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Databases
Encyclopedias
Grolier Online Passport
World Book Online Encyclopedia
General
EBSCO Databases
Gale NOVEL Reference Databases
Gale Virtual Reference Library eBooks
NetLibrary
ProQuest K-12
Teaching Books
Newspaper Indexes
NewsBank
NewsBank - Binghamton
NewsBank - Elmira
NewsBank - Ithaca
Student Websites
7th Grade
7th & 8th Grade Music: Rock & Roll Artists/Groups
Country Music Television
Rolling Stone
VH1
7th Grade Family & Consumer Science: Careers
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Career Information
Career Zone
Glencoe Online: Career Clusters Series
NetTrekker: Career and Technical Education
7th Grade Health: Drugs
Above the Influence: Drug Facts
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for Teens: Facts on Drugs
Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Alcohol
Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Caffeine
Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Inhalants (Gases, Glues and Aerosols)
Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Marijuana
Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Smoking and Tobacco
Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Steroids
TeensHealth: Drugs & Alcohol
The Cool Spot
Too Smart to Start: Tweens - Facts about Alcohol
7th Grade Science: General
Life Has a History
Microscope at pppst.com
Mitosis & Meiosis Online Quiz
7th Grade Science: Leaf Identification
A Guide to Tree Identification
Arbor Day Foundation: What Tree Is That?
Auburn University Horticulture Department: Plant Identification Resource
Basics of Tree ID
eNature: Field Guides - Trees
Tree Identification
Tree Identification Using a Tree Leaf Key
What Tree Is It?
7th Grade Social Studies: Colonial Times
PBS: Colonial House - "Would you have survived on the colony?" Quiz
Social Studies for Kids: The 13 American Colonies - Part 2: Characteristics of the Colonies
Social Studies for Kids: The 13 Colonies
Business Editor
About.com: Colonization of the United States
NetState.com: Geography of the 50 States
Social Studies for Kids: Farming in the 13 American Colonies
United States History: Maps
History Editor
History of the USA
The TimePage: 13 Originals - Founding the American Colonies
United States History: Historical Eras - Colonial Period
United States History: Maps
People Editor
History of the USA
Kid Info: Middle Colonies
Kid Info: New England Colonies
Kid Info: Southern Colonies
Religion and Law Editor
Social Studies for Kids : Religion and the Church in the 13 American Colonies
Social Studies for Kids: The 13 American Colonies - Part 2: Characteristics of the Colonies
The TimePage: 13 Originals - Founding the American Colonies
Webquest
13 Colonies Webquest
7th Grade Social Studies: Enslaved People Images
Bing Videos: Harriet Tubman
National Geographic: The Underground Railroad - Time Line
NPS: Nile of the New World - African Americans in Slavery
PBS: African American World
PBS: African American World - Timeline (Early Days & Slavery, 1400s-1865)
PBS: Slavery and the Making of America
PBS: Slavery and the Making of America - Time and Place
The Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Reading Room - Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
The Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Reading Room - Union and liberty! And union and slavery!
YouTube: All Night Forever (Slavery in America)
YouTube: The Alphabet of Slavery
7th Grade Social Studies: Iroquois People
Academic Kids: Iroquois - The Haudenosaunee
Eastern Woodland Indians
Encyclopedia Britannica: Iroquois (people)
Friends of Ganondagan
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Indian Fact Sheet
Iroquois Indian Museum
Iroquois Webquest
NativeTech: Virtual Wampum Belt
Peace 4 Turtle Island: The Longhouse
Royal Ontario Museum: Iroquoian Longhouse
The Iroquois Confederacy Map
The Iroquois of the Northeast: Sovereign People
7th Grade Social Studies: Slavery Stations
A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie - Spoken Narrative
Bio.com: Harriet Tubman Biography
Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom
Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom - Following the Drinking Gourd
Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom - The Gospel Train's A'Comin'
Owen Sound's Black History: Songs of Freedom - Wade in the Water
Pathways to Freedowm: Following the Footsteps
PBS: Africans in America - Harriet Tubman
The Library of Congress: American Memory
The Soul Review: Coded Slave Songs
YouTube: "Wade in the Water" (Natalie Baillargeon)
YouTube: Wade in the Water
7th Grade Social Studies: Westward Expansion
Annenberg Media: Interactives - United States History Map, The Nation Expands
