Sunday, April 29, 2012

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FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://free.ed.gov/index.cfm
FREE has more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources from federal agencies.  It was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President (President Clinton).
This site has animations, primary documents, photos, and videos.  Animations includes 30 resources such as A Tour of the Cell, Seeing Math Interactives, and Invention at Play to name a few.  There are a 134 Primary Documents.  Among these documents is Using Primary Sources in the Classroom to offer suggestions as to how use photos, documents, and other artifacts to bring history alive in your classroom.  Finally there are 80 photographic resources and 41 video resources available.  The FREE resources can be access by subject.  Check out this fabulously valuable resource!

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