New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 1
Work out your core, Common Core State Standards, through the first workshop in a series of 15 designed for educators. Inquiry-based activities designed for all content areas and grade levels explore the shifts to new standards,...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Math and Science Video Lessons
A collection of STEM video lessons for high school classrooms from the Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies. First, take the teacher video tour, and then search the library by subject area, keyword, or standards to find...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Boston Public Schools Capstone Project
The (Boston Public Schools) Capstone Project is an opportunity for students to engage in rigorous project-based learning. It is an opportunity for our students to develop skills to be life, career, and college-ready in a culturally...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library K 5
This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Lampooning Injustice: Paul Conrad and Civil Rights
In this lesson, 11th graders look at the work of Paul Conrad, a political cartoonist, who often explored issues around civil rights, including Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation. Includes background information for the...
Other
Woodrow Wilson's Daughters Go to School: Elite Education for Girls a Century Ago
Here's a lesson plan from the Woodrow Wilson Library that has learners investigating the education of Woodrow Wilson's daughters through the use of primary sources.Also a brief discussion of education in general in the Progressive Era.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Teaching Modules
Thirty-two lessons created by teachers in conjunction with Folger Library's National Teacher Corps. These lessons cover the Shakespeare plays most often covered in high school and emphasize close reading and analysis. Some of these...
Other
Podcasting 101 for K 12 Librarians
This article gets down to the basics, including what podcasts are, how to access them, how to create them, and why to use them. While it is specifically directed toward school librarians, the information is equally applicable for...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Should Our Gardens Grow?
In this lesson, young scholars will learn about types of land use by humans and evaluate the ways land is used in their local community. They will also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students will...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Pendulum Energy Model
A simulation exploring the energy produced by a simple pendulum, written for middle school. Includes a lesson plan with accompanying worksheets.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System
This lesson introduces the Dewey Decimal System of numbering used for arranging nonfiction books on the shelves of an elementary school library.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Lessons Out of School for Boys and Girls by Religious Tract
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Lessons Out of School for Boys and Girls by Religious Tract Society (c1885). This collection of lessons directed to boys and/or girls.
Other
A Midsummer Night's Dream Guide
This guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream began as the From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare and the World Wide Web project with the Moscow Alternative School Center in Idaho. This guide will walk you through the steps we took at...
University of California
Uc Irvine: Distinguishing Between Primary & Secondary Sources
This site has an online quiz to test your knowledge of primary and secondary sources.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: History Through Primary Sources
This site from the Medieval Sourcebook answers the question: Why Study History Through Primary Sources? It provides complete information, a list of review questions, and bibliography information.