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Ten Free Things for Valentine’s DayMake February 14th a special day with classroom resources for all grades, including arts & crafts projects, creative writing ideas, historical resources, and more. | ||
About.com: Resources for Spanish TeachersThis site offers links to free resources for Spanish teachers. | ||
Columbus DayColumbus Day is celebrated in the U.S., Spain, and many countries in Latin America. Whether Christopher Columbus is thought of positively or negatively depends on point-of-view. The following themed package presents a rangs of opinions. | ||
Spanish RomanceSpanish Romance provides free spanish lessons and spanish language resources developed by spanish teachers to learn spanish online free and spanish language courses in Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru and more destinations where spanish is spoken. | ||
Teaching Students to Prevent BullyingCurriculum Resources Address Identifying, Confronting and Stopping Bullying | ||
Teacher's List: 10 Classroom Creativity KillersVeteran art teacher Marvin Bartel lists 10 teacher behaviors that discourage student creativity and tells how to avoid them. | Article | |
Free Book DrawEnter the weekly drawing for a FREE specially autographed copy of an award-winning bestseller (from the Legacy Project). | Background Reading | |
WebExhibitsWebExhibits is an interactive and cross-curricular museum of science, humanities, and culture for K-12 and higher. Exhibits explore color, color vision, pigment, calendars, daylight savings time, poetry, Van Gogh’s letters, Bellini, and butter. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
The Crogan AdventuresChris Schweizer’s blog for his series of historical graphic novels The Crogan Adventures includes a teaching guide, audio and video interviews with the author, and more. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
International Consortium of Investigative JournalistsResources for high school journalism students include tutorials on data analysis, interviews of investigative reporters, tips for debunking myths with online tools, and advice for harnessing social media. | Background Reading | |
Engines of Our IngenuityThis long running public radio program describes how art, technology, and ideas have shaped the world we live in. Audio file and transcripts introduce students to science concepts and offer detailed explanations. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Teaching The Great GatsbyWe offer a variety of resources to help you teach F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel and help students understand its historical context and literary impact. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Ngram ViewerGoogle Books Ngram Viewer is a tool that searches for words and phrases in more than 20 million books and produces a graph showing how the words or phrases have occurred. Users can search published works in 8 languages over 5 centuries. | Background Reading | |
Poetry PairingThis weekly series is from The New York Times and the Poetry Foundation pairs news articles, opinion pieces and/or video with a poem. The pairings echo, extend or challenge the poem’s themes. Suggested questions and activities are provided. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
Reading Posters and GuidesOrder your Teacher Gift Box with posters, bookmarks, inspirational quotations, reader’s guides and discussion guides for several novels, and articles for teachers, librarians, and parents. | Background Reading; Printable | |
PBS ArtsPBS Arts promotes arts appreciation and education and gives students an opportunity to share their own work with the Internet community. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Women Artists, Composers & PoetsThree websites highlight the contributions of women to the fine arts, musical composition, and poetry and make excellent resources for teaching Women’s History Month. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Art Through Time: A Global ViewA course for high school, college, and adult learners, including 13 half-hour video programs, a Web site with art images, accompanying text, and course guide. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Tool | |
Representative Poetry OnlineThis anthology of 4,700 poems by 723 English and French poets from AD 657 to the present offers browsing by title, date, form, rhyme scheme; detailed biographies; maps and geographical information about places mentioned in poems; criticism; and more. | Background Reading | |
Red StudioThis website for teens was developed by The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with high school students. It offers several unique, innovative online activities that explore modern art, as well as interviews by teens of artists. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Children’s Books and Author InterviewsStoryline Online is an anthology of 24 picture books for students in grades PreK-3 read by well-known actors. Reading Rockets turns the spotlight on the creators of children’s books with more than 100 video interviews. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Learning Lab: The Poetry FoundationThe Learning Lab is a Poetry Foundation resource for students and teachers of poetry. The audience is primarily grades 6-12, but many of the essays can provide background for K-5 teachers as well. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
Art Institute of ChicagoThe Art Institute of Chicago offers programs and online resources for K-12 teachers and students. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
Food FaceFood Face lets students create portraits in the style of 16th-century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The application supplies a library of frames, backgrounds, and stamps of fruits and vegetables. | Background Reading; Learning Game; Multimedia | |
Media and Technology Resources for EducatorsCommon Sense Media’s Media and Technology Resources for Educators provides K-12 curriculum and professional development resources. The website has teen guides for iPad and free classroom posters. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan |
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