Make Music

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MakeMusic (with a special price for schools) helps teachers create lessons for vocal or instrumental ensembles and tools for site reading and singing. Useful for teaching instrumental or … learn more

Birds on The Wires

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Using a newspaper picture of birds sitting on telephone wires, Jarbas Agnelli was inspired to try making a song out of it. The results speak for themselves. Have … learn more

Music-AMC

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The site offers artistic, biographical, and contact information, along with upcoming performances of composers, conductors, performers, and ensembles. The directory also contains information on professional organizations and educators … learn more

Audiotool

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Appropriate for older students, Audiotool is a free yet powerful online music production studio right you can access with a browser. It provides virtual versions of pro audio … learn more

Virtual Drumming

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Virtual Drums lets you play a wide variety of virtual drum sets right from your web browser. Virtual Drumming includes free drumming lessons, games, drum sheet music and … learn more

The Piano Education Page

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The Piano Education Page is a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 1000 pages of family-friendly information, upgraded regularly. … learn more

Flying Robot Rockstars

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KMel Robotics created a team of flying hexrotor copters that create music in ways never seen before. Worth viewing “full screen”.

Particle Adventure

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Fundamentals of matter and force. Particle Adventure demonstrates the connections between music and physics.

JAZZ – A film by Ken Burns

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Jazz at PBS was created to accompany Ken Burns’ 10 part history of jazz. In addition to rich biographies with artists playing, site visitors can visit the Jazz … learn more

Jazz Hall of Fame

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The Jazz Hall of Fame is jam-packed with Big Band and Jazz history, music samples, headlines etc. It is very comprehensive.

New York Philharmonic Kidzone

Our Education programs empower all listeners and creators to make their own connections to orchestral music. From games that introduce preschoolers to musical basics to activities that inspire … learn more

Mozart Meets 007

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What happens when Mozart and James Bond collide? In addition to being great fun, Igudesman & Joo show how combining two styles or eras of music can lead … learn more

PRS: Classical Music Archives

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PRS plays classical music (post copyright). You can research composers, download MIDI files, and find instructional tips.

Why we love repetition in music

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How many times does the chorus repeat in your favorite song? Repetition in music isn’t just a feature of Western pop songs; it’s a global phenomenon. Why? Elizabeth … learn more

Music Theory

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Music Theory, started by Ricci Adams while a HS Senior, has over twenty-five lessons and several on-line trainers and utilities. The site, more appropriate for older students, includes … learn more

Rhythm Web

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Rhythmweb hosts sound files, among other resources in percussion, from around the world.

How to Read Sheet Music

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… by a 12 year old. A lighthearted, if not so helpful guide created by an unqualified individual. Enjoy! The video was assembled by Julian Cianciolo, who also … learn more

Nature Art For Kids

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“Art takes nature as its model.” – Aristotle Jean Van’t Hul has assembled lots (and lots!) of interesting nature art activities for kids. Everything from drawing leaves to … learn more

Why Nature and Art?

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Marghanita Hughes perspective on how nature and art can foster a deep love for the natural world. Nature art can be infused beautifully into all other subjects in … learn more

Draw3D: Virtual Lessons

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Draw3D is a simple site but fun, and includes on-line drawing lessons. Created by Mark Kistler, Public Television’s favorite drawing teacher.

23 Free Online Photo Editors

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There are a lot of online resources available where you can change, enhance and make funny photo editing without knowing and program like Photoshop. Here is a collection … learn more

Toilet Paper Roll Craft

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Using only some toilet paper rolls and some non-toxic paint, you can make awesome creatures for Halloween decorations. Chances are you already have the materials you need in … learn more

Real life anime

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Here’s an example of combining art and photography into something special. Variations on this project include using your school mascot, images cut out of magazines, or photographs of … learn more

Paper Wallet

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Your students can create paper wallets from a normal piece of paper, with minimal cutting and one piece of tape. It creates a durable, seamless, useable, write-onable, minimalist … learn more

American Art at the Smithsonian

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American Art at the Smithsonian offers am impressive collection of teacher guides, resources and videos. The guides are identified with corresponding standards and grade levels, and most are … learn more

Impressionism

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A glimpse into the world of Impressionistic painters combines art history and composition in painting.

National Gallery of Art

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The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC illustrates major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present. Learn … learn more

Forced Perspective Game

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A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center developed this First Person Puzzle game built around Forced Perspective. This is a demo of the technology … learn more

Inside Art

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Inside Art complements Pintura — only at this site students actually find themselves inside a painting and solve a mystery to exit.

Pintura at EduWeb

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Pintura is designed as a mystery site at which students learn techniques, such as brushstrokes, by comparing an old painting-artist unknown-discovered in an attic with masterworks to determine … learn more

Kinetic Wave Sculptures

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In this video from MAKE: television, Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to … learn more

The Getty Museum

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The Getty Museum turns traditional art education upside down. Rather than introducing themes and ideas through art history and then applying those concepts to art-making activities, the curriculum … learn more

World’s Smallest Politcal Quiz

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The World’s Smallest Political Quiz (10 questions) lets students deduce their inclinations and, more importantly, let them start to understand what the labels – Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, Statist … learn more

Polling Report

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For raw data and learning about polling questions and procedures, check out Polling Report.

