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05 Nov 09

EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web

Great lesson plans!

"EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities.

EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.

All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is not intended to represent a complete curriculum in the humanities, nor does it prescribe any specific course of study."

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29 Oct 09

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web

From the website: History Matters is "a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Visible Knowledge Project.
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Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence.

We emphasize materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting evidence."

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23 Oct 09

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

FREE is a website pool of teaching and learning resources from various branches of the federal government.

From the website:
"More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
. . .
FREE is maintained by Peter Kickbush and Kirk Winters, Office of Communications and Outreach, with support from the Development Services Team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Education."

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08 Oct 09

National Constitution Center: Interactive Constitution

Interactive Constitution! Broken down into Preamble, Articles, and Amendments, which are each broken down into the original text, and then if you click different pieces of the text it explains what they mean. You can also search the entire constitution for key words, search by topics, or search by court case

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  • Interactive Constitution:
  • Discover how the Constitution relates to more than 300 indexed topics from
    school prayer to civil rights.
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02 Oct 09

The New York Times Learning Network

This site is RAD! Current and Recent Events resource

From the website:
"Students can read the day's top stories using Knowledge Tools, take a news quiz about today's world, and play special crossword puzzles. . . .

Teachers can access a daily lesson plan for grades 6-12, written in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education in New York City. Each lesson plan and the article it references can be printed out for classroom use. Previous lessons are available in the archive and in thematic lesson plan units. . . The site additionally provides teachers with the latest education news from the newspaper. "

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Upfront

SO RAD!

A New York Times publication for teens. SWEET!

From the website:
"The New York Times Upfront is published by Scholastic in partnership with The New York Times."

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