K-12Librarians

Activites similar to Starfall but includes math, science, social studies, language arts, The Arts, thinking games

A very large collection of resources that is well worth examining.

A HUGE collection of online resources sorted first by grade level and then by topic.  This is well worth exploring.

Featured Digital Collections & Services: American Memory American History & Culture - A digital library of historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video from American Memory. Historic Newspapers - Enhanced access to America's historic newspapers through the Chronicling America project. International Collections - International materials and bilingual presentations from overseas libraries from Global Gateway. Legislative Information - THOMAS provides searchable full text of bills, Congressional Record and more. Performing Arts - Collections, articles and special presentations on music, theater and dance materials. Prints and Photographs - Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images. Veterans History - Experience first-person stories of wartime service through personal artifacts. Web Site Archiving - Searchable archives of historic Web pages including national elections, 9/11 and more.

The Digital Classroom, the National Archives' gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students.

Lesson plans and teaching activities
How to teach with documents
How to collaborate with the National Archives

A portal for American history on the Web that offers high-quality educational material for teachers, students, historians, and the public

American History Quizzes
Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
Creating Digital Historical Documentaries
Featured Documents for your Classroom
Historians' Podcasts
History Teacher of the Year Information
Major Topics in American History
Primary Source Documents from the Collection
Traveling Exhibitions for Schools and Libraries

The features on this Web site enable educational communities to: * Browse primary sources that teachers have used with students. * Teach primary source-based learning experiences from the Teaching Materials Collection. * Design learning experiences using MyPortfolio. * Share discoveries with others through field-testing and publishing. * Use our professional development programs to uncover the breadth and depth of LOC.gov resources. * Learn through primary source-based online activities and samples of student projects. * Create digital documentaries using University of Virginia's Primary Access or make a handout for students.

Encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and almanacs

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.

more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth and death dates, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. S9.com is a Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even make their own. Whether you have a passion for history or simply know an interesting fact about the life of your current idol we invite you to contribute to our free project.

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book. It also includes 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables. Selected sections of the print Collegiate Dictionary, notably the Signs and Symbols section, are omitted from the online Collegiate Dictionary because they include special characters and symbols that cannot readily be reproduced in HTML.

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. * It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! * Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. * The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection. * No membership required.

GIGA Quotes Extensive collection of 100,000+ ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, truisms, mottoes, book excerpts, poems and the like browsable by 6,000+ authors or 3,500+ cross-referenced topics [20,000+ proverbs] Biographical Index Directory of 13,000+ biographical names of historical figures, world leaders, noted authors, famous celebrities and the like including nationality, occupation, and years of birth and death Reading List Selective list of 3,000+ classical, notable and best-selling books and other significant literature including 2,300+ first line excerpts from those works

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Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) literature collections in online book format. This page contains links to online books in American literature, English literature, church history, history and government documents. For the convenience of foreign language teachers, some non-English sites such as French literature, are included. This page is part of the ISLMC Young Adult Literature; Middle & Secondary English page. The ISLMC is a meta-site designed for teachers, librarians, parents and students to preview selected sites.

This site is maintained by Linda Bertland, retired school librarian, Philadelphia, PA

Thousands of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.

In 5 Minutes A Day brings you the world's best classic novels, delivered in daily five-minute installments to your e-mail. Our Classic Novels on Demand™ system allows readers to subscribe to a novel today and start reading it today. Visit our subscription page to see what titles are available. Did we forget to mention that the service is free?