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Online Resources: Education - Resources for Teachers & Librarians

Ask Colorado
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American History in Video - Tutorial - Ken Burns'Videos
American History in Video allows students to see, experience, and study American history in new ways, by comparing, for example, the footage, transcript, and tone of government perspectives (United News Newsreel) of the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1942 or D-Day in 1944 with the longer-term perspectives of documentaries like After Silence (Bullfrog Films) or D-Day: The Total Story (The History Channel).

American Song - American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, cowboys and ordinary people. The songs touch topics as varied as Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

Classical Music Library - Classical Music Library includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

CollegeInColorado.org
CollegeInColorado.org is a free, comprehensive website dedicated to providing students & parents with everything they need to know about career exploration and planning, selecting high school courses, choosing and applying to colleges, obtaining financial aid and getting ready to take the SAT, ACT or GRE tests.

Contemporary World Music - Contemporary World Music includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

ERIC
ERIC is the world's largest digital library of education resources, with more than 1.2 million records of journal articles, books, papers, reports, and other materials indexed from 1966 to the present. With ERIC you can search more than 600 journals with links more than 225,000 full-text documents.

Health Reference Center
Focusing on the high school health curriculum, Health Reference Center includes more than 585 educational videos on a wide range of health topics and reliable information on today's most pressing health topics.

Issues and Controversies
Issues and Controversies includes creative classroom activities & assignments, including activities for using historic documents as well as discussion questions & activities based on issues included in this resource.

Jazz Music Library - Jazz Music Library includes thousands of jazz artists and ensembles, ranging from past greats to musicians performing and recording today. Listen to Chicago jazz, New Orleans Jazz, 1920s jazz, big bands, acid jazz, Latin jazz, and more.

Learning Express Library - Tutorial
When you register on LearningExpress Library, you must use your library card number (122220.......) as your username.
includes math, reading & writing practice and skills improvement as well as assessment tests for elementary through high school students.

LISTA - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes nearly 690 periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship back as far as the mid-1960s.

Music Online - Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that our library subscribes to. The browse option includes lists of music by: historical events, cultural groups, time periods, instruments and much more. There are also over 853 playlists that can be used as a teaching resource for in-class use.

NoveList K-8 Plus - Tutorial
Novelist K-8 Plus includes curriculum driven material designed to help integrate reading across subject areas in the classroom - including 30,000 nonfiction titles specifically chosen to support what kids are studying in school.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English Dictionary Online has a Learning Resources section that includes exercises & quizzes for grades 6-12 that introduce students to the OED.

Research Starters - Education
Research Starters - Education offers a starting point for educational research with summaries of discipline-specific topics - including the broad outlines of an area of Education, its real world applications, and sources for researching the subject in greater detail.

Science Online - Tutorial
Science Online offers definitions of science terms, essays, timelines, diagrams, images & videos, biographies of scientists and nearly 1,000 science experiments and activities covering key principles in science, indexed by grade range, subject category, & time required.

Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center indexes over 260 of the most popular teacher & administrator trade journals, periodicals & books with coverage on key educational topics.

Today's Science
Today's Science includes a "Tools for Educators" section with curriculum-based activities and assignments in: Biology, Chemistry, Earth & Space Science and Physics.

Universal Class Use your library card number (122220.......) as your username when you register on UniversalClass
UniversalClass offers over 500 online non-college credit adult continuing education courses taught by real instructors on almost any topic imaginable - from the ABC's of Algebra to Yoga 101. Each online course offers lessons, assignments & tests to be done on your schedule as well as opportunities to connect with the instructor & other students in the class through email & chat. Some topics included are: Computer training, GED Preparation, Entrepreneurship, Homeschooling, Alternative Medicine, Pet Care, Cryptozoology and much, much more.

 

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