The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art provides lesson plans for teachers to use in order to enhance their visual arts instruction.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles provides curriculum for teachers to incorporate in their lesson plans to foster art culture and appreciation.
The National Gallery of Art connects teachers and students to the high arts through interactive exhibitions. This is a resource recommended for older youth but a few all ages resources are offered under the title of “NGAKids.” Educators can also request loan materials.
The museum provides integrated lesson plans and ideas for teachers to incorporate in the classroom.
An incredibly thorough resource on how to plan art lessons to maximize students’ concentration and creativity.
The Museum’s Education Department has created many lesson plans that help to introduce art into the classroom, they are based on objects inside of the museum but do not require a visit there.
As a product of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Spiral Art Education offers innovative curriculum as a part of their efforts to rethink art education in the 21st century.
Teachers are encouraged to share their successful art lesson plans with other teachers on The Teaching Palette website in an attempt to “perfect the art of education”.
The focus of this gallery is teaching art and culture through the work of Van Gogh in order to create interest and understanding of art culture.
Staff development and parent resources on the benefits of art and engaging children in the messiness and joy of art.
An immense collection of activities, lesson plans, and free printables for Black History month.
Here, teachers and students can find up to date information and videos from C-SPAN as well as historical events and information that can be used in a classroom setting.
A collection of over 150,000 Historical Maps available for free viewing online. The site also includes news articles and videos explaining historical cartography.
An online collection of documents, virtual exhibits, and other multimedia resources covering the whole of American History. This website also provides an online textbook.
edHelper.com provides plenty of lesson plans for teachers to implement into their classroom in all subject necessary for elementary education.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is a website that provides resources on educational web tools and mobile apps for teachers and educators. The website provides free teachers guides on how to better integrate technology into his/her teaching and developed in a simple step by step process
For units to have purpose, they need to grow as living documents. We encourage teachers to adapt these units and then come together and share their ideas and experiences towards this curriculum through the Knowledge Base of New Visions.
Go Social Studies Go provides a unique and fun way to look at history that will keep students interested and engaged.
Teacher resources on World History, American History, and Environmental History.
Students can use this website to travel through historical events and learn what happened first hand.