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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Traditional Songs and Rhymes in Spanish

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Traditional Spanish songs that can be heard with Real Player. It includes the Spanish and English words for the songs. Find rhymes, fingerplays and games.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Mission Possible: Spy a Book! (Bilingual Resources)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore history, culture, adventures, spies, secret codes, and mysteries through this collection literary activities and resources. Includes poems, clip art, and ideas for crafts.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Detail From Holland's Magazine, March 1918

For Students 9th - 10th
In this cover art, see an example of how the Texas-based women's magazine "Holland" encouraged women to work as part of the war effort during the Great War.
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Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you wanted to know and more about Harry S. Truman, from biographical information to love letters.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Medea (Euripides)

For Students 9th - 10th
MIT offers an online version of the classical play "Medea" by the Greek playwright Euripides.
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Other

Nypl Online Exhibition Archive: Russia Engages the World 1453 1825

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition that looks at Russia's emergence over the period 1453-1825 from a position of isolation into one as a world power. St. Petersburg, founded in 1703, played a significant role in facilitating interactions with the larger world.
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Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Middle School Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Math Forum provides a list of links to many questions from the Dr. Math archive about exponents. This is a good site to use to direct you to different but associated information on the subject.
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Other

Internet Archive: The Crooked Man and Other Rhymes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A copy of an old book filled with children's nursery rhymes from the Children's Book Collection from the Library of the University of California. Click through the book to read the rhymes and see the pictures.
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: Digital Library: Female Victims in Lois Duncan's Novels

For Students 6th - 8th
This site from the Digital Library and Archives contains a paper analyzing the female victims in Lois Duncan's books. The author finds Duncan does a good job of avoiding stereotypes in her portrayal of female protagonists.
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Primary
Emory University

Emory University Libraries: Global Health Chronicles: Smallpox Eradication

For Students 9th - 10th
Archive documents the efforts undertaken to eradicate smallpox.
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Unit Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: History Firsthand: Primary Source Research

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
History Firsthand has been designed to provide elementary children with experiences which enable them to begin understanding primary sources. Students move from personal artifacts to the vast American Memory collections and learn how...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Perestroika

For Students 9th - 10th
In these revelations from Russian archives, perestroika is explained. Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring, became the unintended catalyst for dismantling the totalitarian state. Also contains...
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The Art of Asia: Architecture

For Students Pre-K - 1st
View the architecture and understand the history and importance of a reception hall, scholar's library and study, audience hall, and a teahouse.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief Library of Congress site has info on the Russian's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Lesson Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: Page to Stage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, source material for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," lesson plan teaches students to analyze the structure of a play's text in a way that will give them a clearer understanding of how to perform...
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Other

School Library Services: For Teachers: Research Assignments

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This simple page does a good job of articulating why research is an important process to teach to students, and it also provides a number of resources for teachers planning to do this.
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Article
University of California

Ucla College Library: Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site teaches readers how to evaluate the content and quality of web resources, offering questions and checklists to consider.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Kmoddl: Digital Library of Kinematics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site by Cornell University takes an interactive approach to the science of Kinematics. Still, images, video, and machines that can be manipulated are just a few features available on this extremely comprehensive site.
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Other

Autistics.org: Autism Information Library: Autism? What Is It?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Page presents general information about Autism. Links to further information about autism.
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US National Archives

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library: Exhibit Galleries: The Wonder Boy

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why Calvin Coolidge dubbed Hoover, then secretary of commerce, "the wonder boy" and why Hoover's active interest in scientific research, safety regulations, industrial standardization, radio, flood prevention, and other...
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US National Archives

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library: Hoover Timeline

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn about the highlights of Herbert Hoover's life with this visual timeline.
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Handout
Other

Library Online: Colon and Semicolon Punctuation in Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples in list form demonstrating the proper use of both the colon and semicolon.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Presidential Speech Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
The Scripps Library, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the most important presidential speeches in American history. These speeches all have transcripts, and some are available in their...
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University of North Carolina

Unc University Library: "I Raised My Hand to Volunteer"

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit contains digitized documents, images, and other archival materials relating to 1960s student protests in Chapel Hill, N.C. The exhibit is divided into four parts, relating to four different periods of protest in 1960s...