A picture book site for elementary and middle school students that offers 600+ books and an option for students to create their own books using your own uploaded images.
"PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture."
"The story of Artsonia begins with a dream that artwork created from kids around the world can be shared and enjoyed by everyone. If kids say the darndest things, imagine what they draw! Today, due to the passion of thousands of art teachers worldwide, that dream has come true."
"S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes peer-reviewed lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy (K-16)"
NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Follow the "Resources for K-12 Teachers" link (http://nsdl.org/resources_for/k12_teachers/) and then click "Middle School."
"The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color...The site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia."
" A guide to commonly encountered toxic chemicals, environmental health risks, and the public's health. From the US National Library of Medicine." Interactive!
Topics related to the environment along with ideas and resources for environmental activism. The site is no longer updated but the site still includes many useful links.
"WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals."
"Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.
We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments.
Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab.
Most recently we've started a new series - The Molecular Videos - featuring our favourite molecules and compounds."
Science-related videos from Wired Magazine and PBS: "Each week, WIRED Science correspondents take viewers to the frontiers of discovery across the country and around the world, spotlighting the cutting-edge innovations and research that are defining 21st-century culture, and introducing the high-tech mavericks who are making it happen."
