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Scholastic has launched a new free website for classrooms, Teaching with Brian Selznick, with a virtual field trip to the American Museum of Natural History, the setting for Selznick's newest bestselling children's book, Wonderstruck.
Posted 13 Dec 2011
In the free informational videos, experts share key tips and answer questions on a wide range of topics related to the admissions process, including how to parent your child through the process, ideas on what questions to ask during a college visit, what parents should and should not do while assisting students during the application process, and tips on choosing the college that will help the student reach his or her full potential.
Posted 22 Nov 2011
Focused on providing fun and engaging tools to classrooms and homes, these joint efforts include components like supplemental family activities, K-12 curriculum programs, interactive classroom lessons and more.
Posted 10 Oct 2011
The special live student session will feature acclaimed children's author Jean Craighead George.
Posted 13 Sep 2011
To help students understand the events surrounding 9/11 and the aftermath, Pearson is offering teachers, students and parents a free collection of online education lessons and activities.
Posted 23 Aug 2011
Mythology is the 11th subject area on Shmoop, which now offers more than 750 free online Learning Guides.
Posted 12 Aug 2011
In addition to a rich public media library, PBS LearningMedia has content contributed from other publicly funded organizations, including the National Archives, the Library of Congress and NPR, as well as content funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Education, to deliver thousands of resources for use in the classroom and with home-schoolers.
Posted 20 Jul 2011
We recently posted the EBSCO/H.W. Wilson merger announcement, but want to point you now to the full report on the acquisition that ONLINE Magazine's Marydee Ojala has written, over at Informatin Today, Inc.'s NewsBreaks.
Posted 10 Jun 2011
Teachers will learn, share and have fun in this one-day professional development day, and leave with confidence to create online lessons for the new school year.
Posted 20 May 2011
The Environmental Public Health (EPH) collection offers classroom-ready assets for middle and high school students that look at how researchers, communities, and policy makers are working to address health issues resulting from toxins and other factors in our environment.
Posted 03 May 2011
From Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy's new INFOdocket blog of fabulous information and education resources: The economic education team of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank has developed a new online resource for teachers.
Posted 26 Apr 2011
Free access runs through National Library Week, from April 10 to April 24, 2011. Librarians can download the widget to their homepage by visiting www.gale.cengage.com/NLW starting on April 10.
Posted 06 Apr 2011
New on-demand, video-based modules are available that are designed to deepen teacher knowledge of global climate and earth system change, while providing a resource that can also be used with students.
Posted 24 Mar 2011
WGBH Teachers' Domain has created free classroom resources to support LOOP SCOOPS, a new animated broadband series for kids ages 6- 9 designed to grab their attention and get them thinking more creatively about the environment and the choices they make.
Posted 28 Feb 2011
Get the Math combines entertaining reality-style TV and online challenges to help middle and high school students see the relevance of math in exciting careers and develop algebraic thinking skills.
Posted 16 Feb 2011
The PBS KIDS GO! math series Cyberchase has re-launched PlaySpace; the interactive storytelling game now offers customizable features for the educator.
Posted 21 Jan 2011
A comprehensive online destination, Toyota Teen Driver offers educators, students and parents a variety of powerful tools and materials designed to help teens avoid distractions and stay safe behind the wheel.
Posted 02 Dec 2010
"Mission US" is a new series of free online games designed to let middle school students learn and "live" history. The first game mission, "For Crown or Colony?," focuses on events leading up to the American Revolution.
Posted 18 Nov 2010
The Science of Everyday Life resource center provides teachers, parents, and students with a fun and interactive platform to explore the role that science plays in our daily lives.
Posted 05 Nov 2010
The new teacher website offers free tools, tips and resources based on characters from Hub TV shows demonstrating the power of storytelling in school, including lesson plans to improve student writing, and "The Hub Create a Story Contest" to encourage teamwork and engage student creativity in the classroom.
Posted 15 Oct 2010
The newly produced Series Books Curriculum Resource Center includes hours of original audio interviews with popular series authors and hundreds of online resources to support the enjoyment of more than 40 favorite series—including fantasy, mystery, realistic fiction, and biography.
