TEACHER+RESOURCES

Below are links which the Learning Commons has gathered for teacher use:

[|BBC Teachers]: BBC Teachers is a UK based website which caters to elementary and junior teachers. The website offers single day lessons plans as well as multiple lesson packages. A unique feature of the website is that it offers teachers the opportunity to search for short clips, audio resources, and a calendar which offers dates and descriptions for festivals of the worlds religions.

[|Cyber Smart Student Curriculum] : Cyber Smart Student Curriculum is an American based website which offers teachers and students the ability to understand their rights and responsibilities as a cyber-citizen. The website offers information of safe online practices and what constitutes cyberbullying.

[|Library of Congress] : This resource offers history and social science teachers a collection of primary resources, themed resources and lesson plans on a number of world issues.

[|Me To We] : Me To We is a non-profit organization which encourages young adults to get involved in their communities and with projects that interest them. The website offers information on volunteer trips for students, ways to get involved in the community, speakers which can come into your classroom and how to get your school involved with Me To We.

[|New York Times: Teaching and Learning with the New York Times]: New York Times offers junior/ intermediate teachers from all subject areas an interactive website from which to draw lesson plans and materials based on current news topics and articles.

[|Ontario Curriculum]: The Ontario Curriculum website provides the most recent curriculum expectations for all students in Ontario elementary and secondary schools.

[|Parks Canada] : Parks Canada provides teachers from around the country the opportunity to search subject based, grade focused, and provincially centred materials for a number of different subject areas.

[|PBS Teachers]: is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. The website provides thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.

[|TED talks] : TED talks is an non-profit organization which offers captivating speeches by some of the worlds most well-known and unknown scientists, philanthropists, religious figures, activists, and inspiring individuals.

[|Statistics Canada] : Statistics Canada offers a teacher resource site that provides links to other teacher services in the subject areas of : aboriginal studies, agriculture, math, civics, science, law, environment and many more.

[|Teacher Vision]: Teacher Vision is an online resources which allows teachers to obtain lesson plans, new research, teaching methods and more based on country specific needs. There are a ton of graphic organizers and printable resources for you to use in order to customize your classroom environment.