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National Geographic for Kids: [] -This website is an excellent resource for divergent students because it incorporates games, videos, stories, activities, lesson plans, blogs, and more. -Students can log into this safe, appropriate website and learn about content that we are covering in class related mainly to life science. -This website even has a blogger contest as well as a photo contest for students to submit their own work.

Super Teacher Tools: [] -This website has a variety of review games, classroom management software, and other miscellaneous tools for educators. -The review games include a speed matching game, jeopardy game, and even a class seating chart program. -The website is quick and easy and best of all it's free. - This website is great for divergent learners because it is interactive and visual.

Kids Know It: [] -This website provides student's with a fun and educational way to spend their free time. -Has fun and interactive learning modules that can be utilized by teachers, parents, and home schoolers to enhance their learning environments, and increase the interest and attentiveness of their learners. -Divergent learning students excel using this webstie because they can create a character and play any of the hundreds of free educational games in an interactive way.

Ed Heads: [] -Edheads creates unique, educational Web experiences designed to make hard-to-teach concepts understandable using the power and interactivity of the Internet. -All the activities at the Edheads site will have connections to National and State standards in their teacher sections. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This website adresses the needs of divergent learners by delivering in-depth content in a fresh, exciting style allowing the user to learn intuitively in an online environment.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brain Pop: [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Founded in 1999, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Divergent learners will benefit from this webstite because it is very visual and interactive. Following each video are quizzes and questions.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Virtual Middle School Library: [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Websites and links to resources for teachers, students, librarians, and parents. This website is maintained by a retired school librarian. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This site would be a good starting point for research. There are links to several sites that have almanacs, encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, and links to other reference websites. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Divergent Learners can benefit from this site because it offers links to sites on webpage building, links to games and entertainment, and kid friendly search engines.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SMILE: [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Description from the website: “SMILE is a national partnership among science and technology centers, museums, community-based organizations, and out-of-school educators.” The site is meant to be a useful tool to teach math and science for public education and homeschooling parents. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-The site has many math and science activities to extend learning opportunities. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-The site is DL friendly because of the sheer number of activities that are offered, as well as, videos and an opportunity for students to earn badges and points by participating.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Zoom: [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Zoom is a website that is affiliated with PBS kids. It focuses on science activities that can be done at home or in the classroom. Most of them use household items to complete. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-The activities can be used as an enrichment tool or for extra credit opportunities. Students are encouraged to post their results to the Zoom site. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Divergent Learners have many different activities from which to choose. There are surveys, discussions on hot topics, opportunities to write poems, stories, or songs, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teachers’ Domain: [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Description from website: “Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.” This site has resources for every core subject, the arts, and even professional development. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This website has interactive activities, lesson plans, videos, and images for use in the classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This website offers a variety of ways to differentiate instruction which will benefit divergent learners.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Science Spot: [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This site was created and is maintained by an 8th grade science teacher in Illinois. It features links to other web resources, lesson plans and activities from her own classroom, ideas for science clubs, science trivia and daily science questions, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This website has a multitude of uses in the classroom. There are worksheets (many of which I already use), word searches, crosswords, technology resources, and games. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-There are activities and other resources available for every multiple intelligence on this site.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Study Stack:[| http://www.studystack.com/] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This website is a great tool to help your students prepare for tests and quizzes. It is a free site that allows you to enter your data one time and then create flash cards, matching games, hangman, and many other study tools.