Teacher Resources

Schoolhouse Rock

https://www.youtube.com/user/SchoolhouseRockTV1

Common Sense Education supports K–12 schools with everything educators need to empower the next generation of digital citizens. Our innovative, award-winning Digital Citizenship Curriculum prepares students with lifelong habits and skills, supports teachers with training and recognition, and engages families and communities with helpful tips and tools. ​Schools everywhere rely on our free curriculum, expert advice, and edtech ratings to help kids thrive. Our vision: Students thriving as learners, leaders, and citizens in the digital age.

Best U.S. History Websites for Students:  

https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/best-us-history-websites-for-students

Common Sense Media rates movies, TV shows, books, and more so parents can feel good about the entertainment choices they make for their kids. 

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/

Ken Burns in the Classroom - PBS Learning Media

https://nj.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/kenburnsclassroom/home/

Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these films present the opportunity to pose thought-provoking questions for students, and introduce new ideas, perspectives, and primary sources.

UNUM - Ken Burns

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unum/

UNUM is a new digital destination designed to provide historical context to today’s issues and spark conversation. Drawing from Florentine Films library of work, UNUM highlights themes throughout American history to advance a more complete understanding of our past, present and future.UNUM is inspired by the original motto of the United States, e pluribus unum — out of many, one. UNUM helps viewers explore themes more deeply or hear contemporary perspectives. UNUM will serve as a free, easily accessible resource for educators and their students, providing a seamless connection between the historical events covered in the films and the conversations we as a country are having today.

DeStress Mondays

https://www.destressmonday.org/teachers-program/

Welcome to a new stress reduction program designed especially for teachers by Johns Hopkins University and The Monday Campaigns. The goal is to help you start the week in a positive frame of mind and manage stress throughout the week. Each Monday, you’ll receive an email with new stress reduction practices along with complementary exercises that can be used in the classroom. Watch this short introductory video and be sure to check back each week for new practices!

Teaching Tolerance

https://www.tolerance.org/

Our mission is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy. Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus Article Link:

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/a-trauma-informed-approach-to-teaching-through-coronavirus

Kindness 101 with 'On the Road's' Steve Hartman 

https://www.cbsnews.com/feature/kindness-101-steve-hartman/

edWeb.net is a highly-acclaimed professional social and learning network that has become a vibrant online community for exceptional educators, decision-makers, and influencers who are on the leading edge of innovation in education. edWeb members are teachers, faculty, administrators, and librarians at K12 and post-secondary institutions. edWeb is a place where educators who are looking for ways to improve teaching and learning can gather and share information and ideas with peers and thought leaders in the industry. Use edWeb for free to create a personal learning network or professional learning community to make it easier to collaborate, share ideas, and move forward faster with new ideas and initiatives, particularly those than leverage technology to accelerate improvement.

edWeb offers a new model for providing high value, interactive, and free professional development for educators – any time and anywhere in the world. edWeb integrates live webinars with online professional learning communities that provide educators with ongoing professional development support.

Storyline Online

https://www.storylineonline.net/

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more. Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading. Teachers use Storyline Online in their classrooms, and doctors and nurses play Storyline Online in children’s hospitals. Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Teaching Channel

https://www.teachingchannel.org/

PBS Learning Media

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

Get involved with PBS LearningMedia! Connect, collaborate, and learn with other educators looking to revolutionize their classrooms with digital media and technology. PBS LearningMedia provides PreK-12 educators with access to free digital content and professional development opportunities designed to improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement.

Let's Learn

https://www.thirteen.org/programs/lets-learn/

Camp TV

https://www.thirteen.org/programs/camp-tv/

https://www.camptv.org/

Since 1979 Life Lab Science Program has supported science and garden-based education through publications, professional development, and innovative programs.

At Life Lab, they have been hard at work connecting The Growing Classroom with the new Common Core Math and Language Arts standards and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) being rolled out in schools across the country.

Common Core in the Garden Sample & Webinar...

<< Detergent Bottle Watering Can | | Inquiry in the Garden Webinar >>

The Edible Schoolyard Project

http://edibleschoolyard.org/

The mission of the Edible Schoolyard Project is to build and share an edible education curriculum for kindergarten through high school. We envision gardens and kitchens as interactive classrooms for all academic subjects, and a free, nutritious, organic lunch for every student. Integrating this curriculum into schools can transform the health and values of every child in America.

