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This is a guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the writer for the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about courses online for OnlineCourses.org. I use a couple of these resources myself so I thought her article would be useful.
High school teachers who want lesson plans, curriculum ideas, and other resources for the classroom can find almost everything they need online. There are tons of websites dedicated to helping teachers become more productive and engage students in the classroom. Here are 20 web resources to explore before the beginning of the school year:
EDSITEment - EDSITEment was created by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation. The site offers language arts, foreign language, art, history, and social studies lesson plans for teachers as well as links to trusted resources around the web.
Thinkfinity - Thinkfinity is an amazing website for K-12 teachers. The site hosts interactive games, a lesson plan search engine, and professional development opportunities for teachers.
PBS Teachers - This PBS website offers many useful resources for K-12 teachers, including lesson plans, suggested activities, and other classroom resources.
Highlights for High School - This MIT website provides open courseware for high school teachers and students. Teachers can find a wide range of materials to help them in the classroom, including video demonstrations, homework problems, science labs, and study material for AP exams.
High School Ace - High School Ace was created for students, but it also doubles as a useful resource for high school teachers. The site provides educational games, guides for major subject areas, and links to handy references.
Learner.org Interactives - Learner.org provides teachers with content and interactive activities that can be used to improve learning and skills in the classroom.
Secondary Education - The About.com Guide to Secondary Education offers articles, a blog, lesson plans, a community forum and other resources for educators who teach grades 7-12.
Random House for High School Teachers - This Random House website is designed specifically for high school teachers. The site offers reading lists for every major subject area and other free resources that can be used in the classroom.
Shmoop - Created by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities, Shmoop offers free teacher resources and fun study guides for poetry, literature, and history.
Bibliomania - Bibliomania offers thousands of free books, literature summaries, author biographies, and other resources that would be useful to high school English teachers.
LiTgloss - LiTgloss is a University of Buffalo project that hosts a collection of texts written in foreign languages.
Teaching Shakespeare - This free resource from Folger Education provides lesson plans, audio, video, classroom activities, and other materials for educators who teach Shakespeare.
C-SPAN Classroom - This C-SPAN site provides a wide range of resources for teaching civics and U.S. government. Specific resources include standards-based content, downloadable videos, and links to PDF worksheets.
Smithsonian - The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History features a virtual tour option that allows students to visit the museum and various exhibits from the classroom.
American Museum of Natural History Anthropology Collection - The museum's anthropology division hosts an amazing digital collection of ethnological objects. Students can explore nearly 200,000 objects by continent.
Getty Museum - Getty Museum is home to one of the world's greatest collections of Western Art. The museum provides many online resources as well, including standards-based lesson plans, teacher workshops, and student activities.
Edmodo - Edmodo is a free, private social platform for students and teachers who want to be able to communicate online. It can be used for microblogging, file storage, event tracking, assignments, grading, and much more.
TeacherTube - Similar to YouTube, TeacherTube provides a place for teachers to share instructional videos online.
Edutagger - Edutagger is a social bookmarking site for K-12 teachers and learners. It can be used to bookmark URLs and share content over the web.
Classroom 2.0 - This site is a free social network for teachers who want to learn more about incorporating web 2.0 technologies in the classroom.
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