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All of the links in this section are open education resources that SNN has visited and reviewed. Most of the links are from federal government agencies and nonprofit organizations that manage libraries, museums, and galleries throughout the country. There are also international organizations included in the database, a database that will continue to expand as SNN reviews additional educational resources. You can search alphabetically, by name or by category - social studies, science or fine arts. Some resources will be in multiple categories. Explore!

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AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
American Automobile Association (AAA) Foundation for Traffic Safety

Abolition of slavery (primary source doc)
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, prohibited slavery

Abraham Lincoln Institute
Abraham Lincoln Institute - educational resources for studying the life of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois

Academic Decathlon
United States Academic Decathlon, program begun in 1968 by Dr. Robert Peterson (1920-2003)with headquarters in Minnesota

Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park - Maine (National Park Service, NPS)

Adler Planetarium
Adler Planetarium in Chicago

Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)
Aerospace Industries Association based in Arlington, Virginia

African American Museum of Iowa
African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids

Air Zoo
Air Zoo - air and space museum in Kalamazoo, Michigan

Alabama
Alabama state government

Alabama tourism
Sweet Home Alabama - state tourism website

Alaska
Alaska state government website

Alaska Climate Research Center
The Alaska Climate Research Center at the Univ. of Alaska in Fairbanks

Alaska tourism
Travel Alaska - state tourism website

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) spent his last 20 years at Princeton University. This site is from the Historical Society of Princeton.

Algal blooms
information on harmful algal blooms by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Amelia Earhart
Official website of Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), pioneer woman aviator

American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics - recommendations for children's health and safety

American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC): administers 25 permanent American military cemeteries located around the world

American Battle Monuments Commission educator resources
Resources for educators by the American Battle Monuments Commission

American Battlefield Trust
excellent resource on the American Civil War (1861-1865)and other battlefields on American soil

American Bird Conservancy
bringing back birds

American Birding Association
American Birding Association; founded in 1968 and based in Delaware

American Chemical Society, ACS
American Chemical Society (ACS) - founded in 1876 in New York City by thirty-five chemists

American Discovery Trail
a coast to coast hiking trail that covers 6,000 miles in 15 states

American Eagle Foundation (AEF)
American Eagle Foundation, based in Tennessee

American Farm Bureau Federation
American Farm Bureau Federation

American Federation of Arts
American Federation of Arts in New York City

American Gothic House Center
American Gothic House Center in Eldon, Iowa; house that inspired Grant Wood's 'American Gothic' painting

American Heart Association
American Heart Association, AHA

American Hiking Society
American Hiking Society, founded in 1976 with headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland

American Institute of Architects
The American Institute of Architects - headquarters located in Washington D.C.

American Legion
formed in 1919 by veterans of World War I

American Library Association (ALA)
American Library Association (ALA)

American Meteor Society
American Meteor Society - founded in 1911

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History in New York City

American Museum of Science and Energy
American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

American Red Cross
American Red Cross

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
American Veterinary Medical Association

American Wind Energy Association
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps: Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency serving at more than 60,000 locations throughout the country

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas

Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum
Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum

Animal Diversity Web
encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom written over many years by professors and graduate students at the Univ. of Michigan

Anne Frank Fonds - Frank Family Centre
Anne Frank Foundation in Switzerland started by Otto Frank

Anne Frank House
Anne Frank House - Amsterdam

Anne Frank Sapling Project in US
From her window in her hiding place, Anne Frank noted the change of seasons by a large Chestnut tree. That tree toppled in 2010. Eleven sites in the US have saplings from the tree.

Antietam National Battlefield
Antietam National Battlefield - National Park Service, NPS

Apollo 11 50th Anniversary
Website for the 50th anniversary of the landing on the moon on July 16, 2019, sponsored by Buzz Aldrin Ventures --- Buzz Aldrin was one of three astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission and the second man to walk on the moon.

Apollo 11 moon landing
Apollo 11 - NASA's successful mission to land the first human on the moon;

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park - National Park Service
Appomattox Court House - surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy to end the Civil War in 1865

Arbor Day Foundation
Arbor Day Foundation started in 1972 on the 100th anniversary of Arbor Day

Architect of the Capitol
Architect of the U.S. Capitol

Archives of American Art - Smithsonian
Archives of American Art - Smithsonian Institution

Arizona
Arizona state government

Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum
Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa, Arizona

Arizona tourism
Visit Arizona - state tourism website

Arkansas
Arkansas state government website

Arkansas tourism
Arkansas: the Natural State -- state tourism website

Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia

Army Women Museum
United States Army Womens Museum in Fort Lee,Virginia

Arsenal of Democracy
Information on the Arsenal of Democracy by the Detroit Historical Society

Arsenal of Democracy speech
FDR's Dec. 29, 1940 typewritten Arsenal of Democracy speech (primary source document from the FDR Library)

Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago

Articles of Confederation (primary source doc)
Articles of Confederation, the first governing document for the United States until the U.S. Constitution was written and adopted in 1787

ArtPrize
ArtPrize, the largest art contest voted by people who view art placed at venues in Grand Rapids, Mich. each fall

Asian Longhorned Beetle - invasive species
Asian Longhorned Beetle - invasive species

Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Association of Zoos and Aquariums

Asteroid Day
Asteroid Day - started in 2015

Astrogeology Science Center
Astrogeology Science Center (U.S. Geological Survey) in Flagstaff, Arizona

Astronauts Memorial Foundation
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation

Astronomers without Borders
Astronomers without Borders (One People + One Sky), a global effort to celebrate astronomy;

Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
The Atlantic Coast Conference - 15 member schools

Atmosphere
layers of Earth's atmosphere (NOAA)

Audubon Society
National Audubon Society- headquarters in New York City

Aurora borealis - Alaska
information on aurora borealis (northern lights)

Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Auswitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland - honoring the victims of the Holocaust


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