Archive for the 'Language Arts' Category
TweenTribune is one of the free services available from the Smithsonian. It is designed for teachers and students in grades K-12. The site contains articles from the Associated Press related to science, history, art, culture, and current events. The articles are leveled by Lexile score. In addition to articles, TweenTribune offers images, videos, audio files, […]
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Google News Archive is an extension of Google News. It contains a large collection of historical newspapers, magazines and other documents. Many of the resources available through Google News Archive are free; others require a fee. Users can search by keyword and also use Google’s Advanced Search feature to search by date. While Google stopped […]
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US News Map is a site maintained by the Georgia Tech Research Institute and eHistory.org at the University of Georgia. It houses American newspapers that were printed between 1836 and 1925. Search results are displayed on a map with clickable markers.
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The Google Cultural Institute offers access to artwork from over 1,000 museums and cultural institutions. Through this site, users can access over six million documents, images and videos. Users can also “visit” museums and performance arenas through the site. Users can also build their own virtual galleries of artwork related to a specific topic.
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The New York Library Digital Collection contains over 650,000 digitized items from the New York Public Library. Items include prints, photos, maps, manuscripts, videos, and sound recordings. Items can be searched by keyword, type, date, topic, etc. and can be downloaded. All items are free from copyright laws and can be used without restrictions.
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The Museum of Modern Art has posted over 65,000 of its 200,000 paintings online. This online collection includes works from the 1800s to today. These works can be searched by medium and by time period.
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Writing Prompts is a site that offers a variety of writing prompts for students. The site was created by a teacher who actually used the prompts with students. The prompts are related to a variety of topics that I think are relevant to students. They also require upper level thinking.
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Quill is an interactive website that helps students with grammar, vocabulary and writing skills. Quill provides over 150 Common Core-related activities for elementary through college students. The activities can be completed in 10-15 minutes. Students received immediate feedback once they’ve completed an activity.
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8 Classic Storytelling Techniques for Engaging Presentations is a post on the Sparkol.com that describes eight different ways for making presentations more interesting. We often have students make presentations but don’t always know how to help them make their talks more engaging. This post contains not only descriptions of the techniques but examples as well.
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ThemeSpark is an online rubrics creator that allows the user to create rubrics related to the CCSS, NCCAS, NGSS and 21st Century Skills. The interface is very easy to use and allows the user to choose individual components of the standards. As of this writing, the Math CCSS are not available but hopefully they will […]
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