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Welcome to Exploring Florida: Social Studies Resources for Students and Teachers. This website contains thousands of educational resources for use in your classroom.


Florida Then and Now
left arrowThousands of multimedia resources for Florida history are available from the Resources menu options at left. Up to twenty resources may be used without additional permission in any student or teacher non-commercial educational project. (See license.) Choose from over 4,600 photos, 6,000 maps, 173 virtual reality panoramas, 1,150 stereoviews, and 11 pieces of royalty-free Florida music you can use in school projects. up arrowFlorida Then and Now consists of over 70 readings, "FCAT-like" questions, teacher notes, reading strategies, and activity sheets for Florida history. The reading passages are written at the upper elementary student's instructional reading level, so they are also appropriate as independent reading passages for secondary students. All of the files are available as PDFs for easy duplication.


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The Exploring Florida Science modules focus on technology-rich science content and teaching materials that allow educators to simultaneously address multiple strands in the Sunshine State Standards for Science.

Over one thousand stereoviews are now available in the "Florida in 3D" section. Get out your red/blue 3D glasses to explore Florida's past in three dimensions right on your computer screen.

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From Birds to Bungalows, or Turkeys to Turtles, for all things Florida visit the "Floripedia."


Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida. ©2011.

This edition of Exploring Florida was funded by the Florida Department of Education.

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Last update: April 17, 2011

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