Education: Teaching Resources

Apps and websites for children 14 years or younger.

Compiled by the American Association of School Librarians.

Learning apps, games, and websites for kids.

Apps, websites, lesson plans, and more.

Booklists from UW-Madison's School of Education.

K-12 humanities education materials for history, social studies, literature, language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture. Includes lesson plans, teacher's guides, and media resources. A partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities.

Read-alouds featuring authors and illustrators, podcasts, book trailers, and activity ideas. A partner with the National Education Association's Read Across America program.

A discovery platform designed for kids 7-12 to search the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

K-12 stem resources.

Features articles, video, and games on topics like science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Content is for ages 6-14.

Provides thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources. Resources are aligned to Common Core and national standards and include videos and interactives, as well as audio, documents, and in-depth lesson plans. You can browse by standards, grade level, subject area, and special collections. You can also favorite and share resources with your class and colleagues.

Educator resources from the Smithsonian Institute.

K-12 American History resources featuring artifacts from the Smithsonian Institution.

Videos of famous actors reading award-winning children's books. Also includes activity guides. Produced by The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Foundation.

Teaching Books provides children's and young adult literature multimedia resources. Includes original in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, and guides to thousands of titles.

K–12 resources for U.S. history teachers. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Movie lesson plans.

Voyager Sopris Learning is a reading, writing, and math intervention specialist division within the Cambium Learning Group company. Their blog provides teaching strategies for reading, writing, and math.

Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.

Resource for teaching with primary source materials from the U.S. National Archives.

Classroom materials and professional development to help teachers use primary sources from the Library of Congress.

K-12 American History resources featuring artifacts from the Smithsonian Institution.

List of primary source sets for classroom use. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education.