Lesson Planning
Algebra Help Includes lessons appropriate for review and extension
Ambitious Science Teaching Ambitious teaching deliberately aims to get students of all racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds to understand science ideas, participate in the discourses of the discipline, and solve authentic problems.
American Panorama American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps.
Arts Edge Lessons to connect students to the arts provided by the Kennedy Center
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers This chart was designed to help teachers understand what they may do under the law. For more detailed information, please consult a school librarian.
Crash Course This YouTube channel has brief educational videos presented by John and Hank Green
Crossword Labs Make crossword puzzles, print them out as PDFs, share them, and solve them online with Crossword Labs. It's free, fast and easy. No registration required!
DocsTeach The online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives
EconEdLink Searchable Economics and Personal Finance resource for K-12.
Econ Lowdown Award-winning and free videos, lessons, and online courses to teach about economics, personal finance, and money form the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank
Fair Use Evaluator This site helps you make a "fair use" determination. A time-stamped PDF document is provided to the user as evidence to demonstrate that a good faith effort was made to reach the fair use decision.
Google Arts & Culture Bring the world to students in a whole new way
iCivics Effective and engaging digital resources about our government
Interactive Science Teacher Graphic organizers and lessons for Earth, Space, Physical, and Life sciences
The Learning Network Teaching and learning with the New York Times
Library of Congress: Teachers Search the LOC's classroom materials by state and organization standards, grade level, and subject matter.
Movie License USA List of movies with copyright permission to show the entire film in your class without having to follow fair use guidelines (departmental content approval still required)
myShakespeare This document explains how to use myShakespeare remotely, with free resources
PBS News Hour Extra News for students and teacher resources at the 7-12 grade level
ReadWriteThink - A collection of classroom resources, professional development, and videos to be used in planning and instruction
SAS Curriculum Pathways - Interactive, standards-based resources in the core disciplines tailored to state and county requirements
Schoolhouse Rock All of your favorites in one YouTube channel
SMART Exchange Educational tools developed for SMART boards
StoryCorps Connect Toolkit Complete lesson for recording oral histories
Student Crossword Archives Archived crosswords for every area of the curriculum from the New York Times
TeachersFirst lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time
TeAch-nology Simple to use lesson plans, rubrics, worksheets, and web quests
Teach This Poemfeatures one poem a week accompanied by interdisciplinary resources and activities
Treks Take virtual field trips with Google Street Map Treks
Virginia Museum of Fine Art History and art lessons and resources related to museum holdings
Washington Times Teacher guides, serial stories, student supplements, bullying/character education materials, numerous subject-specific resources, video & audio teacher training modules, and the popular NIE Instructional Calendar
Zinn Education Project - A vast collection of teaching materials for teaching the People's History.
Databases
EBSCO Professional Development Collection A database provided by PWCS (Contact the LLC for login information)
Gale Database - Professional Collection Contains more than 250 full-text educational periodicals and journals covering arts, psychology, adolescent issues, curriculum, sports, law, technology, and more (Contact the LLC for login information)
ProQuest Education Journals Offers a comprehensive research collection of more than 650 magazines and journals for professional development and continuing education (Contact the LLC for login information)
ProQuest K12 A database provided by PWCS (Contact the LLC for login information)
PWCS Professional Library Search the professional catalog and request materials to be sent to BHS
Web Tools
Best Apps for Teaching & Learning Find amazing apps to share with your students (curated by AASL)
Block Posters Create huge homemade posters from your own images - free!
Jeopardy Rocks! Create your own Jeopardy game in minutes
LiveBinders Organize your resources into an online binder which can be public or password protected
Piktochart An easy-to-use infographic maker
Poster My Wall Free online poster and flyer maker
Prezi Build dynamic presentations
ReadWriteThink Interactives - Online interactive tools that help students with organizing & summarizing, inquiry & analysis, writing poetry, writing & publishing prose, learning about language, timelines, and more. Many can be saved.
Quizzizz Enliven quizzes with optional music, immediate feedback, timers, and fun memes
Venngage Everything you need to create and publish infographics
Vibby Edit video to show just the highlights you want
Word Swag Get the app that helps you add text to your photos.
Professional Development
ASCD Webinars Free webinars for professional development
Edudemic Articles, news, trends, how-tos, and tools to connect education to technology
Edutopia Find resources to help you implement project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and technology integration.
Microsoft in Education Network - Search for ideas on specific topics. Connect with other educators and collaborate together.
Praxis Practice Practice tests for all PRAXIS exams
Research and Continuing Education
Gale Training Learn all the tricks for using the Gale databases
The Glossary of Education Reform a comprehensive online resource that describes widely used school-improvement terms, concepts, and strategies
Mendeley Manage your research, showcase your work, connect and collaborate Manage your research, showcase your work, connect and collaborate
Zotero a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources