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Classroom Clipart
www.ClassRoomClipArt.com
A source for free clip art pictures and illustrations. You can browse by clip art category, including animals, culture and community, history, music, plants, and sports.
Clip-Art.com
www.ClipArt.com
Contains links to clipart fonts, photos, and web graphic sites on many subjects.
GIF Works
www.GifWorks.com
This is an online GIF image editor. This free, unique tool is completely online with nothing to download or install. “Create your own special effects with any GIF -- even animated ones! Resize it, colorize it, optimize it, and jazzercise it -- then save it and take it with you. You name it and you can do it!”
Teacher Files.com
www.TeacherFiles.com
A collection of free educational clip art and animated clip art. Subjects include math, science, art, computers and internet, drama, physical education, music, and geography. Site also contains resources, ideas, activities, and lesson plans.
Photography
New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Gallery
DigitalGallery.nypl.org
“The NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of digital images in its collections. Among its holdings are illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints and photographs, and original art. Its picture collection has many works in images of New York City, American history, and clothing and headgear.”
Society for Photographic Education (SPE)
www.SPENational.org
SPE, a nonprofit organization, provides a forum for the discussion of photography and related media as a means of artistic expression and cultural insight. The society considers photographic education in its broadest sense, concerned with the practice and analysis of the medium both as an art form and as an instrument of social consciousness. Members include teachers, curators, exhibiting photographers, photojournalists, and collectors. The organization has a national conference and regional conferences, and publishes a journal and a newsletter.
WorldImages
WorldImages.sjsu.edu
WorldImages provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It has over 60,000 images, which are organized in portfolios, and which are then organized into subject groups. Among the subject groupings are art and architecture; cultural and social interactions; history, politics, and warfare; material culture and daily life; music, drama, and literature; natural world; religion, myth, and magic; science, technology, and mathematics; and women. Teachers can use these image resources in many disciplines.
Puzzles
Discovery School’s Puzzle Maker
www.PuzzleMaker.com
A division of Discoveryschool.com, this site makes it easy for teachers to make puzzles such as word searches, cryptograms, hidden messages and mazes. Teachers can make puzzles online and print them off to use in their classrooms.
Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips at Tramline
www.field-trips.org
“The virtual field trips here at Tramline were developed with the goal of making the best use of the web in the classroom.” Students are taken to some of the best web sites on each trip subject. Subjects are varied and provide information on topics such as Shakespeare, volcanoes, rainforests and Presidents, just to name a few.

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