English
Teachers
American Memory
Project's Learning Page - a
teacher's "front door"
to the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Includes
ideas for civics, history, literature and poetry lessons.
Read Write Think - lesson
plans and web resources in reading and language arts instruction.
Smithsonian Education - Educator's Page -
Lesson plans, resources
and professional development in Language Arts with great ideas for integrating the
Smithsonian collection into the classroom.
Teachers' Guide for the
Professional Cartoonists' Index (Cagle) - links
to political cartoons and methods to use them in the classroom.
Web English Teacher - lesson
plans, professional resources and more. Find links to lesson ideas for
many units, including poetry, Shakespeare, media literacy, mythology &
folklore.
World of Poetry database - thousands
of full-text poems, analysis and biographical information about
poets from antiquity to the present.
Top
History Teachers
American Memory
Project's Learning Page - a
teacher's "front door"
to the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Includes
ideas for civics, history, literature and poetry lessons.
Best of History Web Sites - this
site is worth a visit! It is an award-winning portal containing links to
over 1,000 history sites as well as links to hundreds of quality lesson
plans, activities, games and more.
Center for Teaching History with Technology- provides
ideas for history and social studies teachers to incorporate technology
effectively into their classroom.
HistoryTeacher.net -
maintained by Susan
Pojer of Horace Greeley HS in Chappaqua. There are many good links here.
National Archives
Resources for Educators - resources
and ideas for teaching with documents. Includes lesson plans and
fascinating historical documents online.
New York Times Learning
Network - ties
in lesson plans with news articles from current headlines. Archive is
searchable by subject and keyword.
Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning
- includes
virtual exhibits from the Center's Museum of Tolerance, a glossary of
the Holocaust, and a high school bibliography.
Smithsonian Education - Educator's Page -
Lesson plans, resources
and professional development in history and culture with great ideas for integrating the
Smithsonian collection into the classroom.
Teacher's
Guide to the Holocaust - interdisciplinary
resources on the Holocaust including photographs, documents, art, music,
movies, and literature. Hosted by University of South Florida.
Teachers' Guide for the
Professional Cartoonists' Index (Cagle) - links
to political cartoons and methods to use them in the classroom.
Teaching with
Historic Places - sponsored
by the National Park Service, this web site offers lesson plans using
historic sites to explore American history. Locations may be searched by
state, yielding several in our area.
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Math &
Science Teachers
Math Forum High School
Teachers' Place - sponsored by the Drexel School of Education.
There are lesson
plans and professional development links, as well as a Math Library
categorized by subject.
New York Times Learning
Network - ties
in lesson plans with news articles from current headlines. Archive is
searchable by subject and keyword.
NOVA Teachers - extensive
resources from the noted PBS series include lesson plans and streaming
video. Video clips are also available and could be used to introduce a
lesson.
National
Science Digital Library (NSDL)
- funded
by the National Science Foundation, this site offers thousands of
resources and ideas for science instruction.
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Education Portals
Blue Web'n
- a
library of learning
sites on the web including ratings and reviews. The search function
permits a broad range of content areas.
Edsitement - sponsored
by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site offers an
extensive database of lesson plans and links.
Education
Resources Information Center (ERIC) -
U.S. Dept of
Education's bibliographic database (over 1 million citations) on
education topics going back to 1966. Over 100,000 full text articles
available for free.
Educator's Reference Desk - access
2,000+ lesson plans and 3,000+ links to online education information.
There is also an alternative search interface offered for the ERIC
database.
Marco Polo Lesson Plans -
thousands of
lesson plans for the classroom classified by subject.
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WebQuests
WebQuest Portal -
Bernie Dodge's WebQuest
blog. Provides excellent background articles. Click on 'Find WebQuests'
to access the extensive database.
Best WebQuests.com -
Tom March is a
colleague of Bernie Dodge, an early proponent of WebQuests as
educational tool. March's site has a user-rated database of webquests.
Rubrics
Kathy Schrock's Assessment
Rubrics - links
to subject-specific and general rubrics for teachers from a trusted
source.
Rubric Links - extensive
selection of resources from the Springfield Township High School Library
including rubrics for multimedia projects.
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Copyright & Fair Use
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use
Center - sponsored by the Stanford University libraries. There is great
introductory material, as well as links to current copyright issues in
the news.
University of
Maryland Copyright and Fair Use-
guidelines for faculty and students sponsored by the University
of Maryland.
Compiled by Amalia Connolly
Updated 10/31/2006
