Below are links to a variety of resources for lesson planning and professional reading. All sites are accessible for both school and home use. Most sites will not require login information when being used in-district. Contact the LMC with any questions.
BrainPOP Educators offers lesson plans and creative ideas, classroom aids, support videos, and connections to academic standards and assessment tools. Search NYS and Common Core learning standards within the BrainPOP site to locate aligned resources. Contact the LMC for the Educator Code to create a My BrainPOP account.
PBS Learning Media/Vital NY offers thousands of standards-based pre-K-12 media resources, support materials, and lessons, including: classroom-ready content for ELA, math, science, and social studies. Video included. Create your own UN and PW.
ReadWriteThink.org is produced by the literacy experts at the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. It includes a wide variety of lesson plans, video, and other media resources.
Soundzabound Music Library offers a variety of music, audio themes, and sound effects for grades K -12 and ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news, shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more.
Teachingbooks.net is an online database that includes thousands of resources about a wide variety of books and authors.
Docs Teach (National Archives) - Access thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American history. Borrow from an ever-expanding collection of document-based activities created by the National Archives, and teachers around the world. Copy and modify activities for your students. Teach with documents using the online tool.
Educator's Reference Complete is a resource for educators and education students. Provides access to periodicals covering preschool to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.
Google Tour Builder is a way to map locations around the world using Google Earth. It lets you pick locations, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation. Use your Google Account to save tours and share.
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a research project to create a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. The collection's focus is on identifying materials that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live. The materials in the collection, all presented in the original languages in which they were published, reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, and lifestyles of peoples around the world.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Resource highlights include the Digital Collections and the World Digital Library.
National Archives Educator Resources includes teaching tools, lesson plans, primary documents, eBooks, online tours, videos, and more.
New York State Newspapers database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including: Glens Falls Post-Star, New York Times, New York Post, Buffalo News, and Newsday.
Scholastic Teachers Lessons and Ideas has lesson plans, unit plans, discussion guides, extension activities, and other teaching ideas.
