Archive for the 'Language Arts' Category
KnowItAll.org is an educational site appropriate for grades K-12, produced by ETV in South Carolina. It contains interactive sites, videos, images, audio files and more that are easily searchable by grade level and subject. The site also offers Collections and resources for teachers.
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Listenwise is a site designed to bring current events into the classroom. The site contains podcasts from a wide variety of public radio shows. The podcasts were chosen for their relevance to the middle and high school curriculum. They are also engaging for students to listen to. Included with the podcasts are lesson plans, listening guides, […]
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Data USA is a site that allows viewers to easily collect census data of the US Government. Data can be searched and is presented in a way that makes it easy to read and understand. There also some subcategories of data that can be accessed through the links on the left sidebar.
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TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing is the TED site created for education. It contains an extensive library of short, engaging videos and lesson plans covering a wide array of topics. Teachers can create their own lessons related to the videos using tools available on the site.
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Smithsonian Learning Lab is a portal for accessing the digitized resources available from the Smithsonian museums. It contains over a million images, recordings and texts, which are all easily searchable. In addition to their own primary source sets, the Smithsonian Learning Lab allows teachers to create their own collections of resources. Teachers can also set […]
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Amazon Inspire is an online marketplace of free teaching resources for grades K-12. These resources have been uploaded by educators as well as by Amazon’s education partner organizations (Newseum, EdLeader21, state education departments). Anyone who has shopped on Amazon’s website will immediately be familiar with the user interface. Teachers can search for resources by grade, […]
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Chronicling America is joint venture between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. The Chronicling America website offers viewers access to over 10 million digitized newspapers printed between 1836 and 1922. (Copyright laws prevent them from archiving more current newspapers.) The Library of Congress created this helpful video with ideas for […]
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UnboundEd was started by the group of educators who have worked on the EngageNY website. Many teachers have looked to the EngageNY sites for quality lesson resources related to the Common Core Standards. However, the money for the EngageNY project is drying up so the team created UnboundEd in the hopes of furthering the mission […]
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Diffen is an interactive online tool that allows the user to compare two things. Did you ever wonder what the difference is between jam and jelly? Just type the two terms into the text boxes and you’ll get a whole page of information of both jam and jelly. Many of the pages also include images […]
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KQED Education is the educational portion of the KQED website. KQED is a public broadcasting network in San Francisco. KQED Education provides curricular resources for the for K-12 classrooms related to arts, science, and social studies, and language arts. The media-rich resources are designed to engage students and build 21st century skills and technology literacies.
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