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American Library Association
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| | Kids Connect K-12
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Black History Month
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| | Includes: History and Timelines,500 Notable African American Biographies, and much more.
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COUNTRY INFO: BBC New Country Profiles
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| | Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries.
They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives.
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COUNTRY INFO: CIA-World Fact Book
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| | Fact profiles of the countries of the world
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COUNTRY INFO: U.S.State Dept. - Background Notes
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| | Background Notes are factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include facts on the country`s land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy.
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COUNTRY INFO: United Nations
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| | Consult this site to obtain background information on the United Nations, Members, UN Documents, and global issues on the UN agenda.
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DISCOVERY EDUCATION
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| | Select videos, images, audio(songs), audio(sound effects) or clip art to use with your reports. Can search by Media Type, Subject or Grade. USERNAME: farmingdalestudent PASSWORD: wliw
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EDITORIAL CARTOONS
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Great Web Site for Students
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High School ACE
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Internet Public Library
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LITERATURE: Poetry Anthologies
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| | A collection of poetry athologies complete and online for easy access.
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POLITICAL CARTOONS: Cartoon Bank
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Quick Reference Research
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Teacher Resources
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American Library Association - Library Standards
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| | American Library Association Library Standards.
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Animoto
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| | It takes just minutes to create a video and bring your lessons to life. Post/embed videos elsewhere or download them for in-class presentations!
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Best of History
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| | Best of History Web Sites contains links to over 1200 quality history-related web sites which are categorized by time period. Links to K-12 lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, and more are included.
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Blue Web`n
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| | Blue Web`n is an online library of 2100+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
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Dewey Browse
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| | An award winning site for grades K-12 which organizes educational websites by the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Includes a Teacher Resource section
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Filamentality
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| | Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities
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Finding Dulcinea “Librarian of the Internet”
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| | Finding Dulcinea website compiles credible and high quality sites. Users can browse by topics and/or search keywords.
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FPS Curriculum
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| | Farmingdale Public Schools curriculum.
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FPS Instructional Tech
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| | Farmingdale Public Schools list of instructional technology resources.
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FPS Library
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| | Farmingdale Public Schools Libraries homepage.
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Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
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| | Kathy Schrock’s website includes a categorized list of educational websites which are updated on a regular basis. Search for websites by subject and/or alphabetic index.
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New York State Ed Dept. - Learning Standards
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| | Provides links to both New York State Learning Standards and American Association of School Librarians(AASL) Library Standards.
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New York Times Learning Network
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| | New York Times Learning Network includes educational news, lesson plans, crossword puzzles, and issues in depth which lists topics according to subject. This site is primarily for grades 6-12.
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Newsmap
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| | News Map reads the feeds from Google News and then displays headlines with backgrounds color coded by topic. The size of each block is based on the number of articles listed on the same story.
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Panoramas
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| | Panoramas.dk includes full screen interactive 360 degree photographs of cities and attractions around the world.
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Quintura
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| | Quintura is a search engine which presents results as a dynamic tag cloud which encourages exploration of keywords and results.
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Rubistar
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| | RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.
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S.C.O.R.E.
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| | Schools of Californian Online Resources for Education
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Safari Montage
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| | Video streaming on demand.
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Teacher Tidbytes Web Resources
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| | A compilation of educational websites organized alphabetically by subject. Includes links to lesson plans, study and life skills sites, as well as PowerPoint Presentations for all subject areas.
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Teacher Tube
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| | Teachertube is an online community for sharing educationally focused instructional videos.
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Teaching Books
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| | TeachingBooks.net an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children`s and young adult books. NOTE: SEE LIBRARIAN FOR PASSWORD
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Thinkfinity
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| | Use Thinkfinity for all subject areas. Search for lesson plans, worksheets, interactives and more!
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Thirteen/WNET: VITAL NEW YORK
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| | VITAL: Video in Teaching and Learning is a free web-based tool free of charge for all NY State educators, students and their parents. Register at http://vital.thirteen.org
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Voice Thread
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| | Voicethread is a “powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos.”
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Wordle
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| | Use Wordle for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
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