Resources for Teachers
These links are meant to provide access to just a few of the amazing resources available to teachers on the web. Many of the sites listed on the Web Links by Subject page may be useful for teachers, too. This list is by no means exhaustive and suggestions for additions (or deletions) are welcome, as are any feedback and ideas for the site itself.
General Technology Tools Art Business & Technology English Family & Consumer Sciences Health & Physical Education Math Music Science Social Studies World Languages
- Ludlow Public Schools Technology Wiki
Maintained by our Instructional Technology Specialist, Anne Marie Corrieri, the Ludlow Technology wiki is a growing resource for teachers looking to incorporate technology in their classrooms. Anne Marie has provided ideas for using a SMARTBoard, as well as customizable templates and other useful tools. New information is added almost every week, so check back regularly!
- Annenberg Media Learner.org
Teacher resources for the classroom and professional development from the Annenberg Foundation.
- Curriki - WebHome
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. The name is a play on the combination of ‘curriculum’ and ‘wiki’ which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible. --from "About Curriki"
- Intervention Central
From the site: Free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Hosted by Discovery.com, this is an extensive, indexed directory of K-12 education resources.
- MassMatch | Home
Information on assistive technology for educators, families and community organizations in Massachusetts.
- Merrimack Searchable Frameworks Database
A searchable database of the Massachusetts DOE Curriculum Frameworks
- New York Times Lesson Plan Archive
Contains hundreds of lesson plans from the New York Times Learning Network.
- PBS Teachers — Resources For The Classroom
Professional development and classroom resources for all subject areas from PBS.
- RubiStar Home
RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.
- The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, includes lesson plans, web links and many other education resources.
- Thinkfinity
Formerly known as Marco Polo, this site offeres thousands of free educational resources including: lesson plans, student activities, online reference sources and other tools. Free registration required to access the full range of content.
- edutopia.org
Teaching resources for k-12 educators from the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Focus is on integrating technology.
- Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare
OpenCourseWare materials appropriate for high school
- Massachusetts Online Network for Education (MassONE) - News
Web-based tools for communication, collaboration, and curriculum planning, which are designed to support K-12 standards-based teaching and learning.
- movingforward
Wiki with best practices for integrating technology into the classroom
- Online Ed Resources from Mashable
Lists links to web-based education resources of all kinds
- PDF online
Free tool that allows users to upload a document, create a pdf and have it delivered via email
- PrintWhatYouLike.com
Enter the URL of a page that you want to print, then remove advertising, images, navigation menus or other page elements that you don't need/want on your hard copy. Change font size or style or combine multiple pages in to one print out.
- Quizlet
Free online study tools. Create flashcards, study and review materials and share them with your students.
- socialnetworking4teachers » Bloggers to Learn From
List of blogs published by tech savvy educators
- TED: Ideas worth spreading
Technology, Entertainment, Design: This site makes the best talks and performances from the TED conference available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
- Webspiration
Create, share and collaborate using this web-based graphic organizer tool. Currently free in beta.
- Art History Resources on the Web
Maintained by Sweet Briar College's Professor Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, this is an extensive and well-indexed collection of links.
- ArtLex
Definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art/visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
- Museums: Virtual Library museums pages
This site contains links to museums organized by country and continent, as well as selected virtual museums.
- International Reading Association
Provides leadership in promoting literacy, improving the quality of reading instruction and teaching techniques, serving as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit. The site includes hundreds of links to education and literacy resources.
- Jim Burke: English Companion
Jim Burke, a California high school English teacher and author, has created a comprehensive and practical Web site featuring NCTE news, censorship alerts, English newsletters, news on TV shows connected to language arts, recommended readings, a collection of Burke's articles, and tips for taking tests and writing college essays.
- Masterpiece | The Complete Jane Austen | PBS
Companion site to Masterpice's Jane Austen series. Includes detailed info about each book and educational resources about Jane Austen's life and times.
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Features more than 150 handouts that students can use to improve their writing skills. Topics include punctuation, parts of speech, correct sentence structure, spelling, and research papers.
- Web English Teacher
This site, created by Carla Beard, provides a wide variety of English language arts teaching resources for Grades K-12.
- A Calorie Counter
Lists nutritional information on many fast food items and rates the best and worst entries in several categories.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Health and safety information from the federal government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- DoItYourself.com
Searchable database of articles on all aspects of home improvement and repair.
- Facts for Families
From the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychology, these fact sheets offer information on a range of mental and physical health issues for children and teens.
- Family Works - Strategies for Building Stronger Families
The University of Illinois Extension Division offers information on ways to improve family life.
- Nutrition.gov
Information on food, nutrition and health from the federal government's Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) and the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in cooperation with a panel of food and nutrition expert advisors from agencies within United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- NutritionData
From the site: "Nutrition Data's continuing goal is to provide the most accurate and comprehensive nutrition analysis available, and to make it accessible and understandable to all. The information in Nutrition Data's database comes from the USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and is supplemented by listings provided by restaurants and food manufacturers. The source for each individual food item is listed in the footnotes of that food's Nutrition Facts page. In addition to food composition data, Nutrition Data also provides a variety of proprietary tools to analyze and interpret that data. These interpretations represent Nutrition Data's opinion and are based on calculations derived from Daily Reference Values (DRVs), Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs), published research, and recommendations of the FDA."
