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.

    Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.

About Science NetLinks - Science NetLinks

About Science NetLinks - Science NetLinks: "Science NetLinks is a premier K-12 science education resource produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Science NetLinks, you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and all of it is free!"

Write Comics

Write Comics: This is as simple as it gets. Choose a background, character(s), thought or speech bubbles. Then type the text.

Bubblr for Creating "Comics"

:: PIMPAMPUM :: Bubblr! .:.:
Bubble is a tool to create comic strips using photos from flickr. Search images and add bubbles to them.

Storybirds

Storybird - Artful storytelling Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They’re curiously fun. Teacher accounts let you manage students' writing without email accounts.

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Easybib App for iO or Android

Check out "EasyBib"

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Learnist

Learnist Think of it a Pinterest for learning.
Welcome to the future of learning. Learnist is organizing all of the wisdom of mankind in text, images, video and audio, curated by fellow humans for your learning convenience. Enjoy.

LetterBubbles

Letter Bubbles : The Typing Game!

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Google Education

Search Education – Google With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

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ShelSilversteinBooks - YouTube

ShelSilversteinBooks - YouTube:
Nine of his poems have been animated and are available on YouTube.
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ReadWriteThink Printing Press

With ReadWriteThink's Printing Press students can create a booklet, flyer, brochure, or newspaper fairly easily. There is a nice guide that walks you through the process and the focus is on writing. There is a place within each publication for a picture, but not one that you can add from your computer. This space is reserved for students to draw a picture after printing.

Introducing TED-Ed

Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing:
TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student
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Draw a Stickman

Draw a Stickman:
Draw a Stickman (http://www.drawastickman.com/) is a fun interactive site that uses student creations to tell a story.
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BBC - KS2 Bitesize: Maths - Converting fractions to decimals - activity

BBC - KS2 Bitesize: Maths - Converting fractions to decimals - activity:

Converting Fractions into Decimals is an exciting mission game from the BBC for students.

ShowMe - The Online Learning Community

ShowMe - The Online Learning Community:
ShowMe is an open learning community where you can learn or teach any subject. Watch great lessons for free, or create your own. Create and record audio-annotated drawings. Fabulous for demonstrating long division, labeling the parts of a flower, teach a grammar lesson, etc. This is a also great tool for the flipped classroom!

ThingLink Education

ThingLink Education - ThingLink: "ThingLink interactive images help students develop 21st century skills and enrich their enthusiasm for learning. Teachers can use ThingLink images as interactive learning modules (ILMs) that activate and inspire students with creative and effective learning experiences."

PicLits.com

PicLits.com - Our Vision for PicLits.com:
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

Eagles' Nest Cams

Nest Cams:
Just after Valentine's Day this eagle pair laid the first egg. Now there are three awaiting hatch time which is estimated to occur on March 25th. Connect your students to this 24 hour nest cam during the next 8 days to take advantage of the excitement of awaiting new birth. What great discussions can occur! Ecology, Biology, Weather, Geography, What else? Please post comments if you check it out

TypeIt - Type accent marks, diacritics and foreign letters online

Great for foreign language teachers and students, Typeit allows you to add those accents and special characters. It includes several languages. Type using your regular keyboard, but when you need to enter a special character just click it from the Typeit window. Then cut and paste your text wherever it is needed.

CertificateStreet.com

Formerly MyAwardMaker, Certificate Street is great for certificates and awards. Find a template, download it, fill it out and print it! Almost all are free, but premium templates without a watermark are also available for a small fee.

Sweet Search

SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. They exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that appear on the first page of SweetSearch results are often buried on other search engines.


It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that the staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content onfindingDulcinea. They constantly evaluate search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.  

Tumblecloud | About

They call it collaborative digital storytelling. All that digital stuff you have. All that digital stuff everybody else has. Photos. Videos. Music. You name it. Mix it all up together and then re-arrange it any way you like. Just by dragging and dropping, Tumblecloud makes it easy for you to tell stories your way, whether by yourself, or with a whole bunch of other people.
See what happens when you get together on tumblecloud with people that matter to you. See what happens when you make stories together.

Qwiki

Qwiki is a platform that creates interactive, on-the-fly, multimedia presentations of information. It reads automatically selected information from various websites and automatically grabs photos and associated pictures on the subject. Its co-founders are entrepreneur Doug Imbruce and Louis Monier, founder of theAltaVista search engine.

