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Clip Art

1. ABC Teach Clip Art Directory - thirty two categories of free clip art
2. Absolute Background Textures Archive - over 4000 background textures for use in web pages
3. Awesome Clip Art for Educators
4. A-Z topic list - from the About Network
5. Barracuda Backgrounds - All of the images in this library are free for your personal use as backgrounds and graphics on your web pages and desktops.
6. Civil War Clip art - excellent for projects
7. Classroom Clip Art - list of links to clip art sites from Jefferson County schools in TN
8. Classroom Clip Art - Numerous categories to choose from!
9. Clip Art - This page is put together by About.com.
10. Clip Art and Media from Microsoft
11. Cool Archive - Everything for your web page except your own text (although they do have fonts). If you are looking for a cool heading for your web page, consider using their Logo Generator.
12. Cooltext.com is an online graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you might need an impressive logo without a lot of work. They provides real-time generation of graphics customized exactly the way you want them.
13. Educational Clip Art from Teacher Files.com
14. Educational Pictures - many topics to select from (this site has a mixture of photos and drawings)
15. FlamingText.com - At this site you can create cool, custom images for free, to use on your web site, or in your e-mail.
16. Free Art to download - You are allowed to use the artwork found at this site only in exchange for a link back to their site.
17. Free Math Clip Art - from Classroom Clipart - look at the index on the left to find other categories
18. Free Math Clip Art - many other categories are added below the clip art
19. Hee Yun's Graphic Collection - many pages of Clip art and Bullets, Bars and Backgrounds
20. Icon Bazaar contains a large variety of small image files to download
21. Math Clip Art - from Discovery Channel School's clip art gallery - a drop down menu allows you to see other categories
22. Math Clip Art - 6,000 images in thirteen categories at Math Portal
23. Math Clip Art - from ABC Teach
24. Math Clip Art - from Thompson Public Schools Curriculum Office - images are on Word documents to download
25. Weather icons - weather icons from various press websites
26. Web Graphics - This site contains links to assist educators in finding online web graphics to enhance their webs.
27. WiseGorilla - Educational clip art

Photographic/Visual Arts

1. 21 Settings, Techniques and Rules All New Camera Owners Should Know - photography tips and techniques that new camera owners might like
2. About Life: The Photos of Dorothea Lange - Developed by the Getty Museum of Art, this site presents works by photographer Dorothea Lange, widely known for her social documentary work during the Great Depression.
3. Adobe Digital Kids Club - digital photography, video, and imaging resources you need to help your students unleash their creative freedom.
4. American Museum of Photography - View Great Photographs Online and see History of Photography Exhibits
5. Bob Miller's Light Walk - Artist Bob Miller's "Light Walk" at the Exploratorium is always an eye-opening experience for students and teachers alike. His unique discoveries will change the way you look at light, shadow, and images
6. Digital Photography - APTE's Digital Photography resource center
7. Get the Picture: Thinking about Photographs - Learn about great photographs and the approaches that seven photographers used to make them.
8. Photojournalism Tiered Lesson Plan - [grades 10-12] In this lesson, students explore how photographs can be interpreted as conveying rich stories to the beholder.
9. Taking Great Pictures - from the folks at Kodak
10. Teaching Digital Photography - Showing kids how to see with the camera's eye
11. Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures - tips from Kodak
12. Smithsonian American Art Museums - Scan the resources below to find out how you can integrate art into your classroom

