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posts more than 10,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the mission of the World Digital Library is to promote the study and understanding of cultures. The WDL can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource."

the site newsela.com This site takes news stories and allows you to change the reading level for a particular story. Topic listings include: war & peace; science; law; health; arts; money and kids. The site is in beta right now and is free. You do need to create an account. For those of you who want to find nonfiction articles for your classes this is one way of doing it. Our databases are another source for nonfiction articles.

"We are a group of government documents librarians and K-12 school librarians  who meet up and share the best info for students (of all ages) that comes from government sources.  There are a wide variety of government generated documents covering all kinds of topics.  This site is designed to help classroom teachers and librarians navigate some of the government documents available through our members. "

Create online choose your own adventure stories. Saved in the cloud; no account creation necessary.