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Artifacts & Fiction is a professional development workshop series that guides teachers through pairing primary source materials with American literature texts. It draws from the online archive and video series of Annenberg Media's American Passages.

The National Archives Digital Vault poster and video creation tools allow students to drag and drop digital artifacts into a poster or video. The National Archives provides images, documents, and audio in an easy to use editor. When making a poster students can combine multiple images, change background colors, and create captions to make collages of digital artifacts. See the screen capture below for a demonstration of poster editing.

This blog presents a unique thought about what to do with QR codes. This would be a very KOOL project for annotating, podcasting, vodcasting, or blogging the artifacts of some historic places, museums, etc in the area!

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.

Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items - including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts - reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.

Many cultural designs are based on mathematical principles. This software will help students learn standards-based mathematics as they simulate the original artifacts, and develop their own creations.

Categories to view in Google Earth such as Amusement Parks, Ancient Construction, and Large Artifacts.

Museums are rarely able to exhibit more than a fraction of the material they own, and even then the best stuff is too often sealed off behind glass or mobbed by school parties. There are no such problems on museum websites, where space is unlimited and objects, scanned in high definition, can be browsed in close-up. Here is the pick of the world's collections.