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Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 from Chronicling America (The Library of Congress). Great for research & examining primary sources for any subject area.

The mission of NASPE is to enhance knowledge, improve professional practice, and increase support for high quality physical education, sport, and physical activity programs through research, development of standards, and dissemination of information.

Research-based, standards-aligned, single or multi-player Topics include: geography, language arts, time, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, integers, decimals & fractions

From its humble beginnings as an elementary teacher's classroom website, on through the present, the KidsKnowIt Network has always had one goal, and that is to make learning free. Founded in 1998 in order to provide student's with a fun and educational way to spend their free time, a teacher's classroom project has grown into a worldwide platform attracting several million visitors every single month. Every website developed is painstakingly researched for accuracy, and appropriateness. This process begins with the planning and development of materials, activities, and articles by parents and educators, and ends with the final editing and approval of experts in the field being explored.

Sites to help students learn how to find & evaluate information on the web.

Content curator/aggregator

Content curation; free & premium options; share aggregated data via social media, websites or email

Content curation; free & premium options; share aggregated data via social media, websites or email

Teach your students to how find the best results on Google. (Beginning, intermediate and advanced levels)

Handouts for everything from analyzing poetry to conventions to MLA.

Bring NASA experts into the classroom via webcasts.

Kid-friendly search engine

"The following tutorials, developed by a history and social science teacher educator, an educational psychologist/technologist, and an academic historian, are designed to build a practical understanding of: (1) the nature and purpose of historical inquiry, (2) the processes and strategies involved in analyzing historical sources and using them as evidence in order to develop historical interpretations, and (3) the processes and strategies involved in reconciling various accounts of the past as part of the process of doing history. Our hope is that these tutorials serve as scaffolds or points of entry to initially support teachers' efforts to facilitate the doing of history within the classroom. "

"SCIM-C is a model for analyzing historical sources and placing them within a historical narrative. The steps ask students to: Summarize, Contextualize, Infer, Monitor, and Corroborate"

"So below are 30 innovative ways to use Google search in the classroom. And rather than gimmicks, or general ways by typical content areas, the intended outcome here is the student's sustained ability to self-direct and manage the search process as the digital universe continues to evolve and grow."