“We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.”
-Ben Sweetland
Anchor Chartshttps://www.weareteachers.com/anchor-charts-101-
why-and-how-to-use-them-plus-100s-of-ideas/
Apps: This day in history, 21st Century Timeline, Kids Discover
various topics…
Arthttp://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/lesson-
plans
Artifacts
https://historyexplorer.si.edu/artifacts
Mysterious Artifacts:
https://listverse.com/2014/11/08/10-authentic-
historical-artifacts-no-one-can-explain/
Biography http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interacti
ves/cube_creator/
BINGO!
https://www.bingocardcreator.com/bingo-
cards/american-history/american-presidents
The Best of History
Sites http://besthistorysites.net/
Boom Writer Ignite writing in your students. Census https://census.gov
CIA www.cia.gov
Classroom Management
http://behaviorqueen.com/e-book/ Procedure Manual; Classroom Discipline Cycle; PPT
CNN Student News http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Classroom Interview Classroom Interviews/inquiry/tapping into community resources. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/752
Common Lit. This is an online resource with different articles and discussion questions.
Community Resources
http://www.wcu.edu/engage/professional-enrichment/index.aspx
http://www.cherokeemuseum.org
Cooperative Learning and
Protocals
Engageny.org Cooperative Group Learning, Checking for Understanding, Assessment Strategies, Vocabulary Building, etc.
Debate Debate Into Writing Project
http://www.idebate.org/dtd/documents/introduction_debate.pdf
Diffen
www.diffen.com
This resource is for making comparisons. Virus vs bacteria
Digital Stories http://30hands.com/
Discovery School Education
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ For example, homework help and has short to medium video clips about presidential powers, election process and important presidents. A resource provided by Discovery Education to guide students and provide Social Studies Homework help to students of all grades.
Dotstorm Dotstorming is a source for surveying a crowd and forming consensus by voting.
Everfi
Digital Citizenship, Life Skills, Internet Safety student courses.
http://everfi.com/
Formative Assessment
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding
53 Quick Formative Assessments
Google Slides Formative Assessments
Foldables
Vocabulary Instruction.The tiny picture to the left is Public Property.
Fonts Comic Sans Criminal
Geography www.Geogussr.com
Global Citizenship Kids Can Press
http://www.kidscanpress.com/series/citizenkid
If the World Were a Village David J Smith
If America Were a Village
100 People Project
If: A Mindbending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
Amnesty International
Glogster Multimedia posters: http://edu.glogster.com
The Gilder Lehrman
Institute of
American History
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
Gosynth www.gosynth.com
Google Lit Trips Reading the World!
http://www.googlelittrips.org/
Graphic Organizers SS
Graphic Organizers NCDPI
ELL Support
Henry Ford's
Greenfield Village
Museum
https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/greenfield-village/
Kahoot.it www.kahoot.it Data can be downloaded into excel.
Kid Blog Safe Student Publishing: https://kidblog.org/home/
Kids.gov
https://kids.usa.gov/
Kids Discover Online https://online.kidsdiscover.com/
Levels the text so there are multiple readings on the
same topic.
Kidzworld.com http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1751-world-geography-facts-water
Historical Fiction I Survived, Guys Read True Stories, Dead Man Walking, Fever 1793, Who Was…?, What Was the…?
iCivics
https://www.icivics.org/
Infographics
Visually: https://visual.ly/history-infographics
History of:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/surprising-
history-infographic-180959563/
Implicit Harvard Harvard project that contains quizzes to test your bias about different topics such as skin color, age, weight, gender, race, etc.
I Side With
https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz
Literature Circles - Historical Fiction
www.lauracandler.com
Jeopardy! Labs
www.jeopardylabs.com
www.jeopardylabs.com/play/social-studies-terms-for-
mg-teachers
Lead 2 Feed http://www.lead2feed.org
Mr. Donn http://www.mrdonn.org/
Mr. Nussbaum http://mrnussbaum.com
Multiple Intelligences
Amie Dean eBook- Multiple Intelligences Find Someone Who
Native American Picture Books
Rough Face Girl, Cheyenne Again, The Raven, The Earth
Speaks, Byrd Baylor, We are the Many: A Picture Book of
American Indians etc. See Text Set Possibilities
National History
Education
Clearinghouse
http://www.teachinghistory.org/
Paideia Seminar www.paideia.org
Peace Jam www.Peacejam.org
Playing for Change http://playingforchange.com Connecting the world
through music
Plickers https://plickers.com/
*Uses little cards that students can hold up in a certain
position to exhibit a certain response. Each card is
unique, so students will not be able to see each other’s
answers. This could be used in any class, and requires
only that the teacher has a device with a camera. The
teacher can see right away who has the right and wrong
answers, but does not have to write them down, as the
computer saves the answers to view later.
Political Cartoon https://www.usnews.com/cartoons
Quiziz
An online source that allows students to be actively
engaged using a device (phone, iPad, computer,etc).
Teachers have the opportunity to either make their own
survey/quiz, or to share with others that are registered.
Students answer directly from their device, and teachers
can monitor progress and compare results by
downloading them into excel. It is very interactive, and
can be effective to either introduce, explore, or
summarize any given topic.
Quizalize Quizalize
Quizlet https://quizlet.com/
Race, Prejudice Smithsonian: National Museum of African American
History and Culture
Reading Response
(Jane Yolen's
Encounter)
(or Dandelions)
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/sites/default/files/
asset/file/jandoublejournal.pdf
Or
https://expectmiraculous.com/2013/09/18/explorers-
and-native-americans-perspective- transliteracy-with-
4th-grade/
Read to Learn • https://www.brainpop.com/
Reading/Writing In the Content Areas:
Newsela: https://www.newsela.com
Readworks: https://www.readworks.org
Tween Tribune: http://tweentribune.com
Common Lit: www.commonlit.org
Guys Read: www.guysread.com
http://www.readkiddoread.com
Internet Resources:Library of Congress (LOC)
Multimedia:Prezi;Intel Teach; Visual Ranking, Seeing Reason, Showing Evidence; Storyline Online; Songbird; 30 Hands
Read, Write, Think www.readwritethink.org
Research http://cvs.jcpsnc.org/kmenickelli/research/
Rubistar
Rubrics
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=NewRu
bric§ion_id=2#02
Create or borrow a rubric for student products, readings,
presentations, digital storytelling, etc.
Schmoop https://www.shmoop.com Homework help, test prep, “We speak student.”
Songs as Critical Text;
Songs for Social Justice
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/using-song-lyrics-to-explore-social-commentary Sounds of Change
Cross Text
Why? by Tracy Chapman
We Pray for ChildrenIna Jones
Building Community in SS Classroom: Rules vs Guidelines
Poverty and Rules: RITA
Social Action-Student Action
Teams (Courage)
Tracy, Scales & Menickelli (JAAL)
Sporcle http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/states
States and Capitols http://www.50states.com/
STEM and Writing Teacher resource
Sutori
https://www.sutori.com
Critical thinking about content with story boarding,
timelines. Tagxedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html
Teach w/ Text Sets
*Spar debate*-
Text Based Argument
Columbia Teacher’s College Digital Text Set.
Print resources for Nonfiction: + Kids Discover Online
Menickelli Text Set Planning Guide
www.teacherspayteachers.com
Teacher Marketplace.
Teacher’s Curriculum Institute
(TCI)
History Alive!
http://www.teachtci.com/interactive-social-studies-
notebook.html
with Interactive Notebookand Graphically Organized
Notes
Teaching Tolerance
The Southern Poverty Law Center
www.teachingtolerance.org
TFK https://www.timeforkids.com
USA Today:
25 Coolest Places to take kids on family
trips
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/am
erica/2017/01/13/cool-places-kids-family-
travel/96559822/
Virtual Field Trip http://menickelli.wikispaces.com/STEM (virtual field trips various topics)
Wikispaces
http://menickelli.wikispaces.com/Research
This will guide students to make research connections and revisit activities and lessons taught in class to follow their own interest and line of inquiry. There are songs, videos, and vocabulary supports.
Zip Grader https://www.zipgrade.com
Never bring papers home again!
Literature Sampler:
Children's Book of America
First Facts about American Heroes
I Survived
Holocaust
• Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• Devil's Arithmetic
• Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Slavery
• If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America
• To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
• Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and
Emancipation...
• A Strawbeater's Thanksgiving
• Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Fredrick Douglass
In His Own Words
• No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance
• Which Way to Freedom and Other Questions About
the Underground Railroad Depression
Out of the Dust
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Harvesting Hope: the story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull (illustrated by Yuyi Morales)
Teaching Resource Class Project for authentic Social Studies resources and strategies. *Resources should be culturally and developmentally responsive and free from bias.
