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PBS Teachers is a portal that provides preK-12 educational resources that include thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations that correlate to state and national educational. The site allows its user an advanced search option to fine tune their search for specific lessons by grade level, subject, and resource request (i.e.) lesson plans, video, interactive, slideshow. For educators, the site also provides a unique opportunity to subscribe and join different educator discussion forums as well as theme based theme-based widgets containing links to high-quality activity packs, resources, and activities for multiple grade levels.

This resource for teachers and students has lots of information. The section for educators offers an educator's corner as well as links to various sites. Students can identify with K-5, or 6-8. They can research information about arts, computers, careers, math, money, government, health, science, and social studies. There are also links to games and activities and YouTube videos.

Kids.gov: The Official Kids' Site of the U.S. Government is a portal for students who are learning about the U.S. government; specifically in the disciplines of math, computers, money, science, social studies, or the arts (music, reading/writing, and art). The site is geared for three specific audiences: K-5, 6-8, and educators and provides over 2,000 web pages from government agencies, schools, and educational organizations that emphasize federal, state, military sites. This site is easy to navigate and has a "Hot Topics" tab that provide links to The Constitution, kids.gov YouTube channel, activities and games, American history, state websites, and the different branches of government. All of these sites make it easy for both student and educator to explore and learn.

The Institute for Holocaust Education site provides educational resources, workshops, survivor testimony for both students and educators of all ages and all levels of learning. The site is designed to ensure appropriate, accurate, and authentic lessons/materials are provided to the students so they are able to understand the political, social, and intellectual conditions that led to the Holocaust while recognizing stereotypes, prejudice and racism. The site also provides its users with additional references (i.e.) books, web links, exhibits, and a website dedicated to the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence or FREE, is a U.S. Department of Education website that complies free teacher resources from dozens of federal agencies.  Subjects range from: arts and music, history and social studies, health, language arts, math, and science. 

This page is a resource for those who want to know more about safety in the workplace. This OSHA page is specifically about training, educational resources, and training materials administered through OSHA.

I want students to know more about future careers than just how much they will get paid. I want them to understand the rules that govern their employers and career fields. So, this site would help them understand one of the groups who (on a federal level) impacts the viability of their business to remain open as a safe worksite.

ERIC-Education Resources Information Center is an amazing website set up by the Institue of Educational Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education. Unlike many information engines like EBSCOHOST or Wilson, ERIC can be used without the hassel of school codes or passwards.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence offers primary resources in a variety of subjects. These resources are not limited to history. There are resources for arts, heath, language arts, math, and science.

Group of primary sources put together by the College of Education at the University of Florida.   Made for educators who value the use of primary sources in their classrooms.

One hundred documents which reflect important events in American history. This site reflects the diversity and unity within our culture and its focus is highlighting, celebrating, and creating discussion that diversity and unity. It is not simply an archive of a broad collection of documents, but rather an archive which represents a vast range of American experiences.

Our documents includes 100 Milestone American historical documents compiled to span United States historical events from 1776-1965. Documents can be accessed by listing/year or visual/digital scroll bar. This resource would be valuable for intermediate elementary students through high school students as well as educators. Primary sources would be beneficial in U.S./American history and government education.

This website has many primary and government documents relating to the history of the United States.  One area that I really enjoyed exploring was the tools for educators.  Under that section, they had many tips for librarians such as creating book displays, bulletin board ideas, and a link to a poster so staff and students can vote on the most important American history documents.

"OPS A+ Career PREP in conjunction with Nebraska Career Connections offers students valuable on-line education & career planning resources. Log on to complete your student e-portfolio."

This site offers links to a number of different vocational assessments (some free and others not free) as well as a more specific understanding of how career clusters are devided and what falls into which category.

The ipl2 website not only allows its users to access both national and international newspapers and magazines online, but it also provides its users quick and simple ways to search for materials with the click of a mouse (i.e.) for kids or teens, resources by subject, or special collections created by ipl2. The site permits researchers to search specific categories such as: art and humanities, education, law, government and political science, as well special collections for presidents and literary criticisms. The site offers a unique 24 hour a day help desk, where students and volunteer library and information science professionals provide answers to your questions via email.

This website provides information on the climate, weather, the atmosphere, oceans and coasts, and marine life. Students can explore tornadoes, hurricanes, and other weather phenomenon. It provides text and video information along with teacher resources and classroom materials. I think this would be a great site for a middle to high school science classes.

This site provides a huge database to access art.  It can be searched by artist, specific topics, or curriculum based.  It also has many different lesson plans to accompany the art.

National History Day offers primary sources for world history. Students and educators from 5-12 grade can use this site to find information on many regions around the world. Teachers can use the Classroom Connection section to find information that fits into their standards, a repository can be used to find primary resources for specific regions and time periods.

The Nebraska Partnership for American History Education provides a variety of primary source resources by theme, time period, photos (1850-1938), and bibliographic collections. This site is useful for Nebraska history, United States history, women's history, Native & African American histories. It would definitely be appropriate for intermediate elementary students through high school students and all educators (lesson plans can be found here).

National Archives website with a lot of great resources.  Lesson plans & activities to help planning lessons around primary sources, school tours and activities, links with help to use primary sources.  There are also featured activities and resources.  Not to mention professional development opportunities!

Archives.gov offers a section designed just for educators. There are lesson plans and reproducible sources that can be used to teach American History. Teachers can find lessons based on specific historical time periods. Educators can also find professional development opportunities. There is a section for state and regional primary resources, but I noticed that Nebraska is not on the list.

The National Archives provides many primary documents.  Looking at the site, I also found the teacher resource section really helpful.  Some of the things that can be found there are how to find primary resources and how to use them. For teachers and librarian that are new to using this resource, or new a refresher, I think it will really benefit them.

A science topic that is bound to grab and hold onto everyone's attention is outer space. NASA offers four versions of their student site: K-4, 5-8, 9-12, and higher education. Each version offers some basic "must-haves" for primary sources such as photo libraries, videos, and a link to NASA-TV. In addition, there are games to motivate students, career profiles (to help students see what steps are necessary if they want to become an astronaut), and "Homework Topics" to help students extend their learning. There is also a great NASA Kids Club that is available!

This is an archive of political cartoons printed in Britain. It would be great for a lesson that showed multiple viewpoints and perspectives on issues and moments in history. Students can analyze them to find out the cartoonist's perspective on an idea, and what the public's reaction was to an event. I use these in class to have my students see how one country can react to the events in another, and how different areas view each other.

This site list British cartoons from 1904 to the 1990's.  Cartoons are often a mirror of the culture which they portray.  This site is excellent source for social and political history of Great Britain. This site also allows registered users to create groups of cartoons for education purposes and users can access other previously created groups. The site also provides teaching and learning tools and lessons.

Even though this is not an American affiliated site, the British Library has excellent resources for educators.  I enjoyed the variety of tools and resources it had to offer.  One particular area that I enjoyed exploring was their "Timelines: Sources from History" that allows you to explore collection items from ancient civilizations to the present day.  There was also this one section pertaining to a century of children's songs, rhymes and games, which presented children's culture in Britain over the years. I found this to be very intriguing because I did not expect to see a special area designated only for children's games of the past. In addition to explaining these games there were also curriculum links highlighting drama, history, art, citizenship, etc. 

This is a 2 page document which offers suggestions for teachers about using the online resources from the National Archives. It is a quick read with the web links right in the text for ease of use. The suggestions go beyond the obvious use for research to include links to lesson plans and resources to teach document analysis. This could be a very useful tool for teachers in all subjects.