Websites+&+Databases

=Links to Websites, databases, or other online resources=

Professional Organizations:
NEA Lesson Plans - []

ReadWriteThink (NCTE) - [|http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/]

American Historical Association - [] I'm not 100% sure yet, is this THE professional association for history teachers? [SK]

Formerly GEM and operated by the NEA. This appears to be the foremost in online resource for trusted materials. Operates with a large consortium of collaborators and partners. (Is this too close to what we are looking to do?)-LS [|http://www.thegateway.org/]

ThinkFinity.org (Formerly Marco Polo)- A partner with 21st Century Skills and NEA, part of a much larger consortium pulled together by NEA. []

School Districts:
AACPS- List of lesson plan websites: [] Montgomery County PS List of lesson plan websites: []

State Initiatives/Projects:
List of Primary Sources from State Archives: []

__**Alabama:**__ Alabama Mosaic __http://www.alabamamosaic.org/faqs.php__ AlabamaMosaic was initiated under a National Leadership Grant from the U.S. [|Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)] and is now a program of the [|Network of Alabama Academic Libraries]. It is operated and managed by [|Auburn University Libraries] on behalf of NAAL.

__**Ohio:**__ The Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching: [] Projects include:
 * the Opper Project
 * Cold Cases
 * ehistory

__**South Carolina:**__ [] //"SCDL i__ntends to be the model for other institutions digitizing materials in the state__, and will strive to provide the knowledge, resources, and capacity necessary for those institutions to complete their digital projects.... We envision that SCDL ultimately will become an i__ndispensable research tool for K-12 students__, researchers in higher education, and other life-long learners as they visit the SCDL website to study and compare documents concerning South Carolina’s history and culture. Educators will also find SCDL’s range of digital collections to be an __invaluable source of material for dynamic and interactive lesson plans__. "//

//**Related article:**// Vinson, Christopher G. and Boyd, Kate Foster (2008) 'Cracking the Egg: The South Carolina Digital Library's New Perspective', Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 20: 2, 117 — 128

//"This article explores the historical foundations of the South Carolina Digital Library, a collaborative statewide program that ties together academic special collections and archives, public libraries, state government archives, and other cultural resource institutions in an effort to provide the state with a comprehensive database of online digital resources. This article examines how both grants and institutional support have come to define the project’s future by strengthening its infrastructure."//

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 * Utah** (Instructional Architect) Science-based, but worth a look for the direction we might want to take:

Utah Digital Repository Toolkit: []

Lesson plans focusing on electronic resources:
World History Sources - [] Library of Congress - [] Many consider this to be the gold standard for teacher resources dealing with primary sources. See too their [|new page for educators]. In addition to specific lesson plans, they have general advice on using primary sources in the classroom, etc. But the individual lessons are still very difficult to search! [SK]

Curriki []

**Sites with free lesson plans:** Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (linked from the Ed.gov site) [] []

http://www.thinkfinity.org/

Not sure How good these plans are but they are available, I've only added a small handful to help illustrate how many there are-LS [] []

PBS - [|http://www.pbs.org/teachers/] Lots of multimedia oriented lesson plans (since they're mostly designed to integrate with PBS programming).

Discovery Channel []

Scholastic []

ReadWriteThink - [] This site is sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, THE professional association for English teachers. Apparently the IRA and Verizon are also (new?) partners. Highly credible and has just undergone a [|makeover] with new search features. [SK]

Blue Web'n - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/ "Blue Web'n is an online library of 2194 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format." Apparently sponsored by AT&T. [SK]

Museum Resources
Again a small sampling

Smithsonian Education []

MoMA []

Getty []

Fee-based services for lesson plans:
Lesson Planet: []

Grants:
IMLS: []

**Other:**
S.O.S. for Information Literacy - [] This is a project from Syracuse University that was funded by a National Leadership Grant!! Read the [|About Us Overview] as it describes their process a little. It's similar to what we've been discussing except that I think they are doing more to develop new curriculum and are focusing solely on information literacy. [SK]