Teacher+Resources

**[|Thinkfinity]**
Offers thousands of free lesson plans and curriculum resources for teachers aligned to state standards. Sponsored by the Verizon Foundation. [|Content] is provided by a variety of partners including Read, Write, Think, Xpeditions, and more.

**[|Inspire]**
Inspire is Indiana's virtual library with searchable databases including KidSearch, Biography Resource Center, and TeachingBooks.net. Click here for a complete list of [|databases]. Inspire also includes links to [|outside resources] arranged alphabetically.

**[|Storybird]**
Choose your illustrations and write your own picture book.

**[|Glogster for Education]**
You or your students can create interactive posters using images, audio, video, and text. View this [|tutorial] to learn more.

**[|American Memory Collection]**
The American Memory Collection is hosted by the Library of Congress and offers primary resources including maps, manuscripts, motion pictures, sheet music, photographs, and sound recordings.

**[|Library of Congress Teacher Page]**
Access the Library of Congress teacher page for classroom materials, professional development opportunities, and information about how to use primary sources in the classroom.

**[|Audacity]**
Use Audacity sofware for audio podcasts or to add audio to movies, powerpoint, etc. Will need [|LAME MP3 Encoder] to export audio files to MP3 format and a microphone. Also, may want to use headphones.

[|Meet Me At the Corner]
View kid friendly videos or have students create and submit their own videos. Offers virtual field trips for kids as well as the Big Apple Book Club which presents video book reviews for kids by kids.