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Grades: K12
Author: icivics.org
This is a free-access website that provides teachers with a variety of resource for teaching civics in the K12 classroom. It is aligned with each states common core standards.
“Justice Sandra Day O'Connor founded iCivics in 2009 to reimagine civic education. Her vision was clear and ambitious: To cultivate a new generation of students for thoughtful and active citizenship. Civic knowledge is a prerequisite for civic participation.”
The website includes.
- Games: Our Flash-based games require no downloading and are designed to be played in under 45 minutes.
- Lesson Plans: These print-and-go PDF lessons take between one and two class periods. Lesson plans are the core of each unit.
- Mini-Lessons: These two-page reading & activity collections can be assigned as independent work or combined into larger lessons.
- WebQuests: Students can explore internet resources in a controlled way with these guided research activities.
- Drafting Board: This is our interactive, online essay-builder for argumentative writing. Use this 3- to 4-day tool to bookend a unit with a related hot topic.
Grades: K12
Author: The Southern Poverty Law Center
“Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.”
It includes films, posters, and an automatic instruction plan builder. Also, learning plan, lesson, and teaching strategies. Teachers and users are free to print and duplicate any material. Lesson are classified by grades.
Author: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education (contract number ED-07-CO-0088), Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. Teachinghistory.org, funded through the Office of Innovation and Improvement Teaching American History (TAH) program, builds on and disseminates the valuable lessons learned by more than 1,000 TAH projects designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers’ knowledge and understanding of traditional U.S. history.
Multimedia digital resources, including lesson plans, and strategies to teach US History to K12 classrooms. It also includes instructional resources and strategies for English Language Learners.
This resource includes PD and showcases of digital classroom teaching strategies for teachers.
Grades: K12
Author: National Geographic
DiscoveryEducation.com offers “standards-based digital content for K-12, transforming teaching and learning with award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development, and the largest professional learning community of its kind. Serving 4.5 million educators and over 50 million students, Discovery Education’s services are in half of U.S. classrooms, 50 percent of all primary schools in the U.K., and more than 50 countries.” Includes digital resources and lessons for teaching social studies, science, math, language arts, and technology. K12.
Grades: 312
Author: Kidnected World, Inc.
Author: Kidnected World, Inc.
Wonderment is a web portal that allows the classroom to connect with other students around the world to solve community problems or to engage in community projects. “The Wonderment is a free online platform where kids, schools, and organizations come together to create a world of good.”
You can start with anything from a fun creative challenge to a question to an idea to solve a problem in the community. Some Paths lead to projects that impact a community or the world. Paths are a great place to share and grow your project idea by connecting it with others. You can also use the Wondermap see and connect directly with schools and groups working in the Wonderment-- making global learning and connection simple and meaningful whether it's in your own neighborhood or across the globe. You can explore and join in on others’ Paths around the world— or be inspired and start one of your own!
