Education: General Topics

Sites are recommended by librarians for use by educators, parents and children.
According to the website, these sites “share meaningful and useful content that educates, informs, or entertains”.

"Free lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Classroom Resources has hundreds of original lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school students. Borrow them as-is or use them to spark your own lesson plans."

Links for professional development, lesson plans, standards, and technology.

The Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Lessons plans across the curriculum based on content from the New York Times newspaper.

Tools to enable the formation of communities engaged in building shared knowledge bases of learning materials.

PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming.

More than 2,000 resources for educators including lesson plans. Search by subject, grade level or keyword in subject areas such as Art and Design, Language Arts, History and Culture and Science/Technology.

A vast network of information, resources, and experts designed to bring the excitement of discovery and creativity to every lesson you teach. Each of the museums and research centers within the Smithsonian offer learning resources specific to their collections or missions.