Learn from other educators what you might need to enhance learning in the classroom with digital cameras. If you want to know what kind of equipment you need or some practical applications, this site is valuable for a novice or...

View a wonderfully intricate animated film [3:00] inspired by different places of worship centered in and around the Iranian city of Isfahan. Created by a digital artist/architectural illustrator based in Spain, the film is accompanied...

With its beginnings along the railroad tracks in Maryland and West Virginia, the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first national strike in response to poor wages and poor conditions. Understand the impact of this strike on the...

Questions about democratic institutions arose in Europe as the watched the economic crisis in the United States. The conditions in Europe during the Depression era, several photos, animations, and reports, suggested assignments, and...

Animated maps analyze data pertaining to congressional elections b.etween 1992-2008.

Resource juxtaposes subtle pictures of the ways US voters have cast their ballots in presidential elections during the past two centuries. These animations, depicting more than forty presidential election cycles, reveal much about the...

Expert timing and spacing is what separates a slide show from a truly amazing animation. TED-Ed demonstrates, by manipulating various bouncing balls, how the smallest adjustments from frame to frame can make all the difference. [6:42]

This article provides brief descriptions of twenty digital tools that can be used by both teachers and students for making infographics, presentations, videos, animations, as well as for assessments, quizzes, and more. Each tool is...

P.T. Barnum's American Museum was mysteriously destroyed by fire on July 13, 1865. The museum has been digitally recreated and you are invited to take a virtual tour. If you choose to register you can solve the mystery of who burned it...

In this lesson, the teacher gives each child an animal name and has them find it on the ZooBorns website. They then choose an animal they like and search for that.

"Jolly Animal ABC", published in 1890 by McLoughlin Brothers , has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 9 page book is appropriate for pre-readers.

"Funny Animal Primer", published circa 1900 by McLoughlin Brothers , has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 10 page book is appropriate for pre-readers.

A large collection of dot-to-dot pictures for counting practice. Has three levels of difficulty, from basic counting from 1 to 50, to skip counting by single digit numbers and even decimals, to counting with Roman Numerals. Pictures can...

Learn the names of the animals in Spanish. Match the Spanish word with the correct animal.

The CyberSquad tracks Digit's position in time and then studies graphs to figure out what Hacker is scheming in this video from Cyberchase.

In this lesson, students work in groups with each acting as a predator, prey, or family member in a particular habitat. They present their habitat performance to the class and students identify the habitat and animal relationships. Then,...

Suite of games and animation tools where players can design, draw, and play a variety of multimedia games. Flipbook is great for creating frame-by-frame animations that tell stories or simply explode with color. Other games, Odd One Out,...

Take a one-minute tour through the history of media arts. Examine a variety of media forms and be a media critic. Visit the Media Studio and learn about movie soundtracks, animation, and creating a storyboard. Meet different artists as...

Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. In this activity, learners use characters from Cartoon Network's "The Amazing World of Gumball" to create an animated story.

Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. In this activity, students learn how to create animated waves in an ocean setting and then compose a high seas story.

As a follow-up to a unit on the classifications of animals, insects, and birds, students will attend a distance learning field trip. The students will then e-mail trusted adults some of the information learned about the classification of...

Explore the "many worlds of hidden microbes" in different areas of the Microbe Zoo: DirtLand, Animal Pavilion, Snack Bar, Space Adventure, and WaterWorld. A fun and informative resource that sheds light on the role of microbes in our...

This is a must-have site for the study of the Civil War. Students will have access to primary documents from many sources, including: census and veteran records, letters and diaries, newspapers, and church records. This Project explores...

This collection of documents tracks inter-Korean relations from the time of the Park Chung Hee coup in 1961 through the opening of the inter-Korean dialogue in 1970.