Education -- Secondary

Included are the Combined Curriculum Document (Academic Expectations, Program of Studies, and Core Content for Assessment), Sample Curriculum Maps, & Standards-Based Units of Study.

Need some fresh ideas quickly? Discovery Education offers free lesson plans in every core subject area. The plans come with an activity, evaluation tools, a list of vocabulary words, and links to academic standards. Sign up for one of the virtual field trips, which allow your students to see new places and hear expert speakers via video.

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics provides this site with lesson plans, online games, and brainteasers. The lesson plans include Common Core standards, assessments, and links to related lessons. Fair warning: If you start reading the brainteasers, you might find it hard to stop.

This is a great site for teachers who want to dig deeply into a subject. Find lesson plans in all of the core subjects, along with historical documents and photographs. Your students can even watch interviews with researchers who work for the Smithsonian. Check out the “field trips” tab for ways to enrich off-campus journeys.

Resources and links from the American Chemical Society

A variety of middle and secondary science information from the U.S. Geological Survey

A list of 50 educational websites chosen by Student Guide

This is a gigantic resource for connecting with other teachers in order to share and receive advice, encouragement and, of course, lesson plans. The site also maintains an impressive gazette full of journalistic articles about the current state of American education.

This is a very useful resource for teaching history using primary sources. It also contains guides, written exclusively for the site by historical scholars, on how to approach different types of primary sources.