Professional Doc
Library of Congress

Loc: For Teachers: Classroom Materials Using Primary Sources

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This excellent teacher resource features lessons that use primary source documents in an engaging way. Included are lesson plans created by teachers, themed resources, primary source sets, presentations and activities, and collections...
Professional Doc
University of Southern California

Usc Rossier Online: Toolkit for Digitally Literate Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of resources to assist teachers in understanding the importance of digital literacy in today's world, ideas for the classroom, useful websites for implementing a digital literacy curriculum, and a list of skills teachers...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Building Word Knowledge Through Informational Websites

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A lesson through which students identify, understand and work with important vocabulary words found in an online article on biodiversity. Based on the "Ten Important Words Plus" strategy that teachers can employ as part of vocabulary and...
Website
University of South Florida

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: The Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a timeline of the Jewish condemnation to Ghettos. While learning about the Ghetto experience, click on one of the many links to definitions, sound clips, pictures, or related websites. There is an abundance of detailed...
Rubric
Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Rubrics for the Art Teacher

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of links to websites for creating and scoring rubrics, articles and information about rubrics, rubric templates and generators, and samples of art rubrics.
Professional Doc
Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Teachers and Professionals Resource Sheet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This information and resources sheet provides school staff with a list of useful websites and resources to help teach online safety topics in school, to protect professional reputations and where to turn to for help or to report concerns.
Website
Other

Teachers first.com: Webquest 101

For Teachers 9th - 10th
TeachersFirst.com, a web resource for K-12 classroom teachers, provides a tutorial to introduce teachers to WebQuests. The internet activity provided here allows you, the user to create something useful for your students while increasing...
Lesson Plan
Utah State University

Teacher Link: Globalization

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an excellent unit concerning globalization. It contains a great deal of background information about globalization, links to other websites, balanced views, questions, and activities. The goals and content are clear and the...
Lesson Plan
Other

Art Teacher on the Net: Portrait Drawing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Seven lesson plans with unique approaches to drawing the human face. Web site also includes many other links to art related topics.
Lesson Plan
Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Awesome Authors Lesson Plans

For Teachers 5th Standards
Not only will you find a description of a good unit, but you will find all of the handouts you will need including directions, letter home explaining the unit, websites to be used, and worksheets.
Website
Other

Worm Woman's Web Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic introduction to former biology teacher Mary Appelhof's books on vermicomposting at home/school/small businesses. Moderate autobiographical information on Applehof and her goals and purpose for vermicomposting. Brief description of...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Coping With Genocide in Cambodia (History Teaching Activity)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A history lesson that takes learners through an exploration of the genocide of the Cambodian people led by Pol Pot's rebel forces in the late twentieth century. Consider what should be done to help Cambodians cope with this memory....
Website
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Vietnam War (History Teaching Activity)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that helps students explore the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective. Students will consider how Vietnam's government teaches today's youth about the war and what Vietnamese students know about the conflict. Students can...
Activity
Other

Music Teacher's Resource Site: Careers in Music Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
A worksheet on careers in music. Requires students to visit some websites to complete the worksheet.
Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Extreme Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Begin your research on extreme weather conditions. View links to other weather related websites and articles.
Website
Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: The Agricultural Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Teacher-contributed content on topics related to the agricultural revolution, such as four-field crop rotation, the seed drill, selective breeding of livestock, and the impact on the Industrial Revolution.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Beyond Brown: Recognize & Combat Segregation in u.s. Schools

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan on the continuing problem of school segregation that asks students to identify instances of school segregation today, to determine the reasons behind it, and to develop a plan for combating segregation in today's schools....
Website
Other

The Viola Web Site

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information for those who are professionals, teachers, or students of the viola.
Website
Other

Schools of California Online Resources for Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
S.C.O.R.E. offers teacher approved and evaluated websites, lesson plans, virtual activities, and more which have been aligned with California standards to aid educators in history and social science.
Website
Other

Teaching History With Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
EdTechTeacher has developed The Center for Teaching History with Technology to offer more opportunities for teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms. They suggest excellent professional development from websites for lesson...
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Diamonds: The Science Behind the Sparkle

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site explains why the atomic structure of a diamond slows down light and produces a sparkle more brilliant than from any other colorless substance.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey Web site helps you visualize different types of plate tectonic activity and shows the impact this activity has on Earth's surface.
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Beginnings of the Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated essay from the NOVA Web site examines the design of Galileo's refracting telescope and Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope.
Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Radio Waves: Fm vs. Am

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief essay from A Science Odyssey Web site describes the difference between FM and AM radio waves.

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