Common Core for Teachers
CCSS Math Resources for Teachers
- CA Math Standards
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Includes stats on jobs gathered by the BLS (see above
- U.S. Census Bureau
- World Bank Data (education, poverty, environment, etc)
- Stanford Dept of Statistics
- UC Berkeley Dept of Statistics
- Zanran.com (Search engine for charts, graphs, & stats--thanks Ariela Koehler for this one!)
CCSS Literacy in SocSci, Sci, Tech Resources for Teachers
World Issues Project Resources
A database of a variety of sources (primary, reference, periodical, etc.) dedicated to controversial issues. Available through Alameda County Library. No card? Get an e-card here
Library of Congress: Primary and Secondary Source Documents for World History
Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
This site lists URLs to other good sites. It focuses on primary sources for World History and can be searched by region or time period.
National History Day: World History Primary Sources
Internet History Sourcebook, Fordham University
This site by a Fordham University History professor is a little hard to browse and has some broken links, but is also HUGE and has a ton of primary sources.
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University Classics Dept.
I find this resource not very searcher-friendly, but it's pretty extensive in certain areas (Ancient Greece & Rome, Middle Ages, etc). Texts have been retyped and do not appear in their original form. The site has a tutorial about how to search it if you get stuck.
American History and Government:
Articles, Op-Eds, Editorials, News Videos
A database of a variety of sources (primary, reference, periodical, etc.) dedicated to controversial issues. Available through Alameda County Library. No card? Get an e-card here
A database of biographical articles about famous individuals, historic and current. Available through Alameda County Library. No card? Get an e-card here
American Presidency Project (UCSB): Documents related to the presidency
Primary sources database made by the University of California system. (Particularly good source of photographs by historical period).
Provides digitized images of newspapers from 1897-1910. Available through Alameda County Library. No card? Get an e-card here
American Memory from the Library of Congress
NARA: US National Archives & Records Administration
National Archives, Digital Vaults
The "cloudlike" format of this tagged database can make it challenging to search. Try the "Search" choice on the bottom toolbar.
National Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
DocsTeach: Selected Primary Source Documents from the National Archives, organized according to the National History Standards
Includes video, sound recordings as well as printed copies of speeches, both historic and current. Try the Search box. "T", "V", "A" symbols next to speeches indicate presence of text of the speech, video, and/or audio.
A joint project of Cornell University and the University of Michigan, this site covers primary sources from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Michigan version of the same site. Different ways to search, but same materials.
Houghton-Mifflin's Primary Sources on the Web
From the publisher, collected URLs where primary sources can be found
Alameda County Primary Source list for teens
Archive of videos produced by the U.S. Gov't.
Science
From the library of Congress, a free genetics database.
Magazines and Journals:
Technical Subjects
An awesome resource for World Language classes available through Alameda County Library. No card? Get an e-card here
Access to audio books that teachers or students can download onto their computers or devices. Especially helpful for supporting ELD students and those with auditory learning styles.
Tumblebooks: Libros en espanol
These are for younger readers but may be helpful for Espanol 1 classes. Available through Alameda County Library. No card? Get an e-card here
A database of biographical articles about famous individuals, historic and current. Available through Alameda County Library. Helpful for projects like notable psychologists in Psych classes. No card? Get an e-card here
Multimedia
A lot like Discovery Streaming, but free! Access to educational videos from PBS, BBC, A&E, National Geographic, Ken Burns, Jim Lehrer, and more. Need Alameda Co. library card. No card? Get an e-card here
Includes video, sound recordings as well as printed copies of speeches, both historic and current. Try the Search box. "T", "V", "A" symbols next to speeches indicate presence of text of the speech, video, and/or audio.
TED Talks and Ted Ed (videos and related lesson ideas):
Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL) Project:
Includes information and audio files of songs written about works of literature, including many that we teach at IHS (Odyssey, Night, Grapes of Wrath, etc.)
Library of Congress Political Cartoons and Teacher's Guide:
www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/political-cartoons/
www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/political-cartoons/pdf/teacher_guide.pdf
PBS Streaming Video:
NPR:
This American Life, and its archive of radio broadcasts about various topics:
www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives
Best of History:
Charts, Graphs, and Stats: Zanran.com (Search engine for charts, graphs, & stats--thanks Ariela Koehler for this one!)
Charts, Graphs, and Stats: Wolfram Alpha
Information Literacy and the Research Process (all subjects)
I. Searching
In-depth, behind-the-scenes...probably better for you than the students, unless you teach Technology courses.
II. Graphic Organizers and Other Tools to support the research process:
The Research Process visual (for teachers)
From the incredible U.C. Berkeley History-Social Science Project, a really helpful template for students to analyze the evidence they have found and connect it to the claim they're trying to prove.
APPARTS (for deconstructing social science texts)
A SOAPSTone-style strategy that works well for social science texts, from the College Board/AP.
III. Source Evaluation (especially online!):
A general worksheet for website evaluation used in our library. Originally inspired by a system called RADCAB (www.radcab.com) and several other sources. There are many versions of this acronym: CARS, CARBS, etc. Choose the elements that are important to your purpose and modify!
The ABC's can be modified for particular subject areas. In the case of this photography class, the teacher felt that it was important for an arts discipline to include consideration of the professional or unprofessional appearance of the site and the photographs on it, and to include the level of Detail or comprehensiveness of the source, so it's the AABCDs! (special thanks to Shiloh Burton in the Visual Arts dept.!):
Website Evaluation for Photography
Sites useful for demonstrating how information on the Web can be unreliable:
Let kids figure these out on their own by following the ABCs or evaluating in some way--don't reveal too quickly!
-->Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
-->Tree Octopus
U.C. Berkeley Library Guide on source evaluation:
This detailed web evaluation guide is helpful because it runs the researcher chronologically through the evaluation process starting at the search engine level. This site is good to get students beyond domain suffixes (.com, .gov, etc. Students often give simplistic answers like ".govs are good" when asked to evaluate sites, but it is essential to go beyond this, especially since domain names are not as tightly restricted as they were in the past - guides.lib.berkeley.edu/evaluating-resources
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
Checklist from UCB--students can walk through this detailed checklist if the ABCs leave things too open-ended:
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm_General.pdf
From San Diego State--the Ws:
This SDSU library guide to evaluating information uses a Who/What/When/Where/Why format.
Cornell University Library Guide on source evaluation:
This guide is particularly good in terms of what each type of source is supposed to look like (click on first hyperlink)--would be good source for a scavenger hunt
Cornell: Critical Appraisal and Analysis:
Bedford/St. Martin's Research & Documentation Online:
From the publisher of Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference books, a page with some source evaluation questions. Puts a focus on bias, authorship, sponsorship, and author's purpose:
Purdue OWL: Evaluating Sources
Purdue OWL: Internet Searching
Ever wonder why certain sites end up on the top of a Google results page and others do not? A great overview of how the Internet works.