Thanks for sharing!
Share a Resource Brainstorm:*When selecting a resource, think about your purpose:
• What ways does this support learners (vocabulary development, writing
support, student interest)?
• How does this support critical thinking?
• What is the Academic Risk involved: cognitive rigor, social emotional
considerations?
• Does the resource support understanding and shape perspective?
• Inquiry, social justice, building background knowledge, taking the perspective of
others
Possibilities: Morning Meetings, Warm ups,Cool downs,Planning tools,
energizers,primary sources: artifacts, documents, community resources,
centers,data sources,songs, texts, quotes, political cartoons,graphic
organizers, thinking maps, concept maps poems,vocabulary and skill builders, etc.
Blogs: www.edutopia.org [email protected] Writing: The Scoop https://simplebooklet.com/publish.php?wpKey=AqUHTOapYRJb8i5fhQuFyZ#wpKey=AqUHTOapYRJb8i5fhQuFyZ#page=10 Testing: http://engageny.org/resource/new-york-state-common-core-sample-questions
ELA Progression: http://rt3nc.org/objects/standards/cclitmap/ela.html Reading: KBumgardner http://www.kbumreading.com (Think Clouds pictured > > > ) Laura Candler www.lauracandler.com Jeopardy: www.jeopardylabs.com Word Cloud: www.woordle.com Rubrics: http://rubistar.4teachers.org or http://www.rubrics4teachers.com My Favorites: (Developed for ELA/SS Instruction) www.menickelli.wikispaces.com Digital Stories: www.30Hands.com http://storybird.com/ Artifacts - Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html Integrate to Differentiate: http://farr-integratingit.net/Trainings/Differentiate/strategies.htm BLOOM'S REVISED: http://www.farr-integratingit.net/Theory/CriticalThinking/revisedcog.htm
Multiple Intelligence Products Chart: http://www.learnerslink.com/Gardner%27s%20chart.htm
Title Web Address Description
Common Core State Standards Initiative http://www.corestandards.org/
A complete listing of all the CCSS including appendices.
Basal Alignment Project http://www.edmodo.com/ Username: ________ _____ Password: ________ New Common Core aligned text-dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and culminating tasks for use with existing basal series.
CCSS Curriculum Maps http://commoncore.org/maps/
The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project provides educators with high-quality curriculum tools based on the CCSS. Detailed curriculum Maps and sample lesson plans designed to help K-12 educators create the kind of “well-developed, content-rich curriculum” called for in the CCSS.
NCDPI Wikispaces http://www.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/
A wide array of instructional tools developed by NCDPI to support educators during the implementation of the new Common Core State and North Carolina Essential Standards.
ELA Live Binders: Resources
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/297779
An organized collection of resources for the ELA Common Core State Standards developed by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, English Language Arts Section. This binder will help add clarity to current initiatives. NCDPI will continue to update this binder as more resources to assist educators in implementing these new standards become available.
ELA Live Binders: CCSS Self Study http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/262077
This Live Binder, developed by NCDPI, is directed to those interested in learning about the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. The binder provides an overview as well as an in-depth, close reading of the standards. The lessons and resources have been taken from the professional development opportunities that have been offered across the state. Updates will continue as needed.
ACRE: Accountability and Curriculum Reform Effort
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/
Developed and maintained by NCDPI, this site provides the latest in CCSS news and resources.
Engage NY http://engageny.org/
The state of New York as already implemented the CCSS. This site was designed as a go-to site for teaching and learning resources.
New York City Lessons http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/SeeStudentWork/default.htm
This site from the NYC Department of Education provides sample lessons and resources aligned with the CCSS.
Inside Mathematics http://www.insidemathematics.org/index.php/common-core-standards
Inside Mathematics takes each of the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice and provides examples of how to include them in teaching. Several videos are available on this site.
Thinking Blocks http://www.thinkingblocks.com/ Thinking Blocks is an online set of learning tools designed to help students solve math word problems accurately and efficiently. Students model mathematical relationships and identify known and unknown quantities. The model provides students with a powerful image that organizes information and simplifies the problem solving process. By modeling increasingly complex word problems, students develop strong reasoning skills which will facilitate the transition from arithmetic to algebra.
