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Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine. Zinn Education Project. Home Page - Voices of Democracy. UN History Project. The Knotted Line. Teaching with the News - The Choices Program. Lessons Worth Sharing. Teaching History with 100 Objects. Teaching the American 20s. Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Teachinghistory.org. The leading resource for American History teachers & students.

Teachers Network - Free Lesson Plans, Educational Resources & Videos for Teachers, Educators & Instructors. The web resource by teachers, for teachers. TeacherServe® from the National Humanities Center. Teach With Movies - Lesson Plans from movies for all subjects. Find and sell teaching resources. Current events articles for teachers and students. Smithsonian's History Explorer. Free Lesson Plans & Teacher Resources. Home. ReadWriteThink. PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations.

PBS NewsHour Extra. Extra News for Students and Teacher Resources 7–12 Grade Level Lesson Plans Extra Extra Daily Videos Videos Student Voices Lesson Plans Lesson plan: Brown v.

PBS NewsHour Extra

Board of Education and the story of Prince Edward County Schools Use this lesson plan to learn more about the life of Linda Brown and the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education case in the U.S. today. Extra: News for Students The PBS NewsHour PBS NewsHour – Headlines Submit Your Student Voice Your story idea, essay or poem NewsHour Extra will not use contact information for any purpose other than our own records. Open Professionals Education Network. CC licensed (BY) Flickr photo shared by David Amsler modified by Paul Stacey Reusing existing Open Educational Resources (OER) can save significant time and effort.

Open Professionals Education Network

The OPEN partners recommend TAACCCT grantees invest up-front time finding OER to reuse rather than starting development of new educational resources right away. A significant benefit of OER is that they provide source material to build your development efforts around. No need to invest development effort in creating something that already exists. OER come in a wide variety of types. The page below will help you find openly licensed media elements to use within your courses. OER also exist as distinctly education content such as full courses, workshops, textbooks, tests and assessments. The page below will help you find openly licensed education content you can use in whole or in part.

It is unlikely that you will find OER that perfectly fit your needs. Open Educational Resources are distributed across the Internet. 1. 2. The Leading K-12 Standards Aligned Educational Resource Library. Intelligent YouTube Channels. Below, we have gathered together some of the most intelligent video collections on YouTube.

Intelligent YouTube Channels

A great place to find culturally enriching video... General Universities Spotlighted Collections YouTube EDUYouTube got a lot more intelligent when it launched YouTube EDU, a section of the site that centralizes all of its educational/academic content. Other University Collections. OER Commons. New Jersey Educator Resource Exchange. Classroom Resources. NSDL.

Home. II - Home. Teacher Resources. The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Teacher Resources

Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations. Discover and discuss ways to bring the power of Library of Congress primary sources into the classroom. Go to the blog Subscribe to the blog via e-mail or RSS. Using Primary Sources Discover quick and easy ways to begin using primary sources in your classroom, with teachers' guides, information on citing sources and copyright, and the Library's primary source analysis tool. TPS Partners The Teaching with Primary Sources Program builds partnerships with educational organizations to support effective instruction using primary sources. The Teaching with Primary Sources Journal. The Learning Network.

LearnZillion. K-12 Science and Health Education. MedlinePlus(Grades 6 -12+) Easy to read health information.

K-12 Science and Health Education

An excellent source for all ages. Also available in Spanish PubMed(Grades 11 – 12+) A citation index for articles from medical and life science journals. View the PubMed tutorial for site navigation guidance. Visible Human Project(Grades 6 – 12+) Complete, anatomically detailed, 3D representations of the normal male and female human bodies. ^ Back to Top Drought Drought(Grades 8 - 12) Information page about droughts, why they occur, and their impact on our health and the environment. Floods Floods Factsheet (PDF, 1.32 MB)(Grades 1 - 8) Engaging factsheet to help students better understand floods.Federal Emergency Management Agency Floods iQuest(Grades 6 - 8) Lesson plan to teach students about the causes and impact of flooding on the environment and human health. Environmental Health Science/Chemistry. HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework.

Teaching strategies and digital citizenship tools for educators. Gooru: Online Learning Platform: Free Educational Resources for Students & Teachers. Facing History and Ourselves. Connecting educators to what works. Home. Free Online Textbooks, Math & Science Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Real World Examples & Teacher Resources.

Classroom. America in Class: Resources for history & literature teachers. ASHP/CML.