Joliprint.com | Save web articles as PDF for reading later

Joliprint is a web and mobile app that saves web pages as PDF for reading later. Turn full pages into clean PDF with one click, including title, text, images, author, category, no ads, no navigation menu. And it’s Free.

JellyCam - Stop Motion

Make stop-motion films with a web-cam or a bunch of photos. No fancy features yet, but great for starting off or mucking about.For free.

Conceptboard - Realtime Teamwork & Collaboration Software

Share and discuss your content in seconds with colleagues, customers and friends. It's realtime teamwork on thoughts, documents, and screenshots.

QR Wild - Play and Create QR Code Scavenger Hunt Games!

QR Wild - Play and Create QR Code Scavenger Hunt Games! Create & play games made up of QR Code game pieces. Game codes are placed in the real world or on the web. Partially inspired by Geocaching, QR Wild lets anyone expand the game by creating their own scavenger hunts. We tried this at my school's Open House this week, and it generated excitement among the visitors.

For the Naturalist Classroom

iNaturalist.org · A Community for Naturalists where you can record what you see in nature, meet other nature lovers, and learn about the natural world

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digital sculpting

Sculptris is an elegant, powerful and yet easy to use 3D sculpting software, allowing the artist in you to simply focus on creating amazing 3D artwork. Gone are the technical and often tedious constraints typically associated with digital art.

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Wonderopolis » Wonders

Wonderopolis » Wonders is a database of videos that explain the wonders of the world.

Peregrine falcon recovery

First Egg of the Season Laid Just Days Ago
The non-profit Raptor Resource Project specializes in the preservation of falcons, eagles, ospreys, hawks, and owls. Their first birdcam went online in 1998 and 'Mae's Internest', the internet's first birdcam, quickly became the busiest corporate site in the world.Students watched the eagle family as they built a nest, laid eggs, struggled with bad weather and other animals, and cared for their young, who grew from downy babies to juvenile predators on the wing. It was an amazing experience. By giving ordinary people intimate access to the lives of wild animals, their work deepens the connection between people and the natural world, bringing benefits to both. Working with an eagle biologist, they trapped young female eagle 'D1' shortly after she started flying and attached a satellite transmitter to her. This transmitter allows viewers to follow her journey now that she has left the nest. The travels of D1 can be viewed at www.raptorresource.org or on facebook.

PaperKarma | Control Your Mailbox, Stop Paper Junk Mail - Using Your Phone!

PaperKarma | Control Your Mailbox, Stop Paper Junk Mail - Using Your Phone! Take photos of the junk mail you wish to stop. Snap a photo, and you're done.

Poetry Idea Engine

Poetry Idea Engine | Writing with Writers | Scholastic.com Get your poetry juices flowing with the Poetry Idea Engine. Created with GoCyberCamp, this activity will allow you to write haikus, free verse, limericks, and more!

Kerpoof Studio

Kerpoof Studio multimedia software is used by kids worldwide to create original artwork, animated movies, stories, greeting cards and more. The site is meant to be fun, but they're serious about its educational value. Elementary and middle school teachers can use Kerpoof in many ways to enhance classroom activities while meeting a range of educational standards.

Aurasma - The world's first Visual Browser, bringing the physical and virtual worlds together

Aurasma - The world's first Visual Browser, bringing the physical and virtual worlds together Aurasma allows your smart phone or tablet to recognise images and objects. It then augments your view of the real-world with videos, music and 3D animations called “Auras”.

spelling city

Math Vocabulary
VocabularySpellingCity offers Math Vocabulary for students of all ages. Lists are based on the Common Core State Math Standards and are organized by grade level and category.

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Idea Flight on Vimeo

Idea Flight on Vimeo: "Idea Flight is the only tool you need to share your ideas and direct the experience for your audience easily on the iPad. Just download Idea Flight, access a wireless connection, and you're ready for takeoff! Your FREE download includes a sample presentation you can use to test-pilot Idea Flight."

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Online Brainstorming and Voting. Amazingly Easy and Free | tricider

Online Brainstorming and Voting. Amazingly Easy and Free | tricider
Tricider is an intuitive web tool that helps make brainstorming and group decisions an easier, more enjoyable and productive experience. The web application is so simple and easy that you could have it up and working with your students in minutes. Here are five basic steps on how to brainstorm in your class with Tricider.

Rubric galore!

Rubrics for Assessment

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reading bear

Reading Bear - learn to read for free!

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