Web Links to Great Teacher Resources

Understanding Taxes Student Site has 38 student lessons, which are divided into two content areas: the Hows of Taxes and the Whys of Taxes. The Hows of Taxes shows you how to apply tax principles, and the Whys of Taxes explains tax history and theory.

Magic Tree House: Classroom Adventures Program is a comprehensive program that allows teachers to expand their use of the Magic Tree House adventures in the classroom and stimulate kids’ interest in subjects across the entire curriculum. Using the kids love for the Magic Tree House adventures, the program sparks the kids interest in learning and stimulates their curiosity about the world around them.

Lessons and ideas for teachers from the Crayola Company.

NASA: Space Place is a fun site for both students and teachers. It offers a 3-D map for the students to look at and offers resources about space, Earth, the Sun, the solar system, and people and technology.  For teachers and parents, it offers games and activities that are useful to teach about space.

Franklin Institute: Educational Hotlists offers online resources for teachers and students about science. Students can access information about animals, biology, earth science, health, insects, mathematics, oceans, physical science, and space science. The site also offers professional development services and science content workshop information for teachers.

Citizen Kid Central offers educators, children, and their families many resources to explore global issues and guide discussions around challenging while still being appropriate for children. You can explore more that 40 activities and watch over 40 short videos that bring global issues to life. The site is great for research and has helpful homework tools.

Population Reference Bureau is the place to go to receive demographic data and timely reports to aid students in their research on population trends. The site provides many articles, videos, lesson plans, teacher’s guides, and a glossary of terms.

World of 7 Billion is a great resource that both teacher and students can use. It offers teachers hands-on classroom and school-wide activities on global demographics, international development, girls’ empowerment and human ecology. Teachers can download free lesson plans or take a look at the poster ‘A Quick Trip to 7 Billion.’

World History for Us All is a wonderful and innovative model curriculum for teaching world history to middle and high school students, helping teachers meet both state and national standards. It offers “a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, and resources.”

The Indian Ocean in World History website is a integrated and user-friendly teaching tool for  all students in upper elementary, middle and high school. It offers students the opportunity to investigate primary sources that illustrate historical interactions, helping them to become more accomplished at the analytical historical thing skills that are required by virtually all state history standards today. Map pages and primary sources are available and cover the Prehistoric Era, Ancient Era, Classical Era, Medieval Era, First Global Era, Industrial and Imperial Eras, and the Twentieth Century and Globalization. Finding what you need is easy because the resources and maps fall into eight categories, including documents, technologies, places, good, geographies, routes, travelers, and objects. A model lesson is provided in the Learning Tools menu that suggests ways of interacting with the web site for an individual, small group, or whole class engagement. Note taking organizers can be downloaded as well.