Teacher Resources

COMMON CORE RESOURCES

Achieve the Core - This website is full of free content designed to help educators understand and implement the Common Core State Standards. It includes practical tools designed to help students and teachers see their hard work deliver results.  This developed by a non-profit organization working to support teachers to implement the Common Core Standards

ASCD Common Core Webinars - Sponsored by ASCD.  You can access any of their webinars on Common Core topics.  Watch archived webinars or sign up for upcoming webinars.  Stay informed about Common Core!

CA Dept of Educ Common Core - What are the Common Core Standards?  Need a word for word handout of the standards?  Find them here at the CA Dept of Educ website.

Common Core Standards - Has a great overview of the goals of the Common Core Standards. Has nice handouts that summarize the key points in the new Common Core Standards.

LIBRARY REFERENCE

Keyboard Shortcuts - List of keyboard shortcuts

LOC - Library of Congress Database

OCLC Classify - Dewey Browser

WorldCat - WorldCat Catalog

OTHER TEACHER RESOURCES

Assessment and Rubrics - Tons of links to sample rubrics.  Common Core rubrics, Writing rubrics, plus more!

Big Huge Labs - Do COOL stuff with photos of your students, class, etc.  These make great posters or rewards for motivation for your students.

Digital Citizenship Resources - Sponsored by EGUSD, this site has great info about Digital Citizenship for students.

Educators’ Copyright & Common Sense Media Use - Great article with links to videos and other resources about Copyright Laws and Common Sense media as it relates to education. 

EGUSD K-12 Adopted Textbooks - References all the adopted textbooks for EGUSD.

EGUSD on YouTube - This is EGUSD's site on YouTube.  Stay informed about what's happening in the district.

Raft - Get low cost items for your classroom. Tons of surplus furniture, supplies, etc.

VIDEO RESOURCES

C-SPAN Video Library: Provides Congressional and other political programs and clips in this digital archive from C-SPAN.

History.com: Watch full episodes, clips, and videos from the History channel.

History Matters: This is from George Mason University. Sharing primary documents, images, audio, and more, there’s plenty of historic multimedia on this site.

MathTV: This site offers videos explaining everything from basic mathematics all the way to trigonometry and calculus.

National Archives: Explore US history in this YouTube channel from the US National Archives.

National Geographic: Find some of the world’s most amazing videos of natural life on National Geographic’s online video home.

National Science Foundation: From the National Science Foundation; includes instructional and educational videos.

NASA eClips: Offers a great way for students and educators to learn about space exploration, with clips divided by grade level.

NBC Learn: Provides excellent resources for learning from NBC, including the science behind just about everything.

NOVA Teachers: Provides highly organized videos for teachers, with 1-3 hour programs divided into chapters, plus short 5-15 minute segments from NOVA ScienceNOW.

PBS Learning Media - PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for direct access to thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources.  Best part is it's all FREE!

Stossel in the Classroom:  John Stossel's programs are now available on DVD. His segments bring to light some current issues and topics for students and adults.  Access his segments through live video streaming or order his free DVD.

TeacherTube: All the resources you need to know about math, art, educational videos, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more.

Teaching Channel:  Provides an impressive collection of videos in Language Arts, Math, Science, History and the Arts.  Search by subject or grade level. Videos are produced by a collaborative effort between video production experts, education advisors, and classroom teachers. Common core standards are aligned.

WatchKnowLearn: Offers free videos in every subject area, many produced by universities and other professionals.  Includes core subjects and world language, arts, technology and life skills.