Doing What Works http://dww.ed.gov/ Doing What Works is a site created by the US Department of Public Instruction. The purpose of the site is to help teachers find research-based practices. There are also resources to translate research-based practices into practical tools to improve classroom instruction.
Common Core Ninja http://corestand.com/downloads/CoreStand_Ebook_1.0.pdf
This site is mostly for middle school teachers but everyone can benefit from tips for setting up your Common Core classroom. It’s also a fun read with encouragement and useful charts and suggestions for implementing the Common Core State Standards.
Ohio Department of Education http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEPrimary.aspx?page=2&TopicRelationID=1696
Resources and materials for each content area including support materials and model curriculums.
For the Teachers http://www.fortheteachers.org/instructional_strategies.htm
This site offers many resources that are found on the Home page. This link takes you to a chart of the 8 Standards of Mathematical Practice and when you click on one, you are given specific strategies to align with that standard.
NCTM http://illuminationa.nctm.org National Council for Teachers of Mathematics
K-5 Math Teaching Resources http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/index.html
CC aligned classroom lessons and activities for K-5
Read Tennessee Teacher's Toolkit Tennessee Early Grades Reading Toolkit: provides teachers with an access to carefully selected, research-based resources (lesson and unit plans, teaching strategies, center activities, videos, books, and articles) for Reading and other areas of English Language Arts instruction and for family engagement strategies. The Teacher Math Toolkit connects teachers to evidence-based mathematical practices,
K-3
mathematical content areas, and instructional modules to support high quality instruction for the different learning styles of students, Pre-K through 3rd grade. In addition to an array of best practices, the Math Toolkit provides creative ways of using technology and media to deepen the understanding of the standards and of aligning best practices with instruction grounded in Common Core State Standards.!
http://www.readworks.org/lessons/grades?grade=37&concept=3
ReadWorks provides 100’s of research-based, free lesson plans and comprehension worksheets aligned to the Common Core and State Standards.
K-6
http://www.uen.org/k12educator/corelessonplans.shtml
Common Core Lesson plans from Utah Education Network K-12
http://www.californiakindergartenassociation.org/common-core-standards/
California Kindergarten Association: Lesson plans and tips for kindergarten instruction aligned with the Common Core.
K
http://www.edmodo.com/
Basal Alignment Project: Dozens of freely-available, revised questions and tasks for widely used 3rd-5th grade texts in basal reading series. Username: jacksoncounty Password: jackson OR create your own account: Click "Visit link" to sign up on Edmodo. Use code "etuyrm" to join BAP group.
3-5
http://www.literacydesigncollaborative.org/
The Literacy Design Collaborative is a loosely affiliated group of partners interested in making sure secondary teachers have strong supports for teaching literacy in content areas. Checkout the Template Task Collection
6-12
http://commoncore.org/maps/
The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project provides educators with high-quality, curriculum tools based on the Common Core State Standards. Sample lesson plans are available for most units and being updated as new ones come available.
K-12
http://learnzillion.com/ High quality Common Core math and ELA lessons, videos, slides, & commentaries.
3-12
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/default.aspx
Educational videos supporting Common Core & Essential Standards. Available in all content areas.
K-12
http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/index.html
This site provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and hands-on math activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. The math printables are suitable for use in math centers, small group or whole class settings.
K-5
http://www.commoncoremathlessons.com/
This site is a resource for K-12 teachers who are implementing the National Common Core State Standards. To search for specific standards, start at the top and click on your grade level. From there, you will find links near the top of the page to target specific Math CCSS Standards. Some resources listed are free and others are not.
K-12
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Common-Core/Pages/Math-K-5.aspx
The K-5 standards are organized using domains, overarching ideas that connect topics across the grades, clusters that illustrate progression of increasing complexity from grade to grade and standards which define what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. These standards include skills and knowledge – what students need to know and be able to do, as well as mathematical practices – habits of mind that students should develop to foster mathematical understanding and expertise.
K-5
(Common Core Planning Resource Tables compiled by D. Runyan)
Document compiled by Kristin Menickelli @WCU, 2016 / @JCPS 2017
And WCU’s Fall 2016 EDMG 417: SS Methods – Teaching Strategies/Resources: A Shared Class
Project
More resources available @ http://cvs.jcpsnc.org/kmenickelli/