The Online Classroom is designed to help educators use photographs, documents, sound recordings and film footage from the State Library and Archives of Florida.

The Online Classroom also showcases collaborative projects between the State Library and Archives of Florida and Florida schools. These projects help students make a personal connection to the primary source documents that tell the stories of their communities.

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards

This page lists resources from Florida Memory that support the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards' American History strand. Resource types include exhibits, photo exhibits, collections, and individual documents. Benchmarks are arranged by grade level.

Exhibits with Lesson Plans

Photographs and documents from the State Library and Archives of Florida are placed together with background information and lesson plans correlated to the Sunshine State Standards. Lesson plans focus on Florida History, U.S. History, and using primary source materials in Language Arts.

View From the School: Florida Then & Now

This project documents change in Florida cities, towns, communities and landscapes from a student perspective. Art teacher Polly Werner, in collaboration with the State Archives of Florida, conducted the pilot project with her third grade class at Dr. N. H. Jones Elementary School in Ocala, Florida.

Black History Month
At the State Archives of Florida

This is a list of resources available online from the State Library and Archives of Florida relating to Black History Month.

Voices of Florida

These audio clips are take from a Florida Folklife Collection series of audio recordings (S1576). This series includes recordings of performances by or interviews with folk musicians, crafters, storytellers, and folklife interpreters. Together, the recordings document such areas as children's lore, religious traditions, Seminole culture, maritime traditions, ethnic folk culture, material culture, and occupational lore.

Film and Video Clips

These short clips from fifty films and videos date from 1916 to the 1980s and cover a variety of topics including education, environment, family life, industry, integration, politics, and World War II.