Sullivan County BOCES Library Ready Reference

Ready Reference

Business & Finance
•	Big Charts
•	The Motley Fool
•	Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
•	U.S. Small Business Administration

Curriculum Writing Workshop Resources
•	AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner
•	Capital Region BOCES School Library System Information Fluency Curriculum
•	Guided Inquiry
•	Information Age Inquiry
•	Information Fluency
•	National Educational Technology Standards 2007
•	New York City School Library System Information Fluency Continuum
•	New York State Learning Standards
•	Peter Millbury � School-libraries.org
•	Questar III BOCES School Library System Information Inquiry Curriculum
•	WSWHE- Regional Information Literacy Core Curriculum

Education - Elementary
•	BrainPOP
•	Edu-Station: Bill Nye the Science Guy
•	Edu-Station: Disney
•	Houghton Mifflin Mathematics
•	Starfall Learn-to-Read
•	The Fifty States

Educational Games: Elementary
•	Science: Try Science

Educational Games: High School
•	Free Rice: Vocabulary

Educational Games: Middle School
•	E-Learning For Kids: Games
•	Free Rice: Vocabulary
•	Math: Measuring Distances (Ages 11 & 12)
•	Math: Simplifying Fractions (Ages 11 & 12)
•	Science: Try Science

Educational Technology
•	Technology Trends in Education
•	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Fast Facts
•	FedStats
•	InfoPlease.com, World Almanac
•	Internet Public Library
•	RefDesk
•	Statistical Resources

Free Software Downloads
•	Cite Your Research Sources
•	Free Online Puzzle Creators
•	GIMP: Photo Editor Similar to Photoshop
•	Inkscape: Graphics Editor Similar to Illustrator
•	Photo Story 3

Health
•	HealthFinder.gov
•	HealthWeb: Health Statistics
•	HealthWorld Online

History
•	Hudson River Valley Heritage

Language
•	Bartlett's Familiar Quotes
•	LOF Online Catalog
•	Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
•	Polish-English Dictionary
•	Poltran: Polish-English Translator
•	World Book Encyclopedia

Library of Congress
•	Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
•	American Memory: Iconic Historical Artifacts
•	America''s Story: Stories from the Past
•	Architecture: Build in America
•	Art: Posters from the WPA
•	Children's Story Time
•	Culture & History of the Americas
•	Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources
•	Library of Congress Home
•	Motion Picture and Television Reading Room
•	Music, Theater & Dance: Digital Library
•	Music, Theater & Dance: Katherine Dunham Collection
•	Music: Song of America Tour
•	National Book Festival
•	Poetry
•	Poetry 180: A Poem of Day for American High School
•	Prints and Photographs Reading Room
•	Recorded Sound Reference Center
•	Teacher''s Resource Center
•	Teacher''s Resource Center: The Learning Page
•	THOMAS: Legislative Information
•	Today in History
•	Veteran''s History Project
•	Winston Spencer Churchill and the Great Republic
•	Words and Deeds in American History

Podcasts: Art
•	Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
•	Freer and Sackler Galeries
•	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
•	National Museum of African Art
•	Smithsonian American Art Museum

Podcasts: History
•	Lemelson Center
•	National Museum of American History
•	National Museum of American Indian
•	Smithsonian: General Information

Science
•	Earth and Moon Viewer
•	Hubble Telescope
•	NASA
•	NASA Sci Files Gr 3-5
•	Nasa TV
•	NASA: BioBLAST Gr 9-12
•	NASA: Infrared Astronomy Tutorial Gr 5-8
•	NASA: Passport to Knowledge
•	NASA: Space Place Gr 3-6
•	NASA: Stardust Comet Mission
•	National Geographic Channel Videos
•	Satellite Imagery: Google Earth
•	Satellite Imagery: Google Mars
•	Satellite Imagery: Google Moon

Search Engines
•	Ask.com
•	Clusty: The Clustering Meta-Searching
•	Dogpile: Searches Ask, Google, MSN, and Yahoo
•	Exalead: Customizable and Phrase Searching
•	Gigablast: Boolean and Phrase Searching
•	Google.com
•	Librarians'' Internet Index: Websites That You Can Trust
•	Search Engine Features Chart and Reviews
•	Zuula: Searches Ask, Exalead, GigaBlast, Google, MSN, and Yahoo

Subscription Websites
•	Quia: Create activities, quizzes, games

Teacher's Corner
•	Authentic Assessment
•	Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
•	Critical Issue: Promoting Technology Use in Schools
•	Cyberbullying
•	Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Internet safety
•	Digital Copyright Law 1998
•	Education Podcast Network
•	Edutopia: Innovative Teaching in K-12 Schools
•	eSchool News
•	E-School News
•	Flat Classroom Project
•	Free Web Blog Creator: Lycos
•	Freeplay: Music for Classroom Projects
•	How to Survive in a One Computer Classroom
•	Integrating Technology into the Classroom: Podcasts
•	Issues in Distance Learning
•	ISTE''s Standards for Students
•	Jing Project: Free Screen Capture
•	Kathy Schrock''s Guide for Educators
•	MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource
•	National Educational Technology Standards: Grades 3-5
•	National Educational Technology Standards: Grades 6-8
•	National Educational Technology Standards: Grades 9-12
•	National Educational Technology Standards: Grades Pre K-2
•	Open Professional Development
•	Parent - Teen Internet Use Agreement
•	Pics For Learning
•	Play It Cyber Safe: Cybercrime
•	RubiStar: Creates educational rubrics
•	Stories Online: Read by Famous People
•	Teacher Tube
•	The Educator''s Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
•	Title 17 � Copyrights
•	WebQuests

Teacher's Corner: Hardware
•	Indigo: Learning System

Technology Standards (ISTE) (NETS)
•	Administrators
•	Students
•	Students by Grade Level
•	Teachers

Video Resources for Learning
•	CNN: Student News
•	C-SPAN Classroom: Clip of the Day
•	C-SPAN: American Presidents - Life Portraits
•	C-SPAN2: Book TV
•	ESPN: Sports Figures Film Room
•	Food Network: Cooking Demos
•	Food Network: Quick Fix Meals
•	MTV: Think Education
•	Pentagon Channel Online
•	The History Channel: Great Speeches
•	The History Channel: Military and War
•	The History Channel: Science and Technology
•	The History Channel: This Day in History