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Student News Daily
Complete current events curriculum updated daily, and completely free to use. This site "builds students' knowledge of current events and strengthens their critical thinking skills". Comprehension and critical thinking questions are provided with each news article. Students are taught how to spot bias in the Media, and understand political cartoons and satire. Teacher's get answers by email. Features Include: Daily News Article, Daily Best of the Web, Tuesday's News Issue, Wednesday's Biased item, Thursday's commentary, Friday's News Quiz, Final exam, Editorial Cartoons, World's Quick Takes (human interest stories), Quote of the week, and two guides - "Become an Educated Voter" and "Conservative vs. Liberal Beliefs" chart.

America: A Union of God & State
A 10-Session Short Course in America’s Godly Heritage & the Divergence from that Heritage in Recent Times. These free lessons are downloadable in PDF format.

Ohio History Central
Complete history of Ohio including timelines, multimedia, and more. Easily searchable topical index or by categories. Everything you need to teach or supplement your Ohio History lessons.

Jonathan Park
Receive free downloadable study guides that cover creation v/s evolution debate. Jonathan Park is a radio drama used to teach children about Creation Science in surprising detail. Both sides of the debate are presented. The study guides can be used with the audio, or on their own. Site includes field-trip suggestions to accompany the lessons.

American Heritage - An Adventure in Liberty
This free CD contains tested lesson plans for Kindergarten-12th grade. Written by teachers, it consists of age-appropriate and modifiable lesson plans grouped into three separate books according to level: elementary, middle, and high school. Each correlates practically with the national standards. Lessons emphasize themes of freedom, unity, progress, and responsibility. Your students will not only learn historical facts but also explore the significance and meaning behind events, that influenced our country's early history.

Learn 2 Type
Learn 2 Type offers free typing lessons and tests & typing tutor to help kids master the skills of touch typing. The exercises in the Typing Tutor adjust to your child's skill level and become more challenging as his skills increase.

Classics for Kids
Classical Music Lessons. Students listen to 10-15 minute programs and can complete worksheets. There is an archive for past programs. Learn about composers, instruments, musical careers and more.

Lifeprint ASL 101
Full year of ASL lessons, complete with schedule, lesson plans, and practice tools. Self-guided lessons are free to use. Teacher support for a fee.

SoftSchools
This site uses lessons, worksheets and games to teach all math concepts for Pre-K through Middle School. Also contains resources for language, phonics, handwriting, science, social studies, Spanish, and French.

Jet Stream - Online School for Weather
Complete, comprehensive weather lessons cover the following topics; The Atmosphere, The Ocean, Global Circulations, Synoptic Meteorology, Atmospheric Collisions, Thunderstorms etc. Site includes: downloadable charts and graphs, lessons, a Glossary, Acronyms, Quizzes and Activities.

BRL - Introduction to Braille
The BRL program is paid for by the U.S. Department of Education's Braille Literacy Program. It consists of 3 courses. All courses are free. This course is an Introduction to Braille, a 12 session course for braille beginners. Includes the basics, contractions and rules. Additional courses teach production of braille materials, brailing of textbooks, discussions of computers in braille production and tactile graphics, a basic introduction to specialized codes, such as Nemeth mathematics braille, music braille, computer braille, and chemistry braille. After completing this course, if you wish to become a certified transcriber, you must submit a 35-page trail manuscript to the Library of Congress. for evaluation. This program's goal is to prepare you for certification.

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