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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.

"A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. Please use this form or e-mail to add entries, provide corrections, or make comments on its utility. Those who have recently submitted new and revised entries are acknowledged. Guidelines for the inclusion of sites on this list are available."

"This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources."

"The internet has become the reference source of choice on just about everything. It is invaluable, but just as students need to learn how to examine critically information presented conventionally in newspapers, books and magazines so they need to apply those skills to the cyberspace world. The reading below offers a student introduction to some of the skills needed to use the internet critically. Also available on this website are the following sets of materials bearing on the teaching of critical thinking: "Teaching Critical Thinking," "The Plagiarism Perplex," "How to Stop Cheaters," "The Essential Skill of Crap Detecting," and "Thinking Is Questioning." The website of education technology specialist Alan November (www.novemberlearning.com) provides an internet "Information Literacy" quiz that might be a useful starting point for discussion with high school students. "

Public Domain Resources: Choose from a wide selection of resources to use for educational projects. Be sure to respect their guidelines before publishing. Don't assume that because the projects are for educational purposes that you can manipulate images, sound or video. Read the user agreements. Image source

"thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers."

CITE YOUR SOURCES!!! LOOK FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES The most comprehensive list of free clip art, public domain images & photos links on the internet!

Find thousands of free AP, SAT and K-12 questions from trusted sources, including Kaplan. Students--Practice questions online with immediate feedback. Educators--Create, share and modify questions on any topic with ease

Ready made PPT for teacher use--Just keep authors as the original sources.

Official Source of Time for the Department of Defense (DoD)and for the Global Positioning System (GPS),and a Standard of Time

"Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources, that there is virtually no reason not to -- because... "

"Advanced Search Search Tips Can't find it? Welcome to the International Space Archives, a digital library containing the best of the incredible imagery created by our planet's exploration of the universe. These images come from a variety of sources including NASA and other national and private space programs. We value your feedback and encourage you to comment on the site as we continue to build this unique online archive. Some of the imagery in the International Space Archives is available for commercial licensing. For further information, please contact us. Featured Images"

"EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History "

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"Google Web bardweb.net Shakespeare's Biography Shakespeare's Works * Plays * Poetry Shakespeare's Language Shakespeare's Will Authorship Debate The Globe Theatre Elizabethan England SRC Features Shakespearean Study Reading List Theatre Companies Other Links SRC Storefront About the SRC Citing the SRC Will's Quote o' the Day O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? - Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. ii Welcome! Thank you for visiting the Shakespeare Resource Center. You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you find information on William Shakespeare. There are millions of pages that reference Shakespeare on the Internet. This site aims to make it a little easier to find your sources. You could also buy a book or something to further your learning experience and help support the site, but that's up to you."

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