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School Corps
This is a general list of the services the Multnomah County Library School Corps can provide at Multnomah County schools.

Homework Page
This page is a part of the Multnomah County Library Homework Center.

Full Esteem Ahead
Full Esteem Ahead empowers adults to prevent risky behavior in youth and to help them thrive. We believe that active adult involvement in the lives of young people develop strong, healthy youth who are less vulnerable to social pressures.

PBS Teachers Source
Combines lesson plans and online activities found elsewhere on PBS Online with original activities and professional development opportunities. Our unique "Get Local" feature allows teachers to receive information from their local PBS member station about education resources close to home.

Smithsonian Teacher Resource
Field trips, professional development, lesson plans, resource library, and educational services, such as museum education, research centers, and outreach initiatives.

OMSI Online Activities
Bringing the world of science home to you, we're building exciting new resources including projects with the Science Learning Network, sites about exhibits that are traveling around the US and the world, and online interactive versions of some of our prototypes and exhibits!

Oregon Public Education Network (OPEN)
Oregon Public Education Network (OPEN) helps bring the Information Super Highway to Oregon's classrooms by facilitating network connections and servicing those connections through technical and user support services.

OSLIS
Online tutorials combined with access to information resources provided by OSLIS are the cornerstone for helping Oregon's students learn. OSLIS is a safe environment for kids to do Internet-based research.

WWW 4 Teachers
4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.

 
United Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project
The UN Cyberschoolbus captures the growing potential of the Internet as an educational tool and provides an effective medium with which to disseminate information and resources about international affairs, as well as bring together diverse communities of students and educators from around the world.

UN Peace Education Curriculum
Many teachers are already practising peace education without calling it by name. Historically, in various parts of the world, peace education has been referred to as Education for Conflict Resolution, International Understanding, and Human Rights; Global Education; Environmental Education; Life Skills Education; Disarmament and Development Education; and more.

U.S. Governent Kids' Site
FirstGov for Kids provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject.

U.S. Department of Education, Education Resources
Presents teaching resources including, lesson plans, resource guides, and information about visiting the museums, professional development programs, and current exhibits. It also links to all museum and education departments at the Smithsonian. (Smithsonian Institution)

National Archives Digital Classroom
The National Archives is a public trust on which our democracy depends. We enable people to inspect for themselves the record of what government has done.

National Memory Project
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

Teaching for Change
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into socially equitable centers of learning where students become architects of a better future.





 

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