Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others. More...
Read about the large collection of public domain images made available through a partnership between Google and Life magazine.
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Great article! I think the advice here about teaching students digital research skills is absolutely critical; combatting plagiarism is a nice side-effect of this.
Teacher-created Question of the Day posters to go along with 1st grade units in Reading Street.
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This short video would be excellent for prompting discussion or student research for 6-8 grade science students. Be sure to check out the other great short videos from the "Its Okay to be Smart" YouTube channel as well. Remember, students are not currently able to access YouTube from their devices, so you will need to project this video for the class if you want to use it.