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"Resources and Downloads for Teaching Critical Thinking Educators from the Bay Area's KIPP King Collegiate High School and the KIPP network have provided these resources for you to use in your own school."

online Media Library, built on the open source DSpace repository platform, provides a growing list of about 6,000 total resources, including 3,000 open educational resources, 1,300 videos, 124 full-length textbooks, and 2,500 articles. Resources cover the arts, sciences, humanities, social sciences, engineering, business, and test prep. Materials include primary texts (such as Beowulf and Hamlet), references (such as the Catholic Encyclopedia), textbooks (such as The Electronic Introduction to Old English), maps, presentations, audio recordings, assessments, assignments, data sets, and others.

11 good foreign language resources to try in 2011 (a couple of ESL/EFL resources in this list).

Resources for Catholic Educators Web site has an extensive section on the Parables of Jesus that has recently been expanded and now offers close to 500 resources. For each of 34 parables, you can find links to articles, commentaries, homilies, meditations, clipart , art, posters, children's stories, puzzles, videos and more.

"The Best Resources For Showing Students That They Make Their Brain Stronger By Learning"

"The founder of The Effective Educator has posted hundreds of his own social studies lessons and resources on this site. "

Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies. This MIT initiative features a courseware library with about 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers in multiple formats: as streaming video, Internet downloads, DVDs, and videotapes. Each 50-minute lesson is a complete resource with video segments, a teacher's guide, downloadable hand-outs, and a list of online resources about the topic. The lessons mix short videos--all less than five minutes--with in-classroom exercises designed to engage students in problem solving and critical thinking.

a free tool for K-12 teachers modeled on Pinterest. It allows teachers to create and share individual teaching resources and build collections f tools like lesson plans, visual aids, tips and techniques and a range of other materials. resource sharing free for verified teachers and administrators. (Read more at http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/11/13/free-pinterest-style-education-service-hosts-common-core-teaching-aids.aspx?admgarea=Features1#9FLsd6HOs5g2U7T1.99 )

"The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. They are asked to read closely, make inferences, cite evidence, analyze arguments and interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text. Primary source documents are artifacts created by individuals during a particular period in history. This could be a letter, speech, photograph or journal entry. If you're looking to integrate social studies into your literacy block, try out one of these resources for primary source documents. "

Emaths for Teachers provides free classroom resources for teachers of mathematics, helping you to teach topics clearly and interactively. Emaths for Students contains many useful resources and links to help students who are learning mathematics.

collection of resources, general and specific to subjectmatter

collection of resources for differentiation in a WIKI, general understanding with MANY resource files

"The terms invisible web, hidden web, and deep web all refer to the same thing: a massive storehouse of online data that the search engines don't capture. That's because terabytes of information are buried in databases and other research resources. Searchable and accessible online but often ignored by conventional search engines, these resources exist by the thousands. Known in research circles as the invisible, deep, or hidden Web, this buried content is an estimated 500 times larger than the surface Web, which is estimated at over four billion pages. "

Collection of excellent resources, some print resources, some lesson plans & activities

Smithsonian's History Explorer was developed by the National Museum of American History in partnership with the Verizon Foundation to offer hundreds of free, innovative online resources for teaching and learning American history. The site is designed for use by K-12 teachers and students, afterschool program providers, families, and individuals interested in lifelong learning. History Explorer's resources focus on learning history by "reading" objects for the stories they hold about the nation and its many peoples. Learning activities feature artifacts selected from over 3 million items in the Museum's collections, and draw on the expertise of the Museum's renowned curatorial staff.

An expansive collection of resources, including photos, video, and audio files from federal organizations like NASA, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives, will now be easier to find, access and integrate into educational environments.

This is a collection of English lessons and resources for most High School Level classes. It has all the traditional assignments, stories, skills, terms, and samples to pull from.

whole school teaching resources

teacher created resources, some to download, some to use on-line.

a collection of Online Resources by Subject Area. This list is NOT exhaustive, but is a great start for incorporating stimulating (online) exercises into your teaching