Posted 11 Oct 2010
Thanks to Gary Price's ResourceShelf for this gem found at the National Science Foundation—"an informative 10-part video series that explores the science behind America's most beloved sport…"
Posted 29 Sep 2010
Educators are asked to answer the question "What would $200 help you do with your school's library?" The deadline to apply is Monday, Oct. 11.
Posted 15 Sep 2010
Focusing on how to integrate digital content and the latest educational technologies into classroom instruction, these free, virtual events offer educators of all skill levels insight into best practices and new techniques that participants can immediately apply to their classroom instruction to improve student academic achievement.
Posted 26 Aug 2010
The California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 team is has announced - just in time for lesson planning for next year - the newest update in its suite of 2.0 tutorials.
Posted 03 Aug 2010
The FTC's new advertising literacy campaign was launched to help children understand the ads they see and become smarter consumers.
Posted 04 May 2010
Alexander Street Press is offering a "sneak peek" look at its American History in Video online collection, free through April 30.
Posted 29 Mar 2010
The free professional development event on April 24th will focus on integrating educational technologies into classroom instruction.
Posted 22 Mar 2010
Net Cetera is a booklet and bookmark about social networking, cyberbullying, sexting, and more, and AdMongo is new website/game about teaching advertising literacy to kids.
Posted 15 Mar 2010
To help educators rejuvenate their passion for teaching, Teachscape's higher education division is offering free face-to-face events to learn what quality traits make a teacher a hero to students.
Posted 12 Mar 2010
Each month registered Module of the Month Club members will have unlimited access to one selected module from the Teachscape XL library.
Posted 19 Feb 2010
In honor of Black History Month, Shmoop, a Silicon Valley-based learning resource website, has compiled 47 free learning guides for high school students.
Posted 09 Feb 2010
For Black History Month (February), Gale Cengage has again assembled a collection of activities and information to complement classroom topics.
Posted 25 Jan 2010
PBS Teachers has launched its contribution to public media's Economy Collaboration project, based on the recent global financial crisis, to help students understand complex economic concepts.
Posted 15 Dec 2009
Scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, Discovery Educator Network SCIcon 2010 is designed to help participants transform science instruction with digital media and to improve student achievement.
Posted 15 Dec 2009
From Gary Price's ResourceShelf: An entry noting additions to the Association for Library Services to Children's list of recommended sites, Great Web Sites for Kids.
Posted 10 Dec 2009
The E-rate Form 471 application filing window for Funding Year 2010 is open for applicants across the country. It extends from Dec. 3, 2009 to Feb. 11, 2010. E-rate consulting firm Funds For Learning has put together a list of seven key tips to help applicants navigate the waters of the E-rate funding application process.
Posted 07 Dec 2009
The November 17, 2009 webinar focuses on resources and strategies to help students understand how germs, viruses, and vaccinations work.
Posted 29 Oct 2009
Offering tips, tools, and suggestions for easing into the teaching field, New Teacher Survival Central provides educators with essentials such as classroom management techniques, ideas for connecting classroom activities to the curriculum, lesson plans, peer-networking resources, and tools to create engaging learning centers.
Posted 14 Oct 2009
Turning Technologies’ Turning Foundation is partnering with Study Island and Performance Matters to launch its grant initiative.
Posted 07 Oct 2009
On-demand video, lessons plans, student activities, and historical archives are now available through PBS Teachers. An Oct. 7 webinar provides ideas on infusing technology into instruction through the free online tools and 'National Parks' educational media.
Posted 06 Oct 2009
The site, Read.gov, will include an exclusive episodic story called “The Exquisite Corpse Adventure.”
Posted 24 Sep 2009
Focusing on how to incorporate digital content and the latest educational technologies into classroom instruction, the Fourth Annual streamathon and the Fall 2009 Virtual Conference showcase best practices and highlight new techniques attendees can apply to their classroom lessons to improve student achievement.
Posted 09 Sep 2009
The offer coincides with the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) downtime as it improves its Schools and Libraries Division information technology systems, and is intended to help applicants manage the E-rate process during this downtime.
Posted 31 Aug 2009
From NASA's site for educators comes this "finder" tool for NASA K-12 Teaching Materials.
