Category: OER Links

Civic Online Reasoning

Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The Civic Online Reasoning (COR) curriculum from Stanford provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.

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Stanford History Education Group

The “Reading Like a Historian” and “Beyond the Bubble” sections of the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) provide innovative approaches to history education. “Reading Like a Historian” offers a collection of historical documents accompanied by lesson plans that help students develop historical analysis skills through document-based investigations. “Beyond the Bubble” provides online assessments that assess students’ historical thinking skills through short, interactive exercises. It offers a platform for teachers to gauge students’ abilities to analyze and interpret historical evidence in a digital format.

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Earth @ Home

Earth@Home is a free educational resource created by the Paleontological Research Institution. Their goal is to provide free and accessible resources for educators, students, and anyone interested in learning about the Earth.

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Try Engineering

Try Engineering’s database of lesson plans helps to teach engineering concepts to your students, aged 4 to 18. Explore areas such as lasers, LED lights, flight, smart buildings, and more. All lesson plans are provided by teachers like you and are peer reviewed. The lesson plans are easy to use and include student handouts and worksheets to print out.

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Facing History & Ourselves

Facing History offers lesson plans, multimedia materials, teaching strategies, and readings that focus on topics such as history, social justice, and human rights. Teachers can utilize these resources to engage students in critical thinking, empathy-building, and understanding of historical events and their impact on society.

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Educating for American Democracy

Educating for American Democracy (EAD) offers curriculum frameworks, inquiry-based lesson plans, entire unit plans, games, interactives, assessments, and more. Educators can access these resources to enhance their teaching of civics, history, and social studies, with a focus on developing students’ civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The materials provided by EAD aim to support educators in preparing students to be informed and engaged participants in American democracy.

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Annenberg Classroom

Annenberg Classroom’s free resources include over 65 videos on constitutional concepts and Supreme Court cases as well as games, lesson plans, timelines, downloadable books, a glossary, and a Constitution guide.

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Today’s Science

Provided by INFOhio for Ohio educators, Today’s Science is a website that collects different resources that address real-life science topics. It includes news articles, conversations with scientists, videos, experiments, and more! The attached link with go directly to the experiments page.

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ScienceFlix

Provided by INFOhio for Ohio educators, ScienceFlix is a great resource from Scholastic that includes experiments, reading resources, videos, and an entire section dedicated to learning about careers in science.

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Capstone Interactive eBooks

Provided by INFOhio for Ohio educators, Capstone Interactive is a collection of eBooks that teachers and students can use as curriculum supplements or to encourage more interest in reading. This library has over 800 eBooks and can be filtered by reading level, grade level, subject area, and by keyword.

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