Title:QwikiSubject:Social Studies, ReferenceLevel:Primary, Elementary (PK-5)
Primary, Middle (6-8)
Secondary, High (9-12)
Description:"Type in your topic and you will get a collage of pictures and an audio reader giving you information about your topic. The people at Qwiki call this an "information experience." They have several categories, if you'd like to just go in and browse. They include animals, natural wonders, monuments, historical figures, and daily (current events.) At the end of the slide show, you are given choices for sharing. You can email, embed, tweet, etc. Also, you are given several other sources you can click on to further investigate your topic. Currently, Qwiki covers a wide variety of people, places, and things. Since this is their first release, they promise to have much more content soon. And, actually they have a voting area where you can tell them what you'd like to see them provide next. The qwiki source material is not readily identified, though press releases indicate that it comes from 'wikipedia and other sources.' There is also an app for iPads available."

Site:http://www.qwiki.com

Title:BBC-DimensionsSubject:Social Studies, Ecology, Geography, Environmental StudiesLevel:Primary, Middle (6-8)
Secondary, High (9-12)
Description: "This site can help make the size of a place or an historical event real. How big is big? This tool generates the ultimate geographically based infographic! When we study an event, a disaster, or talk about the scale or size of an empire, it can be difficult for students to translate that information into a comparison to something they know. Type in your postal code, and see a map displaying the size of the 2010 floods in Pakistan (for example) covering an area near where you live. Instant context! The site provides comparisons related to historical events, environmental disasters, ancient kingdoms, and more. There are graphics related to area, to depth, and to distances in space."

Site:http://howbigreally.com

Title:BookFlavorSubject:Literature, Reading, Language ArtsLevel:Primary, Elementary (PK-5)
Primary, Middle (6-8)
Secondary, High (9-12)
Post-secondary, College, University
Professional
Description:

Bookflavor is a web application for readers or book lovers who want a clean and simple way to discover books and see what other people thought of them. If you haven’t already, you should give it a try. Just enter something in the search box above, or click “popular books” to see what other people are reading.

Bookflavor is designed and coded by Nathan Peck, a freelance web developer based in Austin, TX. (He is also a member of Hacker News.) He has loved reading and coding since he was a child, and decided to create Bookflavor to embrace both of these interests.

Bookflavor is provided completely free to you. It is supported by book sale commissions. If you buy one of the books listed on this site by clicking the book image or the green buy button beneath the book image then Nathan will receive a small commission which will help keep Bookflavor online for your enjoyment.

Bookflavor does not track your personal information. You can login with Facebook to save books or share books with your Facebook friends, but Bookflavor respects your right to privacy and will not store any information which could personally identify you. Additionally, Bookflavor will never sell or share information about your reading preferences or site usage.

To summarize Bookflavor is a free, no-nonsense, easy to use book discovery and sharing website. Nathan hopes you enjoy your visit.

Site:http://bookflavor.com

Title:WildFinderSubject:Ecology, Life ScienceLevel:Primary, Elementary (PK-5)
Primary, Middle (6-8)
Secondary, High (9-12)
Description: "Use the World Wildlife Fund's WildFinder tool to search and learn about over 26,000 different species. Enter a species name to search. Gain a global perspective of the regions they are found. Search instead in a specific region to locate species living there. View the classification information and threat status and click on images to open a tab with the Google images listed. Though background information is lacking, find plenty of information instead about the global ecoregions. Ever wonder where in the world the Black-footed ferret is found (it is not, it's extinct, but you will find that out, too.) What about the Arabian Tiger Snake? Check it out at WildFinder."
Site:http://gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder/

Title:DnaTube-Scientific Video SiteSubject:Science, Natural Science, GeneticsLevel:Secondary, High (9-12)
Description: DnaTube is a scientific site providing video based studies, lecturers and seminars, enabling a self-growing community to share scientific experiences and videos. One of the best features of the DnaTube.com, is that it supports other types of scientific works through flash animations, powerpoints, in addition to videos. DnaTube is a non-profit video site which is aiming to be a visual scientific resource for its visitors. "As graduate students, we know that it is difficult to understand biological mechanism by reading plain text. And we know that a picture says more than a thousand words. We believe the video-based explanations of biological concepts will remove the barrier in front of the people desiring to enhance their scientific knowledge."

Resource Review

Site:http://www.dnatube.com/