Posted 17 Aug 2009
PBS Teachers and Classroom 2.0 host a series of free webinars for educators on digital media and technology in education. The new fall line up of PBS Teachers LIVE! webinars includes topics on science, digital storytelling, geography, social studies, education in the digital age, and online professional development and teaching resources.
Posted 13 Aug 2009
A recent post on Gary Price's Resource Shelf tipped us off to this website and collection of Human Population lesson plans from the Washington, DC-based Population Reference Bureau.
Posted 30 Jul 2009
The list of educational websites can help kids avoid the "Summer Slide."
Posted 28 May 2009
The resources—websites offering a wide variety of content for all subjects in grades K-12—are presented by the nonprofit organization as it celebrates its eleventh anniversary.
Posted 01 May 2009
From a recent Scout Report: "Civics can be a dreaded word for some students, but things just got a bit more interesting with this rather thoughtful and interesting video workshop created by the National Council for the Social Studies and the Center for Civic Education."
Posted 24 Apr 2009
"The free Dictionary.com app delivers world-class reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com including more than 275,000 definitions and 80,000 synonyms." And students may even think it's cool after they view the very clever promotional video about it! Check it out.
Posted 13 Apr 2009
From the University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Sciences Internet Scout Project's April 10, 2009 Scout Report comes a tip about this great resource for language arts and literacy educators.
Posted 10 Apr 2009
Developed through a partnership with Montgomery (Md.) College's Computer Gaming and Simulation program and designed in cooperation with NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve System for students at the fourth through seventh grade level, "WaterLife: Where Rivers Meet the Sea" provides science instruction through a series of challenges and animations.
Posted 19 Mar 2009
There are some great facts, links, and other resources available from the U.S. Census Bureau’s “Facts for Features: Women’s History Month—March 2009” web page that you can point teacher colleagues to.
Posted 09 Mar 2009
“Inspiring Middle School Literacy: Reading and Writing in Science and History” is the first collection on Teachers’ Domain that focuses exclusively on building literacy skills across content areas. It is comprised of interactive activities that middle school teachers can use to supplement their science, social studies, or language arts curriculum.
Posted 06 Mar 2009
The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library is a comprehensive database containing a collection of high-quality still images and video footage featuring all 13 national marine sanctuaries and the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
Posted 20 Feb 2009
Inspiration Software offers a free Webcast on Jan. 29 titled “Using Visual Learning Techniques to Improve Academic Performance with Inspiration.”
Posted 19 Jan 2009
PBS and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting have announced the launch of PBS KIDS Island, the centerpiece of the new PBS KIDS Raising Readers website, which provides free reading games and activities for children, parents, caregivers, and teachers.
Posted 17 Oct 2008
Discovery Education recently launched New Teacher Survival Central, a new Web site and partnership with Walden University, mimio, Adobe Systems, Inc., Elmer’s Products, Inc., and CDW-G.
Posted 13 Oct 2008
The company’s Wiggio.com service is intended to make it easy for students to work in groups.
Posted 03 Oct 2008
Educational publisher ETA/Cuisenaire is honoring International Literacy Day (Sept. 8) with month-long access to free resources from its new WorldScapes Global Issues book series.
Posted 15 Sep 2008
Inspiration Software offers a free Web cast on Oct. 16 at noon Pacific time (3 p.m. Eastern time) titled “Analyzing Close Presidential Races with InspireData: How Might a Different Winner Have Changed History?”
Posted 11 Sep 2008
Teachers' Domain is a digital library of free media online resources for teachers, and online professional development courses created by public television station WGBH.
Posted 05 Sep 2008
Discovery’s 12-hour “streamathon” on September 23 offers sessions on integrating digital media into classroom instruction.
Posted 04 Sep 2008
ABC-CLIO offers a new free online History & the Headlines resource, “Presidential Elections: In History & Today.”
Posted 29 Aug 2008
To mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, youth leaders for Global Kids, Inc. have created an online community and game in conjunction with Game Pill, Inc., AMD, and Microsoft Corp.’s Partners in Learning where young people can engage in and experience the ongoing relief efforts in New Orleans.
