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"Our Courts is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. Our Courts is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support. Current resources on the site include: quality online lesson plans and links to teaching resources and each branch of government in your state. These resources, written and compiled by classroom teachers, are practical solutions to classroom needs. For students, we have interactive features like Civics in Action, and Talk to the Justice, where students can tell each other and Justice O'Connor about their opinions and their civic participation. Now Available: Our Courts Games In August 2009, Our Courts launched its first online civics games: Do I Have A Right? and Supreme Decision. In February, Our Courts released Argument Wars where players argue landmark Supreme Court cases. A growing body of research shows that games have extraordinary potential for promoting learning and civic engagement. Games also have the potential to inspire 24/7 learning for young students; in fact, a recent Pew report showed that 97% of teenager play video games! Teachers Justice O'Connor believes that education-and teachers-are the indispensable cornerstones of a successful democracy. Her vision requires that teachers be the foundation of the Our Courts project design. Teachers and curriculum specialists have guided every aspect of the Our Courts project's development. They defined learning goals, crafted hypothetical problems to captivate middle school students, ensured alignment to state standards, drafted lesson plans, and vetted game dynamics. To ease the burdens placed on teachers, we're creating games and related materials that we hope will provide quick and easy classroom activities to inspire and engage

A presentation explaining how to teach web research

Links to sites with activities, online games, videos, etc. Good resources to add to your teaching toolbox.

Resources for teaching math

This site from the Library of Congress is an online portal of free reading resources for children, teens and adults. It features online versions of out-of-copyright books. (Mother Goose, Arabian Nights, etc.) It also features webcasts of authors, writing contests, etc. The teaching resources include lesson plans etc.

"Electing a US President in Plain English trouble seeing this video? We recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Flash Player-the upgrade process is quick, and it should solve the issue. If you're still having any trouble after you upgrade, please contact us and let us know. Thanks! hide ↑ A simple guide to understanding the U.S. election process. Release Date: 7/30/2008. Video Length: 3:31. * * Electing a US President in Plain English 3:31 Twitter it! - Email it! Direct link to this page: What it Teaches "Electing a U.S. President" discusses the basic ideas behind the U.S. electoral process. It follows the chronological steps from voting to election day, focusing on each state's role. The video includes: * Comparisons of popular vote vs. state votes * Impact of state population on the number of electors * How electors are counted * What is required for a president to be elected"

The Vintage Ad Browser is a search engine for old print advertisements. useful for those students to examine the evolution of print advertising. The Vintage Ad Browser could also be used for teaching lessons in recognizing bias and hidden messages in print materials.

Acadia University's Vaughn Memorial Library has 4 animated tutorials designed to teach lessons on web research strategies. The four tutorials are Credible Sources Count, Research It RIght, Searching with Success, and You Quote IT, You Note It

The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

Help for teaching idioms. Includes a picture and sentence. Students type in meaning and give an additional sentence.

Teaching guides for literature 9-12

Teaching American History has a series of interactive lessons about the American Revolution that are suitable for middle school and elementary school use. The lessons are divided into three chronological sections; 1775-1778, 1778-1781, and Treaty of Paris 1783. All of the lessons in the first two sections ask students to locate a place on a map. Students then answer a question about that place. After answering the question students are given a short text lesson. The lessons appear in chronological order. In the section on the Treaty of Paris students move through a series of placemarks on a map to learn about the terms of the Treaty of Paris.

"Whether you're introducing pre-algebra topics like factoring and exponents or looking for resources to support teaching more advanced concepts like matrices, polynomials, and linear equations, these great apps and sites have you covered."

A collection of teaching videos for math

Great tips for new teachers...or any teacher

" Welcome to Mathebook.net an online Free Learning website full of fun. This website is fully interactive and will allow kids to practice and learn math with ease. Our website is designed to help students of different grades, starts from Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle School and High School Math. The goal of this website is to provide new education tools to teachers, parents and off course students who can benefit from it. Mathebook.net has Online Tutorials as well as Downloadable pdf tutorials which one can save on computer and use later, even it can be used by teachers for home work purpose, as this pdf is editable and kids can e-mail the homework tutorials by e-mail back to Teachers."

"Newman's prompts Finding out why students make mistakes The Australian educator Anne Newman (1977) suggested five significant prompts to help determine where errors may occur in students attempts to solve written problems. She asked students the following questions as they attempted problems."

"Technology makes stealing easy, but it makes sharing just as easy. The Creative Commons will let your students innovate in and out of the classroom without having to worry about copyright violations. "

Links to ESL sites