Teaching RESOURCES

Groupwork Tips and Sentence Starters

“Tips on assigning group projects, ways to organize groups, and what to do when the process goes awry.”

Center for Racial Justice in Education: Black History Month for Educators and Families

Lesson plans, curriculum resources, articles, and think pieces. 

Center for Civic Education: Civic Terms

“Civic terms to know which relate to concepts found in the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution.”

National Archives: Document Analysis Worksheets

“Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to make informed judgments.”

Eberly Center: Assessing Student Learning

“Provides suggestions and strategies for assessing student learning and performance.”

EDSITEment: Lesson Plans

“Library of humanities lesson plans by subject, theme, and grade level. Find Art and Culture lessons on anthropology, art history, folklore, mythology, religion, and more.”

edutopia: Videos About Assessment

Good source for info on many topics, including assessment.  

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Lots of resources, including primary documents, related to American history.  They also have top-notch professional development opportunities online and in person.

K-12 Education

“The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University offers a variety of services and resources to support the internationalization of K-12 curricula, particularly through the incorporation of content about Central Eurasia.”

Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards

“The Social Justice Standards are a set of anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes divided into four domains—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action (IDJA).”

Lesson Plans for Social Studies: Dr. Levine's Index

Dr. Marty Levine has gathered useful online lesson plans and resources for social studies teachers.

National Council for the Social Studies: Teaching Activities

“Free resources for teachers and students relating to everything about social studies.”

National Geographic Society Education: Standards

“Geographic learning standards and classroom materials, designed in a modular system which includes activities, lessons, and units.”

PBS LearningMedia: Resources

“Searchable index of digital social studies resources with filters for grade level and subject.”

Smithsonian Education: Learning Labs

“Offers resources on art and culture; history and travel; science and technology. From interactive labs to lesson plans to homework help.”

Stanford History Education Group: Lessons

Terrific lesson plans and resources for historical thinking skills. 

Timelines: Tools

A set of free tools for teachers to create awesome timelines. Check them out.

World History For Us All

“Powerful, innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools.”