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PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.

This is the National Archives website. It includes pictures, video and docments of historical events. It also includes a lesson plans section for teachers.

The National Archives are a great place for students to study primary resources, and a great place for any educator to check out suggested lesson plans. There are current exhibits, and suggested lessons. Currently on the front page there is one about Re

This is the website of the National Park service.  It offers a unique look into America's most famous landmarks and places.  There is information, photos, and lesson planning tools.  

The National Human Genome Research institute created this talking glossary of genetic terms to help students learn how to pronunciate key terms. In addition to each term, there are specialists and modern scientists that share their descriptions and experiences related to the term. There are also additonal links to direct further study for students.

This is the jackpot site for all supplemental resources about authors, their biographies, & various works. You can browse by author, nationality, or literary period. Not just limited to English/Literature teacher either, anyone studying any author can use this site!

This site is a brief overview of the American Civil War. It is sponsored by the National Park Service and includes Maps of the US during the different years of the war.  It also gives chronological lists of the battles.  

Helps with creating lesson plans, giving important information about teaching, etc.

This is an important site for English teachers, as it is a vital resource for teachers- it includes lesson plans, important news for English teachers, etc.

This is the homepage of the NSTA, which has great links to other organizations, shows upcoming conferences for science teachers, contains interactive blogs, and a bank of lesson plans and activities for teachers to share.

Lesson Plans and Professional Development

In the "Educational Resources" section of the National Women's History Museum web site, teachers will find quizzes, timelines, and famous quotes relating to women's history, as well as guidelines for teaching classes in women's history from the elementary to high school levels.

This site has several virtual manipulatives for grades pre-k through high school, and there is a free trial offered. Virtual manipulatives can be very beneficial when explaining a math concept to students that are visual learners. Math is an especially hard subject to grasp without a visual explanation, but these can help. 

This is a cool site that has a lot of different ideas and concepts to teach material. Various teachers are featured on here for particular methods they have used in the classroom. They have tips for first year teachers, how to make assessments, diffreentiation, etc. You just choose your subject, grade level, and topic.

This is a great site to find history lesson plans, which are divided by era. They also have tips on how find primary sources and how to use them in the classroom.

Whole website dedicated to resources for mathematics teachers. This provides lessons for all grade levels.

This site has good pictures and videos for students to check out. There are activities, current event discussion, and a video gallery.

this site provides interactive graphs and geometric shapes that students can maniulate and observe properties. there are also concept quizzes with each graphic.

A site that gives a lot of information on the various European societies that had revolutions around 1848. Covers the revolutions in France, Germany, Italy and others.

games, info on human rights issues