Print Resources

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Video Resources on Demand

Academic Earth
Archaeology Channel
C-SPAN Video Library
Documentary Heaven - a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre.
Other Documentary Sources
Inspiring Documentaries - streaming.
FORA.tv - users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.
Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Merlot - Multimedia Educational Resource for learning and online teaching.
Minnesota Video Vault
PBS Frontline Planner - you can stream full length program from Frontline, NOVA, Nature, American Experience, History Detectives, Masterpiece Theater, Secrets of the Dead, Need to Know and more.
PBS VIDEO
Public.Resource.org - collection of films created by federal agencies, including: the Iran Contra Hearings; the Royal Ballet of Cambodia; and several long clips of The Roswell Reports ("eyewitness accounts").
SnagFilms: Watch Free Documentaries Online - world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers.
Teach With Movies - offers access to more than 350 lesson plans and learning guides for movies and films.
TeacherTube - video clips for educational purposes, many complete with lesson plans.
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading - clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers.
YouTube EDU - YouTube for Schools.

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RHS Academic Research Databases

The Primary Online Resource for Educational Research and Data is...ERIC (citations and abstracts)
ERIC Documents - education research topics are available in full text via RHS' subscription to EDRS.

RHS Faculty and Staff also have access to the following Professional Research Databases: 
Home Access is available for all of them.

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Internet Resources

(for detailed Subject Area resources refer to the RHS Academic Subject Guide)

Copyright/Plagiarism Information

Curriculum Resources/Lesson Plans

UDL - Lesson Plan Design - provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation.
BBC Education - curriculum based online resources related to BBC productions arranged into six categories.
Document Analysis Worksheets - developed by NARA for written, photographs, cartoons, posters, maps, artifacts, sound recordings and film.
Education Minnesota - voice for public education, leadership in education innovation, dedication to Minnesota students and families.
Educational Resources and Lesson Plans - links to lesson plans and other resources for students and teachers.
Educator's Reference Desk - AskERIC's lesson plans, links to online education information and Q and A.
Frontline Teacher Center - lesson plans and activities for middle school and high school teachers.
Gateway to Educational Materials - quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.
Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students - covers Language Arts, Foreign Languages, Social Studies, Science, Health, Math, Art and Music.
Learning Guides - lesson plans for the humanities: art and culture; literature; foreign language and social studies.
PBS Learning Media - NEW media-on-demand service developed for educators that provides EASY access to classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted, multi-platform digital resources.
DocsTeach - developed by the National Archives to help teachers integrate Primary Documents into their lesson plans. Includes specific lesson plans with the historical documents.

McREL-Making a Difference
National Library of Education - federal government's main resource center for education information.
New York Times Learning Network - feature articles from the Times complete with related classroom activities.
PBS Teacher Source - help educators plan lessons and provide access to resources on television and the Web.
Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad - a metasite to major subject gateways.
Read, Write, Think - from the National Council of Teachers of English.
Resources for Educational Excellence - Department of Education site of teaching tools from Art to Voc Ed.
Select K-12 Educational Sites - provides tutorials, projects, activities, lessons and links to other sites.
Teachers First - a one stop Web site sorted by subject and grade level.
Teaching Historic Places - lesson plans for history, civics, geography and social studies using the National Register of Historic Places.
Thinkfinity - educational resources by subject, keyword & grade level.
U.S. Census Bureau - Resources for Teachers from the U.S. Census Bureau.
www.4teachers.org - Education News

Public Domain Sites

Font Styles

http://www.abstractfonts.com/
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/home
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm
http://www.dafont.com/

Clip Art
http://openclipart.org/
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/?campaign=DE
http://teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm

Images/Photos
http://www.clker.com/
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.livebinders.com/media/get/Njk0MDExMg
http://pics.tech4learning.com/
http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/imagebase.html
http://incompetech.com/

Songs/Music
http://www.danosongs.com/
https://musopen.org/music/
http://freemusicarchive.org/
http://www.freesound.org/
http://soundcli.ps/
http://funkyremixes.com/
http://www.ujam.com/
http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm

Video/Films/Images/Audio
http://www.free-video-footage.com/
http://www.videezy.com/
http://www.motionbackgroundsforfree.com/
http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/video/index.html
http://gallery.usgs.gov/
https://marinelife.noaa.gov/media_lib/index.aspx
https://archive.org/details/movies
http://www.publicdomainflicks.com/

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Education Research

National School Boards Association - National School Board Association aims to refocus the public debate about public schools.
Current Issues in Education - e-journal with articles on education theory, practice, research and methodology.
Digital Divide Web Resources - foundation and grant information sites.
Education Index - annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web, sorted by subject.
Educational Technology Information Center - web site offers peer reviews of hardware, instructional and administrative software and services in the K-12 and Higher Ed markets.

