Resource Page
Overall Great Places to Go
Smithsonian Museum / Smithsonian Education.
Search by keywords, grades, subjects, and standards (including Colorado)
DigiEducate (Formerly Thinkfinity).
DigiEducate uses Symbaloo to organize web sites.
Dan’s LiveBinder
Institute of Education Sciences: Best Practices / What Works Clearinghouse (includes practice guides and intervention reports)
Literacy
ReadWriteThink:
Online videos:
Student Interactives:
Resource Search:
Social Studies
History Colorado
Online Exhibits and Digital Badges
Lesson Plans
American Museum of National History – Ology (Website for kids)
EconEdLink (includes search capability)
National Endowment for the Humanities (Lessons)
National Geographic (Teaching resources: ideas, activities, and lessons)
Science
PhET: Online Interactive Simulations
ScienceNetLinks:
Lessons (searchable by grades, themes & content types)
Tools
Collections (for students and teachers)
Science Apps
Science Museum (Games)
Classroom resources (Searchable by age, subject and topic)
Math
Brilliant: Explanations, example, and problems in math and science.
Webinar:
Illuminations (by NCTM)
Lessons (Searchable by NCTM and Common Core standards and grade level)
Interactives
Virtual field tips
Field Museum (Science)
National Portrait Gallery (online exhibits)
Smithsonian Virtual Tour
Online Textbooks
NASA e-books
C K-12
Online reading resources along with other instructional materials. You can also create an online FlexBook.
Internet Safety
Stay Safe Online
Has teaching resources for Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, and Middle/High School.
Common Sense Education: Digital Bytes (Middle/High School)
Common Sense Media: Digital Citizenship
Colorado on iTunes Collections (part of iTunes University, Under K-12, Colorado)
AP Chemistry (Falcon 49)
Chemistry (Falcon 49)
Science Classrooms with Clickers (PhET)
Astronomy (Jon Bergmann & Dr. Ken Boyer)
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
7th Grade Social Studies (Garfield Re-2)
Lessons on Local Government (Colorado Municipal League)
Settling the Frontier (Historic Denver)
Mile High Art and Culture (Historic Denver)
Italians of Denver (interviews by History Colorado)
Mile High Stories (interviews by History Colorado)
History Colorado Biographies
History Colorado Lesson Plans
Algebra II (Monte Vista School District)
Third Grade Math (Kelley Randall)
Other Resources from Other States or Organizations
- EngageNY (common core resources and video library)
- North Carolina Common Core Instructional SupportTools
- North Dakota Curriculum Initiative
- New York State Curriculum Units
- New York City Common CoreUnits
- Achieve the Core
- Common Core State StandardsInitiative
- The PARCC Assessment
- Edutopia -Resources for Understanding the Common Core State Standards and Good Educational Practices
- Teaching Channel - Common Core