Humanities Links

Humanities Links...

This site provides age appropriate lesson plans for the teaching about the events of 9/11/01. These were developed by a panel of teachers and others who work in various national educational organizations.

21st Century Literacies Site

This site provides teachers and librarians with perspectives andresources to support them in providing students with the 21st century literacy skills needed to succeed in our multimedia world. The 21st Century Literacies web site focuses on four areas of literacy?information, media, multicultural, and visual.

A to Z Teacher Stuff

A resource for teachers which provides Themes; Lesson Plans; Printables; Tips from teachers; Articles related to education; TeacherStore; TeacherChat; and Links to educational sites.

Aardvark's English Forum

Created for teaching English UK, this site has a variety of online resources for the English language learner. The student section has good links to many interactive exercises.

Abraham Lincoln's Classroom

Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom is a resource for scholars and groups involved in the study of the life of Abraham Lincoln. It features a weekly quiz, maps, political cartoons and commentary, links to web resources and a teachers section.

Academy Curriculum Exchange

This site houses lessons on all subjects submitted by a consortium of teachers.

Art Educator (ARTiculation)

The objectives of ARTiculation are to encourage you to look at a piece of artwork and to understand what goes into the art making process. Over fifty activities reinforce what has been learned in each section. Main
sections include Elements of Art, Principles of Design, and Art
Critiquing Process. Also contains a Timeline, Vocabulary Section, and numerous lessons plans and worksheets (Activities) in the Resource section. Requires Flash and Shockwave.

ArtsConnectEd: Classroom

ArtsConnectEd is the product of a partnership between The Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, and MCI. Part of a large site,
The Classroom portion includes a tool for searching more than 80 online
lesson plans and standards-based curriculum units for K-12 teachers
(Minnesota Standards and the National Content Standards in Arts).

Atlantis Quest

Created by Carolyn O Burleson, LA Unified School District, the project
is an adaptation of the WebQuest for 9-12 English or Social Studies.
Embark upon an expedition to uncover the truth about Atlantis. Make
judgments as to the validity of sources on the Internet. Determine what
is fact and what is fiction. Draw conclusions and create a multimedia
presentation to present findings, solving the mystery once and for all
... or will you?

BBC Schools Online

Online games and sample testing.

Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute has a large selection of free lesson plans available to teachers looking for a way to bring the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to life. Primary Source Activities, Citizenship and Character Lessons, and Historical Narratives offer new ideas for the study of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution and how those amendments affect U.S. society.

Blue Web'n**One of the Best

Blue Web'n is a searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).

Brainy Betty

This is a site for Microsoft Office users. It is loaded with free templates for Word, Excel and Powerpoint. In addition you will find free graphics, website templates and a host of other materials.

Busy Teacher's Web Site

This web site connects K-12 teachers to online teaching materials, lessons, and classroom activities in all subjects.

California Department of Education

A comprehensive look at the programs and services provided by the California Department of Education

California Education Code

The California Education Code WWW site is maintained by the Legislative Counsel of California, pursuant to California law. It has a key word search function.

Character Education at the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character

The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character CAEC at the Boston University site offers character education resources for teachers, administrators, students, and parents. Articles about character education, lesson plans, and reading lists can be easily downloaded from the website. This site will continue to grow in the coming months.

Classroom Connect

They have designed this site with the hope that it will become "homebase" to thousands of K-12 educators and students around the globe. The resources available here augment Classroom Connect's rapidly expanding line of product offerings which include our newsletters, videos, books, seminars, training systems, software, and conferences.

Collaborative Lesson Archive

This collaborative archive presents lessons on a wide range of topics organized by grade level and subject.

Connections

This site consists of Internet resources to assist educators who use the Internet in their classrooms.

CyberGuides

CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards.

DiscoverySchool.com Lesson Plans

Part of the larger DiscoverySchool.com Teacher Section, you can find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers,organized by subject, grade, or both. A side menu and a drop-down menu make browsing easy. Covers a wide range of subject for grades K-12.

Education Place

This web site has curriculum ideas for elementary and middle school.

Education World

Something for everyone involved in education.

Eduhound

EduHound is a directory of educational resources created by the same folks that give you THE Journal Online. The links provide both web-based resources and resources that you can order for use in your classroom and library.

E-Learning Guru

This site is jam packed with "how to" articles, templates and calculators in the tool box, dozens of white papers, time saving book summaries and links to the best sites on the net. Looking at e-learning for your schools; begin with the article e-Learning Alphabet Soup. Or check out a beginner basic: What are Plug-ins?

English Online

This site is a vast professional development resource for teachers of English in New Zealand and worldwide. Educators will find over 150 fully resourced and downloadable teaching units, professional readings,
selected links and discussion forums.

Educator's Reference Desk

The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Fairy Tales

A quality educational site offering 5000+ FREE printable theme units, word puzzles, writing forms, book report forms,math, ideas, lessons and much more.

