Teacher Resources

NEW Our Courts: 21st Century Civics -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor presents civics games, lesson plans, and resource links.

Asia for Educators -- An initiative of the East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum from Columbia University

Council on Standards for International Educational Travel

Connecticut Council for the Social Studies

Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom -- Provides standards-based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students.

Edutopia -- From the George Lucas Educational Foundation, magazine articles and teaching modules.

AtomicLearning.com -- Online tutorials for software. You will need a password to enter this site. (User name = Foote ; Password = Martha)

Teachers' Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development
Lesson plans, multimedia presentations from NOVA, American Experience, Zoom, and other public television productions and partners. Produced by WGBH Boston. For Grades K-12.

New York Times Learning Network -- Resources on the Web, educational products, lesson plans, news, crossword puzzles, etc.

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers -- A new website from PBS for parents and teachers to encourage a love of reading in children

Smithsonian Education -- lots of great teaching plans

Africa: It's Not a Country -- Lesson plans for the early elementary grades, created by preservice teachers at Utah State University.

AskEric Lesson Plans -- Contains more than 1,000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.

Cable in the Classroom -- Search this site by keyword for commercial-free television programming that gives extended taping rights. This search will provide listings on PBS, Discovery, A&E, Bravo and others.

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site -- A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

Children's Literature Web Guide -- An attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.

Earth Science Lessons -- From the Mineral Information Institute, this site offers individual lesson units on earth science.

ICT for Teacher Training Portal -- Information and Communication Technology gateway to Internet resources and websites dedicated to
training the teachers in utilizing information and communication technologies to enhance their teaching skills.

Scholastic Network -- Online activities, lesson plans, and more

Science and Math Resources for Teachers