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This is a LibGuide developed by Napa Valley College that explains a number of key information literacy concepts that apply specifically to the sciences, including the scientific information cycle, peer review, how to find and read scientific articles, and the research process.

The Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has outlined a set of standards for how information literacy concepts specifically apply to science and engineering/technology.

This article contains a multitude of tools than can be used in social studies classrooms as well as a link to a webinar on using technology for social studies instruction and the importance of not just substituting tech for analog versions.

This article provides a glimpse at one instructor's methods of integrating technology into social studies classrooms through modeling and includes student responses to these methods.

This author has great ideas to integrate history and social studies into ELA to ensure students receive social studies lessons. Sometimes, in primary school, in particular, students do not receive social studies and science lessons. With this bloggers ideas, you can integrate social studies into ELA.

This article offers 10 ideas to integrate social studies with ELA and reading. Small, simple ideas from lesson plan tweaks to adding books to libraries to integrate social studies into ELA.

English as a Second Language lessons with recorded video to focus on different skills. This site is especially useful as supplementary material for classes.

This website is very popular with English Language Learner teachers. It has articles divided by level of difficulty and with comprehension questions. It also has many current and relevant articles

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. I spent last week at the LOC in a teacher institute learning how to maximize their digital collections of primary sources to support my social studies class.

LOC "offers classroom materials and professional development tools to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching." (from homepage)

A PDF document created jointly by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) that outlines core ideas and learning objectives to develop literacy skills in using primary source documents as distinguished from secondary source documents.

This article from EdSurge offers a look at how tech can help students improve skills that are integral to an ELA classroom.

Written by a secondary language arts teacher, this blog post contains a twitter chat on how secondary educators in ELA routinely integrate technology into their classrooms.

A blog focused on games used in language teaching.

A game where the students watch and learn songs, then complete a cloze test while the song is playing. The song pauses appropriately to allow for the student to fill in the missing words.

This article is not based on educational games in particular, but is based on video games. There are benefits of playing video games and the author does a nice job summarizing these benefits.

This article from eLearning Industry takes the reader through five advantages to using games in the classroom. The article also has links within it to take readers to other articles and apps.

A LibGuide from the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri. Provides a ton of resources about various aspects of gaming in education, including the important of play, digital learning, game-based learning, gamification, and subject area examples.

A thorough article about various aspects of games and information literacy in the digital age. Includes a list of references and an embedded TEDx talk from noted teacher-librarian and researcher Joyce Valenza.