Resources

Common Core Resources
Here you'll find extra resources to support you in your classroom with a special focus on language development and Common Core State Standards. Educational Service Agency in Ithaca, New York
 * Common Core Aligned Lesson Plan Template

Hess' Video on Cognitive Rigor Longer Hess' Video on Cognitive Rigor Common Core State Standards Initiative Website

Images
Pics4Learning (http://www.pics4learning.com/) is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Pics4Learning is developed as part of the Partners in Education program by Tech4Learning and the Orange County Public Schools Technology Development Unit. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images but have allowed the images to be used without permission for improving student educational opportunities.

Clipart ETC is an online resource from the Florida Education Technology Clearinghouse, housing more than 43,000 pieces of clip art organized into common educational categories. Most images are available in multiple resolutions and image formats for ease of use in a variety of products. No permissions are required to use up to 50 images in a single, non-commercial product.

Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) is the University of California’s free public gateway to a world of digitized primary sources. Images are selected from the libraries and museums of the ten UC campuses and more than thirty cultural heritage organizations. Themed collections, lesson plans, and Browse A-Z are specifically designed to support K-12 classroom needs.

Calisphere is made up of six themed collections: You may use images, documents, and other primary sources from Calisphere in your classroom without permission, subject to fair use guidelines.
 * The Changing State in the Gold Rush Era (1848-1865)
 * Closing of the Frontier (1870-1900)
 * Emerging Industrial Order (1900–early 1940s)
 * The Great Depression (1929-1939)
 * World War II (1939–1945)
 * Social Reform (1950s-1970s)

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources Wikipedia has a listing on public domain images. Image sources are organized into categories, including books, logos, postage stamps, history, and US Government sites. Because Wikipedia has user-generated content, images should be checked to verify that they are in the public domain.

Public Domain Sherpa provides links to several public domain photograph websites, including government, museum, and private collections. The author includes a summary of what can be found on each site, along with information about copyright and crediting the sources.

The Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to legally build upon and share. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. License rights range from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Audio
Digital History at the University of Houston (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/audio/music.cfm) has a repository of historical music which is in the public domain. They also link to historical music for educational use that is freely available on the web under fair use guidelines.

Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/en/) has more than 10,000 albums by more than 5000 artists, all free for teachers to download, use and in some cases even edit in their classroom. Each album is labeled according to its Creative Commons licensing, whether it's attribution only, non-commercial, and/or no derivatives. You can search for music according to artist, style, and/or licensing.

The Freesound Project (http://www.freesound.org) contains Creative Commons licensed sounds that can be looped or inserted in a variety of multimedia projects. The site reguires users to register (free) prior to downloading, and Freesound creates a citation list as you download files.

Other Web Resources
Thinkfinity, formerly known as Marco Polo, contains a searchable database of standards-aligned web resources to support the curriculum.

CLRN Web Information Links (WILs) are a searchable collection of resources sponsored by the California Department of Education. Resources can be browsed by standard or searched by keyword.

FREE: Free Resources for Educational Excellence contains teaching and learning resources from government agencies. The resources include animations, primary source documents, images and video, and cover all content areas and grade levels.

[|Calaxy] is a free K12 site that allows members to upload videos to share with other educators. Directions for uploading videos can be found here

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Thousands of digital videos, images, and audio files are available to support a variety of content areas.

Google Lit Trips, directly compatible with Google Earth, and manageable on Google Maps, can be downloaded and edited (if desired) in Google Earth. Downloading a .kmz file will automatically open in Google Earth if you have it loaded on your computer.Google Earth is downloadable from earth.google.com

Colorin Colorado is a free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs).