Web Resources for Teaching with the Internet

Please add to this list if you know of other excellent (and stable) websites. Repair or remove broken links from this page.

Social Studies

• National Archives
  • Analyzing Images through Eyewitness project
• George Eastman House International Museum of Photography 
  • Famous Doctored Photos
• Library of Congress
  • Media Analysis Tools
• In Flanders Fields: WWI Museum from a European Perspective
• Black Past: An Online Reference Guide to African American History
• Online Speech Bank
• Memorial de la Shoah: A French based website dedicated to the condition of Jews in France during WWII.
  • The Holocaust by Bullets: An exhibit about the extermination of Jews in the Ukraine during WWII
  • A Priest Methodically reveals Ukrainian Jews' Fate: A NYTimes article about the work of Father Desbois
• PBS: China Blue: The Business of Blue Jeans 
• The Newseum's Today's Front Page: Front pages of newspapers from around the U.S. and the World.
• Xpeditions: Tools for teaching geography from National Geographic

Mathematics, Economics and Science

• Jet Propulson Laboratory/NASA
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
• Illuminations Math Activities by NCTM
• Illuminations Weblinks Math links approved by NCTM
• EdEcon: Ideas and Information from National Council on Economic Education
• RadioLab: A fascinating series of programs that include science, math, social sciences, humanities - you name it!
• ScienceNetLinks: It's a science education site, but many of the lessons can be used to support mathematical learning.
• MacTutor History of Mathematics: This site, hosted by the School of Mathematics and Statistic at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, has been approved by NCTM

Humanities, The Arts, and Literature

• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of History
• The Getty Museum
• The Memorial Art Gallery
• Museum of the Moving Image
• World Music and Music Videos
• Arts Edge: Ideas using the arts by Kennedy Center PBS & NPR
  • PBS: Circle of Stories
  • PBS: The American Novel
  • NPR: This I Believe
  • NPR: This American Life
• Poetry 
• Young Adult Literature : Lists from the American Library Association
• Online Dictionary of Etymology: Learn about the roots and history of words : Online Exhibitions

World Languages and ESL

• BBC Languages
• Voice of America - Special English
• Foreign Language Resources

Smithsonian Institution

America's Attic. Art, History, Science, Culture, Technology

Internet Public Library

Understanding Race

A project of the American Anthropological Association

Digital Storytelling

Music files downloads

Text to speech

Interactive response to multimedia files

Easy podcasting

gabcast

gcast

Teaching Effective 21st Century Literacy Skills

• Teaching Internet Reading Strategies
• 21st Century Literacies
• 21st Century Skills 

Teaching Tools

• Read, Write, Think and Thinkfinity: A powerful search engine for finding quality teaching ideas and resources
• Annenberg Media Programming 
• Library of Congress Resources for Teachers
• Memorial Art Gallery Teacher Resources
• Teaching With the Internet by Leu, Leu, & Coiro
• Active Learning Practices
• Writing Math Research Papers
• Visual thesaurus 

More resources

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