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Title: The American Civil War URL: [|www.americancivilwar.com]

Comments: [] is a great tool for teaching and learning because it’s both a fun, and informational resource. The student friendly site is composed of many links to topics ranging from important people of the time to specific battles of the war. There are also classroom activity ideas listed that include the recipe for the Union Hardtacks that the northern soldiers ate throughout the war. There are only two complaints that I have with the page and those have to do with the excess of advertising (however relevant the products are), and the disorganization of all the links/topics. If they managed to clear up all the ads and organize the topics into a more user friendly less distracting setup than I would give The American Civil War an A+. If I were given a chance to use this web page in a classroom setting, I would likely use it to help supplement reading assignments, for extra info for reports, and to find fun subject related activities to perform during class.

Comments: 1. This site is incredibly busy. It has pictures, multiple links and ads all over the place. It is hard to focus on a certain area because this site has so much to offer. But it does offer the important information which one would use in order to learn more about the American Civil War. ME.

Title: Brain POP URL: [|www.brainpop.com]

Comments: [|www.brainpop.com] is a general education website that focuses on several learning topics that include Math, Science, Social Studies, Music/Art, English, and Technology. From the homepage you can easily maneuver from one subject to another. Each subject area is composed of several more specific topics that you can click and watch movies to learn about. My only dislike about brain POP is that it is something that you have to pay for. If a subscription to the site was cheap I might say that it would be a worthy investment for a school district to make, but a grand is pretty expensive (especially with districts strapped for cash already). If I worked in a school district with a subscription to the web page I would probably use it to get the kids more interested in the topics we were learning. It might be an introduction to a lesson or a supplement to it. I think in order to use this in a classroom you would have to be teaching middle school or younger.

Commentary: This website is easy to navigate, and visually attractive. This would be a big attention grabber for Middle Level/Younger High School students who are interested by colorful pictures. This site seems like a reliable resource that would be fun to use in a classroom with younger students, helping them to find interesting things about different subjects. JO

This is a great website for students that are maybe in middle school. It looks like it would grab their attention and would make learning fun for them. However, I did see that you could use a free trial thing first, so I don't know if a school district or teacher would pay the money to use this site when there are other sites out there for free that may be similar to this one. CA

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