Natchez Trace Parkway info can be accessed here. Resource for lesson plans, field trip, traveling trunks, and the teacher guide. Presented in "Engaging Students in THEIR National Park" Flex Day.
The Described and Captioned Media Program, funded by the US dept. of Education and administered by the National Association for the Deaf provides free access to a library of over 4,000 accessible educational videos that are captioned and/or described.
This program is free for use by teachers and paraprofessionals who work with blind, deaf, or hearing impaired students. Most of the videos are available online for download to registered users.
This site organizes digital resources to support Middle and High School level courses. Resources are browsable by Subject, topic, course, or textbook correlation. Subjects include Arithmetic, Algebra & Geometry, Calculus & Advanced Math, Statistics & Probability, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, Economics, History & Government, Psychology, and Religion. Content providers include Khan Academy, PhEt interactive science simulations, National Repository for Online Courses, and NOAA.
This is a curated collection of digital resources for middle and high school classes in a variety of subjects, but especially math and science. In many cases, the resources are aligned to course textbooks from major publishers.
From Richard Byrne at FreeTech4Teachers.com: "Science 360 is an educational video site hosted by the National Science Foundation. Visitors to Science 360 can search for videos according to topic. Science 360"
The National Young Arts Foundation has collaborated with Teachers College Columbia University to create a study guide based on the HBO MasterClass series. Pursuing Your Passions is a study guide can be used in various K-12 educational settings and it offers educators a chance to embrace arts education in the classroom. Interested educators can access all the lessons and multimedia elements on the project's website and also request a free DVD copy of the study guide and the entire first season of the Emmy nominated HBO MasterClass.
A collection of statistical data sets from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Perfect for teaching Common Core Standards related to data analysis. Use the free NCTM data analysis or spreadsheet app to work with the data.
From the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, a suite of "Core Math Tools," digital tools that can be used by students to model math problems for algebra and functions, geometry and trigonometry, and statistics and probability. These tools can be downloaded and run on any computer, but will not work on mobile devices.
Collection of interactive math tools and lessons organized by math domain and grade level. These "virtual manipulatives" can be used on interactive whiteboards, ipads, or computers as part of classroom instruction.