FunLessonPlans

Download preschool lesson plans, themes, electronic booklets, children's songs, games, health and manners lessons, and crafts. Preschool lesson plans, pre-k lesson plans, kindergarten lesson plans, kindergarten
themes, and children's free printables for preschool crafts, games, and activities. It takes some time to sort through but there is some good stuff here!

Gateway to Educational Materials

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) lets you search or browse thousands of high quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects from over 320 of the 438 GEM Consortium members. You can browse lists organized by subject or keywords; search by subject, keyword, title, or grade level; and limit search results to materials that are free. A project of the U.S. Department of Education, and located at the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University.

Geography Quizzes

There are 10 quizzes of varying subjects and the answers are included.

The Gilder Lehrman Insitute of American History

U. S. History teachers will appreciate the wealth of resources at this site, created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of New York.Supplement your existing materials with some of the activities and information on this site: primary sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, lessons that focus on human elements of rebellion and change, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images.

Global School Net

You'll love Global School Net if you want to find interesting and productive global collaborative learning projects for your own classroom.

Great Performance: Educational Resources (PBS)

Lesson plans in culture and arts based on musical theater, opera, classical music, dance and more. Consists of a variety of resources including multimedia. Example of lessons: conduct research on the history of Broadway musicals; read about Mel Brooks' life and work; explore the significance of Istanbul in the cultural history of Europe; explore the world of Strauss waltzes, polkas, and marches; create a
presentation about the cultural life of Vienna; explore the relationship between language and music;19th-century opera themes; meaning and usefulness of stereotype as a plot device and much more.

History Matters

U.S. History teachers, this website is for you. This collaboration of the American Social History Project/Center at the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, has links for many themes explored within survey courses.

Real Audio is needed to listen to the oral histories. Browse or search for resources such as lessons (Digital Blackboard), interviews, and diary excerpts.

Internet History Sourcebooks

Internet Projects Registry (Global Schoolhouse)

The Internet Projects Registry is a clearinghouse for collaborative projects from across the globe - projects hosted by the Global SchoolNet Foundation, other reputable organizations, and outstanding partner projects conducted by teachers worldwide. Part of the larger Global
Schoolhouse website, this tool helps you locate projects by Age Level, Project Start Date, or Curriculum Area(s), Technologies Used, and Project Levels.

Linda's Links to Literature

This website has 25,000+ links to activities and lesson plans for children's and young adult literature. Search by first letter of the title which then leads to books that start with that letter and related lessons. It's gone subscription but is still an incredible resource.

Literacy Web (University of Connecticut)

The Literacy Web is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies. It contains links to literacy resources and is organized by grade; addresses a variety of literacy topics including: assessment, Content Area Literacy, Connecting to Writing, Effective Teaching, Literacy Standards, Multicultural Literacy; and links to research,
online discussions, a newsletter, and more.

Middle Ages Curriculum Unit

This unit was developed by a team of teachers from Kroc and Marston Middle School back when Kroc was a good school and not ruined by an idiot principal.

MiddleWeb

The MiddleWeb is a World Wide Web site exploring the challenges of middle grades reform, and brimming with resources for educators and parents!

Nellies_English_Projects

There are an amazing assortment of resources on this site; however the ones that leap out are the webquest links. They are divided up by grade and presented in an easy to see table. Elementary webquests are located at http://www.nelliemuller.com/elementary_school.htm; grades 7-9 at
http://www.nelliemuller.com/Junior_High_WebQuests.htm; and high school
at http://www.nelliemuller.com/task2.htm

Nonprofit Prophets

Nonprofit Prophets is an community action project that challenges groups of students to investigate a problem that they see in the world and then create a World Wide Web Resource page on the Internet that teaches the world about the problem. Students work with actual nonprofit
organizations to develop the web site. The web site will combine student learning, key features of the nonprofit organization, and a variety of multimedia/interactive enhancements. You are guided at each step of the
process by the abundant resources on the Nonprofit Prophets site.

OnLine Plagarism

Provides the ability to deter and detect plagarism of academic work.

Pathfinder Schoolhouse

You'll find an enormous variety of lesson plans and projects on every subject at this comphrehensive site.

PBS Teacher Source

This site provides the curriculum backbone for PBS programming. Covers all areas of curriculum.

Perspectives in American Literature

With nearly 500 pages, including over 420 author pages, this is a major site in American literature on the web. Found useful by teachers and students around the world, PAL is a research and reference tool not a term paper factory. This site is particularly useful for those who have no or limited access to university libraries and databases.

Pittsburgh Teachers Institute: PTI Curriculum Units Online

The Pittsburgh Teachers Institute offers teachers the opportunity to develop curriculum units for their classrooms. The units, from 1999 to 2001, are designed for all levels of students and cover integrated units in Mathematics, Science, English and the Social Sciences.