Ballotpedia

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Ballotpedia is a non-partisan, online encyclopedia of American politics. They provide objective information about politics, influencers, and present & past elections. The cover not only national politics, but … learn more

Congressional Budget Office

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Since 1975, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has produced independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process. Each year, this nonpartisan agency produces dozens … learn more

Federal Election Commission

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The Federal Election Commission not only provides help for political candidates and committees, but tracks campaign contributions and expenditures and publishes that information here. Historical data is available, … learn more

Data.gov

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Data.gov is the home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you and your students will find the data, tools, and resources to conduct research, design data visualizations, … learn more

USA.gov Web Portal

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USA.gov is the federal government’s online guide to government information and services. Pick the topic and you can get information on it here. USA.gov provides a portal to … learn more

Digital Collections

A list of the over 200 on-line collections maintained by the Library of Congress. You and your students can view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; … learn more

Using Primary Sources

Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts … learn more

History Now

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New content is added regularly to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History website, including online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and issues of the online journal History Now, … learn more

Historical Thinking Matters

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Historical Thinking Matters is a collaboration between the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and Stanford University’s History Education group. The resources can be … learn more

Digital History Reader

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The Digital History Reader is a content- and inquiry-based for teaching European and American history with illustrative, multi-media downloads.

Annenberg Classroom

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This website connects Annenberg’s award-winning, comprehensive curriculum on the Constitution and its amendments to daily civics news and student discussion. Their nonpartisan writers sift through national and local … learn more

Spartacus Educational

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Main Menus British History American History Germany History Russian History French History First World War Second World War Spanish Civil War Cold War Vietnam War Assassination of John … learn more

Famous Trials

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Famous Trials looks at everything from the trial of Socrates (399 B.C.) to Susan B. Anthony (1873) to the Nuremberg Trials (1945-49)and the recent Zimmerman (“Trayvon Shooting”) Trial … learn more

Calisphere – University of California

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Calisphere is the University of California’s free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 200,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, … learn more

New Deal Network

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Includes photos and art, literature and historical documents about the Great Depression.

Geography – The Science of Our World

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Geography and maps are a fundamental language for understanding the world. They provide a framework for organizing and communicating our knowledge. Increasingly geography is used in virtually every … learn more

Confluence Project

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The goal of Confluence is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, … learn more

GPS Test Android App

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With the advent of the smart phone, just about everyone now has access to a high quality GPS receiver. There are a wide variety of GPS apps available … learn more

GeoCaching

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This is the link to the GeoCaching site. You can do something similar in your own school or neighborhood by creating caches and providing directions. A great way … learn more

What is Geocaching?

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Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, … learn more

CIA World Factbook

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The CIA World Factbook includes maps of each country in the world as well as high resolution regional and global reference maps. Then entry for each country includes … learn more

Geography Facts Quiz

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When looking for interesting geography facts, World Geography For Kids found some really fun continent facts and interesting facts about the world’s countries and people. See how many … learn more

How GPS Works

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This Discovery News segment from 2013 describes the GPS network, where it came from, how it works, and how it it being upgraded with a new generation of … learn more

Interactive Map Maker

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National Geographic’s Interactive Map Maker includes topo, satellite, terrain, and ocean maps. You can layer on data values and save the results.

Telling Their Stories

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Telling Their Stories describes the construction of an oral history. This method can be especially interesting for students learning from the elderly about their families, because some older … learn more

Tales of Future Past

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For a view of the future in past predictions look at Davids Zondy site and thenn change your own forecasts.

The History Net

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The National Historical Society recommends HistoryNet as a more traditional source than the WallofHonor.

Timeline in American Jewish History

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For Jewish American history look at this American Jewish Archives page, mapping the entire span of years during which Jews have lived in North America.

Japan’s Pearl Harbor Strategy

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. National Geographic has assembled a set of maps and text showing the full scope of Japan’s battle plans for … learn more

Moving to America

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The year is 1909 and your family has made a monumental decision that will change the rest of your life.Can you imagine your future as you set out to leave … learn more

September 11 Digital Archive

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The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. The Archive contains more than 150,000 … learn more

D-Day Museum Collection

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Portsmouth’s D-Day Museum is Britain’s only museum dedicated solely to covering all aspects of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944. Currently going thru a … learn more

The Peabody Museum

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The Peabody Museum hosts a number of on-line exhibitions, including ones on how students lived at colonial Harvard, how 1870s photographs of Japanese people and scenes – created … learn more

Valley of the Kings

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This archived web site provides a fascinating look at the kings Of ancient Egypt.

Mariner Museum in Newport News

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While much of the content of the Mariner site in Newport News, Virginia, is about the physical museum itself, it also offers interesting links to the world’s explorers … learn more

Gold Rush in California

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At the San Francisco Museum’s Gold Rush exhibit are artifacts and letters of advice from the miners’ wives.