The Gateway to
Educational Materials
The Gateway provides the key to one-stop, any-stop access
to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.
Browse subject and keyword lists, or search The Gateway. Retrieved records will link
directly to the Internet resources they describe - it's that easy! The Gateway currently
contains 3283 education resources.
The Gateway to Educational Materials Project is sponsored
by The U.S. Department of Education's National Library of Education, and is a special
project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology.
ERIC the
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based
service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors,
administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world. It began
in 1992 as a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology at Syracuse
University. Today, it encompasses the resources of the entire ERIC system and beyond. So
when you need education information, all you have to do is AskERIC!
For information on movies, you can't beat the Internet
Movie Database  . IMDb is the ultimate movie reference
source and covers everything you could ever possibly want to know about movies. It's fully
hyperlinked both within the database and to thousands of external sites and is updated
continuously. It provides useful and up to date movie information freely available
on-line, across as many systems and platforms as possible. It currently covers over
170,479 titles with over 2,462,516 filmography entries
Another great site is 
 Film Central has excellent content and graphics too.
Here's one you won't want to miss.  Specializing in Detailed Overviews of
Classic Hollywood and American Films.
 Say what you will about Microsoft, Bill builds a really
great site. You'll be glad you went to Cinemania.
Another super Microsoft site is
ENCARTA online. Click here to go there.
For a scholarly discussion of history and films, go to Film and History.
There is some great information here.
 The links for this wouldn't be complete without
the wonderful things to see and do at The
History Channel.
 You have got to go here! Earthstation has the neatest
collection of Movie Waves and Video, Historical Sounds and Pictures, posters, pictures and
more. Check out the "I, Claudius"
page -- it's terrific! And, see the WW II sounds
page. It includes / Holocaust / WWII Sounds and Pictures / WWII's
"Tokyo Rose" / Posters / Winston Churchill's Wartime Broadcasts.
Fascinating!
http://earthstation1.simplenet.com/
Here is another site that is also designed to help you use films in education. Learn with Movies contains
guides to films describing the benefits of the movie, possible problems and helpful
background. They suggest books and links to the internet that can help you expand your
knowledge of the topics covered by the film. Learning Guides to each recommended
film describe the benefits of the movie, possible problems, and helpful background.
Discussion questions, bridges to reading, projects and links to the internet are also
provided. http://www.teachwithmovies.org./
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