• Center for Advanced Research for Language Acquisition  - Associated with the University of Minnesota, provides useful information on a wide array of topics and professional development related to language instruction. 

• AP Central - Spanish Language & Culture - Access past exams, classroom resources, and other teacher resources.

• AP Central - French Language & Culture - Access past exams, classroom resources, and other teacher resources.

• Annenberg  Learner - Foreign Language Lessons

• FLENJ - Thematically Organized Assessment Tasks - This site has a plethora of assessments.

• Univ. of Minnesota - Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition - This link will take you to the page regarding backward design for language instruction.

• ACTFL - Backward Design - This is a subpage of the ACTFL site also addressing backward design.

• Understanding By Design for World Languages - A PDF with links to many sites regarding backward design.

Online Texts For US History

• American Yawp - a comprehensive text from Contact to Present with pictures, links to primary sources, and reference material. It's AMAZING.

• New Visions Social Studies for Public Schools - this site has curriculum materials and lessons with pared down curriculum as a result of COVID-19 disruptions. There are DBQs, Short Constructed Responses, and end of unit assessments.  It uses the backward design to lesson planning. 

• Annenberg Learner - Annenberg Learner offers online texts, lessons, and activities free for users.

• Flex books - Flexbooks are texts and resources developed in a collaborative effort by teachers.  The site is free to use and you can also contribute if you want. 

• USHISTORY.ORG - This site offers online texts appropriate for Middle School US History, Civics, and World History. 

•  US History Book - For Grade 6. This site has PDF copies of an American history text for CA, but it can work from a content standpoint.  Download the PDF and include the downloaded chapter into your Google Classroom. 

• OpenStax - a free text source for US History, GOV & PSYCHOLOGY

Primary & Secondary Sources & Other Resources

United States History 

• Docs Teach - a collection of primary sources from the National Archives

• The Americans Textbook - This site has the chapters from the Americans Text. They may not exactly coincide with our hard copy, but the topics are the same. 

• C3 Teachers.org - This is an amazing website that has many curated inquiry-based lessons on a plethora of topics.  If you're not sure how to create an inquiry based lesson, turn here to find a topic. 

• Digital History - Digital History has a plethora of primary and secondary sources, as well as text summaries, all the units of US History. The documents are sorted into topics and have questions and activities that accompany them.  Lesson plans are also available. 

• The Howard Zinn Project - This site is based on the best selling book by Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States. There are lessons, printables, and other resources for you to use.  

• Facing History & Ourselves - This site encourages student and teacher to think critically about history and to understand the impact of their choices. 

• HipHughes History - This sites has hundreds of instructional videos that would be great in a flipped classroom setting.  

• The Avalon Yale Project - This site has an enormous collection of primary sources for both World and American history.  

• DocsTeach - This site contains many sources already curated by the National Archives

• Digital Public Library of America - This site as thousands of documents categorized per topic. 

• Stanford Reading Like A Historian - This site also contains lessons addressing the skills of thinking, reading, and analyzing like an historian.  This is an excellent site as you explore inquiry driven instruction. 

• Teaching American History - This site is created by its users and has a variety of lessons and resources for duplication and use.   Please note that this site is affiliated with Ashland University, which is generally rooted in Christianity.  This could be a good teachable moment regarding media literacy.  

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Gilder Lehrman Institute also has a wide array of lessons, sources, as well as professional development opportunities. 

• Edsitement - Edsitement has great lesson ideas, primary and secondary sources and has an AP and general ed versions.  This site also has lesson linked to non-fiction texts, such as Esperanza Rising, Common Sense, and "Things Fall Apart."

• AP Central - The AP US History Course and Exam Page

• Cornell Persuasive Map Collection - Check out this interesting curated collection of maps.

• Teaching American History - This site is a resource put together by school districts in Virginia and Maryland. They have resources for you to use.

For MS & HS - World & European History

• Holt Ancient World History Text book - All in PDF's, perfect to load onto Google Classroom.  

• Ancient World History - FOR 8th Grade - Open Educational Resources - here are some open resources to use.  See this site for additional sources. 

• Khan Academy - Link to Big History Project - FOR 8th Grade - This site has free resources that are geared around the Big History Project, which is an interesting approach to teaching history.  

• World History Textbook - This is a site that has scanned copies of the chapters of our blue World History text. 

• Crash Course World History - This YouTube sensation has a plethora of brief videos on a variety of US, World, Economic, Government, and Politics. 

• Modern World Sourcebook - This site has a wide array of primary sources for many topics related to World and European History.

• Ancient History Sourcebook - The same site for the Modern World, these documents address the Ancient World.

• AP Central European History - The Course and Exam page

• AP Central  World History - The Course and Exam Page

• The Avalon Yale Project - This site has an enormous collection of primary sources for both World and American history.  

• Europeana Collections - Thousands of sources - all things European in nature - Art, Music, Wars, etc.  

• World Digital Library - This site has thousands of curated documents.  Documents are also presented in collections per topic.

• Always Interested - This is Deb Schiano's website that is loaded with information. This link will take you to her Historical Primary Source page.

• Best History Sites - This site as curated many different sites (some already linked here) but you'll find them on one page. 

Government & Law & Civics

• The Pew Research Center - The Pew Research Center is a non-partisan site that presents research, discussion, and analysis on a variety of issues from economics, the law, governing and government, social justice, and demographics. 

• The Annenberg Classroom - This is an annotated bibliography dozens of sites for teaching government, civics, and law.  

• Street Law -Street Law is a great site that has many instructional resources and information. 

• Glencoe Civics Textbook - FOR GRADE 7.  Check out these chapters to see how they align to the new Civics curriculum.

• iCivics - iCivics has many civic based lessons to engage students in their communities. There are many free lessons, videos, and printables.

• AP Central - Government & Politics Page