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My name is Sallie Ann. I was made in Gettysburg PA, and I'm named after the mascot of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry from the Civil War. My job is to travel around the U.S. looking for Civil War battlefields or museums and schools learning about the Civil War. Along the way, I hope to teach kids more about the Civil War while also helping them to learn about using technology. I'll start out in Gettysburg, PA ,and learn about the battle that took place there. My visit to you will last about one week, but before I leave, I hope that you will put something from the battlefield, museum or your school in my backpack so I can keep it as a memento of my visit.

Find teacher lesson plans and resources for these topics: PA Ethnic History, Philadelphia History, Abolition and UGRR, PA's New Immigrants, Women's History, Japanese American Internment, and National History Day.

New PDE site.

about employement, health care, untilities, foreclosure, consumer issues, taxes, insurance, higher ed, housing, retirement in PA

"Welcome to the Pennsylvania Department of Education free online Act 48 professional education programs of study provided by Learning Sciences International. The free self-study courses are provided for eligible Pennsylvania educators 24 hours a day/7 days a week."

Enroll your students in the math contest from Dec. 5 - 15, 2012!

Check out Miss Hill's Digital Hallway link at the bottom of her page. This is great way that she shares student work displays with parents who can't get into the building. Miss Hill adds a QR code for the display video to her newsletter so parents can access it from their smartphones as well! Great idea!

Great examples of project ideas. This is a 1st grade class in PA.

Can't remember/find your PPID? Quickly access it by completing the requested information, so you can receive Act 48 for your professional development. For future reference, create a contact in your phone and add your PPID there, so you have access to it wherever you are located!

This project is designed for 2nd and 3rd grade students studying York County geography and history. Through videoconferencing technology, your class will meet students in other classes while learning about different parts of York County! Prior to the videoconference each classroom will add information to this York County wiki with clues about their city, town, and school district. The other classrooms, using maps, the Internet, textbooks, and other resources, will try to discover the location of each participating classroom. Each class will get a chance to guess, "Where in York County Are YOU?"

"PhilaPlace is an interactive Web site, created by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, that connects stories to places across time in Philadelphia's neighborhoods. ...The PhilaPlace Web site uses a multimedia format - including text, pictures, audio and video clips, and podcasts - and allows visitors to map their own stories in place and time."

Self paced professional development courses. 90 days for 10 act 48 hours.

"Purpose: The units and related materials linked below are available for any elementary teacher or library media specialist to use, share, or adapt in order to integrate information literacy skills with the instruction of classroom content. As part of the flexibly-scheduled information literacy curriculum at Ephrata Area, integrated units should exhibit the following characteristics. 1. Development of the unit is collaboratively planned by a classroom teacher and a librarian. 2. Instruction is shared by the teacher and librarian. 3. Assessment both of the products and the process of research is shared by the teacher and librarian. 4. Students learn both classroom subject content along with imbedded information literacy skills. 5. Grades become part of the student's grade for the subject area being studied and are recorded by the teacher. The following units have been submitted by the elementary school library media specialists of the Ephrata Area School District. "

Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) and the Standards Aligned System (SAS) welcome Pennsylvania educators to eDIRECT!

Jeff Mummert blog for his class.

Jeff Mummert blog for his class.

SAS for Social Studies

The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S. The list below is just a sample of the many Pennsylvania resources available for free on the Library's Web site.