Excellent, comprehensive site from National Geographic that provides lesson plans, activities, maps, and National Geography Standards. Teachers can find lesson plans based on grade and standard. Covers current issues, for example, global climate change, diminishing fresh water supplies, fossil fuels, etc.

A collection of forty-four primary resources including historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and maps, illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom instruction and teacher professional development.

Lessons and activities using places on the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven courses in U.S. history, U.S. geography, and U.S. government.

Come and learn how to begin to help parents and educators address the aftermath of a natural disaster with children through reading and books. This site features a list of titles to begin this journey of healing.

After more than 30 years in prison and an historic election that for the first time in the nation's history included all citizens regardless of race, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela became President of the Republic of South Africa on May 10, 1994. This Teacher's Guide includes resources for teaching about the brutality of apartheid, the resilience of the nation's people, the leadership of Nelson Mandela, and primary source materials that will inform discussion about the country's emergence in the world.

For more than 400 years, Shakespeare's 37 surviving plays, 154 sonnets, and other poems have been read, performed, taught, reinterpreted, and enjoyed the world over. This Teacher's Guide includes ideas for bringing the Bard and pop culture together, along with how performers around the world have infused their respective local histories and cultures into these works.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are making all of their PD courses free to help schools implement distance learning and online professional development.

Individual teachers, should sign up for a FREE Basic account. You will be automatically upgraded to a full subscription for free.

Schools should fill out information via this link > bit.ly/OTISforSchools

They will assist you with setting up your free accounts. If you need immediate assistance setting up an account for your school, please call 877-455-9369.

The ordered school-building closure and other measures taken in response to the coronavirus health crisis affect the educator licensure process for both current and prospective educators. Impacts include the closure of many background check locations and licensure examination testing sites and challenges to completing professional development requirements. Background checks, professional development and testing are typical requirements for both current educators and prospective educator candidates to receive or renew educator licenses.

The ongoing coronavirus health crisis has not disrupted the ability of the Ohio Department of Education to receive and process applications and renewals for licensure. The Office of Educator Licensure currently is processing applications within five business days and is ready to assist educators, schools and districts with their licensure-related inquiries and needs.

This computer science webpage features information supporting each part of Ohio’s educational system: Ohio’s Learning Standards, the model curricula, assessments and additional resources to help teachers in their classrooms.

Representatives from Ohio EdTechs appear in front of the Ohio House Finance Committee for H.B. 64 in 2015.

In 2017, The State of Ohio introduced new technology standards for K-12. Many teachers are probably already fulfilling a number of Ohio’s new Learning Standards for Technology, although they may not be aware of the fact. With practical insights from creative educators successfully integrating the standards, as well as the state Department of Education, this session will provide the groundwork for all educators to understand what they are already accomplishing, as well as minor changes that could help students achieve even more.

If you're a parent or guardian, you can teach your kids how to use the Internet by talking to them on how to use proper etiquette online. It is important to teach your children online etiquette. Online etiquette are rules for behaving properly online. These are the rules of etiquette, they should follow when they go online. Children need to be given direction, guidance, and boundaries so they are safe online. Learn the dos and don'ts of online communication "netiquette or Internet Etiquette".

The Ohio Ed Techs have a collection of videos (listed below) for educators to access to support this new model. These resources are free for anyone to access on the Ohio Ed Tech YouTube Channel. Educators can also complete a form and receive a certificate of attendance to submit to their local LPDC.

Based on this model oral history experience, the toolkit includes instructional concepts, ideas, and strategies for use by educators to design a curriculum that reflects their instructional goals and the needs of their students while appreciating Vietnam veterans in their community.

Creating a clear and consistent organization for your online class is going to improve student performance and decrease their anxiety about getting the right information. This session will look at how to organize your Google Classroom for maximum student performance.

Is your Google Drive a jumble of files and folders? Having trouble finding content others share with you? In this session, you will learn how to take control and organize your Drive using folders and naming conventions, as well as how to select the right sharing settings and permissions for your folders and docs.

Take your students “out of their seats” to explore the world with Google’s Geo Tools! Learn how to integrate Google Expeditions, Google Earth Studio, Tour Creator, and more into your lessons to provide unforgettable experiences and creation for your students.

PBS LearningMedia is a reliable resources that offers free content for students and educators. In this presentation take a look at some of the resources available for independent student access as well as resources teachers can assign and link with Google Classroom.

This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.