Teacher Resources
Teaching Tolerance Many of you know the excellent resource Teaching Tolerance. They have a feature (requires you setting up a free account, where you can quickly and easily create lesson plans, including those suitable to digital learning.
Newslit: Our mission: The News Literacy Project empowers educators to teach students the skills they need to become smart, active consumers of news and other information and engaged, informed participants in civic life.
Music Skills: Music and the Brian
Computer Science @ HSFI Puzzles and Coding Games
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DK: Findout-Linear Learning...I wonder
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Google TimeLine: What was happening on your bday?
Science Tools: World Library Of Science
The World Library of Science is a free online resource for a global community. Developed as a partnership between UNESCO<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/> and Macmillan Science and Education<http://se.macmillan.com/>, this online Library offers quality Nature Education content in short eBooks and articles, serving a mission to equalize access to high quality resources for science education for all communities across the globe. All offerings are digital, allowing easy access to online tools and networks. The content of the World Library of Science is meant to inspire more learning and curiosity, and help train students and teachers alike, both in the content and cultural impacts of scientific discovery. Future plans involve expansion of life and physical science subjects, as well as translation of resources into multiple languages.
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The UFT Teacher Center is perhaps the best resource on the web for teacher lesson plans. It has done an excellent job of combing through websites to find the best of the best. Just check out theProfessional Resources. You will find web resources categorized by subject area and student needs (such as English Language Learners). But more than just links, the Teacher Center provides you with a short summary of what you’ll find once you click. It’s a world of lesson plans in one easy place. Happy hunting! Also, be sure to check out the online articles on mathematics, collaborative team teaching, English Language learners and more from UFT Teacher Center publications.
Share My Lesson is a free forum in which educators can collaborate, share their lesson plans and find information on Common Core State Standards. This website was built as a collaboration between the ATF and TES Connect, an online community of more than two million teachers. The site contains hundreds of thousands of resources, with more being added each day, and a dedicated resource bank for the Common Core State Standards to help teachers learn how to incorporate the standards into their classroom. The site's user-generated content is supplemented by tens of thousands of resources from hundreds of content partners, including Sesame Street, Oxfam, GreenTV and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
SAS Curriculum Pathways is a collaboration between SAS, a large software company, and educators. The website provides free lesson plans and interactive tools and activities geared at grades 6-12 for those who register. Subjects covered include science, English language arts, writing and grammar, math and Spanish, and all of the lessons are focused around the Common Core State Standards.
The PBS website offers lesson plans, educational games and videos for pre-k through the 12th grade, covering the arts, health and fitness, math, reading and language arts, science and social studies. The site's thousands of resources cover a range of topics and abilities so there is something of interest for all students, and new videos and lesson plans that incorporate current news and events are added frequently. The site also offers online professional development courses and educatonal news, as well as a community message board that educators can use too share ideas and trade stories
Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. This free, comprehensive digital-learning platform — built upon the merger of two programs, Verizon’s Marco Polo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network — makes it easy for educators to enhance classroom instruction. There are lesson plans, interactive activities and other online resources. The 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and reference materials are endorsed by the nation's leading education organizations to ensure that content is accurate, up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students.
Thinkfinityny.org, the New York State version of Thinkfinity.org, has a wealth of teacher-designed lesson plans and units that are specifically aligned to the New York State standards. Click on the “Aligned Resources” tabs in the left navigation to explore standards-based ideas for teaching the arts, ELA, math, science and social studies to students in pre-K through Grade 12.
The New York Times Learning Network provides lessons “across the curriculum based on New York Times content,” and since the paper publishes “everything that’s fit to print,” its lesson plans truly do span quite an array of topics. The Times includes everything from science experiments on the factors that affect the rise of helium balloons to history lessons devoted to the Holocaust and America’s role in the world. Perhaps best of all, the Times invites students to offer their opinion on current events and invites them to participate in a variety of student challenges, including one on summer reading. TheTimes does not resort to gimmicks and games; it respects students, and engages them. Worth a look.
Internet4Classrooms is a Web portal free to any educator who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction. The portal contains content-specific resources, technology-based assessment assistance, online practice modules for software use and a "daily dose of the Web."
Teachers Network has a bank of lesson plans that have been designed by teachers, for teachers. The lesson plans can be searched by subject field or grade level to discover a wealth of curriculum materials that teachers can use.
The Library of Congress is the place to go for primary sources including pictures, documents, and even music. The Library is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, and according to its website includes “millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.” The Library provides the materials in ready-to use formats grouped around themes, on The Great Depression, Baseball, The Natural Environment – and pretty much everything in between. English teachers might like the lesson plans on great works of literature that complement the literary experience with historical documents in order to give the work context and deepen its meaning. A good example of this is the documents provided for To Kill A Mockingbird, but there are many others.
Social Studies
50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
Middle school and high school lesson plans for teaching about this year's 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
I-civics offers lessons, educational games and web casts designed to teach students about the branches of government, the constitution, and the bill of rights. The site is student friendly, very colorful, and teacher friendly too. It’s a great way to get your students interested in the fundamentals of democracy, to explore and debate social issues. Students will have opportunities to argue some of the hardest cases ever decided in the Supreme Court and lessons include handouts, group activities and step-by-step guides for teachers.
Smithsonian’s History Explorer
Your gateway to innovative, standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history, designed and developed by the National Museum of American History. The Museum is a proud partner with Verizon Thinkfinity.
Best of History Web sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1,000 history websites and to hundreds of K-12 history lesson plans, history guides for teachers and history-based activities, games, quizzes and more.
This website provides teachers access to historical documents and other resources. The TAH also has artifact kits that are available for teachers to use.
English Language Arts
ReadWriteThink, a partnership of the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English and the Verizon Foundation, offers a Web Resources Gallery. To select links to outstanding reading and language arts resources on the Web, they use a rigorous set of selection criteria they have developed and adopted, along with a review process. This process ensures high-quality resources that meet the educational needs of teachers and students.
Math
Illuminations is a Web site of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, designed to provide standards-based resources that improve teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. The site also offers free and downloadable materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics.
Science
Science NetLinks, a consortium partner of Thinkfinity.org, provides a wealth of standards-based resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans, interactives and reviewed Internet resources. Science NetLinks is a dynamic site with new content added on a regular basis.
The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data and issues that affect our quality of life. On this Web site find selected educational resources that may be useful to educators in K -12 schools. Many of these resources can be used directly in the classroom or will be useful in classroom lessons, for preparation of demonstration activities or as resources for teacher education and curriculum development. The site provides educational resources for both primary and secondary school grades.
Students with Disabilities
TeacherVision® Special Needs Teacher Resources
TeacherVision Special Needs Teacher Resources is a teacher Web site for trusted online tools and resources. Partnered with many educational associations, TeacherVision® strives to be a trusted source that has created a supportive, helpful network of people dedicated to children's learning in school and in life.
Educating Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
A book available for purchase provides guidelines for educating children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The ASD Next Model: A Framework for Inclusive Education for Higher Functioning Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.