Photos

1. Agricultural Image Gallery - a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs from the Agricultural Research Service
2. American Memory Collection
3. Antarctic Photo Library - from the National Science Foundation
4. Agouti to Zebras - from the Oregon Zoo
5. Archive of animal photos - from National Geographic
6. Astronomy Image Gallery - from Astronomy.net
7. Astronomy Picture of the Day - image archive from 6/16/95 to today
8. Aurora Pictures - indexed by aurora seasons from 2000 to 2008
9. BurningWell - a repository for public domain images which are free for any use
10. Canon Digital Photo Gallery: Site for free download of high resolution digital photos
    1. World (801 images)
    2. Nature (503 images)
    3. Sports (487 images)
11. Chaco Culture National Historical Park - The Endangered Night Sky Darkness Project
12. Courthouses in Tennessee - indexed by section of the state
13. Digital Librarian - huge list of links to photo sources
14. Digital Library for Earth System Education - select resource type and begin finding some great earth science images
15. Earth & Space Images - Data Sets, Images, Movies, and Pictures
16. Earth Observatory - data and images
17. Earthguide Resources - image and movie resources
18. The Earth Science World ImageBank - quality geoscience images provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI)
19. Earthshots - Satellite images from the USGS illustrating environmental change
20. Educational Pictures - many topics to select from (this site has a mixture of photos and drawings)
21. Environmental Education Station - public domain photo library
22. European Space Agency (ESA) Multimedia Gallery - images, videos, animations and goodies
23. FEMA - photo library
24. FreeFoto.com - one of the largest collections of free photographs for noncommercial use on the Internet.
25. FreeImages.com is an interesting UK site
26. Free Stock Photos - free images that are also royalty free
27. Gallery of the Open Frontier (University of Nebraska) - digital image library of photos, paintings, and drawings that pertain to the history of the American West
28. Great Lakes image collection - from the Environmental Protection Agency
29. Hawaiian Photo Gallery of Volcanoes
30. Historic Light Stations (U.S. Coast Guard) - every light station on file with the Coast Guard Historian's office
31. Hubble Space Telescope Photo Gallery
32. Image Finder - a portal site for image search with links to thirteen image database sources
33. Image Collections - earth science images
34. John Fitzgerald Kennedy - four part photo history
35. Jungle Mouse -over six thousand animal pictures, hundreds of links to other animal sites, a few games, and hundreds of animal jokes
36. Junglewalk - Animal videos, sounds and images.
37. Landform Picture Gallery - from the About network (beware: lots of pop-ups)
38. Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Reading Room - selected sets of images on frequently requested topics, focusing on images for which there are no known restrictions
39. NASA Images
    1. NASA Dryden Research Aircraft Image Collection
    2. NASA Multimedia Search
    3. NASA Video Gallery
    4. Planetary Photojournal
40. National Biological Information Infrastructure: Digital Library - Click a category tab to browse image collections or click search button to search their whole library
41. National Geographic - photo gallery index
42. National Park Service - digital image archive
    1. National Park Service - historic photograph collection
43. National Science Foundation - image gallery (multimedia gallery)
44. National Severe Storms Laboratory Photo Album - Categories; Tornadoes, Weather Instruments, Sky Scenes, Lightning, and Hail
45. National Space Science Data Center - photo gallery
46. Natural Resources Conservation Service - photo library
47. New York Public Library - online picture collection
48. NOAA Environmental Visualization Program - large archive of satellite images including storm events by year
49. NOAA Photo Library - Historic NWS Catalog of Images - Photo Library home page
50. Online Biology Book - every chapter is filled with great illustrations
51. Our Earth as Art - satellite images by continent
52. Palouse Open Source Image Bank - a repository of stock images focused primarily on the Palouse region of the Inland Northwest of America
53. PD Photo - free, public domain photos
54. Perry-Castañeda Library - a selection of portraits of historical figures from the University of Texas at Austin - The images in this collection are in the public domain. You do not need to ask for permission to use these images
55. Pictures to use in PowerPoint Projects - links to subject related pictures to use in PowerPoint shows
56. Pics4Learning - a categorized list of photos found in the Pics4Learning photographic library collection.
57. Picture Galleries: from the About network [Beware: many pop-ups]
    1. Fossils
    2. Glaciers and Ice
    3. Landforms
    4. Minerals
    5. Rocks
    6. Geologic Features and Processes
    7. Geology and Society
    8. Free Geologic Wallpaper Pictures
58. Photo Gallery of the National Space Science Data Center
59. Photojournal - space related pictures from NASA's JPL
60. Plants of Hawaii - A collection of 6000+ copyright-free high-resolution images
61. Presidential Portraits
62. Public Domain Images - top quality high resolution public domain images, royalty free stock photos, not copyrighted, no rights reserved, explicitly placed in the public domain
63. ReefPix - This is a catalog, but "any of the images on the site are for use especially for educational reasons."
64. Scientific Visualization Studio from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This is their image wall page.
65. Selected Civil War Photographs
66. Solar System Image Archive - from Windows to the Universe
67. State Photo Galleries - from USA.gov
68. SurWeb Image Collections
69. 10 x 10 - One hundred words and pictures that define the time. This site is updated hourly with pictures from news sources around the world. The pictures provide links to the news sources related to them. Duplicate images are from the same wire service, but may be related to a different news story. This site has a history archive which goes back to 3:00 AM on November 4, 2004. Pictures at this site are in Flash and can not be copied, but photos associated with the news stories can be copied.
70. Training Reference has a set of royalty free pictures and photos for use in training materials, presentations and web sites.
71. True Color Earth - Color satellite images of Earth: Countries, regions, major cities, weather events, and other special features
72. Underwater World has some beautiful pictures of fish, coral and shells
73. United States Mint - image library
74. U.S. Department of Energy - image gallery
75. U. S. Department of Interior - photo gallery
76. U. S. Department of State - photo gallery
77. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's online digital media library - public domain still photos
78. U S Troops in Action - selected battle photos, 1942-1945
79. Visible Earth - a catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
80. Welcome to the Planets - This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.
81. Wikipedia Picture of the Day Archive - from May 2004 to the current month
82. Wunder Photos - great weather and outdoor photos posted at Weather Underground
83. Yellowstone Digital Slide File Home Page - index

