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This is a good site for those seniors whose Senior Project topic is on environmental issues. It is a springboard for choosing a specific focal point. It would also be good for the students to use for choosing an action plan for their project. Site is also a great science site for younger kids if you choose to look at only the bullet facts provided.

This EPA site gives the reader lots of options. One can learn about information where you live, popular topics, and current environmental news. I typed my zip code and found out the air quality, water and land information, the health risks, and energy produced in my area. I also explored some of the topics such as health and safety issues. Students could use this site to approach project-based learning and inquiry projects.

High school. Topic of studies range from acid rain, air pollution, land fills, and more. Easy to navigate. Student can find and comprehend information with easy to create reports on environmental issues, causes, and solutions

This is part of the American Memeory Project. This combines two archival collections from the Nebraska State Historical Society. It has corespondence and photographs that relay a dipcition of settlement life in Nebraska. This is great for the foruth/fifth grade state projects.

This is a collection of documents on law, history, and diplomacy. In World History we talk about many of these documents, so it would be interesting to have students read them and try to imagine how it felt to be a part of that event or history. For example, students can read the Balfour declaration to decide how Jews might react to it, and how Palestinians might react to it.

This site provides digital copies of historical documents which can be searched by century or by topic. The Avalon Projects collects records in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Records include information from the ancient civilizations to the 21st century.

I love this website for its primary sources and because they are listed by time period. It makes narrowing down a subject or selecting a time period easier for students. It also allows students to browse through different time periods if they aren't sure what topic they want to research.

Great, divided by state, territory; may be helpful for rendevous project as well as senior project.

"The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Web. This project not only provides an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies." http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

The American Presidency Project has many documents of interest when researching our American presidents.  There are primary sources that may be of great value when studying a particular president at his time in history.  The conversations are invaluable because they give a completely true picture of what event was going on at the time.

Searchable military records and documents regarding war, conditions during war. Great for personal diaries and experiences, and shows images of source itself. Another thing I like about this site is that you can create a memorial page for an event or war. This would be a great project for my 21st century learners!

The University of Nebraska at Omaha Library, search: Can be used for the senior project - Immigration

First hand accounts, illustrated with vintage photos, original radio broadcasts. Great source for biographical accounts, cultural views of specific eras. Could be used for the Rendevous project.

This website is a great resource for students looking for information about the Holocaust. Besides their own archive of Holocaust material, they have links to several other sites which also have primary archival material. This would be a great palce for students to use for their senior Holocaust projects.

This site is dedicated to remembrance of Holocaust victims. It has some primary source archives like diaries, photographs, art work, and testimonies. It would be a great place to start some primary research for senior Holocaust projects.

I love the way this site is arranged by continents.  When doing research on countries with elementary students (3rd grade), they need information that is authentic, but also easy to grab.  One of our 3rd grade standards in Elkhorn is to learn the continents and land forms.  We expand this into a research project where each child chooses a country.  I believe 3rd grade students would be able to navigate this site.

Not only does this site have primary sources in text, audio, video, and images, but also, silent movies, archived web pages, historical software, and animation/cartoons. Grades 1-12 could easily find interesting primary sources for their projects. Students will enjoy an occasional old cartoon, like Why We Have Elections, that teaches about the election process, and can be taught about primary sources, too.

Grade level 1- 3 grade. Students may research plants and animals, people, places, history and government, world religions, science and math, sports and hobbies and arts. Science projects, games and activities engage students learning.

This is a collection of recordings made by various presidents between 1940 and 1973. It would be a great way for students to understand how a president thinks, how they use their power to influence others, and why they took certain actions.

This would be a great resource for high school students studying American history. It is a program that is putting secret recordings from presidential meetings online for public access. They are from 1940-1973, and could be useful for students doing projects on any president or historical event during that time.

This is a good site to attract teens. It is also a site that can be used for the Senior Project as well as some possible science research.

Excellent source for American historical research. Original documents available by subject or by era. Could possibly be used for the rendevous project.

Describes the education and training needed for hundreds of different jobs. Tells how much expected earnings for careers are, explains what workers in these jobs can expect to do on the job and what sort of working conditions under which they will work.

Being able to access the online version of this handbook would be invaluable for school libraries as it would save money and space in the library. Additionally, as this is updated annually, the online version would provide much more up to date information.

This site is maintained by George Washington University. It documents the life and career of Eleanor Roosevelt through written and audio works. The site also provides lesson and materials for classroom use. This would be an excellent resource for women studies, human rights, and the era of the Roosevelt administration.

A database of several trials in key points of American and world history are found here. High school students can explore transcripts, photos, indictments, and other documents of several famous trials. Instead of just reading about a famous trial, students can explore several angles of a trial.