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Writing Prompts website was recommended in Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents

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Paper Plate Education is an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations. This website promotes innovative hands-on Activities that you can experience across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, and at a low price-all with common paper plates.

Categories: Teacher Use Brief Description: Resources and materials to accompany the novel, The Road.

Categories:  Student Use, Web-Based Learning Brief Description:  Website links listed according to the Dewey Decimal System for 303 - 363.46.

Categories:  Teacher Use Brief Description:  A LiveBinder of resources, materials, websites, reference materials, lessons, and more for teaching the book, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Categories:  Teacher Use, Personal Webpage, Reference Brief Description:  A librarian's list of websites that help with advocacy of school librarians.

Categories:  Teacher Use, Student Use, Censorship, Exploration Brief Description:  University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Libraries online exhibit with: introduction, gallery of burned books, and quotations.

Categories: Teacher Use, Student Use Brief Description:  IThinkIcon is a search engine designed to simplify the process of finding high quality, free icons. We're constantly adding to our database of icons in multiple formats and sizes. We've tried to provide both ease of use and high functionality all in one for both the web designer/developer and for the personal user. A database of over 200,000 copyright-free, royalty free icons. Many are downloadable in different sizes. It was created with the website developer in mind, but it works for student projects also.

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Simulations Brief Description:  "Little Librarian is the first personal library kit made just for kids! It encourages reading and is powered by creativity and imagination, not batteries! Little Librarian provides book lovers with everything they need to transform their book collection into a library. Kids can practice the important skills of organizing, sharing, borrowing, and returning. Book pockets, check out cards, library cards, and bookmarks are just like the ones from the real library. Little Librarians will issue overdue notices and awards. Favorite books can be stored in the reading journal and shared with friends. To get started just add books!"

Categories:  Teacher Use Brief Description:  A "homebase" of twelve websites that have a multitude of educational videos and is searchable.