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Photos and artwork of animals from Australia: platypus, kangaroo, wombat, marsupials, diprotodor, diingo, emu, cockatoo, lyre bird, and crocodile.

Stunning photographs of the harsh conditions of Antartica taken during a 1911-14 expedition. Photographs of many geological formations (ice caverns, ravines, sastugi), climate images (harsh winds, extreme cold), and scientific equipment used in biology, geology, and meteorology. K-12 resource.

This site has a lot of activities that can be used in the classroom while using the SmartBoard. The activities are grouped by the content area they would support.

This is a great source that has a list of artists/musicians from the Harlem Renaissance. It has direct links to the poems and audio links to the music. I would use this site in the study of History or literature during the Harlem Renaisaance.

This is a wonderful site that would be useful to school librarians or technology teachers to help plan lessons on internet use, using primary documents and media literacy.

This site is full of over 1200 history web sites. There are links to hundreds of K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and much more.

This is a great learning tool for fourth graders on up to learn math skills of tables, graphs, maps, statistics, mean, median, mode and range.There are interactive learning activities that have excellent graphics in the games. I found the instructions easy to follow.

A project of Emory University, this website contains database information for slave ship voyages across the Atlantic. It has tables, timelines, essays, maps and images related to the slave trade plus an African names database. There is a section with lesson plans for middle/high school level students and additional web resources. This website humanizes the transportation history of slavery in the Americas.

This website is a database devoted to historical spoken-word materials. The search engine is still underdevelopment but there is a "galleries" link to find resources. This is an amazing site for students to explore and hear the actual words spoken by historical figures they read about in textbooks. Historical Voice is supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This website from the Immigration History Research Center and the University of Minnesota has collections of digitized letters written by immigrants and to immigrants. It contains original images of the letters as well as translations, since most letters are in languages other than English. This website allows students a first person perspective of the challenges faced by immigrants to the U.S.

This website from the U.S. Government Printing Office has learning tools divided into grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. It covers all aspects of how our government works, symbols of U.S. government, and memorials. I think the site map is helpful because it is organized alphabetically with links to grade appropriate pages for topics.

This website has archival photos, documents, letters, videos, and maps that tell the history of Nebraska. Resources can be accessed through a table of contents with lesson plans/activities or by a timeline ranging from pre-1500 to the present. The timeline has sections for Nebraska events as well as national and international events at the time. This website is supported by the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, the Nebraska Department of Education and the Nebraska State Historical Society.

NOAA has primary resource collections on the Gulf oil spill, hurricanes, El Nino, tides and sea turtles. I really like the way they feature current topics of importance in the news right now. This would be a great way to teach media literacy to our students. They also have a feature activity section called "Data in the Classroom" where students can make real world connections with real data related to El Nino, sea level, and water quality.

This site is an excellent weather website with resource collections divided into the following areas: ocean and coasts, climate, weather and atmosphere, marine life (sea turtles), freshwater (water cycle), and special topics. There data visualizations for weather events, lots of maps and charts for middle/high school students to analyze weather events, water cycle lessons, and a section with activities for teachers to bring real world data into the classroom.

This site is jam-packed with information for girls around ages 8 on up.Learn all about your body, fitness, nutrition, illness and disability, drugs, feelings, relationships, bullying, safety, future life, and envionmental health. Textual format is easy to read with countless links provided. Actual photos displayed. In the fourth grade in Lincoln, our students learn all about their bodies with the girls and boys separated so this website would definitely be a place to direct our girls for further related information.

This site has 100 of the top primary doucments in history. I would use this site in the study of the Civil War and link to the telegram that announces the surrender of Fort Sumter.

Kids learn about the Internet, safely traveling through it, and becoming aware of the hazards of its use. Requires an adult's email address but otherwise free. It is brightly animated with games, prizes, videos and play along with the cute characters of Clicky, Nettle, Webster and Router. Developed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. This is great for the library teacher to use for teaching Internet safety.

Discover the world of musical instruments of the orchestra. Animated with bright colors and designed specifically for kids. Listen to each instrument's sound and learn details about each one. Visit the Music Lab to learn music theory, perform and compose your own music.Great for any music teacher to use as well as any classsroom teacher or students to compose music to incorporate into a project or lesson. I used to teach piano lessons and I absolutely fell in love this with this website.

A fantastic site that has interactive videos and a written history of the Apollo missions. This site could be used in science with the study of rockets, planets, the moon, etc. It could also be used during History class with the study of the cold war and the space race.

This is an online painting machine for all ages. It includes 40 brushes and customsizable size, transparency, texture and stroke options. A rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects, that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs. This is a fantastic Web 2.0 tool for teachers because your art can be temporarily saved, and there is the option to print, print to pdf or take a screen shot for sharing your art. This is a blast!

There are many links on this site to find out more about the U.S. Mint and coins. Students can click on "Vacation in 50 States" to play a game that would familiarize them with the different states using that state's quarter. A fun way to learn more about each state!