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The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is a searchable database of the cornerstone documents of our government. It has more than 100,000 digitized copies of the National Archives most popular and significant manuscripts, photographs, maps, drawings and other documents. (National Archives and Records Administration)

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The Captioned Media Program offers over 4,000 free-loan, educational and general-interest open-captioned videos. Educational videos are accompanied by lesson guides and include topics in school subject areas, preschool through college. Titles include classic movies and special-interest topics such as travel, hobbies, recreation, and more. (CMP, supported by Department of Education)

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Captured Wisdom in Middle School presents stories about successful teaching in middle school. Learn how an e-mail list helped students write better historical fiction, or how fifth-grade students planned a virtual vacation using cd-roms, travel books, and the Internet. (NCREL, supported by Department of Education)

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Captured Wisdom on Adult Literacy is a series of stories about adult literacy teaching success. In one story, adults learning English use the Internet to find pictures and information about their home country for written and oral reports. In another, adult students act as consultants hired to save a failing restaurant and use technology to deal with irate customers, schedule work hours, and design new menus. (NCREL, supported by Department of Education)

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The Christopher Columbus Awards gives students a high-energy, hands-on experience with science and technology. It is exclusively for students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades - in public or private schools, home schools, and youth organizations. Four students working as a team put their heads together to identify a problem in the community, look into it, come up with an innovative solution, and then refine their ideas. (National Science Foundation)

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Classroom Compass is a collection of activities, and resources for teachers to improve instruction in science and mathematics. Each issue links sample classroom activities with ideas about learning and instruction. It presents examples of instructional activities that illustrate the issue's theme, supported by excerpts from standards-based publications. (Department of Education)

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Classroom of the Future Program introduces the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia. The site provides links to four educational CD-ROMs covering the solar system, the universe, long-term space habitation, and world-wide environmental problems. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

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Copyright on the Web—Activity, Learning Page answers 11 questions students, teachers, & parents may have about using web images, sound recordings, and text in papers, presentations, and web projects. (Library of Congress)

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Creating Hypertext Dialogues Drawn from Narrative History Collections—Lesson, Learning Page invites students to use documents from "California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900," to create hyperscripts depicting the motivations, expectations, fears, and realizations of immigrants who settled California between 1849 and 1900. Students' hyperscripts are online written dialogues that include links to illustrative written materials, images, and sound files from American Memory collections. (Library of Congress)

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The Digital Classroom encourages teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents and to teach with primary source materials from the National Archives. The site offers discussions on how primary documents give form to history, instructions on building a school archive, and templates for document analysis worksheets. (National Archives and Records Administration)

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Directorate for Education and Human Resources seeks to promote the health and continued vitality of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education. Resources include publications, programs, and outreach activities for all educational levels. (National Science Foundation)

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Ecybermission is a web-based math, science, and technology competition for teams in grades 6, 7, 8, and 9. Each team proposes a solution to a real problem in their community and competes for regional and national awards (such as U.S. savings bonds). Last year's winning 8th-grade team devised a 2-digit key code system to speed the handling of 911 calls. Registration is open through December 15. (Department of Army)

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Excellence in Science, Technology, and Mathematics Education Week (March 15-20, 2004) features a gallery of websites that invite students to design a virtual roller coaster, find out what's in toothpaste, explore atomic physics and ancient tombs, go back in time to the world of Leonardo da Vinci, watch an animations of internal combustion engines, compose music, see a satellite-eye's view of Jupiter, take cybertours of museum exhibits, and more. Students can also ask scientists a question. (National Science Foundation)

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Global Science and Technology Week suggests how schools and communities can generate excitement about disciplines that underpin breakthroughs in medicine, space exploration, and more. Students can email questions to scientists and engineers. A webcast features scientists and engineers who create visual models of molecules and Mars (using supercomputers), devise replacements and improvements in the human body, and discover new scientific truths about the universe. (Multiple Agencies)

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GLOBE -- Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. Students and teachers from more than 9,500 schools in over 90 countries collect data that are then used by scientists and other researchers. It provides teacher guides, workshops, views of the data and the research, a resource library and more. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

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InTime offers 400 video vignettes of pre K-12 teachers using technology in language arts, math, science, and other instruction. A conceptual model for analyzing the use of technology in instruction is among the tools and information on the site. (Department of Education)

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LEARNS offers literacy training activities for tutors and mentors, a literacy assessment profile, and information for volunteer programs that help children in primary grades improve their reading. Its winter 2002 newsletter, "The Tutor," looks at the five skills identified by the National Reading Panel as key to literacy development during kindergarten to third grade. (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, supported by Department of Education)

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Computer Crime: A Lesson Plan for Teachers of Elementary and Middle School Children looks at issues in the field of computer crime, including predatory behavior and breaking into systems to vandalize and/or steal information and intellectual property. The site also offers a "Code of Responsible Computing" as developed by the Computer Learning Foundation. (Department of Justice)

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The Library of Congress Catalogs maintains a searchable database of about 12 million records -- books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials. (Library of Congress)

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Madagascar Adventure explores agricultural practices in Madagascar and analyzes the effects on the people, the environment, and the endangered lemurs. Students then create technology-enhanced presentations. (Peace Corps)

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