Douglas+Jordan+-+Thinkfinity

The Thinkfinity: Internet Content for the Classroom Web sites through the Thinkfinity 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 **


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


 * **Illuminations**
 * http://illuminations.nctm.org/
 * Students and teachers are able to pick activities based on students grade levels.


 * **3,2,1 Blast Off Vocabulary Instruction**
 * http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=946
 * Designed to help 1st and 2nd grades learn vocabulary by taking them on virtual adventures.


 * **Xpeditions, Geography Standard in Your Classroom**
 * http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/
 * Allows younger and older Xpeditioners to use geography to complete a variety of missions.


 * **How Labor Got It’s Day**
 * http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM745&page=teacher
 * Teaches students the history of labor day and what it really means, instead of just the last day of summer break.


 * **Move it With Simple Machines**
 * http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=6&DocID=337
 * To know the six simple machines and to understand what they do and how they have changed the lives of humans.