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Department of Education - This award-winning site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance our mission as a Department-to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans.
Education News Parents Can Use - To help parents understand the No Child Left Behind Act and all the important changes it will bring, the U.S. Department of Education launched a new monthly television series entitled Education News Parents Can Use. What is different about Education News is its focus on information and resources of value to parents and families. The program features brief segments, including one-on-one interviews, "how-to" demonstrations, more video and graphics, and brief conversations with parents, educators, community, business and religious leaders, and education experts.
Estuaries.gov - The primary function of this Web site is to educate the public on the importance of estuaries and the need to protect them.
FCIC's Educator Page - Here are four activities to help you teach young citizens how to be proactive consumers and learn about the government.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) - Part of the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, this is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
NOAA Education Website - This site has been designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general public access the many educational activities, publications, and booklets that have been produced.
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) - OESE promotes academic excellence, enhances educational opportunities a
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To provide better service in alerting the American people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products, six federal agencies with vastly different jurisdictions have joined together to create www.recalls.gov -- a "one stop shop" for U.S. Government recalls.
Follow the tabs above to obtain the latest recall information, to report a dangerous product, or to learn important safety tips."
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"All Virginia Studies Standards
The following are resources for all Virginia Studies Standards.
LITERATURE RESOURCES
Literature Resources for all Standards of Learning
TEACHER BACKGROUND RESOURCES
WEB SITES
* http://www.myvirginia.org/
The official Commonwealth of Virginia home page is your gateway to Virginia . . . from the mountains of southwest to the waterways of Hampton Roads, state government to Virginia facts and figures. Use the buttons to explore Virginia. This site contains many informational resources.
* http://www.Virginia.org
The Virginia Travel Corporation Web site contains an extensive list of places in Virginia. You can search for a site alphabetically, by time period, by location, and by other categories (such as historic buildings). In addition, you may search for historic sites by city. Contact information, hours of operation, and other details are provided for these historic sites. Click your way around Virginia.
* http://www.vahistorical.org/
The Virginia Historical Society founded in 1831 has provided visitors the opportunity to view, research, and learn about the ordinary and everyday artifacts of Virginia. These artifacts provide visitors with a comprehensive history of the Commonwealth. Online resources are also available.
* http://www.virginiaplaces.org
This comprehensive Web site contains a wealth of information about Virginia geography, places, and people. Teachers will find this to be a helpful resource about many topics, from the rocks and ridges of Virginia to "Virginia and the Internet." The Web site was created to support the Geography of Virginia class taught each fall at George Mason University.
* http://marg.mhost.com/vahistory.html
This site, developed by Tabb Elementary School in York County, has links to Web sites divided according to Colonial period, Civil War years, and miscellaneous.
* http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects
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" Welcome to the Virginia Jobs Web Site -
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Under Employment Opportunities, you will find everything you need to explore exciting careers in state government.
Give yourself a jump start by visiting Career Development, where you will find resources and services to help you take charge of your career.
The Commonwealth of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. "
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"What does the light bulb have to do with the U. S. Constitution? Or the board game "Monopoly"? How about the letter you wrote to the president when you were in elementary school? The answer to all three questions is: plenty-if you know your Constitution. The education team of the National Archives and Records Administration is pleased to present, for the first time, a self-service online version of our popular U. S. Constitution Workshop! This activity is:
* Suitable for grades 4 through 12
* Fully self-contained, requiring little advance prep time
* Correlated to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Government.
We hope that you and your students will enjoy this unique opportunity to learn, through analysis of primary source documents, about the content, impact, and perpetual relevance of the U. S. Constitution to the daily lives of American citizens. "
Have an AP class that needs help with DBQ primary source documents? Do you want to introduce primary source documents to your class? Use the Constitution Day Workshop by the National Archives as a resource. The class will spend an hour analyzing primary source documents from the National Archives and relate them to the constitution. Many different references ranging from war orders of sent by Lincoln to Grant to Albert Einstein's immigration papers. You can print up copies of the information or view them online in the computer lab or project them for use as a class.