FREE – Federal Resources for Education Excellence
Monday, October 15th, 2007
There is a wealth on information available on the websites for government agencies. However, given that there are so many of them (agencies, that is), hunting down good stuff can be hard to do, especially for students who have less experience with search skills, or even a limited ability to scan through materials.
This site brings the resources of well over 60 different organizations together in one place. As described on the site’s “About FREE” page:
“FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.
“More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
“FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by participating federal agencies.”
The major subject groupings include:
- Arts & Music
- Health & Phys Ed
- Language Arts
- Math
- Science
- World Studies
- U.S. History, including
- Business & Work
- Ethnic Groups
- Famous People
- Government
- Movements
- States and Regions
- Wars
- Other History & Social Studies
- U.S. Time Periods
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