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Art

Google Art Project
art collections from all over the world; need Google Chrome
Butterflies and Moths

Banned Books Week

Blogs and wikis

Book Lists

Books and Reading

Open Library
DMK's Card Catalog
Find books at Daniel McKee!
GoodReads
Social networking about books! Try the app, too!
Read.gov for Educators
Library of Congress
International Children's Library
CommonLit
Varying texts by theme with questions
ReadWorks
Reading passages with questions

Character Based Literacy

Character Based Literacy
CBL Leadership
World History & US History
CBL Website
Newsworthy

Collaboration

AASL School Library Research
Learning Styles
multiple intelligences test
Multiple Intelligences
Multiple Intelligences
Common Core & Libraries
Edmodo
Collaborate with RCS Teachers
Melinda Reed's PortaPortal
Our STS's Links
Working Together is Working Smarter Infographic
from AASL
AASL Executive Summary
AASL Research & Statistics Committee

Common Core Sites

TN Curriculum Center
Supporting an inclusive and dynamic teaching community focused on 21st century learning
Reimagine Instruction
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Rethink Assessment
Benchmark, formative, and summative assessments

Common Core Standards

Conversion Tools

Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan

Databases and Encyclopedias

TEL
EBSCO Library Science
Booklist Online
Guide to Reference
Children's Literature
Wolfram Alpha
ERIC
Education Resources Information Center
Literary Criticism
from Internet Public Library
Federal Digital System
government documents, not user friendly
Directory of Open Access Journals
college level, professional development
Public Libary of Law

English Sites

Grammar
APA format
Noodle Tools
MLA works cited, topic dashboard, outline, notecards, etc.
ReadWriteThink
lesson plans; NCTE
ReadWorks Reading Passages
grade level & lexile levels included
NewsELA
New York Times blog
Achieve the Core
Vale Middle School's Articles of the Week
History Channel
Smithsonian's Tween Tribune
articles by lexile level
Kelly Gallagher-Building Deeper Readers and Writers
article of the week
Katherine McKnight
DI Conference Literacy Expert

Folk & Fairy Tales

Digital Story Writing: Cultural Myths
lesson plan for over 120 minutes
Surlalune Fairy Tales
full text traditional tales
Gerald McDermott's website
author & illustrator
Eric Kimmel's website
author & illustrator
Ed Young
author of Lon Po Po, Chinese Red Riding Hood

Government

FBI Records
State Agency Database
not student friendly; wiki
TN Sex Offender Locator
TBI Sex offender Registry
Blue Book Lesson Plans
Data USA
Visualization of U.S. Public Data

Great Websites for Students

Fact Monster
Internet Public Library - for Teens
tons of information!
Wolfram Alpha
Enter what you want to calculate or know about.
CIA World Factbook
Quotations
Biography.com
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the U.S.
Bartelby
full text publications
Thomas Legislative Info.
from the Library of Congress
Digital History
for high school and up
Why Files
science behind the news
BLS Career Info
great career tool for students by Bureau of Labor Statistics
How Stuff Works
National Geogrpahic Maps
Slave Trade Database
trans-atlantic
Edmodo

Health

Healthy Children
by the American Academy of Pediatrics
Bam for kids
by the Department of Health and Human Services; great for kids to use!
First Aid
by Mayo Clinic (very authoritative), not kid friendly
State Health Facts
Merck Manuals
Gale Health Reference Center
(TEL) health database

History/Social Studies

Heritage Quest Online
Search the census and more
Tennessee Landmark Documents
Tennessee Virtual Archive
primary sources
Tennessee Records
(ancestry.com)
Volunteer Voices
TN History Primary Sources
Student Resources in Context
Informational Texts by Topic
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History & St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (e-books)
Gale Student Edition
Database for High School Students
Gale Junior Edition
Database for Middle School Students
Library of Congress: America's Story
Cultural Institute
Facing History & Ourselves
nonprofit organization; includes lots of educator resources
History Channel
Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way
Teaching Tolerance Blog Entry
Smithsonian
Library of Congress
Primary sources
National Geographic
Ideas, Lessons, lending library (maps)
Crash Course
Videos
EDSITEment
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Archives
Education link - great for primary sources
Docs Teach
Primary source search from National Archives
LOC Primary Source Analysis Tool
Library of Congress
Reading Like a Historian
Teaching Tolerance
A project of the Southern a Poverty Law Center
iCivics
Educational games, lesson plans, web quests
The Learning Network
New York Times education site

American Civil Rights Movement

Project C Contemporary Civil Rights
Contemporary Human and Civil Rights Issues 1970-present
Beyond the Bus: Rosa Parks
from Teaching Tolerance
Project C Separate & Unequal in 1963
Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot Teaching Guide
goes along with the DVD
Teaching about Ferguson
People, Places, and Events of the Modern Civil Rights Era 1950-1970
Teaching with Documents
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The History of Civil Rights and Civil Rights Movements to 1950
from Project C
People, Places, and Events of the Modern Civil Rights Era 1950-1970
from Project C

Information Literacy

Big 6
Big 6: The Research Process
PE/Media Literacy Sources
Boolify
explains how to do boolean searches
Glean
teaching tools by Public Learning Media,Inc.
Virtual Inquiry
research process methods
Plagiarism
New York Times Blog

Librarian Resources

Movie Making

Xtranormal
Free Music
Digitales
Animator
Creating videos
Zooburst
Digital storytelling

Mr. Bihler's links

Music

News

TED Talks
Pictures in the News
The Boston Globe's news stories in pictures
Newseum
Washington D.C.'s Interactive Museum
Tennessean
The Tennessean Online
Flocabulary Week in Rap
Vanderbilt TV News Archive
news broadcasts recordings since Aug. 5, 1968
Newspaper Map
newspaper map of the world
Newspaper Cat
digital historical newspapers
CNN Student News
Newsela
Multiple news articles every day – each at five reading levels that can be adjusted per Lexile level for students
Infotrac Newstand
Database of Newspapers (TEL)

Poetry

Poetry Out Loud
competition
Poetry Out Loud 15-16 Teacher's Guide

Presentation Tools

Prezi
Make your presentations zoom!
Webquest
Glogster
Create an online poster!
GlogsterEDU
Teleprompter
Voice Recorder
Xtranormal
Avatars
Zunal (webquest template)
Morgue File
free photos

Professional Development

Differentiation & Intervention Links

Research

Writing and Research in a Digital Age PowerPoints
from the online textbook - needs a username and password

RTI2

AIMSweb Training Site
Edmodo
Reading Intervention Training
U: tneducation, PW: fastestimproving
TN Core RTI2 Information
Literacy Training 6-8 Grades
Real AIMSweb Site
Free Reading - Lesson Plans
Reading intervention lesson plans
Free Reading - Phonics
decodable texts for phonics lessons
Intervention Central
Reading First - Phonics Lessons
Easy CBM
Free tool for progress monitoring
Pennington Publishing Blog
free phonics games (printable) and more
SRA Corrective Reading
Program for decoding and comprehension
Compass Learning
Interactive Learning
Intervention & Differentiation Links

Rubrics

Free Rubrics

Science

Gale General Science Collection
Database (TEL)
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Beecham’s Guide to the Endangered Species of North America, The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of