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.
Be Washington Interactive Experience - Step inside Washington’s boots in this first-person interactive leadership experience.
Beyond the Bubble - This site is free and has 75 assessments ready to go with rubrics and a few sample student responses.
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.
Council for Economic Education - The Council for Economic Education (CEE) is the leading non-profit organization in the United States that focuses on personal finance and economic education for K-12 students.
Crash Course - History “crash course” video lessons. The content for 9-12 and can also be a resource for teachers who are looking for some background content for world history.
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.
EDSITEment! - is a free resource that allows users to learn about the history of the landscapes they inhabit, and to contribute to those historical narratives. This lesson plan walks through the steps involved in creating a Clio entry about an historic place or event. Grade Range. 9-12.
Docs Teach - Created to help teachers use the vast array of resources at the National Archives. After creating an account, teachers can publish their customary activities. The site already includes a wonderful variety of activities by teachers across the US and the National Archives Education Team. Activities can be engaged online by students or printed out for non-tech use.
Digital Public Library of America - The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Gilder Lehrman - Most PCS schools are affiliated schools and have access to an array of American History resources in the Gilder-Lehrman collection of primary sources, essays, videos of professional historians, and resources like 163 essential questions in Teaching American History. For access information see Lisa Smith.
The Guetenberg Project - Project Gutenberg has 40000 free ebooks, for Kindle, for Android, for iPad, for iPhone.
iCivics - Web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in U.S. Democracy.
Khan Academy - Provides a library of over 3000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice.
Library of Congress or Library of Congress Common Core Resources - The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.
Mission US Games - Mission US is a deeply-researched, award-winning educational media project with a proven positive impact on history learning that helps you gamify learning for your students.
Noodle Tools - Student research platform with MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian bibliographies, notecards, outlining. We have a school account; for access information, see Lisa Smith or one of the media coordinators.
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.
Read Write Think - Provides educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
SAS Curriculum Pathways - SAS Curriculum Pathways is designed to enhance student achievement and teacher effectiveness by providing Web-based curriculum resources such as Interactivities, Document Analyzers, Audio Activities, & Web Inquiries for social studies. For access, see your SAS Coordinator - Lisa Smith or one of the media coordinators.
SERP: Word Generation for Social Studies - Use this resource to extend students’ opportunities for developing academic language, discussion, and written argumentation skills using the same principles that inspired the original Word Generation program, we have developed three six-week social studies curricular sequences around topics commonly included in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade social studies content standards, so it is a good resource for differentiating instruction.
Stanford History Education Group - The Stanford History Education Group is an award-winning research and development group that comprises Stanford faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, and visiting scholars. SHEG seeks to improve education by conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms with free materials for teachers and students.
Timemap - The Timemap of World history: online atlas and encyclopedia with maps, timelines, articles, history teaching resources on all the world's history.
Timetoast - Timetoast is a place to create timelines that you can add to your blog or website. You can create historical timelines of important events.
UNC K-12 Resource Database - This searchable database currently includes lesson plans aligned to the NC Essential Standards.
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.
World History Resources - World History teachers face many challenges to incorporating primary sources in their teaching—the pressures of coverage in survey courses, the lack of available materials, and inadequate training in dealing with unfamiliar sources from a range of cultures. World History Sources responds to these challenges (as well as the new opportunities offered by the Internet) by creating a website to help world history teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially the issues of cultural contact and globalization.
PCS Social Studies Curriculum Resource Specialist Site