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American Community Data Survey: What High School Teachers Need to Know. This pamphlet summarizes the types of information and geographic areas covered by the ACS and explains how to understand ACS data. Specific examples are provided to illustrate how ACS data can be incorporated into lesson plans and activities to address a variety of social studies, geography, and mathematics standards.

ERIC (free version): Recommended for:  Educators, pre-service teachers and parents. Abstracts and/or Full-text.  Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.  ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials such as conference papers, technical reports, policy papers and more.

Gale Schools: Click on the link for free lesson plans, activities to engage students and the latest Gale tools
for the classroom. This is a commercial website: some items are free and some items are for sale or require a username and/or password.

 Informe! : Recommended for: Spanish Language Resources. Full text. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Michigan residents access only.

James Patterson's ReadkiddoRead.com: Dedicated to making kids readers for life.  This site has some great reading recommendations for kids of all ages. Books are broken down by age group and then by genres such as fantasy and other worlds, real world fiction, action/adventure/mystery and just the facts (non-fiction).

MORE: Michigan Online Resources for Educators: Find lesson plans and curriculum aids searchable by subject or state standard