Education Place: Westward Expansion
MrNussbaum.com: A Growing Nation
7th Grade Spanish: Spanish-Speaking Countries
CIA: The World Factbook
Countries and Their Cultures
National Geographic Kids
Wikipedia: Hispanophone
World Travel Guide
8th Grade
8th Grade English: Author Study
Additional Databases
MagillOnLiterature Plus
SIRS Renaissance
Twayne's Authors Series
Documents
Author List
Individuals
Alice Walker
Amy Tan
Arthur Conan Doyle
C.S. Lewis
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Bronte
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Ernest Hemingway
Gary Paulsen
George Orwell
H.H. Munro
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Herman Melville
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jack London
Jane Austen
John Steinbeck
Julia Alvarez
Langston Hughes
Lois Lowry
Louisa May Alcott
Louise Erdrich
Mark Twain
Maya Angelou
Naomi Shihab Nye
Nathanial Hawthorne
Ray Bradbury
Robert Frost
Sandra Cisneros
Sherman Alexie
Steven Crane
Ursula LeGuin
Victor Hugo
Walt Whitman
Walter Dean Myers
William Shakespeare
8th Grade Family & Consumer Science: Cultural Foods
CIA: The World Factbook
Countries and Their Cultures
Food in Every Country
Global Gourmet - Destinations
World Recipes
World Travel Guide
8th Grade Health: Family Relationships
APA Help Center: Families - Making Stepfamilies Work
APA Help Center: Families - Single Parenting and Today's Family
Child Welfare Information Gateway: Foster Parents Considering Adoption - A Factsheet for Families
How Stuff Works: Understanding Family Structures and Dynamics
Kids Health: A Kid's Guide to Divorce
Kids Health: Being Adopted
Kids Health: Foster Familes
Kids Health: Living with a Single Parent
Kids Health: Living with Grandparents
Kids Health: Living with Stepparents
Kids' Health: Adoption
Kids' Health: Divorce - When Parents Want to Split
Kids' Health: Families - There are Many Kinds
Kids' Health: Foster Families
Kids' Health: Single Parent Families
Kids' Health: Stepfamilies
National Stepfamily Resource Center
Teen Health: Adoption
Teen Health: Step-Families
Teens Health: Adoption
Teens Health: Dealing with Divorce
Teens Health: Stepparents
8th Grade Health: Medical Careers
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Career Information
Career Zone
Glencoe Online: Career Clusters Series
NetTrekker: Career and Technical Education
8th Grade Social Studies: The American West
American West
Denver Public Library: History of the American West, 1860-1920
EyeWitness to History: The Old West
Old West Index
PBS: New Perspectives on the West
The Overland Trail
Virtualology: American West
8th Grade Social Studies: The Roaring Twenties
Alice Paul Institute: Biography
Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum: Biography
Appleton Public Library: Harry Houdini
Biography.com: Clara Bow
Biography.com: Greta Garbo
Biography.com: Howard Hughes
Charles Lindbergh, Am American Aviator: Biography
Charlie Chaplin.com: Biography - Overview of His Life
Chicago History Museum: Al Capone
Digital History: The Ku Klux Klan
Encyclopedia of World Biography: Babe Ruth
Encyclopedia of World Biography: Sinclair Lewis
Famous Sports Stars: Tennis - Bill Tilden
Famous Sports Stars: Tennis - Helen Wills
Gale Cengage Learning: Black History Month - Biographies - Bessie Coleman
How Stuff Works: Bobby Jones
Jewish Women's Archive: Fanny Brice
Just Disney.com: Walt Disney - A Short Biography
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection: Carrie Chapman Catt
National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame: Red Grange
NobelPrize.org: Sir Alexander Fleming
Ohio History Central: Clarence S. Darrow
Ohio History Central: Eliot Ness
PBS: American Experience - Mary Pickford - People & Events - Douglas Fairbanks
PBS: American Experience - Mary Pickford - People & Events - Mary Pickford
PBS: American Experience - Monkey Trial - People & Events - John Scopes
PBS: American Storytellers - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Sensible Thing - Biographies - F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
PBS: Jazz - Biographies - Bessie Smith
PBS: Jazz - Biographies - Duke Ellington
PBS: Jazz - Biographies - Jelly Roll Morton
PBS: Jazz - Biographies - Louis Armstrong
Radio Hall of Fame: Walter Winchell
Sports Illustrated for Women: Gertrude Ederle
The Biography Channel: Charles Atlas
The Biography Channel: Coco Chanel
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project: Mary McLeod Bethune
The Institute for Intercultural Studies: Margaret Mead
The Internet Movie Database
The Literature Network: Willa Cather
The New York Times: Obituary - Sonja Henie
The Official Lou Gehrig Website: Biography
The Official Site of Jack Dempsey: Biography
