A new online tool called http://docsteach.org/ recently was launched by the National Archives and provides a resource for teachers to search more than 3,000 primary-source documents. The site also includes seven tools for teachers, including one that customizes history activities to individual classroom needs.
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All of these titles are new additions to our eBook collection — & just a fraction of what you can find there thanks to the Connecticut State Library’s “iConn” collection (your tax dollars at work.) You and your students can search quickly through all our eBooks – and iConn’s – at one time from the [...]
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https://marinelife.noaa.gov/media_lib/index.aspx For Marine Science classes, a little corner of NOAA you might have missed: The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library. Gorgeous – and searchable by subject/topic. (Brown Cup Coral, Monterey Bay)
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At http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment, students and teachers will find a rich, multi-media resource for environmental studies. Note the “quick find” topics on the right.
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http://images.google.com/hosted/life Check out this awesome source of historical images. “Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time.”
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http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ Newly organized and more user friendly, this extraordinary collection from the Library of Congress ”brings the power of Primary Sources into the Classroom”
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http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm Here’s a wide and well researched collection of US History primary source material and other digital images from the New York Public Library. Take a look at the Charting America or the Lewis Wickes Hine collections, for example…
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Things you never knew that Google can do: http://www.googleguide.com/cheatsheet_teens.html http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference_print.html
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