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Glogster This is a great way to make online posters. Students can create almost anything including pictures and videos. Text and graphics are provided for quick creations.

www.quizlet.com

From site, "Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 6 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online."

You can add pictures to words to help with memorization. It will even say the word. There are even games. I also embed it into my Edline page for a quick review. This is iPad friendly.

Curriculum 21 Clearninghouse A listing compiled by teachers and organized by subject categories. Includes a description and sometimes suggestions on how to use the sites or applications in your classrom.

Vocabulary.com Helps you learn new words by playing games.

Wordle.net Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Wordle is a great tool when students are doing any form of self-editing. They can see if they themes and main points they want are coming through. It is also useful when understanding a historical speech because it lets you see which world are used most frequently by the speaker.

Gapminder This site is really cool. It is full of statistical data about the word and will allow you and your students to interact with the data and make discoveries. Click on "for teachers" for ideas on how to use gapminder in your classroom. Gapminder naturally lends itself to being useful in math classes and social studies classrooms. It can also be used to help introduce a time period when studying a novel in English or to enhance student understanding of a region or country in a language class. In Science class it allows you to view the changes over time of things such as life expectancy or human development.

Preparing Students With 21st Century Skills This website, provided by Verizon, contains lesson plans that focus on specific 21 Century Skills. The page is searchable and has great resources for K-12 teachers.

Social Studies Central As expected, this site is full of great ideas for your social studies lessons. There is a place to share best practices and a ton of terrific ideas to get your students thinking and creating and uncovering history and the social sciences.