Archive for the 'The 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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Math Science & Music is a site that offers engaging lessons, games and other activities that integrate music, math and science. The purpose of the site is to promote STEM education. The primary target audience is grades 4-8, but there are supplemental materials available for younger and older students. The site is being developed by scholars […]
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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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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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Myoats is an online drawing site that allows the user to easily create symmetric geometric shapes. It provides a variety of tools, colors, and effects to make the drawings more original. Drawings can be downloaded without a user account. What a fun and easy tool for helping students with the concept of symmetry!
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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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TweenTribune is one of the free services available from the Smithsonian. It is designed for teachers and students in grades K-12. The site contains articles from the Associated Press related to science, history, art, culture, and current events. The articles are leveled by Lexile score. In addition to articles, TweenTribune offers images, videos, audio files, […]
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