Free WEB Resources For Teacher Lessons And Student Projects

Overview:

The FREE resources below are provided to assist teachers and students in finding project assets.

Public Domain & Free:

Images:

• • Metropolitan Museum Of Art (400,000 free online images for non-commercial use)

  • Library Of Congress - Free To Use and Reuse Sets

  • Library Of Congress - Thousands Of Photos, Posters, and Images That Are Free to Use And Reuse

  • Library Of Congress - Free eBook Downloads

  • Creative Commons

  • Copyright Friendly Photos - Wikispaces

  • Flickr/ Creative Commons

  • Flickr Free Use Photos - Advanced Search

  • FlickrCC Blue Mountains

  • Flickr Library Of Congress - The Commons

  • Free Photos And Images (All photos on the site are in the public domain)

  • Google Images Advanced Search

  • Pexels

  • Pics4Learning (copyright free library for teachers & students)

  • PicFindr - Search Public Domain & Free Stock Photos

  • Designs For Democracy - 200 Years Of Drawings From The National Archives

  • National Digital Library

  • National Park Service

  • National Park Service - Historic Photo Collection

  • America As It Was - Collection of Post Cards

  • U.S. Department of Agriculture

  • U.S. Department of Interior - Photos

  • U.S. Department of Interior - Archived Photos

  • Library of Congress - American Memory

  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (Featured)

  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (All)

  • National Atlas.gov

  • NASA Image Exchange

  • National Library of Medicine

  • Public Domain Photos And Clip Art

  • Congressional Pictorial Directory

  • Congressional Pictorial Directory, Wikipedia

  • FreeFoto.com

  • Clip Art Images of World History

  • Public Domain Clip Art

  • Free Stock Photos and Images

  • Springfield Township High School Free Images

  • Free Photos Bank (free stock images)

  • Free Pixels (images for personal and commercial uses)

  • 4 Free Photos

  • Public Domain Pictures

  • Public Domain Clip Art

  • Art Images

  • FreeMediaGoo

  • Free Military Photos

  • FreeFoto.com (largest collection of free photos on the WEB)

  • Images For Education

  • Photos For Class

  • Public Domain Pictures

  • Public Domain Images, miscellaneous images

  • Photos8

  • Reshot

  • Stockio

  • U.S. Government Photos and Multimedia

  • Free Digital Photos

  • Flickr Free Use Photos

  • Flickr Storm (use pull down menu for Flickr and Creative Commons - easier)

  • ClipArt ETC

  • Open Clip Art Library

  • Unsplash

  • U.S. Fish And Wildlife Services Images

  • U.S. History Images

  • U.S. Navy Images

  • Wikimedia Commons (Collection of 46 million usable media files to use for FREE)

• Music:

  • Mutopia - Free Sheet Music

  • Royalty Free Music and Sound, Springfield Township High School

• Audio & Video:

  • History Channel - Free Video Gallery

  • Learn Outloud - Free Audio & Video

  • Learn Outloud - American History Titles

  • Teacher Tube

  • National Archives Video Sections

  • East History - For Teaching Historical Events

  • EncyclMedia - Free History Videos

  • Streaming Video (some copyright free), Springfield Township High School

• Books:

  • Search for books in public domain - Google Books

  • Project Gutenberg

• Online Libraries:

  • ConSource - Constitutional Source Documents

• Miscellaneous:

  • Free History Worksheets

  • About.com - Free History Worksheets

  • American History - Told in Free Power Point Format

  • Google Timeline Results on American Revolution

  • Teachers' Domain - U.S. History

  • Teachers' Domain - World History

  • Animation Library - Free Animation Collection For Projects

• Primary Source Documents:

  • American Revolution Primary Sources

  • American Revolution, Teacher Resources, Teach U.S. History.org

  • What Are Primary Sources?

  • American History

  • ConSource - largest online collection of primary sources on the U.S. Constitution

  • Hudson River Valley Heritage - online materials, newspapers, and stories administered by the Southeastern NY Library Resources Council

Citing Sources:

• Use these sites and resources to assist you as you cite photos, images, videos, etc. of others. Some cites state that you may use the work of the contributor as long as you attribute the work in the manner specified by the author. You should read the conditions on each site and on each piece of work you wish to use.

• Some Sites for creating citations:

  • 1. Easy Bib - a free bibliography and citation creator

    2. Easy Bib's Visual Guide to Citations

    3. WikiHow - How to Attribute a Creative Commons Licensed Work

    4. Son Of Citation Machine, older version, properly credit sources and WEB media

    5. Son Of Citation Machine - newer version, properly credit sources and WEB media

    6. Creative Commons - sample search page; click on images to see attribution requirements

    7. Creative Commons - attribution page sample

    8. Creative Commons - sample attribution based on contributor's requirements

    9. Creative Commons - FAQ's

Google Docs - Free Image Add-Ons:

Use the following sites for add-ons to Google Docs, which will enhance what both you and your students can do.

• • 1. Pixabay Free Images

    2. Insert Icons For Docs

    3. Full Deck For Google Docs

Google Slides - Free Image Add-Ons:

• • 1. Unsplash - insert free photos in any Slides presentation

    2. Insert Icons For Slides - 1,800+ icons from Font Awesome and Google Material Design