Posted 27 Aug 2008
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) provides a free online “Disaster Recovery Checklist.”
Posted 17 Aug 2008
ABC-CLIO’s collections of free online resources feature the Arab-Israeli conflict, the upcoming Spike Lee World War II film, and controversy in the Oval Office.
Posted 13 Aug 2008
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) 2009 awards program includes more than $45,000 in funding for awards to AASL members.
Posted 11 Aug 2008
Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Utah, along with school districts, museums, and other educational institutions are now sharing resources not only for K-12 educators in their own states, but for teachers around the world.
Posted 28 Jul 2008
Bookshare.org and Don Johnston, Inc. are participating in a partnership to provide qualified print disabled students with a free text reader to access electronic books from the Bookshare.org library, beginning in September 2008.
Posted 13 Mar 2008
Three new topics will be added this spring to ABC-CLIO’s History and the Headlines collection of free online resources.
Posted 26 Feb 2008
The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), TeachingBooks.net, and Chicago Public Schools Department of Libraries and Information Services are producing and hosting “A Festival of Authors,” a virtual literary celebration that will take place Saturday, February 2, from 10 am to 2 pm PST (1 pm – 5 pm EST), in Teen Second Life.
Posted 28 Jan 2008
Vernier Software & Technology offers free hands-on workshops designed to help educators learn ways to integrate computer and handheld data collection technology into any science or math curriculum.
Posted 23 Jan 2008
The Princeton Review holds free SAT Strategy Session events in the virtual world of Second Life on Jan. 19 and Jan. 31.
Posted 18 Jan 2008
To help celebrate the recently announced ALA Awards (Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, and others), Teachingbooks.net has announced it is offering free access to a great batch of original short movies and readings by the award winners.
Posted 17 Jan 2008
Discovery Kits describe the basic scientific principles underlying the applied science and activities of NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS).
Posted 17 Jan 2008
The H.W. Wilson Foundation announced the continuation of its support of education in library and information science with a new round of scholarship grants.
Posted 10 Dec 2007
ABC-CLIO expands its free online resources with “History and Headlines: Chronicling Despair and Hope in Darfur.”
Posted 04 Dec 2007
"Thousands of stunning images enhanced by clear and precise definitions from the visionaries at Merriam-Webster." Take a look!
Posted 26 Nov 2007
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) offers a free Small School District Technology Leadership wiki created with support from the U.S. Department of Education.
Posted 21 Nov 2007
Tool Factory will choose four winners for the Tool Factory Podcasting Grants program on December 30, 2007. Each will receive a free site license to Tool Factory Podcasting and all of the digital media accessories needed to start a school podcasting program.
Posted 06 Nov 2007
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About… series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices.
Posted 22 Oct 2007
The updated edition of EdTech Online offers the latest information on federal grants funded by the U.S. Department of Education that support educational technology.
Posted 18 Oct 2007
Some of the questions addressed by the kit are as follows: What should Media education be like? Who should provide it? How should it be included in a curriculum? Beyond schools, do families have a say in the matter?
Posted 10 Oct 2007
The third in ABC-CLIO's Fall 2007 lineup of free online reference and activity collection is now available.
Posted 03 Oct 2007
ABC-CLIO expands its free “History and the Headlines” online resources with “Double Victory—Minorities and Women During World War II,” material designed to support the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick PBS/WETA documentary, “The War.”
Posted 22 Sep 2007
FileMaker Pro Basics provides a comprehensive downloadable set of free training materials designed to help K-12 educators learn the essentials of creating FileMaker Pro databases.
Posted 21 Sep 2007
Once again, a tip on great free learning resources has come to us by way of the Scout Report. The September 14, 2007 report includes a pointer to USGS Learning Web: Geologic Age.
Posted 17 Sep 2007
ABC-CLIO launches the first in its Fall 2007 lineup of free online reference and activity collections in a nod to Constitution Day (Monday, September 17).
Posted 12 Sep 2007
The Sally Ride Science blog features a series of science-themed entries designed to help elementary and middle school teachers illustrate real-world applications of science concepts and spark classroom discussions.