Plagiarism Workshop

This lesson on plagiarism is designed to give high school students an introduction to the issue of plagiarism, an overview of copyright laws and fair-use provisions, and a demonstration of the use of paraphrasing and quoting as methods of avoiding it. Accessing a wide variety of the
Internet sites on plagiarism and copyright, the focus of this workshop is to encourage students to empathize with artists and authors whose work is "stolen" when it is plagiarized.

Rubistar

Create your own rubrics (scoring tools) for Oral Projects, Multimedia, Research & Writing, or Work Skills quickly and easily. This online tool, developed by the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium, makes developing rubrics a snap. Built-in features let you go back and edit or customize your rubrics, and gives you a URL so parents and students can view or print the rubrics anywhere.

SCORE: African Folktales

In this unit, students will learn the characteristics of various types of folklore including proverbs, fables, and folktales. They will specifically learn about these types of folklore through the reading African examples of these genres. Further, students will demonstrate the knowledge they've gained reading the various types of folklore through written products, possible multimedia products and oral presentations.

SCORE History / Social Sciences

SCORE History / Social Sciences is part of an exciting new network of Online Resource Centers in California linking quality resources from the World Wide Web to the California curriculum.

SCORE Language Arts

The Schools of California Online Resources for Educators Project (SCORE) supports the California curriculum frameworks. The SCORE Language Arts site is being developed at the San Diego County Office of Education.

Silk Road Seattle

Silk Road Seattle is an education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the
Common Era (A. D.) to the Sixteenth Century. Translations of primary texts are available.

Smithsonian Education Resource Library

The Smithsonian Education Resource Library is a finding aid to the manyeducation resources provided by the Smithsonian. It allows searching forlesson plans, labs, field trips, and more by grade level, subject, keyword , media, and institution. The Smithsonian Education site is subdivided into sections for teachers, students, and family. This finding aid is a great way to search all sections.

Tapped In

TappedIn is a free and open teacher's collaborative, where educators can go to take part in training, online discussions and activities. The community of users has been growing steadily since 1997, and now offers
a wide range of opportunities for educators to expand their horizons.

Teach With Movies

You've probably heard your children or students say "Can't we just watch a movie?" At times, movies are appropriate teaching tools...this site gives you some discussion questions (and perhaps essay topics) for more than 200 movies. Search by keyword or browse alphabetically, by culture, or for character development issues. Descriptions include benefits,possible problems or issues raised by the movie, and background. Check out the list of Movies Not Recommended as Teaching Tools.

Teachers First Content Matrix

There are lots of things on this site; but the content matrix is one of the most useful when you are in a hurry. In a simple table format, organized by grades (Elementary, Middle School, High School) and subjects (art, astronomy, character education, drama, mind stretchers, physical education, writing, and world cultures to name a few).

Teaching Shakespeare

This is a lesson plan archive and tips for teaching Shakespeare

TEAMS

TEAMS Distance Learning brings exemplary learning opportunities to K-8 students, teachers, and parents across the United States through nationally televised satellite broadcasts and the Internet. Learners use instructional technologies to access a combination of the best features of time-dependent (synchronous) video-based instruction along with time-independent (asynchronous) computer access to multimedia and the Internet.

Texas Information Literary Tutorial

This site teaches fundamental research skills. In each module students will learn concepts and practice them through interactions. They can test their comphrehension and receive immediate feedback. Each module takes less than 30 minutes to complete.

Traveling to the Gold Rush

Students research the experiences of those who traveled to California during the Gold Rush by land and sea, then create an annotated map showing what they have learned about each route.

U.S. Department of Education

Our aim for this award-winning web site, which is hosted by our National Library of Education (NLE), is to provide you with information about the offices and programs of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), education initiatives of the President and the Secretary, the full text of ED reports and publications, links to organizations we support, and more.

WebJunction

WebJunction is an online community of libraries and other agencies
sharing knowledge and experience to provide the broad public access to
information technology. In 2002, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
awarded the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) a three-year grant to build a portal for public libraries and other organizations that provide open access to information. The result is WebJunction.The broad headings are: Policies and Practices, Technology Resources, Buying Guide, Learning Center, and Community Center.

WebQuests: Explanation

A free workshop presented online by "CONCEPT TO CLASSROOM, "a collaboration between Thirteen Ed Online and Disney Learning Partnership. This workshop is broken down into sections called Explanation, Demonstration, Exploration, and Implementation. Each section answers critical questions, provides short video clips from experts/users, and provides links to other critical information or terms when appropriate. Other workshops are also available, see the descriptions page for more.

Worksheets4Teachers

Be Creative! Access these easy to use, online tools that let you develop your own worksheets effortlessly. Or, look for a worksheet by exploring links to existing worksheets and maps for all ages of students.