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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. | ||
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. | ||
Choices for the 21st Century Education ProjectCurricular resources, professional development workshops, and special projects, focusing on empowering secondary level students in international issues and civic engagement. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Tool | |
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 | |
Computer History MuseumThe Computer History Museum maintains twelve online exhibits on a variety of topics related to the history of computing. | Background Reading | |
HippoCampusFree multimedia resources for middle school, high school, and college students on subjects like algebra, chemistry, history and government. Many of these resources would work well on an interactive whiteboard. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Teachers’ Resources from National ArchivesTeachers’ Resources is an element of the National Archives. Teachers will find lesson plans and other materials to engage students in doing history with primary sources. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
10 Inauguration Day ResourcesStudents in all grade levels learn about the Presidential Inauguration and how it has changed over time with our recommended activities, background resources, primary source documents, videos, printables, and more. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Quiz | |
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 | |
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 | |
RACE - Are We So Different?Using this website, students in middle school and high school can examine concepts of race from perspectives of history, human variation, and personal experience. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Quiz | |
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 | |
The Story of StuffFind short online movies and other resources that explore key features of our relationship with stuff. Resources examine sustainability, national debt, corporate power and democracy, electronics, cosmetics, bottled water, and cap and trade. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
BizKidsThis companion website to the television program of the same name offers resources for teaching business and money skills, including lesson plans, four online games, calculators, budgets, business plans, and more. | Background Reading; Learning Game; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Teachinghistory.orgLooking for Civil War lesson plans? Primary source materials related to the New Deal? Or maybe new ways to incorporate technology into your teaching? Teachinghistory.org can help you find all this and more, including videos and Q&A with experts. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Explore the RMS TitanicThe 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (April 15, 2012) offers a unique teaching opportunity, and a variety of websites offer online resources, including historical documents, multimedia activities, printables, lesson plans, and more. | 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 | |
Educating Village GirlsThis Peace Corps Challenge Game helps teach students about the plight of girls who do not have access to schooling. Interactive game for students. Background information for teachers. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
The Civil War and EmancipationFrom PBS, this site includes stories of people on both sides of the slavery debate, journal articles from the times, and opinions from current historians. (background information) | Background Reading; Tool | |
YES! MagazineYES! Magazine is offering classroom teachers and school librarians a free one-year introductory subscription to the magazine. The independent, ad-free magazine covers sustainability, peace and social justice, happiness, climate change, and more. | Background Reading | |
Arts Across the Curriculum, Grades 6-8Our hand-picked resources for grades 6-8help you integrate music and visual arts with social studies, math and science. | Best Practice | |
The Big Religion ChartThis comparison chart summarizes 43 religions and belief systems. The web site also provides other side-by-side comparison charts, religious statistics and facts, and glossaries. | Fact Sheet; Multimedia; Reference Center | |
Mapping Our WorldMapping our World is a teaching tool for grades 3-8 that explores the relationship between maps and globes, and offers a 3-lesson curriculum. It challenges the idea that there is one “correct” version of the world map. | Learning Game; Lesson Plan; Multimedia |
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