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All LessonsHow We Help You Teach Books Our books are customizable. You can rearrange the chapters or even add, remove and edit content. Concepts Add bite-sized lessons to FlexBooks or assign to students for independent learning. Interactive Items Videos and multimedia simulations bring learning to life. Exercises Enable students to track their progress with instant feedback. Teaching Materials Get assessments, answer keys and ideas for differentiated instruction.
Find and use thousands of FREE games, videos, and interactives in all major K-12 subjects and aligned to the Common Core. Explore Free activities, search by Common Core Standard, customize Playlists, build classes, and monitor assignments.
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Science
A Distance Learning Adventure will provide a year-long emphasis on wetlands featuring a series of FREE live webcasts. Wetlands around the world will be used to show the functions and ecology of wetlands and their importance to people and wildlife, especially to migrating birds and fish. WetlandsLIVE is the sixth in a series of Forest Service-partner distance learning adventures.
The California Academy of Science's teaching resources offer something for every teacher: Online courses, interactives, toolkits, and much more. If you're looking for fun, engaging science resources, you're bound to find some useful ones here. Choose from lesson plans, as well as games, films and clips, and other interesting multimedia.
Bugscope allows teachers everywhere to provide students with the opportunity to become microscopists themselves—the kids propose experiments, explore insect specimens at high-magnification, and discuss what they see with our scientists—all from a regular web browser over a standard broadband internet connection.
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STEMHacking STEM Lessons & Hands-On ActivitiesBuild affordable inquiry and project-based activities to visualize data across science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum. Middle school standards-based lesson plans written by teachers for teachers.
Siemens STEM Academy gives teachers an online portal teeming with resources that support them in their lesson planning and implementation, while exposing them to new and ground-breaking learning methods and approaches to teaching STEM concepts.
Math
MathScienceMusic.org, a new website from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and the NYU MusEDLab, features free resources to help teachers incorporate music in science and math lessons. The activities and apps are designed for all students, kindergarten through college. Subjects covered include geometry and physics, among many others, and all lessons teach students about the strong relationship between music and STEM learning.
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Administrative ToolsGet free school templates for Microsoft Office to support your classroom. Find a periodic table, multiplication tables, an electronic grade book for Excel, emergency contact forms, sign-out sheets for materials, sample test questions, and more.
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- Bob Wise, Alliance for Excellent Education Social Studies
Web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in U.S. democracy.
Also run by the National Archives, DocsTeach is full of activities for educators. The documents are organized by different periods in American history. If you're teaching "Civil War and Reconstruction" or "Revolution and the New Nation," just click on the topic to find hundreds of primary source documents. DocsTeach provides audio, video, charts, graphs, maps and more.
Google and Life Magazine have a wonderful search engine that lets users search millions of images from the Life Magazine Photo Archive. Not only can you type in key terms to guide your searches, you can also look through images organized by decade (1860s through 1970s) or significant people, places, events or sports topics.
This is a fantastic resource. Their website is easy to navigate and includes lots of teacher resources. They feature a daily historical document relating to an event from that day in history. The online catalog can be searched using keywords, and 100 "milestone" documents are identified as significant to American history.
Population Connection - Find teaching materials and tools for environmental connections, people & society, and population dynamics.
Spartacus Educational is a great resource for global history. It contains free encyclopedia entries that directly connect to primary source documents, making it a perfect tool for educators looking to give students a starting point in their research. It can even be used for a historical figure scavenger hunt!
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