Websites for accessing copyright-free (for educational use) images

• http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/resources/imagebank/index.asp
  Modern Foreign Languages Image Bank from LT Scotland

• http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/5to14/resources/illustrations/index.asp
  Illustrations mainly for younger pupils from LT Scotland

• http://www.bigfoto.com/
  A large collection of photos from BigFoto.com, particularly good for different countries but also has an interesting miscellaneous section.

• http://www.pics4learning.com/
  A small collection of images and clipart covering a wide variety of subject areas from Pics4Learning

• http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
  Over 86,000 images on a variety of subjects from FreeFoto.com

• http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi
  Although it uses the name clipart, this website also contains a large number of photos – it covers a wide variety of subject areas including sport, history, geography and science. (Note: this website generates a small number of advertising pop-up windows which your browser may or may not block.) Many American government organisations put their images into the public domain which means that there are no problems with using these images in an educational context. You can access these organisations directly or you can go to image libraries which have collated the images for you. A good example of an image library containing public domain images is Gimp-Savvy.com:

• http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/NASA/page1.html (NASA images) 

• http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/NOAB/page1.html (NOAA images)

• http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/UFWS/page1.html (Fish and Wildlife Service images) 

• These are some of the original American public domain websites: 

• http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html (NOAA photo library) 

• http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html (NASA image gallery) 

• http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/index.html (National Parks image gallery)
  There are also some specialist websites that require a small subscription to access the photos. These can then be freely used for educational purposes. Two Geography examples are: 

• http://www.geographyphotos.com/schoolsindex.html (GeographyPhotos.com) 

• http://www.geointeractive.co.uk  (GeoInteractive.co.uk Subscription Section)

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