Category: High school and beyond

Resources for parents and teachers

NY Times for High School Students (free).

The New York Times is available to high schools across the U.S. — for free.  Enjoy free digital access from April 6 to July 6. Teachers and administrators. All you need is a consolidated list of the students’ emails. Builds Aware Engaged Citizens! Link here:  here

The NSF Science Zone app (Free).

Download the NSF Science Zone app (FREE!) Access and navigate hundreds of exciting videos and high-resolution photos from a wide array of science topics. You can have students select a video a day or assign one. NSF Science Zone is available for free on the Apple App Store for all iOS mobile devices and on …

250+ Amazing Online Learning Resources

We are Teachers compiled a list of free tools for teachers.  Many are able to be used for various supports or strategies, they describe how. For teachers and parents, ready-to-use lesson plans (K-12, all subjects).  Every subject covered, from Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), interactive constitutional discussions, coding, activities, to professional teacher development.  Link here. …

ShareMyLesson

A learning online community for educators and families to create and share lessons and resources. Sign up is free to access 400,000 free resources, lesson plans, and professional development opportunities.

Science Buddies

Science Buddies has hands on STEM activities for teachers, many of which work for distance learning.

OpenSciEd

Science teachers can go on OpenSciEd and sign up for a free account. Once they have it, they can download curriculum units that include videos, simulations, and lessons which they can then share with their students. While not all of the activities work for at home science learning, many do.

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation has a resource bank of classroom activities sorted by topics from physics to computing to neuroscience. Each page has links to external resources for that topic. Note that a lot of the resources are geared at teachers and focus on lesson plans and curriculum, rather than materials for students. However, each …

PhET

PhET has over 130 free math and science simulations for students– and over 2000 lessons to go with them. Many of the simulations are available in multiple languages. The site provides simulations of hand-on science topics and be sorted by grade level, topic, and/or the device that the student is using. All are free and …

Zinn Education Project

Zinn is a free resource bank of history materials, lessons, and activities for students modeled on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Resources can be filtered by grade level, time period, resource type, and theme. Lessons include articles to read, questions for students, and handouts. Resources are heavily biased towards the upper …

Textbook: World History Patterns of Interaction 2005

A copy of the entirety of the textbook–chapters, powerpoints, reading guides, and activities, for the 2005 world history textbook used by many districts.

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