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Below are noteworthy websites.

ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS - provides audio and text materials, lesson plans, tips, teacher discussion forum, and description of the Poetry Read-a-Thon project.
http://www.poets.org
 
ANNENBERG MEDIA - videos and other teacher resources across the curriculum.
http://www.learner.org

KENNEDY CENTER ARTSEDGE - the national Arts and Education Network offers standards-based interdisciplinary lessons and materials.
http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - offers Poetry 180, a poem for each day of the school year, plus webcasts, an archive of readings and interviews, lessons and other resources.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/

THE ORION SOCIETY - valuable resource for place-based education. 
http://www.orionsociety.org

POETRY FOUNDATION - compendious list of resources, including videos, audion recordings, and podcasts, plus information on the Poetry Outloud national recitation contest.
http://poetryfoundation.org

RESPONSIBILITY PROJECT - questions of responsibility complete with short film, blogs, personal stories by contributors, varying points of view - lots of discussion possibilities.
http://responsibilityproject.com

RIVER OF WORDS - tremrndous collection of high quality student poetry and art on environmental theses, pleu the Watershed Explorers Curriculum, and a bibliography of online environmental resources.  With the Library of Congress, annually sponsors the largest international children's art and poetry contest.
http://www.riverofwords.org

THINKFINITY - an education site that references standards-based lessons and resources in partnership with such organizations as NCTE, IRA, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Smithsonian.
http://www.thinkfinity.org