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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. | ||
Authentic Assessment ToolboxThe Authentic Assessment Toolbox is a resource to help K-12 teachers, especially new teachers, create authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. | ||
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 | ||
Teaching About the 1963 March on Washington, Grades K-5August 28, 2013 is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom. Examine the March with these lessons, background resources, audios, and videos for grades K-5. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Teaching About the 1963 March on WashingtonAugust 28, 2013 is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom. Examine the March with these lessons, background resources, audios, and videos. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
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 | |
Classroom Resources for Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, and South AfricaThese lessons and resources will provide biographical information and historical context for a study on Nelson Mandela and his contributions to the end of apartheid in South Africa. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Scootle ResourcesScootle is a collection of thousands of digital resources available to K-12 educators in the U.S. All resources are searchable and include images, audio, video, datasets, activities, lessons and assessments. | Background Reading; Learning Game; Lesson Plan; Multimedia; Printable | |
10 Free Things for Teaching About the 2014 Winter OlympicsThe 22nd Winter Olympics will be held February 6-23, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Learn about the history of the Olympic Games, the sports, the athletes and more with these lessons, activities, videos and reference materials. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
10 Things for Women’s Equality DayWomen’s Equality Day is August 26 and commemorates passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting the right to vote to women. These resources help grades K-12 learn about the suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Smithsonian Folkways - Tools for TeachingFind resources for educators to inspire the use of Folkways music from around the world. Activities, videos, liner notes, music, and other features address subjects in history, geography, language arts, social studies, the arts and more. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryThis website houses historical essays, multimedia, and lesson plans as well as more than 60,000 historical documents. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; 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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Teaching FolkloreOur recommended resources will help you find folktale retellings from North and South America, as well as lesson plans and activities to help students understand common elements of myths, fairy tales, folklore and tall tales. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)OWL provides writing resources and instructional materials for students and educators. Writing Instructors will find resources covering technical and creative writing; exercises for teaching grammar, punctuation, and more; and materials for parents. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
ReadWorksReadWorks is a research-based program that offers educators resources to help teach reading comprehension skills in grades K-6. You’ll find lessons and curriculum units, along with tips for implementing proven teaching strategies. | Best Practice; Lesson Plan | |
EduCore: Tools for Teaching the Common CoreASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) offers these tools and professional development resources to help teachers implement Common Core State Standards. | Best Practice |
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