Resources on Launchpad
Gale Biography In Context
Biography In Context offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers, it’s continuously updated to ensure that students have access to the very latest information. |
Gale Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits is a content-rich, authoritative, easy-to-use resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics. |
BrainPOP & BrainpopJr
BrainPOP is a learning resource supporting core and supplemental subjects with learning games, animated movies and activities. |
MackinVia has several ebooks about Martin Luther King Jr! Check it out!
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Additional Resources
Take your students on a virtual tour of the MLK Birth Home on this website provided by The National Park Service. (The actual home is closed for repairs and is not scheduled to reopen until 2018)
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This is an approximately one minute video produced by PBS Learning Media about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the day set aside to honor him.
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Freedom’s Ring is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, animated. Here you can compare the written and spoken speech, explore multimedia images, listen to movement activists, and uncover historical context.
Encourage your students to write about Dr. King using Jill Schoenberg's Journal Buddies website and her "61 Prompts to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.".
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The King Library and Archives in Atlanta is the largest repository of primary source materials on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement in the world.
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