Internet Resources: Teacher Resources

• AASL Best Websites - The American Association of School Librarians annual list of the best websites for teaching and learning.
• Center for History and New Media - Lesson plans, online collections of primary sources, and more.
• Cornell Science & Arts Gateway for Education - Links to lesson plans and learning resources across the curriculum.
• Curriki - Educators can share and collaborate on lesson plans, projects, curriculum, etc.
• Desmos Classroom -  Math lessons and activities covering arithmetic, algebra, geometry, functions, calculus, and more. Includes a step-by-step teacher’s guide and interactive digital slides.
• Digital Inquiry Group - Document-based lessons, including Reading Like a Historian, Beyond the Bubble Assessments, and Civic Online Reasoning (formerly SHEG).
• Facing History and Ourselves - Materials, lesson plans, and teaching strategies to address racism, bigotry, and prejudice.
• Global Oneness Project - Multimedia materials and lesson plans for an interdisciplinary approach to learning across disciplines from social sciences and humanities to environmental sciences for grades 3-12 teachers and students.  
• More Useful Things - A practical guide for educators and students on AI using the Wharton School's Crash Course videos. Developed by Wharton professor Ethan Mollick.
• National Geographic.com - Contains hundreds of lesson plans and educational activities.
• RetroReport Education - Over 250 short videos with lessons from history, civics, government, media literacy, psychology, science and  environmental studies.
• The Scout Report - Website reviews from Internet Scout.
• Science NetLinks - Lessons, tools, news, and other resources for teaching science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Smithsonian Learning Lab - Interactive learning lab featuring the collection of the Smithsonian.
• World101- Resources to better understand international relations and foreign policy issues from the Council on Foreign Relations.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education - News source for college and university faculty and administrators.
• ERIC  - Educational Resources Information Center; providing education information to teaching professionals.
• National Association of Independent Schools - News and information for educators at independent schools.
• Smartick Data - Data visualizer for education includes charts, statistics, and articles about education.

ASCD 8 Skills - Eight steps to teaching in-depth discussion skills.

Edutopia - Ideas for teaching students how to have a conversation.

Cult of Pedagogy - Fifteen formats for fostering a class discussion.

How to Get Along with our Political Opposites - PBS NewsHour's "Super Civics 2020" series on civics.

ModelDiplomacy - Free simulation program for students to step into the role of decision-makers in the U.S.

NewseumEd - Lesson plans, digital artifacts, virtual classes, professional development to support civic education.

World101 - Resources from Council on Foreign Relations to understand global civics.