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- The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). The project includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation.
- It is a reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of consumer products. Students can investigate pollution topics, such as agriculture, health hazards, air, water, environmental justice, and pollution.
- Students can find information about popular facts, such as population, income, other information about their community. And they use these data in their projects to compare and contrast places.
- Wiki is for anyone in education including teachers, students, and parents. The teachers can create their wiki pages and assign home work to the students, create discussions to get the students opinion. Students and teachers can add and edit the pages. It is a wonderful way to create student centered collaborative learning environment.
- It is free to join. Player choose an avatar to represent themselves. Once they are sign in they can interact with other avatars, places or objects. They can explore the world, socialize, create, shop and trade things with another avatar. It is a platform that principally features 3D-based user-generated content. Avatars can use Linden dollar to shop. This program is intended for people aged 16 and over. It is created by its own users. There is no set up objectives. It is not a game either.
- It is a software. Users can create their own wiki workspaces here. They can share files, projects, and ideas. They can use it for storage space as well. It can be private or public.
- It is great website for young children to discuss global issues and make connections with their own communities. They have programs for middle school and high school students and as well as for educators. There are professional development programs for educators; and critical thinking, problem solving, cross cultural education, social action campaign, digital media production, and more.
- There are lots of good resources about social studies in this website. There names of the association that are related with social studies. Also they are all reliable resources. The lessons are also focusing on assessment. In another page there are offering seminars to students to learn how to teach social studies. There was one that took my attention called “Creating Student-Centered Social Studies Classroom Using Socratic Seminar.” It cost $125.
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- ICLS, page 231-232. International Society of the Learning Sciences / ACM DL, (2010)
- The Electronic Library, 21 (4): 322–334 (2003)
- Science and Children, 46 (9): 14 (Summer 2009)
- WMUTE, page 3-10. IEEE Computer Society, (2010)