Posted 08 Sep 2007
From the August 17 Scout Report from the University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department and University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, we heard about The Exploratorium's Iron Science Teacher and just had to pass on the word.
Posted 17 Aug 2007
Don Johnston, Inc. and the Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) are co-sponsors of the “Moving Forward with Technology” free Webinar series covering a variety of technology-related topics.
Posted 06 Aug 2007
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) now offers a center for networking and collaboration on its own virtual “island” in the Second Life multi-user virtual environment (MUVE).
Posted 22 Jul 2007
Teachers register once; all original lesson plans are eligible to win any grant opportunity. Three Mobile Digital Camera Labs worth $3,500 will be awarded annually. Every month, Olympus and Tool Factory will award digital cameras, podcasting software, and more.
Posted 12 Jul 2007
The National Air and Space Museum offers a variety of classroom resources, including online activities and teaching materials, designed for use in learning across the curriculum.
Posted 08 Jul 2007
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History offers a free online slide show titled “Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery” and other online resources for teachers and students.
Posted 07 Jul 2007
The Franklin Institute Science Museum presents online materials designed to extend the experience of the museum’s King Tut exhibit with activities geared to the K-12 science curriculum.
Posted 22 Jun 2007
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) released an examination of issues related to digital equity in education including equal access to technology, resources and services.
Posted 20 Jun 2007
The California School Library Association’s online tutorial guides you through the ‘tools of the trade’ that your students use every day: blogs, photos and images, RSS and newsfeeds, tagging and technorati, wikis, online applications, podcasting and downloadable audio, and much more.
Posted 10 May 2007
Gary Price’s ResourceShelf recently offered this description and pointer to the U.S. DOE’s Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) directory.
Posted 26 Apr 2007
A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation will make Spike Lee’s HBO Hurricane Katrina documentary and a companion curriculum available at no cost for use by high school, college and community educators.
Posted 14 Apr 2007
The Internet Scout Project’s Scout Report describes and points to this excellent PBS resource for educators.
Posted 13 Apr 2007
“Chronicling America” is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress created to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with select digitization of historic pages as well as information about newspapers from 1690 to the present.
Posted 13 Apr 2007
World Book’s free, interactive content spotlight site, keyed to Earth Day 2007, offers students an understanding of the world in which they live—how it has changed, is changing, and how they are affecting its future.
Posted 04 Apr 2007
This month, ngm.com examines the global fishing crisis from a number of perspectives.
Posted 01 Apr 2007
The practice tests for state-specific exit exams will duplicate the lengths of the actual exams so that students can become familiar with the full rigor of the actual tests.
Posted 22 Mar 2007
The Library of Congress has gathered a dynamite collection of multimedia resources online for use by educators in teaching during Women’s History Month.
Posted 05 Mar 2007
The LOC’s “Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training” collection captures the post-World War II period in vivid terms and intimate detail, documenting the way U.S. diplomacy defended the U.S. and its interests in a challenging world.
Posted 22 Feb 2007
Applications will be accepted until March 1 for the AASL School Librarian's Workshop Scholarship.
Posted 20 Feb 2007
Students have the opportunity to explore and learn about the African American experience through World Book's free, interactive Black History site.
Posted 19 Feb 2007
HP and Scholastic offer a new curriculum titled “Get in the Technology Loop,” designed to teach students in grades 4-6 about environmental responsibility.
Posted 27 Jan 2007
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) now offers an online career center focused on educational technology positions.
Posted 14 Jan 2007
The National Geographic Web site, Ngm.com/, explores a variety of subjects--and many corners of the world--in the month of January.
Posted 05 Jan 2007
Thomson Gale is supporting National Poetry Month (April) with Poet’s Corner, a free Web site.
Posted 30 Dec 2006
A new HP initiative will award grants totaling $3.9 million in cash and HP equipment to K-12 public schools in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Posted 28 Dec 2006
The interactive resource, created to support the Weather Channel’s show “The Climate Code,” brings global warming issues into the classroom.
Posted 07 Dec 2006
The United Nations organization has put together a Web site of resources and links that you'll find useful if you want to teach to the subject of human rights and poverty on the advent of Human Rights Day this December 10.
