Resources for ALL Content Areas

ALL CONTENT AREAS:
links to awesomeness This document will link you to a plethora of resources for primary documents, videos, sound bites, and excellent reading resources…EXCELLENT!

http://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/opposing-viewpoints-resource-center Opposing Viewpoints offers material to support differing views and help students develop critical thinking skills on thousands of current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia.

http://www.flocabulary.com/subjects/ or http://theweekinrap.com/ —Free 14 day trial
Flocabulary presents academic content in a highly-engaging, contemporary format. Let the topic speak for itself, providing students with both visual and aural exposure. And videos arenā€™t only for introducing new topics; use them to review and provide ongoing enrichment as well.

http://www.learner.org/# Annenberg Learner’s mission is to “Advance Excellent Teaching in American Schools.” We have pursued this mission for more than three decades by funding and distributing multimedia resources for teachers (K-12 and college levels) to teach their subjects and to stay up-to-date in their fields. As our name Annenberg Learner implies, we focus on the teacher as a learner, as well as the student as a learner. In fact, all adults who are lifelong learners have enjoyed and benefited from using our resources.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answersā€”
not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/ Enter a book you like and the site will analyze our huge database of real readers’ favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.

http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline –Canā€™t access at school, but useful

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks— 550 Free Audiobooks!

http://www.tenbyten.org/10×10.html –This is one of my favoriteļŠ Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour’s most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10×10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

http://whatsthebigideaprogram.com/ Philosophy for Middle School Students

http://safelibrary.marionk12.org/library/309273 A digital library for differentiation with printable resources is available.

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