https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-events/collection-programs/inside-vault-archive Apr 22, 2025 "View the complete archive of Inside the Vault recordings, presentation slides, and related resources." Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
https://poptential.org/bell-ringers Jan 24, 2023 "About Bell Ringers - Free conversation starters for the start of class - When the bell rings, give students 3-5 minutes to watch/read that day’s Bell Ringer content. Then simply ask the provided questions and watch your class participation explode. - Three parts with one focus: get kids thinking Each Bell Ringer consists of: A short video clip A correlating tidbit of knowledge Three thought-provoking questions - Organized by subject or date Find a Bell Ringer that connects to a specific day or to a subject you’re covering in class to make the discussion as meaningful as possible." Poptential
https://app.poptential.org Mar 27, 2025 "Welcome to the Poptential Teacher Dashboard. Get ready to foster a generation of independent thinkers. Simply scroll below to access the Poptential e-books. Be sure to share the e-book with your students! Check out our daily Bell Ringers! Whether you’re using our pop culture content in full, or as a way to augment current lesson plans, we are happy to have you join the Poptential family." Poptential
https://www.americanacorner.com May 24, 2023 "Rediscover America’s incredible founding and first century of expansion, and remember why we all should be grateful for the blessings of this wonderful country. Here at Americana Corner, you’ll find informative stories of the great events, founding documents, and inspirational leaders who helped create and shape our country. From the American Revolution to the settlement of the American West, from the Declaration of Independence to the Emancipation Proclamation, and from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln, rekindle your love for American history in all its splendor. Ducit Amor Patriae - Love of Country Leads Me." Americana Corner Blog
https://inquirygroup.org May 1, 2025 "DIG provides evidence-based educational resources that empower individuals and communities to make sense of our past, navigate our present, and shape our future.... Building on two decades as the Stanford History Education Group, DIG develops non-partisan, evidence-based solutions for today’s classrooms. Reading Like a Historian lessons and Beyond the Bubble assessments teach students to think critically about the past and build arguments from evidence. The Civic Online Reasoning curriculum teaches students to make thoughtful decisions about what they see on the internet." DIG
https://sites.google.com/a/eusd.org/eusd-teacher-resources/curricular-resources/history-social-science provides links to the Framework, Content Standards, Pacing Guides, and McGraw-Hill Curriculum.
https://www.litcharts.com "From the creators of SparkNotes, something better...LitCharts take a completely new approach to analyzing and explaining literature. CliffsNotes and every other literature guide series that followed (including SparkNotes) all use long paragraphs of summary followed by long paragraphs of analysis. LitCharts break that mold in several ways. LitCharts present a bulleted-list-style summary of every single plot point in the book side-by-side with analysis and color-coded themes for each point. Every LitChart includes a color-coded Themes Key, which assigns a specific color to each theme. Readers can then trace the prevalence of themes as they develop throughout the book." Annual Subscription $59.40 per year
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now Aug 10, 2022 "History Now, the online journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, features essays by the nation's top historians and provides the latest in American history scholarship for teachers, students, and general readers."
https://sites.google.com/a/eusd.org/eusd-teacher-resources offers teachers a wealth of information.
https://sheg.stanford.edu has numerous lessons that delve into "Reading Like a Historian."
http://www.ted.com/watch/ted-ed "makes short video lessons worth sharing, aimed at educators and students. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which are collaborations between educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform."
http://www.prefixsuffix.com is a chart-based site that gives users access to over 2,000 root words, making it a comprehensive online references of English language word roots.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/calis/activities-database has a number of resources that teachers can download, revise, and share with students.
http://www.caaspp.org provides access to the CAASPP Portal.
https://secure.domain.com/DDS/?siteid=42566&domain=&tld=com&submit.x=52&submit.y=13&submit=submit offers a bulk domain search engine for users looking to purchase a domain name.
