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This primary source describes the importance of the buffalo and hide painting for the Plains Indians. It is geared toward intermediate elementary students. You will find teacher information, art work and information for students to read.This would also be a good website for the Art teacher in you.

The Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history. The collection covers the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The site has a subject browsing feature that makes it very easy to navigate.

Great primary source for all types of learning about money. This website has interactive games and activities that are really fun. It also has a great link for educators.

This site tells students all about the money we use every day.  There is also a teacher's section which provides lesson plan ideas.

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government. It also is set up in grade levels from K-12 to address specific State Standards. This website makes it easy for students to access information they need on their level.

This is a great, easy to navigate site.  It includes many aspects that would enhance our 3rd grade curriculum, such as communities, branches of the government, and how laws are made.  It puts these in an easy to read format, and if you have struggling readers or vise versa, they can read the corresponding section from a different grade level.

British serials were the precursor to the modern magazine.  This website archives several serials from the nineteenth century.  The serials brought reading material to the working and middle class in a regular and affordable manner. These periodicals reflect the time and culture of nineteenth century British society.

This is a great site to help enhance an Earth Science unit.  Students can get first hand information from NASA in an easier to read format.  One thing I particularly loved was their explanation of air pressure.  This has always been a difficult topic for me to describe.  

This is a government web site that helps students find a job/career that will be of interest to them based on what they enjoy doing. On the first page a student can select what they like to do and then it will take them to a list of various jobs that are related to their interests. Once there, students can choose a particular job to investigate it further. They can find out what they need to do to get that type of job, the pay, the need for wokers in this area, etc. I think that this would be great for high school students who are trying to figure out what type of career they would like to pursue.

This site provides current news related to the Earth and is processes. Of particular interest to science and social science teachers are the articles on climate change , nature and wildlife, emerging diseases, and the tracking of earthquakes, volcanoes and hurricanes. 

This is a God-send for science and social studies classes. The visualizations and animations are very clear and easily navigable for both students and teachers. This movement supports comprehension of complex topics. Among other things, they illustrate Earth's movement from space, multiple representatives of a single place and models of molecules. 

This source provides documents and data on geography, astronomy, and science related subjects. It has a wide range of written and visual information for students. A great resource for 8th grade earth science.

This is a tool provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to help teachers organize their instruction of the Holocaust. It speaks to the rationale for the teaching and provides guidelines for teaching about genocide, a very sensitive topic. There are also links for both teachers and students which give a comprehensive understanding of the Holocaust. The images and first person accounts are riveting.  

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 is another terrific resource for social studies, in our presidents unit and our unit on the Revolutionary War. I like that you can complete a search for a particular word or phrase in a given document. I also love that students are able to search his books and architectural drawings as well, making Jefferson seem more like an actual man who had hobbies and talents.

This site is a department of the Library Congress that consists of online collections, virtual exhibits, and webcasts of American history and culture. This would be a great resource for students to explore America's past. 

I have this site on my school webpage. It is full of biographical, historical, and primary source documents from the Library of Congress. It is a great all-purpose research tool for students.

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. 

Harvard provides web-accessible collections consisting of journals, manuscripts, government documents, microform, music scores, and recordings. There is a great deal of information through the Harvard Libraries both online and in person. 

Colonial Williamsburg online is a great resource for information on life in the 18th century, ranging from people, place, trades, etc. They have a feature where you can tour the town of Colonial Williamsburg in 3D and experience audio, video, photography, and other features of the town. The Colonial Williamsburg site also has biographies, essays, articles, and other primary resources from Americans on their day-to-day living in the 18th century.