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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.

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration, Interactive Learning Brief Description:  Fairly comprehensive set of links to popular culture and US history decades sites.  

Categories:  Exploration Brief Description:  Short film of a book being assembled with traditional printing methods and human labor.

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Exploration, Simulations Brief Description:  Science360 Knowledge Network immerses visitors in the latest wonders of science, engineering, technology and math. We gather the latest science videos provided by scientists, colleges and universities, science and engineering centers, the National Science Foundation and more. Each video is embeddable to put on your own personal websites, blogs and social networking pages. Science360 engages the general public, science junkies and students alike in the cutting-edge discoveries and big science stories of the day. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Science360 is an up-to-date view of breaking science from around the world.

Categories: Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration Brief Description:  Resources about journalism not produced by PEJ. These include tools for consumers, students and producers of news from our former sister organization, the Committee of Concerned Journalists. There also links to journalism schools, other journalism organizations, ethics codes and Committee of Concerned Journalists.

Categories:  Student Use, Exploration, Web-Based Learning Brief Description:  The TimeMap of World History is an all inclusive look at world history. It combines maps, timelines and chronological narratives that work together to enhance historical understanding. New content added daily.

Categories:  Student Use, Exploration Brief Description:  The twenty five most beautiful public libraries in the world with links to the libraries.

Categories:  Teacher Use, Student Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration Brief Description:  Earth Day websites "pinned" which will link back to CLRN (California Learning Resources Network).  It tells the website, subject areas and curriculum, grade and reading levels, and media format types. 

Categories:  Teacher Use, Professional Development Brief Description: Online PowerPoint presentations on the Common Core State Standards by McGraw-Hill

Categories:  Teacher Use, Professional Development, Interactive Learning, Web-Based Learning, Tutorials Brief Description:  Information and tutorials on technology, assessment assistance, Daily Dose of the Web, online practice modules, and links for students and parents.