Mrs. Spear's List: Image Resources Oct PLC

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.

The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.

The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
•Promote international and intercultural understanding;
•Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
•Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
•Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

For interactive primary source documents, enter the keyword Karpeles in the search box and check out the collection. Very cool.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art creates, organizes, and disseminates a broad range of digital images documenting the rich history of the Museum, its collection, exhibitions, events, people, and activities. Many of these images are available for personal enjoyment, study, educational purposes, and scholarly publication, according to the Terms and Conditions of this website. For other uses, or when an image is subject to third-party rights, images may be available for licensing. See below for further information. All users of this website are encouraged to carefully review the Terms and Conditions prior to any use of the images or materials on this website. Any third-party permissions, if applicable, are the responsibility of the user; these may include copyright ("artists rights"), trademark, or the rights of privacy or publicity.

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 through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting.

Thousands of primary source documents to bring the past to life as classroom teaching tools from the billions preserved at the National Archives. Use the search field above to find written documents, images, maps, charts, graphs, audio and video in our ever-expanding collection that spans the course of American history.

A portal to lots of images, primary sources, lesson plans, and more!

It is important for students to be able to use images as a tool to advance their own knowledge and achievement. In this capacity, students are able to think abstractly about complex ideas and information, transforming the curriculum into more of a narrative they can absorb through creative imagery. There are several ways teachers can use images to extract the inherent creativity from their students, while simultaneously promoting deep thought, and honing their attention to detail. Read this article for great ideas for using digital images in the classroom.