These websites have been vetted for their content and ease of use by library media specialists throughout Michigan. Non-profit educational use of the content found on these sites makes them almost worry-free. If you choose to use material from a particular website on this Hotlist, please insure that you read that site's user agreement, license or terms of use statement and that you comply with it.
May you find (or help someone else find) the perfect visual for your next educational project!
The Internet Resources
CLIP ART
Awesome Clip Art for Kids
- Awesome Clipart for Kids, part of the EduHound.com family of websites, is a kid, teacher & family-friendly site. It is easy for young people to use.
Classroom Clipart
- Over 30, 000 free clip art images, clipart, illustrations and photographs for every occasions. All items are watermarked.
APTE
- APTE is a multimedia education publisher. Beyond free clip art, there are other free resources for educators.
Barry's Clip Art Server
- This site has many catagories to choose from. The International section has clip art of flags.
Clip Art ETC
- Welcome to quality educational clipart with no advertisement-filled pages. This site is an online service of Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse, and contains images from 19th century textbooks, etc.
Discovery School
- DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. The clip art contained on this site would fit any educational need.
Microsoft Office Online Clip Art and Media
- This site offers many choices in clip art images from the standard to the topical. Use 'Options' to change how the clip art appears.
Awesome Clip Art for Educators
- Awesome Clipart for Educators, part of the EduHound.com family of websites. It offers educators FREE clipart, coloring pages, backgrounds, banners, fonts, icons, worksheets, wallpaper and more.
DIGITAL IMAGES
Stock.xchng- A site with over
100,000 free stock photos listed by category or searchable image gallery.
~new addition~
BigFoto.com
- Bigfoto contain beautiful images from around the world. The company's main aim is to offer free pictures to the Internet community with in return, users publicizing bigfoto in any way possible.
US Department of Agriculture Image Gallery
- The Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
FDR Presidential Library
- From the first presidential library comes access to digital images of the Great Depression and FDR's presidency.
Geek Philosopher
- Not your everyday digital image collection, Geek Philosopher has many vibrant photos to choose from.
IMAGE*AFTER
- These are images not intended to stand alone. They are to be used as 'raw material' for other projects.
Morgue File
- The term 'morgue file' is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues' flats. The term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits.
NASA GRIN project
- The Great Images in NASA (GRIN) project provides a database of photos documenting NASA. GRIN contains many, but not all of the most popular images from NASA’s history. It also contains important historical images that may be new to many people. Included are images such as aircraft design, astronaut training, robotic planetary exploration and photographs taken by NASA spacecraft such as the Hubble Space Telescope and Mars Global Surveyor.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency Photo Library
- The NOAA Photo Library has been produced to help bring the work of this governent agency to the American people. Most of the images on this site are in the public domain.
Pics4Learning
- Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.