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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 | ||
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 | |
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of RhetoricThis website is an online rhetoric and dictionary of rhetorical figures and most useful for speech & debate and writing students in grades 9-12. | Background Reading | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
National Poetry MapTo encourage local poetry, The Academy of American Poets first introduced the National Poetry Map during National Poetry Month (April) in 2003. Discover what’s going on, poetically, in all 50 states, then sign up to receive a daily poem by email. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
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 | |
ArtThinkThe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art provides theme-based activities for students in grades 4 and above at the ArtThink website. The site encourages a close study of visual art and asks students to make connections with literature and history. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Finding Information on the InternetUC Berkeley Library offers an online tutorial covering search strategies, search tools, recommendations for evaluating web pages and other resources that will be of interest to educators and secondary students. | Background Reading | |
Google Search EducationHelp your students become better searchers. Google Search Education provides lessons, activities, posters, tips, and webinars to help teachers hone their own and their students’ web search skills. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Printable | |
A+ Writing Research Paper GuideThis site for grade 9-12 and above is comprised of merged collections from the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index and includes a guide to researching and writing a paper, an information search guide, and links to resources. | Background Reading | |
Pros and Cons of Controversial IssuesProCon.org is a clearinghouse for accurate and unbiased information on important controversial public issues. Resources will help students explore both sides of every issue and sharpen their critical thinking skills. | Background Reading | |
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 | |
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 | |
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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