Posted 04 Dec 2006
ABC-Clio’s new program is designed to demonstrate how librarians and social studies departments can partner to develop students’ information literacy and inquiry skills.
Posted 20 Nov 2006
Curriculum Associates now offers free podcasts that cover current trends and happenings in education, as well as ways to incorporate Curriculum Associates’ products with current events training.
Posted 15 Nov 2006
The folks at the ReadWriteThink Web site—a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation—have an excellent collection of resources of their own making, plus links to many more, to use during National American Indian Heritage Month.
Posted 06 Nov 2006
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) offers a variety of free online resources for K-12 educators and students, including curriculum information, lesson plans, bibliographies, and teacher workshops.
Posted 26 Oct 2006
Field Trip Earth, a project of the North Carolina Zoological Park, is a great place for a “wild” experience, billing itself as “the global resource for teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation.” Through the site, you and your students can get involved in field-based wildlife conservation projects ongoing around the world.
Posted 17 Oct 2006
Nope, not a massively multiplayer online war simulation game nor a superhero character. NationMaster is “a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. … a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.”
Posted 09 Oct 2006
The new feature in World Book’s Online Reference Center is intended to help students and their parents better understand the issues around global warming, from the science to the politics.
Posted 04 Oct 2006
The National Science Foundation (NSF) offers an online collection of lessons and Web resources, most of which come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
Posted 29 Sep 2006
A total of more than $50,000 is offered through the 13 awards, grants, and scholarships that make up the awards program of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
Posted 24 Sep 2006
TRAILS (Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) is a federally funded project to create a tool for library media specialists and teachers to assess the information literacy skills of their high school students.
Posted 22 Sep 2006
The free classroom program allows teachers, kids, and parents to explore blogging, messaging, and private social networking while having fun and connecting safely online, according to the announcement.
Posted 19 Sep 2006
From September 15 to October 15, 2006, Thomson Gale will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by offering free or trial access to a wealth of resources, educational activities, and authoritative information about the history, influence, and achievements of the Hispanic culture.
Posted 14 Sep 2006
No time to think about the wonders of the universe, much less how to explain them in a simple way to your students? Sign up for the new Space Place Podcast.
Posted 07 Sep 2006
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association, published a set of new advocacy tools developed to address the issue of the categorization of school library media specialists as “non-instructional.”
Posted 27 Aug 2006
The American Association of School Libraries (AASL), a division of the American Library Association, has launched the AASL Innovative Reading Grant.
Posted 26 Aug 2006
Travel from Botswana to New Guinea to China to the bottom of your closet on ngm.com in September.
Posted 25 Aug 2006
Oceanslive.org offers live video and special content to educate people of all ages about the ocean, including national marine sanctuaries.
Posted 14 Aug 2006
“Using Data for School Reform” is one component of SETDA’s 2006 Leadership Summit Toolkit.
Posted 04 Aug 2006
The new service is a user-friendly interactive application that downloads news directly onto any computer, helping students stay connected to the news of the day.
Posted 14 Jul 2006
Designed to be a comprehensive online source for educators, Promethean Planet provides searchable information to help educators maximize the use of interactive technology in the classroom.
Posted 05 Jul 2006
Created through a partnership between two universities in the U.K., the tutorial offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of Web sites and highlights the need for care when selecting online information sources to inform academic work.
Posted 21 Jun 2006
Access NewspaperARCHIVE makes millions of searchable newspaper pages available at no cost to schools and libraries.
Posted 16 Jun 2006
The Ocean Explorer, which we heard about through The Scout Report, has ongoing explorations you/your students can join; a gallery of maps plus photos, audio clips, and writings gathered under headings such as Explorers, Technology, History, Cultural Heritage; and loads more, including a For Fun section.
Posted 16 Jun 2006
World Book’s hurricane feature offers a comprehensive overview of hurricanes, including how they originate and travel as well as their impact on both the coastal and marine ecosystems.
Posted 05 Jun 2006
These audio files are wonderful multimedia educational “artifacts.” Here’s some information, straight from the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs Web site.
Posted 26 May 2006
Combined efforts of The World eBook Library consortia and Project Gutenberg make it all possible in July.