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm provides an excellent overview of topic and simplifies it into a simple table with short explanations to help people figure out whether a work remains copyrighted.
https://openstax.org May 2, 2025 Learning resources for all! OpenStax is the world’s largest publisher of open education resources (OER) and a provider of interactive learning technologies and education research for high school and college. We are a nonprofit initiative of Rice University. OpenStax textbooks
https://pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/pos2041lg/chapter/introduction May 2, 2025 Welcome to American Government 2e, an OpenStax resource. This textbook was written to increase student access to high-quality learning materials, maintaining highest standards of academic rigor at little to no cost. *This textbook also includes small modifications by Lumen Learning and includes Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics videos. James R. Paradiso from the University of Central Florida’s Center for Distributed Learning converted all the questions and key terms to H5P, reorganized the chapters to correlate with review sections, and made other stylistic changes to enhance the user’s reading experience. University of Central Florida Pressbooks
https://education.nationalgeographic.org Apr 23, 2025 "Ignite the spirit of exploration... Engage with National Geographic Explorers and transform learning experiences through live events, free maps, videos, interactives, and other resources." National Geographic
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-ways-to-use-gmail-filters.html has a lot of great suggestions to better use the district email program.
https://kahoot.it/ is a digital and interactive game platform that allows teachers to create games.
http://prezi.com is an educational tool that allows people to create online presentations.
http://www.wordle.net/advanced takes inputted words and generates them into word designs with a variety of fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
https://simplemind.eu is the world leader in cross platform Mind Mapping tools.
telelearn.org subdomains are listed here.
http://www.ted.com/talks are short videos delivered by content specialists in diverse fields that are designed to stir curiosity.
C3Teachers delves into The Inquiry Design Model (IDM), which attempts to focus on the C3 Framework.
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards, a model based on applying these four disciplines: Civics, Economics, Geography, and History.
https://www.futurelearn.com This is Future Learning Learn 100% online with world class universities and industry experts. Develop hobbies, new skills and career-changing expertise with our flexible courses.
http://www.schoolimprovement.com offers teachers a new way of experiencing professional development.
http://www.superconsciousness.com/topics/society/searching-level-vi explains moral development in the search for Level VI.
http://www.loveandlogic.com/educators.html has teaching and parenting products, techniques, and resources such as articles, video clips, and audio files that might interest teachers.
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/elessons/comparing-impeachments-across-u-s-history is a Bill of Rights Institute Lesson that examines presidential impeachments.
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/elessons/federalism-2 is a Bill of rights Institute Lesson.
https://www.lpga.com/news/2020/haley-moore-the-strength-you-build-drive-on is an article by Haley Moore, a 2020 rookie on the LPGA Tour.
https://sites.google.com/a/k12.kpdsb.ca/kpresources/home site has access to over 170 graphic organizers that were created in Google Docs and Drawings by KP educators. Graphic organizers are organized under these three categories: 1) Literacy 2) Numeracy 3) Content Areas.
https://www.slidesthatrock.com provides a good slide design information.
https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2007 provides great insight about web and mobile design.
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/k-w-l-charts provides information about this teaching strategy, as well as an example sheet.
http://www.studyguide.org/socratic_seminar.htm contains thorough information about methods to create a seminar in the classroom.
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/quizzes.html contains an excellent page on designing Quizzes, Tests, and Exams.
http://www.uefap.com/writing/question/quesfram.htm provides a good wealth of information about helping students understand questions.
http://www.greatexpectations.org/index.php has a lot of good quotes about hard work.
http://www.greaterexpectations.org/briefing_papers/improvestudentlearning.html is a briefing paper prepared by Ross Miller, AAC&U, explaining the importance of establishing high expectations for all students.
http://www.izzit.org/events/index.php has free lessons that are updated daily throughout the school year based on news articles and questions that promote critical thinking about the social sciences.
http://www.superconsciousness.com/topics/society/searching-level-vi explores six principles of moral development taught by teacher Rafe Esquith.
https://eleducation.org "is a national nonprofit partnering with K-12 educators to transform public schools and districts into hubs of opportunity for all students to achieve excellent equitable outcomes and release their unique genius. EL Education is guided by a vision of education equity and student potential, by a reimagined definition of student achievement, and offers research-proven resources and practices....EL Education was founded in 1991 and currently serves 440,000 students in diverse communities across the country."
https://www.edutopia.org/article/welcoming-students-smile Sep 11, 2018 "Greeting each student at the door with a positive message brings benefits for both students and teacher, according to a study." Edutopia
https://writingisthinking.org/2015/05/28/using-songwriting-in-the-classroom May 28, 2015 "I often bring music into my fifth and sixth grade social studies classes, and I’ve even written a few songs for students. But I rarely asked students to write songs themselves. It’s too unpredictable, I’d thought. Too unstructured and challenging for most kids. But here we were on a Friday morning, just a few hours away from the students’ performances about a river in India." Writing Is Thinking
https://www.brainson.org is a podcast with numerous topics to discover.
https://app.kidslisten.org/pod/Six-Minutes is a podcast for Kids Listen.