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Study Skills Topic Pages This site offers help to students on the concepts of how to listen, take notes, use index cards, prepare oral presentations and more. Go to http://www.how-to-study.com.

Primary Games.com This site contains educational games and puzzles for elementary students in language arts, math and social studies. Visit http://www.primarygames.com.

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Concept to Classroom is a collaboration between Thirteen Ed Online and Disney Learning Partnership. From the home page you can choose free workshops on education topics. The award-winning workshops include family and community connections as well as assessment, evaluation and curriculum redesign. The site also provides what you need to apply for professional development credit. Check it out at http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/index.html .

CNNfyi.com contains news for students and resources for teachers. This CNN Newsroom site has a daily guide in addition to guide archives. The site covers many disciplines and partners with Holt, Riverdeep and Hartcourt. Go to http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/.

Fact Monster from Information Please includes an atlas, almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, and covers World News, U.S., People, Word Wise, Science, Math, Sports, Cool Stuff, Games & Quizzes and Homework Center. The site has daily features as well as a search feature. It's at http://www.factmonster.com/.