Posted 22 May 2006
Maybe you saw our pointer to Artopia a few weeks back. Now here’s another art activities resource, @rt Room, which is more exclusively focused on visual media.
Posted 30 Mar 2006
EBSCO Publishing launched two free Web-based resources for school libraries: History-It’s Happening! and It’s a Reading Rave!
Posted 24 Mar 2006
Thomson Gale provides free online access to a variety of Earth Day-related materials, including experiments, information on the environment, related Web links, tools for teachers and parents, and environment-focused Thomson Gale titles.
Posted 12 Mar 2006
BrainPOP offers free online movies on topics related to Earth Day throughout the month of April.
Posted 10 Mar 2006
The pilot project will enable researchers and the general public to access a diverse collection of historic movies, documentaries, and other films from the National Archives via Google Video as well as the National Archives Web site.
Posted 06 Mar 2006
CNN Student News celebrates Women’s History Month throughout the month of March by offering both on-air and online profiles of historical and modern women. Educators will also have access to additional learning activities as well as a backgrounder on the origins of Women’s History Month.
Posted 03 Mar 2006
Educational Testing Service (ETS) is hosting free Web seminars that examine using standards-aligned assessment to drive instruction and improve student achievement.
Posted 24 Feb 2006
GrantsAlert.com provides educators with free access to up-to-date announcements of corporate, foundation, state and federal education funding opportunities.
Posted 23 Feb 2006
Brainy Kids, from the Dana Foundation, is a comprehensive Web site offering children, parents, and teachers selected science-related links to games, labs, science fair ideas, educational resources, and lesson plans.
Posted 17 Feb 2006
Thomson Gale has announced the launch of a Web site of biographies, quizzes, activities, timelines, and more to complement classroom topics.
Posted 13 Feb 2006
This month, the National Geographic Web site examines the Winter Olympics in a variety of online feature articles.
Posted 12 Feb 2006
“Artopia is a comprehensive Web-based arts experience designed for middle school students, covering the visual and performing arts.” (from the Artopia Web site) And … it’s really fun!! (from MMISXtra)
Posted 06 Feb 2006
Thanks again to Gary Price’s ResourceShelf for a valuable pointer, this time to the Martin Luther King Jr. Newspaper Archive from NewspaperARCHIVE.com.
Posted 16 Jan 2006
Teachers receive research-based information on principles and strategies as part of Curriculum Associates’ Topics in Education Web site.
Posted 06 Jan 2006
The site is designed to help students, teachers, and families celebrate the month.
Posted 05 Jan 2006
In January, the online edition of National Geographic presents writer Frank Viviano’s examination of the conflict in Iraq. Viviano’s article focuses on the Kurds, possibly the only group powerful enough to keep Iraq from tearing itself apart.
Posted 03 Jan 2006
The National Television Academy, the organization behind the Emmy Awards, is offering free online curriculum materials designed to educate high school students about best practices in journalism.
Posted 19 Dec 2005
askSam Systems keeps on adding to its free, searchable collection of literature works online.
Posted 16 Dec 2005
Last week's Internet Scout Project Scout Report gives you the basics on this interesting, charming, and ultimately useful project and literature resource. See what new perspectives it might bring to your students' reading or literature study.
Posted 05 Dec 2005
askSam continues to expand its free, searchable collection of important works online.
Posted 21 Nov 2005
The new Teachers’ Guide provides tutorials, tips, online and print resources, and specific curriculum-based projects in which U.S. teachers can participate to establish school-to-school global interaction on the Internet.
Posted 15 Nov 2005
Multimedia curriculum kits are being provided free to all 15,000 U.S. middle schools.
Posted 09 Nov 2005
ScienCentral is currently providing their video stories free to educators who wish to use them as teaching tools or in presentations. A sampling from today’s home page: Remote Control Flies, Defeating Dyslexia, Spider Silk Strength, Alzheimer’s Eye Test, and Living to 100.
Posted 04 Nov 2005
The Web site for the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL), a project of the University of Maryland funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, has undergone a total redesign and is now sporting a fresh, new look.
Posted 28 Oct 2005
BrainPOP has launched a free online movie addressing the concerns surrounding avian flu.
