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Google Earth & Google Mars

Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more. (Free Program, Download at home)

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United Streaming United streaming is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you by Discovery Education. Find out what 50,000 schools and over 20,000,000 students and teachers already know—united streaming works!
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Xpedition Hall (National Geographic) Welcome to the interactive “museum” that takes you on geography journeys. Here you’ll climb a mountain, hover over the Earth, speed across Europe, visit an archeological dig, and even order sushi–plus games, animations, and more!
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Virtual Museum Tours These Sites present over 300 Museums, Exhibits, Points of Special Interest and Real-Time journeys which offer online multimedia guided tours on the Web. Most of the following offer text and pictures, others in addition transmit sound and an occasional movie.
The Virtual Tours of Museums and Exhibits never closes. Visit our Online Tours anytime, and stay as long as you like.
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Virtual Field Trips This site will allow your students to have a Virtual Field Trip to NASA, Museum and other Exhibits.
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Webcast and other things from the Library of Congress Library of Congress website that has web casts and other things for students and families.
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Google Historic Video Clips Students and teacher now have free online access to more that 100 historic films, including Old World War II newsreels and NASA documentaries.
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Dow Chemical Find classroom activities and resources designed to help you show your students that chemistry is all around us. To find an activity for your class, choose the appropriate grade level.
EPA Drinking water and ground water cycle animation. Very good website for water cycle.
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Science Simulations on the Internet Computer simulations can represent real or imaginary situations. They allow users to study or try things that would be difficult or impossible to do in real life.
How Stuff Works Website that give some video, audio and text of "How Stuff Works". Great website if you are looking to explain certain things to students.
Free Lesson Plans and Activities
Michigan Educational Technology Standards Michigan Department of Education website for Technology Standards. No lesson plans however the technology standards for all levels are located on this site.
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Best Practices of Technology Integration in Michigan Welcome to the Best Practices of Technology Integration in Michigan Site. This site is sponsored by the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators, the REMC Association of Michigan and the Berrien County Intermediate School district. The lesson plans that you will find here have been written by practicing teachers and have been "kid tested" to work in the classroom. All of these lessons have been aligned with the Michigan Framework Document.

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National Geographic Lessons, Maps, and other activities designed for the student
Michigan Teacher Network This section contains descriptions of over 600 Web sites useful in teaching K-12 students about technology. Use the links in the left side bar to browse the collection by topic.
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National Science Foundation Welcome to Classroom Resources -- a diverse collection of lessons and web resources for classroom teachers, their students, and students’ families. Materials are arranged by subject area to help you quickly find resources in your interest area, and then use them to create lesson plans or at-home activities.
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PBS GREAT web site for Kids and Teachers.  Activities and lesson plans for students!
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Web Quest A WebQuest is defined, by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, as "an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet. It the perfect model for teachers searching for ways to incorporate the Internet into the classroom on both a short-term and long-term basis.
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Internet Use in classrooms A well-done tutorial to give educators ideas and a foundation for Internet use in the classroom.
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Education World Technology Integration Lessons Education World Lesson plans that Integrate Technology
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Microsoft Lesson Plans Technology Lesson Plans at Microsoft.com
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AT &T Education Blue Web'n is an online library of 2015 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). See "About this Site" for a scoring rubric and answers to other burning questions.  Each month 5-10 new sites are added.
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Apple Lesson Plans The digital classroom is in session. At Apple we're inspired by the learning we see taking place in digital classrooms across the globe. Visit these lessons and discover how learning comes to life through innovative ideas for lessons and classroom projects.
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Adobe Lesson Plans The Adobe Digital Kids Club makes it easy for educators to introduce digital photography and video into the classroom. Students take photos with their digital cameras and then use Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software for Windows® and Mac to edit, enhance, organize, and share their images. Using Adobe Premiere® Elements, they produce amazing videos for classroom projects and presentations.
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 teAchnology
They provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students.
Teacher Resources
Cross-Word Puzzle Maker Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker.
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Discovery School Puzzle Maker Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
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Quiz Center Quiz Center is a powerful tool you can use to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Without any Web development background whatsoever, you'll be able to make online quizzes that provide instant feedback to you and your students. Quiz Center is the most flexible and comprehensive quiz-making application on the Web-and it's free!
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Worksheet Generator With Worksheet Generator, now you can create customized worksheets in less than 5 minutes! Choose from several vocabulary and math worksheet templates in the "Create a Worksheet" area below. Or just use a teacher-created worksheet in our library of "Worksheets to Go"!
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Digital History Website developed to support the teaching of American History  to K-12 students.  Good History Site.
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NASA NASA homepage that has information for students and teachers.  Homework help, Internet, and Multimedia are some of the feature of this site
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Lesson Planner Lesson Planner will help organize your busy classroom. Now you can create and store your lesson plans in your Custom Classroom account! Edit, print or download your lesson plan to your computer with a click of the mouse. Even more — link to puzzles, worksheets and quizzes that you have created with the teacher tools on DiscoverySchool.com!
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Student Safe Resources
Ask Jeeves for Kids Ask Jeeves for Kids!
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Kids Click Safe web search site designed by Librarians
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Dibdabdoo Billed as an ad free, non-commercial directory of web sites designed for child-safe searching.
Top 100 Kid's Websites Top 100 Kid Websites
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Clip Art and Images, Sound and Audio(Student Safe)
Discovery School Clip Art Discovery School now makes it easy to add graphics to your next project, whether its for home or school. Choose from hundreds of original clip art pieces, including animations!
Classroom Clip Art A free source for Clip Art, Pictures and Illustrations
School Clip Art for Teachers and Students Using clipart images on your worksheets, lesson plans, quizzes, tests, exams, puzzles, and homework will motivate the student. You can create fun assignments with ease!
Visual Resources: Photos and Clip Art Visual resources can add life to a project or lesson. From photographs to maps and drawings, a wide range of visual materials are available on the web. As you explore the following resources pay careful attention to rules regarding use. Many websites do not allow their visuals to be duplicated. Others allow students to use their visuals in web projects.
Sound Dogs 320000 Sound Effects and Production Music Tracks.
Free Play Music This website has tons of free music and audio clips. Great site for finding music to add to a presentation or video.
Flying Hands Royalty Free Music FlyingHandsMusic.com features an incredibly wide range styles of royalty free music for all companies and projects that would be enhanced by the addition of high quality music. The 50 free music clips below are selected works from our stock music library of nearly 2400 tracks. The royalty free tracks below can be used without limitation, in Educational, student and personal, not-for-profit* projects, free of charge.
Microsoft Clip Art Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media - Over 140000 clip art graphics, animations, photos, and sounds for use in Microsoft Office products.
Educational Games and Activities
National Geographic Kids Interactive Website for Kids that activities, games, stories, news, pictures, animals, postcards. 
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Fact Monster If you love facts and information and you students need some homework help is Fact Monster.  Fact Monster has received national recognition for their unbeatable reference materials, fun facts and features; it even has homework help. Find the icon on the bottom left side
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Encyclopedia.com Very good Online Encyclopedia!
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teAchnology Play our educational games! Have your students play our games! They are fun, interactive, and accessible from any Internet-ready computer
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