- Math Archives
Hosted by the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. This site is an extensive directory of math resources for the K-12 classroom.
- Math.com Teachers
The teachers' section of Math.com is a meta-site for lesson plans and classroom resources.
- Internet Public Library: Music History 102
A survey of western classical music from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century for high school students. The guide includes information on more than 30 composers, music clips, and images of each historical period.
- Music Notes: An Interactive Online Musical Experience
Explore various styles of music from Bach to rock. The site provides information on note reading, intervals, scales, chords, snd other useful music education topics.
- OperaGlass
Provides a variety of opera resources for Grades 9-12. The site includes 1,800 well-known and lesser-known opera composers, with complete opera lists and links to pages containing information on about 250 operas with synopses, libretti, performance histories, discographies, and essays.
- DNA Interactive
Online community and resources for teachers of genetics.
- Environmental Inquiry - For Teachers
Information about Cornell University's research-based environmental science curriculum for high school students. Includes classroom materials and a directory of links to other environmental science sites.
- Molecular Workbench - Database
From the site: "Molecular Workbench offers interactive, visual simulations and activities that have been widely used in science teaching for students of all ages. Our database is designed to provide teachers and students with easy access to our model-based activities. The activities are derived largely, but not entirely, from projects of the Concord Consortium sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF)." Browsable by theme/topic and searchable by keyword.
- The Why Files | The Science Behind the News
This site examines the science and technology behind issues in the news. Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin.
- Anthropology on the Internet For K-12
A product of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, this site is an annotated listing of links to selected sites with information about the field of anthropology for teachers and young people. The sites are grouped under 11 different sections (including careers).
- CongressLink
Provides information about the U.S. Congress-how it works, its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces.
- Google For Educators - Election resources
Google's collection of election-related web resources
- National Council for the Social Studies | Creating Effective Citizens
The site for NCSS, representing social studies teachers in the United States. It is a showcase of teaching resources, professional development activities, publications, news, and Internet resources. Includes information on subscribing to a listserv for sharing ideas with other social studies teachers by e-mail.
- National Geographic: Afghanistan - maps, news, photos, more
Presented by National Geographic, features news, background, online activities, teachers' guides, lesson plans, a regularly updated interactive map, photos, and a message board.
- SCORE History/Social Science
This site is part of the Network of Online Resource Centers in California linking quality resources from the World Wide Web to the California curriculum. Included are resources that involve children in online activities, suggestions for effective use of the resources with students, and ability to search by grade level, theme, or topic.
- Sociology Classroom
Contains Internet resources for high school students and teachers. It includes lesson plans and a search engine.
- Teaching About Terrorism
This site is presented by Schools of California Online Resources for Education. It offers curriculum resources and materials to help students comprehend and respond to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
- Teaching Current Events via Newspaper, Magazines and TV
Offers lesson plans, activities, and resources for making current events discussion more productive and interesting.
- Women in World History Curriculum
An interactive site full of information and resources about women's experiences in world history. It includes female heroes, lesson plans, reviews of classroom materials, and links to other resources.
- Civilisation française
Civilization française: Developed by Marie Ponterio, consists of online teaching modules, which include original images, audiocues, and digital videos. The modules are based on a wide range of topics such as cuisine, culture, social change, school, economy, Europe, holidays, family life, housing, history, religion, social security, symbols, transportation, and vacation.
- Home - American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
The professional association that represents teachers of all languages at al educational levels. The ACTFL site contains information on a variety of topics, including professional development programs, proficiency testing publications, and job opportunities.
- Indo-European Languages Tutorials
Includes free materials to assist those who are learning a language or refreshing their skills in over a dozen languages, including French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
- Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes
Contains online lesson plans and student worksheets for using foreign language Web sites in high school German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Philipino, Latin, and ESL/EFL classes. Each worksheet presents students with questions, activities, and corresponding web sites students must access to complete the assignment. Worksheets can be printed out and used by the whole class or individuals for homework.
- Resources and Lesson Plans for World Languages
This site contains resources for teaching and learning about American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hmong. Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Native Languages, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish as well as providing numerous links to cultural and historical resources.
- Resources for French as a Second Language
This site is provided by the University of Ottawa, Canada. It features exercises and resources for teachers; French in Canada, outside Quebec, in Quebec, and in France; Francophonie in the world; news and discussion groups; and miscellaneous links.
- Teachspanish.com - Community and Resources for Spanish Teachers
Includes lesson ideas (K-12), Spanish-speaking country information, a Teacher Job Search, hundreds of links to teacher resources, teacher Web sites, student hot spots, Latin/Spanish music sites, school and study abroad, and a teacher and student discussion board.
- Tecla: Texts for Learners and Teachers of Spanish
An electronic magazine for learners and teachers of Spanish, edited by the Consejeria de Educación en Reino Unido e Irlanda. It appears weekly on the web during the school year and consists of short readings followed by comprehension exercises. Archives and a search function are also provided.
