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Cool California.org: Providing resources to all Californians so they can take action, reduce their environmental impact, and be part of the climate change solution.

Free Online Academic Courses at Major Universitites: Find hundreds of free online courses from universities like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, Princeton...all at academicearth.com. This is for real!

Best 3D Design and Animation Software (Open Source/Free: Watch the reviews on Youtube and download the program of your choice.

Duckduckgo: Seach without being tracked. Growing fast since the NSA scandal.

Free or low cost iPhone apps: Teachwithmyipad Freeclubweb--social studies Find more by Googlling "Free Social Studies Apps, Free Science Apps, etc.

Free App Builder: Watch a twelve year old girl build an app (using appsbar.com} in three easy steps. Video. It is free to make and use (of course, they get to place ads on the free app) 24 minute tutorial

QR Code Generator: Make a QR Code for Free.

Google Docs QR Code Generater: Google Drive template makes a QR in moments.

Visit http://alessonplanforteachers.blogspot.com/ for an ongoing series on implementing the CCSS in the Social Studies classroom.

Here's some links I picked up from teachers in my 2013 workshops.

Gilder Lehrman Institute: A great resource for teaching American History. Primary sources, history by era, programs and exhibitions, seminars, fellowships...

InformED: is a great learning and ideas hub. Info on teaching students with disabilities to handling bullying.

Powwownow: free conference calls.

Yola: Create a free professional website in minutes. Recommended by teachers.

Educatorpages: A free website builder for teachers recommended by teacher users.

Weebly: Another website builder teachers tell me they are using and recommend.

iCivics: Standards based curriculum materials including 16 video games.

Edmondo: provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, access homework, grades, school notices. Find links to resources to support the subject you are teaching.

The Ultimate Twitter Guide: Teachers tell me they love Twitter as a means to communicate with students. Here's some good tips for educator use.

Teamview: Remote control any computer on the internet--remote access--free for personal use.

Wonderopolis: currently offers 900 "wonder" prompts. The prompts cover topics in science, social studies, mathematics and language arts. Each of the prompts includes a short article, a video, or image or two, and links to additional readings.

Pinterest: is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to creat and manage theme based image collections such as events, interests, and hoppies. Used by teachers and students.

Biocube Creator: a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.

End of 2013 workshop teacher recommendations.

Education Apps from Google Chrome: Great free apps for students, teachers and parents. These function with Google Chrome.

Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory: In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory. This is must see! Amazing!

Election 2012 Links

Best of the Web for Education Find my CLS presentation on Slideshare.net

Apps for the iPhone: Free Education apps.

Social Studies Teachers on Google Docs: Here is a growing list of the best resources for Social Studies Teachers on Google Docs

IXL Math Practice: Online activies/games by grade level standards

ABCya Kids Educational Games: Free games by grade level.

Clockworks: Practice telling time.

Hickory Tickory Toc: Practice telling time.

ABCya Learing to Tell Time: Time in a time traveling adventure.

SUMO Paint - Sumo Paint is a full featured photo editing / painting application, which works right in your favorite web browser. For kids to professionals. It is similar to Photoshop. Easy to use. Nothing to download. There are many tutorials on YouTube. My grandkids love it!

Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail as easy as email, free US long distance, low rates on international calls, and many calling features. Voice messages are translated to text and are sent to your gmail account! You can respond with a text message. A great private, free number for teachers--students can text or call for help.

Screencast: Free online storage and sharing with Screencast.com. 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of bandwidth per month for free. Works with Jing, Camtasia and more.

Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—

not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods. It is an "answer engine."

FunSchool: Games and craft activities for elementary kids. This is used in my grand-daughter's class.

Ap for Google Translate for iPhone

Ap for Google Translate for Droid

PowerPoint Palooza: Lots of PowerPoints for US and World History

Global Incident Map: Find out where earthquakes, forest fires, gang activity, Amber alerts, etc.

MailChimp: Send group mailings for free.

Where's George?: Trace the path of a dollar bill across America.

Santa on NORAD: Follow Santa using Google Earth. Nice video features.

On March 5, 2010 one of the few remaining original broadside copies of the Declaration of Independence authorized by the Continental Congress in 1776 was on display for just one day at the California Council for the Social Studies Conference in Pasadena, California. The event was made possible by a grant from the Pearson Foundation. Learn about the Declaration of Independence by visiting the new Declaration of Independence site I just created to offer you videos and websites about this priceless document. http://sites.google.com/site/declarationofindependenceccss/

PDF to Word Converter: This is slick and 100% free.

Encyclopedia.com: Verified facts, information, and biographies from trusted sources; encyclopedias, dictionaries, related newspaper, and magazine articles.

Countries of the World: Animaniacs sing the countries of the world! States and Capitols too! sung by Wacko.

Music Waiting for an Answer: Here's a set of game show sound tracks in wav. format to play after you ask your students a question.

Songs for the Classroom: Here's some songs you can download for class activities and classroom management.

Free Stuff for Teachers: Internet Magic! Links to free resources for teachers.

CST Review: Review and Practice tests for California History Test provided by Mr. Kash.

Web 2.0 Directory: Directory to all Web 2.0 sites.

Meet Kids From Around The World: Nextvista has videos of children from all over the world sharing “their world” to the world by online video.

ClashWish.org: Post a class wish list on the non-profit ClassWish.org site which matches schools and donors.

Survey Monkey: Get all the tools you need to create your own surveys.

Virtual Field Trips: MiddleSchool. net presents a great collection of virtual field trips for history, science,...

CRF Research Site: Constitutional Rights Foundation site was named the #1 site for student research by the Los Angeles Times. Great links for all topics. .

Put PowerPoints Online with Slideshare.com: Post your PowerPoints online. Free. Access PowerPoints of others on topics of interest.

Top Education Tools with Links: PowerPoint on the top 100 learning tools for education in 2008. Blogs, wikis, open source programs....

Create A Blog Using blogger.com: Create your own blog. Free You need a Google account. See my blog as an example. http://georgesblog222.blogspot.com

Sea Monkey Browser/Composer: A webbrowser and composer and more. Free

Quizlet : Flash card and quiz community. Make your own. Use others sets.

World Challenge: Test your knowledge of geography facts on a world map. This is very challenging and addictive.

Google Free 411: This is cool and free--411--no more paying for information

Post Student Art: At Artsonia.com you can have students post their work at this site. Free. Requires parent permission.

Learn English With Pictures: Free, online, resource to learn English words in a fun way.

Photo Story 3 for Windows: Create slide shows from your digital photos with background music.

West Africa Student Wiki Web Page: Impressive use of wiki technology on this student built web page. Note the teacher comments showing the progress the student made in creating this page!

Sundiata and Africa Links: Links to support the study of Sundiata and Africa.

Vocabulary Learning Fun: Great for language learners/ESL. The flash site incorporates 219 topics, along with over 10,000 English words and phrases.

Islamic History: Get the facts from the Internet Islamic History Sourcebook.

Flash Card Maker: This makes flash cards to use on the computer or print out.

Kidipedia: Here's "History for Kids" indexed by topic or key words. Text has interactive links.

HistoryCentral.com: This site has great links for both World and American history.

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