Edible Ed at Home

https://edibleschoolyard.org/edible-education-home-classroom

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international nonprofit organization that protects the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats. Our name (which is pronounced Zer-sees, or /ˈzɚˌsiz/) comes from the now-extinct Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces), the first butterfly known to go extinct in North America as a result of human activities. The Xerces blue's habitat was destroyed by development in the sand dunes of San Francisco, and the species was declared extinct by the 1940s.

Great Swamp Watershed Association

https://www.greatswamp.org/

Calling all animal lovers! Meet Jordan Veasley, AKA “Jungle Jordan,” a zookeeper and wildlife educator. Learn about animals, habitats and conservation! What does a zookeeper do? Why can’t ostriches fly? Why do animals eat each other? Watch the video's to find out!

Discover the Forest

http://www.discovertheforest.org/

At Duke Farms, you’ll find over 1000 acres of land devoted to an ongoing exploration—of native species, preservation and sustainability efforts, and of the area’s natural beauty. Join us for a walk or bike ride through the landscape. Attend a workshop, event or festival. Eat at our award-winning café or support local farmers at our seasonal market. However you choose to spend your stay, experience the outdoors in a fresh, new way. A visit to Duke Farms is an opportunity to experience New Jersey’s native landscape at its finest, and to engage with it however you’d like. We’re located in Hillsborough on a 2,740-acre property, where over 1,000 acres are open to the public for self-discovery, outdoor activities, and education and research related to ecological sustainability.    

DUKE FARMS DISTANCE LEARNING PORTAL                

https://www.dukefarms.org/making-an-impact/distance-learning/

Duke Farms Youtube Channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/DukeFarmsHillsboroughTownship/videos

Nature.org

http://www.nature.org/

UK House Plants

https://www.ukhouseplants.com/

Welcome to Earth School! Embark on 30 adventures – or Quests – that will help you understand and celebrate our natural world, while learning about how dependent we are on our planet. Now more than ever, we need to protect, nurture and care for Earth – so join us to learn something amazing in every quest. Within each lesson, you’ll find fascinating resources compiled by Earth experts and ideas for getting involved in ways that count. Join us to learn more, create, act and share your journey (#EarthSchool) towards a cleaner and greener life.

TED.com - Technology, Entertainment, Design

http://www.ted.com/

TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos , to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.

Edutopia

https://www.edutopia.org/

Described and Captioned Media Program

https://dcmp.org/

The DCMP provides services designed to support and improve the academic achievement of students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Explore our website to learn how we are living our mission to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning for students. The DCMP is an idea that works thanks to funding by the U.S. Department of Education and administration by the National Association of the Deaf.

DCMP supports families and educators with free Remote Learning resources.

Families and educators who have at least one student with a disability can register for free membership and access over 8,000 captioned and described educational videos.

Teachers can create Student Accounts, group students together in Classes, and assign videos to students and Classes. Learn more here. Users can instantly choose “captioned” or “described” with the Language/Accessibility button found under the video player. Many accessible videos are available without a membership and can be viewed by anyone without registering.

Classroom Close-up NJ

http://classroomcloseup.org/

Classroom Close-up, NJ is a half-hour television program that features innovative projects in New Jersey public schools. The 12-time Emmy® award-winning show is in its 21st season and airs on NJTV every Sunday at 7:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Wednesdays at 11:30 p.m.; and Saturdays at 5:30 a.m. The show is sponsored by PSE&G The show is the only half-hour program in the country devoted to featuring the positive things happening in public schools. Here you can watch current shows, search for stories that have aired the past two decades, check out the video contest, become a fan, view the photo gallery, and check out the schedule and monthly guide.

Kids.gov

https://kids.usa.gov/

Brought to you by USA.gov, Kids.gov is the official kids' portal for the U.S. government. We link kids, parents and teachers to information and services on the web from government agencies, schools, and educational organizations, all geared to the learning level and interest of kids. Kids.gov is organized into four audiences: Kids (Grades K-5), Teens (Grades 6-8), Teachers and Parents. Each audience tab is divided into educational subjects like Arts, Math, and History. Our Mission to provide a safe place to learn and play.

Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/

Girl Rising

https://girlrising.org/

The Museum’s mission is to play a leading role in transforming the nation’s relationship with science and technology. This role becomes ever more important as science and technology shape and reshape our lives and world, and it means we: Promote active citizenship informed by the world of science and technology. Inspire lifelong appreciation of the importance and impact of science and engineering. Encourage young people of all backgrounds to explore and develop their interests in understanding the natural and human-made world. To do this, we will continue to build our position as a leader in the world’s museum community and use our educational perspective as an informal learning institution to help the formal pre K – 12 education system.

American Museum of Natural History

http://www.amnh.org/

Science Topics: A unique collection of articles, videos, news, and more from the Museum about featured scientific topicsScience Topics offer access to the Museum’s ongoing work in scientific research, exhibition, and education, with collections of unique digital resources on featured scientific topics that reflect the breadth and depth of the Museum’s mission. With a rotating slate of frequently updated content on everything from conservation to astrophysics, Science Topics reveal the wonders of the natural world and bring the excitement of Museum science and scientists to audiences around the globe.

Support for the development of Science Topics was generously provided by Sidney and Helaine Lerner, 

GRACE Communications Foundation.

Smithsonian Learning Lab

https://learninglab.si.edu/

The Smithsonian Learning Lab is a major rethinking of how the digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, 9 major research centers, the National Zoo, and more, can be used together, for learning.The Smithsonian Learning Lab is about discovery, creation, and sharing.The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access created the Smithsonian Learning Lab to inspire the discovery and creative use of its rich digital materials—more than a million images, recordings, and texts. It is easy to find something of interest because search results display pictures rather than lists. Whether you've found what you were looking for or just discovered something new, it's easy to personalize it. Add your own notes and tags, incorporate discussion questions, and save and share. The Learning Lab makes it simple.

By encouraging users to create and share personalized collections of Smithsonian assets and user-generated resources, the Learning Lab aspires to build a global community of learners who are passionate about adding to and bringing to light new knowledge, ideas, and insight.

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

http://www.mnh.si.edu/

Smithsonian's History Explorer was developed by the National Museum of American History in partnership with the Verizon Foundation to offer hundreds of free, innovative online resources for teaching and learning American history.The site is designed for use by K-12 teachers and students, afterschool program providers, families, and individuals interested in lifelong learning. History Explorer's resources focus on learning history by "reading" objects for the stories they hold about the nation and its many peoples. Learning activities feature artifacts selected from over 3 million items in the Museum's collections, and draw on the expertise of the Museum's renowned curatorial staff.

The National WWII Museum

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/

Welcome to the home of #MetKids, made for, with, and by kids and The Met! We’re excited to share and discover the Met with you. Whether you’re in New York City or across the globe, you’ll get to Explore The Met using an interactive map, Watch behind-the-scenes videos that feature kids just like you, Travel through more than 5,000 years of art in our time machine. Discover fun facts about works of art—from dragons to dancers, and from mummies to masks and more! Try out creative projects for at home or in the galleries

Go Noodle

Gonoodle.com

New Jersey Audubon

https://njaudubon.org/

The Raptor Trust

https://theraptortrust.org/

OUR MISSIONTo build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and planet.Earth Day Network’s mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in over 190 countries to drive positive action for our planet.

Nasa

https://www.nasa.gov/

The New Jersey Highlands Coalition represents a diverse network of organizations — small and large, local, regional, statewide and national — and individuals. Our mission is to represent their common goal to protect, enhance and restore the New Jersey Highlands and to preserve the quality and quantity of drinking water both for the 850,000 people in the Highlands as well as the more than five million people in surrounding areas who depend on Highlands water.

National Geographic Kids

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

National Geographic - Education

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/

At National Geographic, we teach kids about the world and how it works, empowering them to succeed and to make it a better place. On this site find: Professional Development, Student Experiences & Classroom Resources

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

https://www.fws.gov/

We are a bureau within the Department of the Interior.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the oldest federal conservation agency, tracing its lineage back to 1871, and the only agency in the federal government whose primary responsibility is management of fish and wildlife for the American public. The Service helps ensure a healthy environment for people by providing opportunities for Americans to enjoy the outdoors and our shared natural heritage.    Our Objectives: Assist in the development and application of an environmental stewardship ethic for our society, based on ecological principles, scientific knowledge of fish and wildlife, and a sense of moral responsibility. Guide the conservation, development, and management of the Nation's fish and wildlife resources. Administer a national program to provide the public opportunities to understand, appreciate, and wisely use fish and wildlife resources.

Memphis Zoo

https://www.memphiszoo.org/videos

NPR

https://www.npr.org/