Video Clips

1. ArKive - [this link opens in a new window] Images of Life on Earth - audio-visual records of the world’s animals, plants and fungi [still images and streaming video available]
2. EASE History (created by a group at Michigan State University) - Through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, users can better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values by examining how these values have been applied in both historical events and campaign ads
3. LearnOutLoud - "Free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online."
4. Moving Image Archive - Free movies; a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
5. NASA Multimedia Search
6. NASA Video Gallery
7. Nature Video Database - streaming video available from PBS
8. The Teacher's Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development - This free service provided by WGBH in Boston (Home of NOVA) in partnership with PBS TeacherLine. Registration is required and your password will be needed to access their resources, but it's Free!
9. Video Clip Gallery - A collection of short video clips featuring some of the wildlife found in Britain
10. Video Help - This site will help you to make your own VideoCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, DivX, XviD, HD etc that can be played on your standalone DVD Player.
11. Video on Demand: Teacher Resources - sets of video programs provided by Annenberg Media - for college and high school classrooms and adult learners - some titles are for use in the classroom, others are for teacher development
12. Whys Guy - short video clips, in .wmv format, on a variety of physics topics

Sound Clips

1. Animal Sound Clips - 286 sounds to download
2. Animal Sounds - the SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Sounds Library
3. Bird Sounds - Sound clips of birds. These are sample sounds from CDs that are for sale, but the sound samples are free; from NatureSounds
4. Essentials of Music - you'll find almost 200 excerpts from Essential Classics
5. Find Sounds - Search the web for sounds.
6. Free Bird Sounds from the Macaulay Library at Cornell University
7. Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net - a large list of links and even a suggestion on how to search for animal sounds.
8. Nature Songs - pages of links to sound clips organized into six categories
9. Partners in Rhyme provides a huge database of sounds to search.
10. Royalty Free Music Sites - Check out this site first; Copyright laws
    1. Music - all types and genres of music from Peter Ross
    2. Freeplay - They call themselves the biggest, the best and the fastest growing "free" broadcast music production library in the world.
    3. Public Domain Music - reference site to help identify public domain songs and music
    4. RoyaltyFreeMusic - free resources for teachers; sound effects, midi files and music loops.
    5. Sound dogs - online sound effects library
11. Songs of the Whale - sixteen sound files to download
12. Sound America - numerous sounds to select from.
13. Sound dogs- sound effects, samples, music and more
14. Searching the Internet for a Certain MIDI File
15. Sing-Along Songs - presented by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
    1. Name that Children's Tune NIEHS Quiz
    2. Name that Patriotic Tune NIEHS Quiz
    3. Name that Oldies' Tune NIEHS Quiz
16. Wav Files - Numerous sites which feature music in WAV format.
17. Whale Song - audio archive
18. Whale Song - 110 short sound files in zip format

Image Search Engines - Caution, many filter servers, like ENA's filter through N2H2, will not allow image searches. Most images found through these search engines are innocuous, but it is possible that some might be inappropriate. If you use such image search engines, plan to use them from your home connection.

Look at a list of search engines which offer image search capability.

Other Graphics Links

1. Banner Generator - Choices galore! Make, or modify, your own graphics
2. Banner, Logo, and Button Creator from Creative Connectivity provides a large number of choices.
3. Cool Archive - Everything for your web page except your own text (although they do have fonts). If you are looking for a cool heading for your web page, consider using their Logo Generator.
4. Cooltext.com is an online graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you might need an impressive logo without a lot of work. They provides real-time generation of graphics customized exactly the way you want them.
5. Creating Type
6. EduPics - printable coloring book pictures for primary school
7. FlamingText.com - At this site you can create cool, custom images for free, to use on your web site, or in your e-mail.
8. Gifology - Understanding GIF Files & GIF Animation. A table of contents page
9. Image Generator Links - create free custom graphics & clipart online without any software
10. Multimedia seeds - ideas and resources to help you grow as a multimedia user, developer, technology coordinator, educator, collection developer, or librarian.
11. Photoshop tutorials
12. PIXresizer - Free Image Resizer - PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes
13. Type Resources - There are some great links to free resources here, and there are also links to commercial foundries. 
14. Web Page Assistance - an Internet4Classrooms page of help for webmasters