The Official Zora Neale Hurston Website: Biography
The White House: Calvin Coolidge
The White House: Herbert Hoover
The White House: Warren G. Harding
Yahoo! Movies: Rudolph Valentino
Audio Resources
Music
ccMixter Music Discovery
incompetech: Royalty Free Music
Purple Planet Royalty Free Music
Sound Effects
My Sound FX
Partners in Rhyme: Sound Effects
Simply the Best: Sound Effect MP3 Files
Soungle
Book Trailers
A Great and Terrible Beauty
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Blood Red Horse
Dork Diaries
Found
Gone
Incarceron
Love, Stargirl
Maximum Ride
Percy Jackson & The Olympians
Speak
The Alchemyst
The Book Thief
The Clockwork Three
The Graveyard Book
The Grimm Legacy
The Indigo King
Uglies
Wicked Lovely
Wintergirls
Miscellaneous
Wordle: Create
Picture Resources
Flickr
Flickr and Creative Commons
PicFinder
U.S. History Images
Wikipedia Public Domain Images
Podcasts
Children's Book Radio: Episode Guide
Science Fiction Book Review Podcast
The Horn Book Podcast
The New York Times Book Review Podcast: “The Hunger Games” Trilogy
Tutorials (Text)
Audacity
Tutorials (Video)
SchoolTube: Photostory of How to do Photostory
TechSmith: (1) Record and Edit in Audacity
TechSmith: (2) Add and Edit Music in Audacity
TechSmith: (3) Save and Export in Audacity
Website Evaluation
Authority
Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Bias
EIA Energy Kids: Wind
Interesting Energy Facts: Wind Energy Facts
National Wind Watch: FAQ - Impact on Wildlife
Southwest Windpower: Small Wind Basics
Detail
The Literature Network: William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: Biography
William Shakespeare: Talented And Daring
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Teacher Websites
Assessment
MidLink's Teacher Resource Center: Evaluating Internet Research and Multimedia Projects - How to Hit a Moving Target!
Pearson Prentice Hall Professional Development: Hot Topics - Assessment
Teacher Vision: Creating Rubrics
English Language Arts
Book Adventure
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
National Council of Teachers of English
New York State Education Department: English Language Arts Learning Standards and Core Curriculum
Read * Write * Think
The Writing Site
Family & Consumer Science
Epicurious
National Association of Teacher Educators for Family and Consumer Sciences
New York State Education Department: Home and Career Skills Core Curriculum, Grades 5-8
Foreign Languages
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
New York State Education Department: Languages Other Than English Learning Standards
General
Education World
Educator's Reference Desk
Gateway to Educational Materials
Joyce Valenza's Teacher Resources
Scholastic: Teachers Home
Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers Index
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Place: Graphic Organizers
Region 15: Graphic Organizers
TeAchnology: Graphic Organizer Makers
Health
New York State Education Department: Health Education Learning Standards
Helpful Links
Discovery Education Streaming
SCOOLS
Snap Smart Search
Literacy
International Reading Association
Read * Write * Think
Textmapping Project
Mathematics
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
NCES Kids' Zone: Create a Graph
New York State Education Department: Mathematics Learning Standards and Core Curriculum
PBS Teachers: Math
The Math Forum: Teacher's Place
Totally Tessellated
Nation-Wide & State Education
National Education Association
New York State Education Department: Curriculum, Instruction & Instructional Technology - Learning Standards
U.S. Department of Education: No Child Left Behind
Science
National Science Teachers Association
New York State Education Department: Science Learning Standards and Core Curriculum
SMART Lesson Resources
Lesson Activity Toolkit Tutorials
SMART Educator Resources
SMART Exchange
Social Studies
Center for Teaching History with Technology
EyeWitness to History
National Council for the Social Studies
New York State Education Department: Social Studies Learning Standards and Core Curriculum
Technology in Education
Global SchoolNet
Innovate: Journal of Online Education
International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards
New York State Education Department: Technology Learning Standards
The Arts
Artcyclopedia
New York State Education Department: Learning Standards for the Arts
Science Explorer: Pringles Pinhole
Video Conferencing
Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
Global Nomads
NASA
Twice
Web 2.0
Blabberize
Common Craft
Wallwisher
Wordle
External Library Links
Four County Library System
George F. Johnson Memorial Library
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