Digital Public Library of America
DPLA works with a national network of partners to make millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.
Education Outreach: Tennessee State Library and Archives
A program at the Tennessee State Library and Archives focused specifically on linking educators with primary sources for educational use in classrooms. Students can also easily access the digitized primary sources on our website.
Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages. The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities.
Smithsonian Education - Educators
Smithsonian lesson plans emphasis inquiry-based learning using primary sources and museum collections.
For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress resources for Teachers - includes lesson plans, information about teaching with primary sources and other ways to use the Library of Congress in the classroom.
Lesson Planet
Created and managed by an experienced team of educators (editors, writers, reviewers and programmers) that are passionate about teaching and learning, Lesson Planet is constantly adding new teacher-reviewed resources, features and tools. Launched in 1999, Lesson Planet has evolved into a popular, curriculum-focused, niche search engine, designed specifically for educators. Lesson Planet is designed to help teachers discover quality, relevant teacher resources…fast. Lesson Planet provides numerous ways for teachers to refine and narrow their searches for online curriculum resources, including: