Annenberg Learner Video Series - Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum: arts, modern languages, English Language Arts, math, science, and social studies.
Artful Thinking - The goal of the Artful Thinking program is to help students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning – in the arts, and across school subjects: ELA, social studies, and science.
CK-12 - Many of you have indicated you need up-to-date texts and resources for teaching new Common Core standards. The website below has actual free online textbooks and other resources, aligned with the Common Core that any student and teacher can access-- in a host of subjects.
The Buck Institute - Project-Based Learning: Buck Institute for Education. The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) website was created to show teachers how to use Project Based Learning (PBL) in all grade levels and subject areas.
Gizmos - ExploreLearning Gizmos® is the world's largest library of interactive online simulations for math and science education in grades 3-12.
How Stuff Works - HowStuffWorks explains thousands of topics with videos and illustrations so you can learn how everything works. Great resources for science.
Khan Academy - Provides a library of over 3000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice.
PALS - PALS is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks
PhET - Free educational simulations for biology, chemistry, and earth science designed by the University of Colorado available in various languages.
Problem-Attic - Provides 80,000 of the best questions from NY Regents, State Assessments, Academic Competitions, and more. Search by topic or exam. Select, arrange, and format.
SAS Curriculum Pathways - SAS Curriculum Pathways is designed to enhance student achievement and teacher effectiveness by providing Web-based curriculum resources in science. For access see your SAS Coordinator - Lisa Smith or one of the media coordinators.
Scitable - Scitable is a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.
SERP: Reading to Learn in Science - This website is all about improving your students’ learning of science content by improving their ability to interpret science texts. This resource focuses on two main questions: What’s the pedagogical basis for emphasizing literacy development in science education? What specific tips and tools can you put into play on Monday morning to help enhance your students’ disciplinary literacy? The emphasis of the RTLS project is on disciplinary literacy at the 4th to 8th-grade level, so this resource is helpful for differentiated instruction.
TedEducation - YouTube TED's education initiative, is an online library of short, captivating videos that engage inquisitive learners all over the world. The “featured series” is a great place to narrow your search. For example, “Questions no one knows the answers to” is a great resource for demonstrating the tentative nature of scientific inquiry.
Wolfram Alpha Physics - Wolfram|Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science and life science.
World Book Advanced Timelines - Preview and use World Book's prebuilt timelines which bring together the greatest events in history or build your own timeline using the World Book Timeline Creator. To use World Book Advanced at home, use this username - pcsathome and this password - school.