A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms
www.loc.gov/folklife/teachers.html
Bartis, Peter and Paddy Bowman. A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms. Web site: Lists printed materials, videos, state-by-state folk arts agencies and other materials suitable for school use. The focus is on folklore, but there are many items of interest to teachers of oral history as well.

CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students
www.carts.org
The Web site of the National Network for Folk Arts in Education provides national and regional resources, lessons, essays, virtual residencies, and the CARTS Catalog of ethnographic teaching resources.

History Matters
historymatters.gmu.edu
Center for History and New Media (George Mason University, Va. and American Social History Project Center for Media and Learning, City University of New York). The History Matters Web site: A gateway to web resources for American history teachers at the school and college levels. Filled with teaching tips, guides to analyzing primary source evidence, exercises for utilizing online collections from the Library of Congress and other public and private resources, discussions with major historians, syllabi, a reference desk for the use of electronic materials, and links to a variety of sites specializing in American history.

Talking Gumbo: A Teacher's Guide for Using Oral History in the Classroom
mheber1@lsu.edu
Dean, Pamela Toby Despit and Petra Munro. Talking Gumbo: A Teacher's Guide for Using Oral History in the Classroom. Baton Rouge, LA: T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, Louisiana State University, 1998. This oral history manual for secondary school teachers and their classes accompanies a 30-minute video "You've Got to Hear This Story," on how to do oral history interviews. The video features students as interviewers. Manual and video are available from the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at Louisiana State University. Contact director Mary Hebert by e-mail or call (225) 578-6577.

FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research
www.fieldworking.com

American Memory Learning
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu
American Memory Learning A useful portal into the enormous repository of photographs, texts, speeches, diaries, maps, art works, ephemera, recordings, and films from the Library of Congress.

American Folklife Center
www.loc.gov/folklife
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center. Folklife and Fieldwork, 2002. Contact AFC, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC, 20540. (202) 707-5510

Veterans History Project 2002
www.loc.gov/folklife
Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Veterans History Project 2002. Through a youth partnership, middle school and high school students can participate in interviewing and recording war veterans. By following the project's guidelines, students and their teachers will learn oral history methods and systematic procedures. If they submit their fieldwork to the American Folklife Center or to another participating archive, their efforts will become part of a national endeavor to conserve important stories of a disappearing generation. All necessary information is available at this site.

LouisianaVoices
www.lousianavoices.org
This site is in the public domain, adaptable for any region, and has dozens of lessons, rubrics, release forms, and ideas for student projects.

Montana Heritage Project
www.edheritage.org
This statewide network of rural Montana educators and students engaged in community documentation and cultural heritage education provides extensive articles and teaching ideas online.

My History
www.myhistory.org
Directed at young people who wish to discover their own roots and link their families' pasts to the history of America. The emphasis is two-fold: encouraging youth to collect and tell stories and linking those stories to larger stories about the nation. The Web site provides many historical links and topics and has enough changing features to be a continual source of interest. A related educational site can be found at edsitement.neh.gov.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
www.folklife.si.edu
This site has online guides, a link to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and a very user-friendly online handbook for student fieldwork projects, "Discovering Our Delta."

Exploring Community History
www.farmersmuseum.org/shop.htm
Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan. Present Meets Past: A Guide to Exploring Community History. Vol. I: All About Me; Vol. II: The Place Where I Live. Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1988. In these two volumes addressed directly to students, each illustrated chapter includes a teacher's guide and background information on how to get started researching personal history. Vol. I contains background information, a teacher's guide, activities, follow-ups and an extensive bibliography. Vol. II has many illustrations with project activities, follow-ups and a bibliography to direct learning about community and neighborhood. Order from Farmers Museum, Lake Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Phone: (607) 547-1494

Wisconsin Folks
www.arts.state.wi.us
This site provides engaging resources for elementary students. Also see great student fieldwork and directions for creating regional student fieldtrips in the related Dane County Cultural Tour csumc.wisc.edu:16080/cmct/DaneCountyTour.

Oral History Workshop
www.baylor.edu/oral_history/workshop.htm
An on-line oral history workshop from the folks at Baylor University. They say on the site--"We are pleased to share with you here the basics of oral history research, with particular emphasis upon the interview process."