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[|www.themint.org] Fun activities, games, challenges, quizzes and tests for students and teens, tips for parents, and entertaining programs and lesson plans for teachers about money, budgeting, and financial management [|www.practicalmoneyskills.com] This site has games such as Financial Soccer, as well as almost 20 different calculators to help plan for things like school, a vacation, a party, or the holidays to name a few. I would use the games on his site as possible anchor activities during a financial unit and he various calculators as part of a project or assignment. [|www.usmint.gov] & [|www.moneyfactory.gov] Various resources about money for kids as well as showing the parts of money in a fun interactive way [|www.surfaquarium.com] Good resources and materials about multiple intelligences, family, health & nutrition, virtual field trips, etc.. This site would be useful in he classroom as well as a home, the students can take virtual field trips based on what was learned during class. [] Create and/or take virtual fieldtrips, which is useful in order to create virtual field trips or stories based on class lessons [|www.goals.com] About self awareness, sustainability, and environment through adventure travel and experiences, which is useful to bring the global world ino the classroom and help pu things into perspective. [] Very youth friendly site for students to “find themselves” and connect with other students, there is also a book. This site has activities and resources for students from elementary school to high school. It can be used in a range of classes from middle school to parenting or human development. [|www.mypyramid.gov] Health and nutrition and food pyramid, which is useful in the classroom and they will also send a lot of resources and provide links o several other nutrition based websites and information. __MS Photostory 3__ Technology can be used for “show & tell”, current events, differentiated projects, etcetera. [] This site lists numerous amounts of other websites about careers, some of them are not very good but others are very useful and provide acivities and information. [] Resources specifically for FACS teachers, this site has lists of sites broken into various categories put together by other FACS teachers. [|www.brainpop.com] Site which has mostly general education resources but also has good “kid friendly” resources about health, nutrition, financial management, and technology including things on internet safety and bullying.