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__**Article Name:**__ S'Cool Tools: 5 Great Tools to Perk Up Your Classroom and Engage Your Students

__**Article Author:**__ Maureen Brown Yoder

__**Abstract:**__ For a **//kindergarten//** teacher trying to find a new way to help his/her students learn about shapes and patterns or a high school science teacher hoping to bring ecology alive, there is a tool that could be just right for them. This article presents five learning tools that have the potential to transform lessons: (1) Lego Education's WeDo Robotics Construction Set; (2) Smart Table; (3) AVer Pen; (4) New Multiuser Virtual Environments (MUVEs); and (5) Google apps Education Community.

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