project RESOURCES
Open access Resources
Digital Public Library of America
Artstor
WebQuest Resources
Best WebQuests - Middle School Website with WebQuest Samples
WebQuest - Intro to WebQuests and Help Creating Your Own WebQuests
Zunal - Online Resource to Create Your Own WebQuest. Tons of templates to choose from.
Video Resources
ARKive: Find incredible images and videos of the world’s species, including endangered species. These wildlife films and photos are from some of the world’s best filmmakers and photographers, with stunning images.
Backpack TV: Brings together some tremendous resources from a variety of organizations: Khan Academy, Bozeman Science, Just Math Tutorials, Yay Math, TED-ed, 60second Recap (quick summaries of novels!) and much more.
C-SPAN Video Library: Provides Congressional and other political programs and clips in this digital archive from C-SPAN.
History.com: Watch full episodes, clips, and videos from the History channel.
History Matters: This is from George Mason University. Sharing primary documents, images, audio, and more, there’s plenty of historic multimedia on this site.
MathTV: This site offers videos explaining everything from basic mathematics all the way to trigonometry and calculus.
National Archives: Explore US history in this YouTube channel from the US National Archives.
National Geographic: Find some of the world’s most amazing videos of natural life on National Geographic’s online video home.
National Science Foundation: From the National Science Foundation; includes instructional and educational videos.
NASA eClips: Offers a great way for students and educators to learn about space exploration, with clips divided by grade level.
NBC Learn: Provides excellent resources for learning from NBC, including the science behind just about everything.
NOVA Teachers: Provides highly organized videos for teachers, with 1-3 hour programs divided into chapters, plus short 5-15 minute segments from NOVA ScienceNOW.
PBS Learning Media - PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for direct access to thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources. Best part is it's all FREE!
Science Stage: Find science videos, tutorials, courses, and “streaming knowledge”.
Stossel in the Classroom: John Stossel's programs are now available on DVD. His segments bring to light some current issues and topics for students and adults. Access his segments through live video streaming or order his free DVD.
TeacherTube: All the resources you need to know about math, art, educational videos, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more.
Teaching Channel: Provides an impressive collection of videos in Language Arts, Math, Science, History and the Arts. Search by subject or grade level. Videos are produced by a collaborative effort between video production experts, education advisors, and classroom teachers. Common core standards are aligned.
Tech Ed - Great site that have teacher created videos on a variety of topics. Each video comes with comprehension questions related to the videos. Videos range in length from a few minutes to 20 minutes approx.
View Pure - Want to download just the video from Youtube without any ads or other videos on your page.
WatchKnowLearn: Offers free videos in every subject area, many produced by universities and other professionals. Includes core subjects and world language, arts, technology and life skills.
SPED learning Resources
Autism Healing Threshholds - General overview article about Austim. Provides links to related articles to learn more about Autism.
EGUSD Common Core - This is a link to EGUSD SPED Blog site that focuses on Common Core Standards and as it related to SPED.
EGUSD SPED Blog - Our own EGUSD SPED Blog. Created to inform the community and our staff about SPED at EGUSD.
Free Math Worksheets - Math worksheet generator website. Easily create and print worksheets with answer keys on a variety of math topics.
Games to Support Special Learners - A nice overview article about different types of games you can use with special learners. Links to other games resources to support special learners.
Intervention Central - This website provides help for teachers with struggling learners and provide academic and behavioral intervention ideas and strategies.
Money Instructor - Provides articles and lessons to help teach your students all about money, personal finance, and other real life skills.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Great website that provides a variety of virtual math manipulatives to help teach math skills to your students.
UDL Guidelines - This is sponsored by the National Center for Universal Design for Learning. Goes over all the basics of UDL principles and guidelines.
digital resources
Arts Edge - digital teaching resources in and through art, theater, music, and dance; includes lesson plans, how to guides, and materials for all learners; grades K-12
Baamboozle - platform for creating and playing games that can be used as topic introductions, lesson review and assessment at all grade levels, no student accounts needed; grades K-12
CommonLit - high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12
Common Sense Education - resources for teaching in the digital age
DocsTeach - online tool for teaching documents of popular topics, includes primary sources and related teaching activities
EGUSD Digital Citizenship - resources for 21st Century Teaching and LearningPixabay - nearly one million images free of copyright restrictions for use in a multitude of projects, No login is required to download images; grades K-12
KHAN Academy - practice exercises, instructional videos, and more for all subjects
National Geographic Education - using real-world examples and National Geographic's rich media, educators, families, and students learn about the world and the people in it
ReadWorks - provides the largest, highest-quality library of curated nonfiction and literary articles in the country, along with reading comprehension and vocabulary lessons, formative assessments, and teacher guidance
Smithsonian Tween Tribune - online newspaper for kids, aged 8–15; updated daily with stories from the Associated Press that are chosen based on relevancy to pre-adolescents
Teaching Tolerance - free resources to educators who work with children from K-12; materials supplement the curriculum, to inform practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants
TEDEd - build a lesson around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk or YouTube video
Teen Ink - a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing, art, photos and forums; students must be age 13-19 to participate, register and/or submit work
Time of Remembrance (TOR): EGUSD Oral Histories Project - documenting and honoring individual stories of those who have contributed to the history of the community; living history
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - online encyclopedia, useful teaching materials and lesson plans, great for collaborations with history and language arts teachers for digital research projects; grades 6-12