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Thinkfinity: Internet Content for the Classroom Web sites through the Marco Polo Foundation offer activities for the classroom. There are 7 Web sites covering mathematics, science, geography, economics, language arts, visual arts, and humanities.
 * Thinkfinity: Internet Content for the Classroom **


 * **Thinkfinity: Internet Content for the Classroom**
 * [|http://www.marcopolo-education.org]
 * The Verizon Foundation has partnered with leading educational organizations to develop high quality Web sites to serve as resources for teachers.


 * **Watching a Garden Grow**
 * http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/gradesk_2/GardenWriting/
 * Students will observe, comment on, and question the things they see in the world while sharpening their research skills.


 * **No Extra Room On The Mayflower**
 * http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM675&page+teacher
 * Students explore the concept of scarcity by exploring a virtual model of the Mayflower and pack a virtual suitcase while learning to make good choices about what they pack.


 * **Welcome To Your New School: Using A Geographic Perspectives**
 * http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/gk2/gpafrica1.html
 * Students will use maps and other tools and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.


 * **Powerful Patterns**
 * http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L144
 * Students explore growing patterns and analyze, describe, and justify their rules for naming patterns engaging them in communicating in mathematics.


 * **Macaroni Math**
 * http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L119
 * This lesson encourages students to explore balance as they use subtraction facts to generate related addition facts and explore the idea of subtraction as the inverse of addition.