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5 Ways Students Can Find Free Images. Control Alt Achieve: 20 YouTube Channels for Social Studies. YouTube is a fantastic resource for schools to teach content and for students to learn content.

Control Alt Achieve: 20 YouTube Channels for Social Studies

For pretty much any topic you can think of, someone has made a video explaining it (which I greatly appreciate when I have had to replace parts in my clothes dryer three times in the last few years). The same thing is true for social studies. YouTube hosts thousands of educational videos on history, politics, geography, and more. Some are created by talented teachers sharing their classroom creations with the world, while others are made by companies, museums, and more.

Recently I had the chance to curate a list of YouTube channels for a social studies inservice I was leading. Hip Hughes History - Educator Keith Hughes covers US History, politics, World History, and more. Mr. History Teachers - Although no longer making new videos, this channel has a wonderful collection of music video parodies that teach history (and are actually good). CC Search. Dig.ccMixter Home. Dig.ccMixter Home. Library of Congress. LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. Legal Music For Videos. Many musicians choose to release their songs under Creative Commons licenses, which give you the legal right to do things like use their music in your videos. What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is a system that allows you to legally use “some rights reserved” music, movies, images, and other content — all for free.

CC offers free copyright licenses that anyone can use to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. For instance, a musician might use a Creative Commons license to allow people to legally share her songs online, make copies for friends, or even use them in videos or make remixes. For more information, visit our Learn More page. Where can I find CC-licensed music? Several sites offer music published under Creative Commons’ flexible copyright licenses. Can I use any song with a CC license on it? Almost — you need to make sure that what you want to do with the music is OK under the terms of the particular Creative Commons license it’s under.

Commons. Wellcome Images. Home - Public Health Image Library (PHIL) Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse. That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the highest resolution available directly from the Digital Collections website.

Search Digital Collections No permission required. No restrictions on use. Below you'll find tools, projects, and explorations designed to inspire your own creations—go forth and reuse! Visualize the Public Domain An experiment by NYPL Labs to help patrons understand and explore what is contained in this release. Discover the Collections Learn more about our public domain release. Use Our Data and Utilities Our digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over one million records for you to search, crawl and compute.

As a way to introduce you to our public domain collections and inspire new works, NYPL Labs has developed a suite of projects that show some of the possibilities contained in this rich material. Navigating the Green Books. Images. Image Resources. The Metropolitan Museum of Art creates, organizes, and disseminates a broad range of digital images documenting the rich history of the Museum, its collection, exhibitions, events, people, and activities.

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Many of these images are available for personal enjoyment, study, educational purposes, and scholarly publication, according to the Terms and Conditions of this website. For other uses, or when an image is subject to third-party rights, images may be available for licensing. See below for further information. All users of this website are encouraged to carefully review the Terms and Conditions prior to any use of the images or materials on this website. Any third-party permissions, if applicable, are the responsibility of the user; these may include copyright ("artists rights"), trademark, or the rights of privacy or publicity. The Commons. Creative Commons. Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

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Free Music Archive. Library of Congress.