Visualization+Tools

View panoramic images like this one of Mt. Everest from all over the world!
 * Panoramas**

Allows you to zoom in on ANY place in the WORLD! Great for teaching geography.
 * GoogleEarth**

 Digital storytelling of the 21st century! Through this highly engaging, multilingual, interactive digital story, students will follow a girl named Alice and her imaginary friend, Brad through several episodes. The idea is for students that children will grow up with Alice from year to year.
 * Inanimate Alice **

Collection of web-based Science interactives categorized by grade level and the different Sciences.
 * Learning Science**

 A library of interactive Math manipulatives for use in grades K-12.
 * National Library of Virtual Manipulatives**

 Virtual Math manipulatives for grades Pre-K through 8
 * Glencoe-McGraw Hill Math Manipulatives**

Science visualizations for Middle School
 * Prisms**

Great tool for digital storytelling. Students can watch Capzles that have been made by others or they can create their own by uploading videos and pictures.
 * Capzles**

 Collection of movies that show changes in time of the world around us.
 * Playing With Time**

 Online graphical dictionary
 * Visuwords**

Engaging digital resources in all core-curriculum areas (grades K-12). *Does require a subscription but most school districts have it!
 * Discovery Education**

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"a fact-based world view that everybody understands" -Gapminder founders =====

Gives graphic representations of world statistics over time, such as global trends, economony, climate, natural disasters, etc.


 * GIS**

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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Helps students and educators explore their world, from local to global scale with Graphic Information Systems (GIS). There are even lesson plans available!! =====