ERIC Query Form
History of Education in the 20th Century - notiable events in education during the 20th century (focuses on U.S.
National Center for Educational Statistics - summarizes and explains the latest educational research findings.
National Research and Development Center - Dept of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement covering a wide range of educational issues.
K-12 Practitioners Center
Public School & School District Locator - users can identify name, address, telephone number and other student and teacher information for public schools and districts.
SearchEdu - Search the Web for just .edu sites.
Test Reviews - education & psychology test information as it appears in Mental Measurement Yearbook.

Education Resources

Active Learning Practices - Harvard University provides a wealth of educational resources including curriculum design tools, lesson plans, online educational publications, interactive forums and more.
A libris - the ultimate source for used, rare and hard to find books.
Amazon.com! - Earth's Biggest Bookstore.
American Association of Teachers of German
Archive Collections - Free to search. Archive-It is a fee-based service from the Internet Archive that works with non-profits, schools, governments and others to crawl and archive sites and pages they specify.
Choice Magazine - links to over 480 reviewed sites covering the areas of Reference, Humanities, Science & Technology, Social and Behavioral Sciences.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Cornell Theory Network - links to sites covering science and math, arts and social studies, and educators.
Department of Education - education topics from A to Z.
Document Analysis Worksheets - designed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Education Online - resources for educators and parents for each day's news from USA Today.
T.H.E. Journal with peer reviews of hardware and software.
FETCH Books - locate new and used Books.
Foundation Center - links to individual grant foundations, divided by state.
Google Forms - allows you to create assessments that can be open-ended or objective in nature.
Minnesota Grantmakers - Websites from the Minnesota Council on Foundations.
INFOMINE - internet finding tool and virtual library of scholarly internet resources.
Jeopardy Game Site also provides a link to create your own jeopardy game for your specific classes.
Library Media Program Development - an A to Z list of ALA reports on various aspects of school library media, from copyright to filters to weeding.
National Academies Press - all .pdf books free to download.
Puzzlemaker - create math squares, criss-cross puzzles, word games, mazes, word search, cryptograms, etc.

National Education Standards

National Standards for English/Language Arts
National Standards for History
National Standards for Mathematics
National Science Standards

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Electronic Journals

Academic Journals - free access to more than 600 multi-disciplinary professional and academic journals.
American Journal of Psychiatry - (abstracts and some full text)
Archaeology Magazine - (abstracts and full text)
Columbia Journalism Review - (full text)
Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice - (full text)
Education Week on the Web
Educational Policy Analysis - a peer reviewed scholarly journal (full text)
First Monday - (full text)
International Journal of Public Opinion Research - (full text)
Journal of Curriculum and Instruction
Journal of Media and Culture - (full text)
Journal of Social and Political Thought - (full text)
SIMILE - Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education

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Grant Opportunities

Education Grants and Awards

Reading Resources

UDL - Book Builder - Use this site to create, read, and share digital books that build reading skills for students.
American Library Association - provides ideas, book list, tips for parents & teachers and other resources.
Arts & Letters Daily - an updated report of news and reviews, digests the best writing on the web from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
ESL Resources Directory - a database of resources for teachers of English as a Second Language.
International Reading Association - information on international projects, research and publications.
Learning to Read - studies the reading process with information on teaching techniques, literacy, materials and reading research.
Literacy Task Force - preliminary report on "How We Can Teach Every Child to Read Well."
Minnesota Center for the Book - promoting books, reading, literacy and libraries for all Minnesotans (an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.)
Reading Resources for Teachers - reading skills, strategies, literacy, computers and reading, lesson plans.
Teacher Resource Center - how to involve parents in reading beyond the school day and other ideas.