In the Classroom
We know great teachers are always working to improve instruction in the classroom. To help with this, we’ve assembled some of our favorite resources for you. Please share others you love with us and we’ll be sure to post them! You can see other articles and podcasts in our Educator Resources blog posts.
Lesson Plans, Tools and Ideas
- BetterLesson
- FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
- NCTAF’s Learning Studio Toolkit
- NEA’s Tools and Ideas for Classroom Teachers
- NEA Lesson Plans
- Share My Lesson
- Teachers First: classroom resources and lesson plans
- Scholastic: Resources, tools, strategies and ideas for teachers
- Smithsonian Kids
- Stanford Teaching Commons
- Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Economics
- National Science Foundation
- Department of the Interior, Teach and Learn
- Science.gov: Your Gateway to U.S. Federal Science
- Humanities
- EDSITEment! The best of humanities on the web – lesson plans and student resources
- National Geographic Teaching Resources
- Social Studies and History
- Smithsonian’s History Explorer
- National History Education Clearinghouse
- C-SPAN Classroom
- Library of Congress and the National Archives Teacher’s Page offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers use primary sources from the Library’s collection in their lessons.
- America’s Library for elementary and middle school students, American Memory, Wise Guide, Places in the News, Veterans History Project and much more can be found here.
- Geography
- The Library of Congress’ Geography and Maps Division has made their maps available online.
- The American Memory Map Collections are organized by collection, such as Cities and Towns, Conservation and the Environment, Military Battles and Campaigns, and Places in the News.
- List of Maps by World Region Since 1960 are maps depicting the world, its countries and its regions from Aden to Zimbabwe. Want to compare what Afghanistan looked like in 1971 and 2012, look Earth in 1968, or trace the changes in European countries’ borders from 1960 to 2005? This is the place!
- News and Reading
- DocentEDU: turn websites and online articles into engaging lessons by adding questions and notes.
- Newsela: find current articles for your classes by subject or topic, create binders and share with students.
- The Learning Network is a teaching and learning blog from the New York Times.
Cultural & Family Agencies
The following is a list includes cultural organizations, resource groups for families and more. These organizations may serve as partners within schools to meet Adequate Yearly Progress and to bridge the achievement gap.
- Elmendorf Air Force Base Family Support Center
- Abused Women’s Aid in Crisis
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Ahtna, Inc.: Alaska Native Regional Corporation based in Glennallen with a majority of stakeholders of Ahtna Athabascan descent
- Alaska Employment Services
- Alaska Federation of Natives: the largest Native statewide organization in Alaska with membership including 185 federally recognized tribes, 153 village corporations, and 12 regional nonprofit and tribal consortiums
- Alaska Native Brotherhood & Alaska Native Sisterhood Grand Camp
- Alaska Women’s Lobby
- Aleut Corporation
- Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association
- Americans for Indian Opportunities
- Arctic Slope Regional Corporation: Alaska Native Corporation based in Barrow, representing 12,000 Iñupiat Eskimo shareholders
- Asian Alaska Cultural Center
- Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP): a regional, nonprofit organization and a tribal consortium of 56 Alaska Native Villages and one of the original 13 ANCSA regions
- Bering Straits Native Corporation
- Bristol Bay Native Association
- Bristol Bay Native Corporation
- Central Council of Tlingit & Haida: a tribal government representing over 30,000 Tlingit and Haida Indians worldwide with headquarters in Juneau
- Chugach Alaska Corporation: Alaska Native Corporation serving the Alaska Native people of the Chugach region
- Clare House: 24-hour emergency shelter open to women with children and expectant mothers
- Consular Office of Japan in Anchorage
- Cook Inlet Region, Inc.: Alaska Native Corporation in Southcentral Alaska with shareholders of Athabascan, Southeast Indian, Inupiat, Yup’ik, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Aleut/Unangax descent
- Cook Inlet Tribal Council: tribal nonprofit organization helping Alaska Native and American Indian people residing in the Cook Inlet Region of Southcentral Alaska
- Copper River Native Association: government facility that provides services for Native Beneficiaries in the surrounding villages of the Ahtna Region
- Cultural Association of India, Anchorage (CAIA)
- Doyon Limited: Alaska Native Regional Corporation headquartered in Fairbanks
- Filipino Community of Anchorage
- Japanese American League
- Kawerak, Inc.: regional nonprofit corporation providing services throughout the Bering Straits Region.
- Kids Corp: nonprofit Anchorage-based Head Start agency
- Koniag, Inc.: regional corporation
- Korean Community of Anchorage
- Maniilaq Association: nonprofit corporation representing twelve federally recognized tribes and providing health, tribal and social services to residents of Northwest Alaska
- NANA Regional Corporation, Inc.: Iñupiat-owned corporation in Northwest Alaska
- National Council of la Raza: nonpartisan Latino organization serving millions in the areas of civic engagement, civil rights and immigration, education, workforce and the economy, health, and housing
- National Guard Human Resources Office
- National Organization for Women
- National Urban League: working to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights
- Tanana Chiefs Conference: an Alaska Native nonprofit corporation, working to meet the health and social service needs of Tribal members and beneficiaries throughout the region
- The Thai Community
- Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation
Anti-Bullying Resources
Learn more about NEA’s campaign against bullying, “Bully Free, It Starts With Me,” which is signing up caring adults who pledge to help bullied students and to take action to stop bullying. Here are other resources that address bullying too:
- Bullying Research Brief
- Bullying Research Summary
- stopbullying.gov which includes an explanation of Alaska Anti-Bullying Laws & Policies
- safesupportivelearning.ed.gov
- Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies
- Bullying by the Numbers: A Breakdown of Bullying Statistics and Facts
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