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History, Current Events, and Media Literacy Resources
History, Current Events, and Media Literacy Resources
Incredibly rich and powerful bank of tools and resources for teaching students concepts around information and media literacy. Includes lesson plans, interactive lessons, videos, and more. Free subscription for educators.
Looking for engaging resources for a wide range of Humanities topics, all in one place? Bunk History.org offers beautifully curated exhibits (like this one on Voting Rights) and collections (like this one about the 2024 Election). This effort is also a founding partner of the New American History project which provides curated materials along with lesson planning resources for teaching history in our ever-changing present. Use the existing collections or create and assign your own.
From the Council on Foreign Relations: World 101 offers information from independent non-partisan sources about international relations. Explore by region or global issues - find essays, videos, discussion questions, glossaries, and up-to-date reading lists.
The Pulitzer Center offers a wide array of international news stories and reporting - freely accessible on their site. They also provide lesson plans and opportunities for Skype visits and workshops with their reporters.
The Times has put together a collection of visual thinking strategies exercises, writing prompts, lessons, and more working around articles found in the paper. There's a lot of great stuff to explore here.
This online tool from the National Archives gives teachers a way to create and build lessons around specific resources in the National Archives.
Reading and Writing
Reading and Writing
Jason Reynolds (acclaimed and award-winning author and poet, and former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature focuses on helping young people to tell their own stories and find connection and understanding through the sharing of those stories. Check out this fun and engaging series of writing prompt videos!
Sign up for a free educator account and provide your "classroom code" to students. This site provides access to some 40,000 ebooks, audiobooks, and "read-to-me" books. It's a mix of popular titles and "Epic Originals" - even includes about 3,000 books in French, Spanish, and Chinese. Another awesome way to give students options for reading!
This site provides access to book lists, lesson ideas, discussion guides, recordings of author talks and excerpts of audiobooks, videos, book trailers, and much more. Lots of great tools to help you build thoughtful, resource-rich, customized book lists for your classes, and get your students excited about reading.
Want to encourage more reading and writing? This site offers resources for teaching writing to teens, as well as resources for teens interested in having their writing published, and of course monthly writing competitions which give teens a chance to put their work out there and get some authentic feedback from peers.
This video gallery is a joint project from the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. They feature performances and presentations by National Heritage Fellows who've participated in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival over the past decades (beginning in 1967).
Sometimes you just want someone to read a picture book to you! That's not just me, right? Enjoy a beautiful read-aloud on this awesome literacy-forward platform.
World Languages
World Languages
Students can read simple texts/picture books in English or Spanish or read along in English while listening in a wide range of languages.
A great resource for reading simple e-books (at four different levels of complexity) in a wide range of languages. Filtered search options help you find just what you're looking for.
It isn't the prettiest website, but it offers some fun, simple games and activities to help students practice language and vocabulary in a large number of languages.
Once Upon a Time (https://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/)
Students can read fables, legends, nursery rhymes, and more through this French website.
Humanities-focused Databases through the CHS Library
Humanities-focused Databases through the CHS Library
From Vermont Online Library
From Vermont Online Library
Answer the age-old question, “What do I read next?” Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields. (VOL)
Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues. (VOL)
Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
From FactCite: The Lincoln Library
From FactCite: The Lincoln Library
Explore countries all over the world with basic statistics and analysis of geography, history, economy, people, flora/fauna, etc.
(FactCite)
DEFINING MOMENTS IN U.S. HISTORY
Articles relating to specific moments and eras in U.S. history - search by era, topic, and more - easily link to additional information/resources.
From ProQuest: U.S. Major Dailies
From ProQuest: U.S. Major Dailies
The U.S. Major Dailies database from ProQuest allows you to search the contents of five major daily newspapers (past and present content) or browse through an entire edition of one publication. Log in with your CSD Google account.
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