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Lesson plans for Black History Month: African American Inventors and Inventions

American Library Association (ALA) information on intellectual property, copyright, fair use laws, tools, and other resources. Handy information for librarians and teachers.

American Association of School Librarians website. Links to other useful websites for media sharing, digital storytelling, classroom management & organization, social networking & communication, content resources, and curriculum collaboration! Excellent FREE resources for the clasroom!

This page contains presidential sites and apps to gather facts, biographies, speeches, photos, audio & video files, election results, color pages, interactive games and much more

This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 1.7 million listeners. I use pieces of some of these in my economics and government classes. I often tell my students I learn more from these than most other outlets, they are excellent.

Webcast in five days, great resources to help celebrate Constitution Day and develop habits of citizenship in a new generation of Americans, presented by the National Constitution Center. Lesson Plans and Activities for Kids from the National Constitution Center.

We are very proud and honored to be recognized by the American Association of School Librarians as a 2013 Best Website for Teaching and Learning. Best Websites for Teaching & Learning honors websites, tools, and resources of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.

A recent study from CompTIA found that e-learning software, classroom management software, game-based learning and mobile apps are spreading throughout classrooms in the country.

The Khan Academy website offers a free online collection of more than 3,600 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, and organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science.

Pedagogical research on Web-based learning and instruction has not kept pace with the proliferation of Web-based courses offered by colleges and universities. Consequently, we encourage the application of the "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (American Association of Higher Education, 1987) to guide the design and implementation of Web-based courses.

Study conducted by Scott M. Waring (University of Central Florida) and Courtney C. Bentley (The University of Montevallo). The study involved having a group of fifth graders create a social networking profile from the perspective of a historical figure from the American Revolutionary time period.

Great resource for learning about American History and the Presidents

For those of you who are teaching social studies, here is a great site for students to research and explore ancient Egypt!

Learn about 21st Century technological skills and careers. This collection of video segments produced by KET provides examples of African/African-American music, dance, and storytelling. This collection of video segments produced by KET provides examples of Renaissance music, dance, and drama. Learn about biotechnology applications, concepts, tools and techniques, and career options.

Comparison and study on hand written notes vs typed

This is a wonderfully written education magazine covering topics relevant in today's schools. They have won journalism awards for their professional reporting on school issues facing the nation today.