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World History Encyclopedia

Online collection of thousands of world history resources including articles, videos, maps, primary source materials, quizzes, and more.

KidCitizen

"KidCitizen introduces a new way for young students to engage with history through primary sources. In KidCitizen’s interactive episodes, children...

Abcya.com

Motivate students to learn with abcya.com. This site contains fun games connecting to reading, math, and strategy.

Discovery Education: Virtual Field Trips

Take your students on virtual field trips without leaving the classroom. These no-cost learning experiences from Discovery Education come with a...

Civics Standards and Resources

This workshop focuses on middle school civics standards and resources. Participants will review the new 6th-grade Civics standards, resource guides,...

Khan Academy

Are you looking for personalized learning resources for your learners? Perhaps you want to learn how to teach a certain skill, whether you are an...

Sketchnoting: A Mini-Workshop

Sketchnoting is a notetaking strategy in which imagery and pictures are drawn to remember key concepts. Fewer words, more doodles. You don't have to...

Google My Maps

You're probably familiar with Google Maps, but what about Google My Maps? My Maps is an interactive, collaborative map-making tool from Google that...

Econ Lowdown

Econ Lowdown is an award-winning free economic education portal for teachers and students. In addition to classroom management tools, Econ Lowdown...

C-SPAN Classroom

C-SPAN Classroom is a FREE membership service that works with C-SPAN's programs on public affairs, coverage of Congress, non-fiction books, and...

Mighty Moments Links

Mighty Moments are video-based suggestions from the IDOE that families can do at home to help support their child's development during daily...

Hieroglyphics Translator

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic,...

Teach Writing With The New York Times: 2021-22 Curriculum

Did you know that the New York Times has a free, flexible eight-unit writing program based on real-world topics? Each year, The Times releases...

TIME for Kids

You may be familiar with TIME for Kids that schools can subscribe to and pay for. Did you know there are free articles, however? Open this Lab...

Diigo: Annotating a Webpage

Annotation has always been a great strategy for all readers, but as the digital text was introduced to the classroom, it was tough for students to...

Virtual Visits to National Parks

Are you looking to explore and learn about a new place? This post provided by the National Parks Foundation features 12 national parks that you...

Screencastify and Google Maps

Google Maps is a powerful tool that allows individuals to travel to locations near and far, all from their computer or phone. Matt Miller with...

Learning Games with Mr. Nussbaum

MrNussbaum.com provides numerous interactive games and activities designed to complement crucial concepts and themes taught in the K-8...

National Geographic Resource Library

National Geographic Education offers thousands of free resources to create immersive experiences for your classroom. This Lab resource hosts a...

National Geographic Mapping Activities

Creating immersive experiences for your students to explore and interact with locations around the world can be done simply with National Geographic...