Posted 24 Oct 2005
From Scholastic, freely downloadable, comes this update of the uplifting and substantive report “School Libraries Work!”
Posted 24 Oct 2005
S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic, multimedia, Web-based, and freely accessible resource for K-8 library media specialists and classroom teachers that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills worldwide, according to the project organizers.
Posted 12 Oct 2005
iEARN-USA is offering its Multimedia Guide to Global Online Collaboration in CD-ROM format at no cost, while supplies last.
Posted 07 Oct 2005
The e-book book—latest in a series of initiatives in the Libraries Matter campaign—is available free to all public libraries and elementary schools in North America for use on their Web sites.
Posted 06 Oct 2005
The individual scenes are divided into separate documents in the database, allowing users to easily search and locate scenes pertaining to specific topics, according to askSam Systems.
Posted 21 Sep 2005
From Boston-based PBS station WGBH, “Teachers' Domain is a multimedia digital library for the classroom that provides learning experiences in ways no textbook can.”
Posted 16 Sep 2005
On September 16, CNN Student News will offer a special report that highlights how the Constitution is living and breathing through recent events in the nation’s capital, a learning activity and a news quiz for educators who plan to teach the Constitution.
Posted 14 Sep 2005
The AMLA’s Web site offers “a basic set of media literacy activities and suggestions … for educators who want to help students analyze, understand, and cope with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.”
Posted 07 Sep 2005
CNN Student News has many educational resources available to assist educators teach the destruction and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Check out these links.
Posted 07 Sep 2005
BrainPOP's hurricane video and accompanying quiz questions are meant to help students understand the science behind the havoc wrought by Katrina.
Posted 06 Sep 2005
For Constitution Day in mid-September, there are lesson plans, crosswords, Q&A opportunities with Times reporters …. Good stuff!
Posted 06 Sep 2005
The National Geographic Web site takes a long look at Africa, in partnership with the magazine's Africa-themed September issue.
Posted 26 Aug 2005
Alexander Street Press’ new database is “an index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives.”
Posted 19 Aug 2005
CQ Press is offering a free 19-page lesson plan titled “The First Amendment and Protection of Students’ Rights” in honor of National Constitution Day, September 17.
Posted 19 Aug 2005
Here’s an idea for some no-cost online professional development, in one-hour bites, for those of you whose schools/libraries subscribe to ProQuest products and services.
Posted 28 Jul 2005
Being from the National Geographic Society, this news site is wide ranging, and both educator and student friendly.
Posted 15 Jul 2005
Librarian Marylaine Block’s Neat New Stuff I Found This Week was our tip-off to this quality teacher resource of historical maps and excellent accompanying lesson plans.
Posted 08 Jun 2005
Project SMARTArt was created to integrate two principal tenets of media literacy – critical analysis and self-expression – into traditional curricula, according to Tessa Jolls, president of the Center for Media Literacy.
Posted 03 Jun 2005
Entitled “Test Preparation Strategies,” the three-lesson course discloses findings on factors that affect test performance and shows teachers ways to create a positive, anxiety-free attitude toward test taking, according to the announcement.
Posted 31 May 2005
The new online writing destination helps students find their voice, develop their craft, and publish their work, according to Scholastic’s announcement.
Posted 20 May 2005
National Geographic and PBS have created a series of four television documentaries and a complementary Web site, all under the moniker Strange Days on Planet Earth, that make for a riveting 21st-century media approach to studying environmental issues.
Posted 18 May 2005
EASE History’s creators describe their Website as “a rich learning environment that supports the learning of U.S. history … by connecting historical events, campaign ads, and core democratic values.” With its more than 600 videos and photographs from 1900 to the present and an interesting interface to explore them, it is indeed all that.
Posted 06 May 2005
August 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Emmett Till's murder. TeachingBooks.net, in collaboration with Houghton Mifflin Company, has created an online resource that stimulates discussion about this landmark event in America's civil rights history, an Authors Up-Close program featuring award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson.
Posted 19 Apr 2005
Did you know it was National Poetry Month? Well, it is, and new in Thomson Gale's Free Resources space is its Poet's Corner.
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