MCHS Libraries

Minooka Community High School Libraries
District 111

Links for teachers

see also Web 2.0, as many links contains lesson plans using those Web 2.0 technologies

Research Project Ideas
SOS for Information Literacy - includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy.
Promising Practices (a closer look at lessons in a technology rich classroom) - lesson plans posted by U-High in Bloomington.
Edutopica - Search by keyword from over 2200 features on this site or browse a collection of over 100 downloadable videos to find the tools needed to help in promoting an interactive learning environment.
Thinkfinity - Thinkfinity is sponsored by the Verizon Foundation and it is actually an impressive partnership with major groups such as the National Geographic Society, The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and more. Here you will find some of the best project based learning units, classroom interactives, premade worksheets, and standards-based activities.
Curriki - a free member website where educators share ideas and hear from others in the profession.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills - offers educators information, resources, and tools to understand, identify and integrate the 21st century skills of creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving skills and communication and collaboration skills.
Discovery Education - global community of educators passionate about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating, and networking.
MIT Open Courseware - Don't miss this resource created by MIT for high schools to have open courseware materials for Biology, Calculus and Physics.
NASA - For Educators - resources for the classroom for educators
Merlot - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials.
Webquests.org - This is where Webquests are made and shared for your classroom. Webquests are an online inquiry-based lesson format. Problem solving and creative thinking skills are engaged in Webquests and this website links teachers to many different learning opportunities. Use the Find Webquests tool to browse all these new online learning adventures.
ASCD (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development)
Apple Learning Interchange - Meet with other teachers and exchange ideas and information. It's all free. Lessons, activities, movies, podcasts, and special collections are all offered for educators to use in their classrooms.

PBS Teachers - contains standards-based resources in the arts, health and fitness, mathematics, reading/language arts, science/technology, and social studies on the PBS Teachers site
ReadWriteThink - Created by teachers for teachers to offer the best materials for reading and language arts education.
Smithsonian Education - The section for Educators includes a browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the use of the site.
Field Trip Earth - This website monitors wildlife preservation projects all over the world. Check out the interviews with field researchers. This is real life research.
Using Primary Sources
(see also Pathfinder: Primary Sources)
Teaching with Primary Sources: Smithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History
Picturing Modern America (1880-1920): Historical Thinking Exercises
Teaching with Documents: Lesson Plans (NARA)
Library of Congress - Teacher Pages
Library of Congress - Lesson Plans
Our Documents - One hundred important documents from American history are featured in this site, along with specialized tools for enhancing the study of them. Search the Teacher Sourcebook and lesson plans for social studies ideas.
primaryAccess - a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.