Teacher / Library Resources

Annotation: They create short documentary films which connect history and current events with the present. Use: Retro Report has more than 300 videos with compelling interviews along with ready-to-use lesson plans, student activities, and interactive resources.

Title: DESE Massachusetts Guidance for Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education Annotation: Guiding AI policies for district leaders.

Title: Teacher Toolkit Overview Location: Plymouth, MA Annotation: a teacher toolkit with 5 unit plans which include primary sources and an interactive online game that teaches about Patuxet and the Wampanoag Peoples, the arrival of the Mayflower, Plymouth Colony, leadership / diplomacy, agriculture of 1621, the harvest feast (aka First Thanksgiving), and Thanksgiving as we know it today. It also includes vocabulary, themes, historical and editorial notes, and a bibliography. Use: Aligns with Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework, grade 3 Search: Searching searches the entire Plimouth Patuxet website.

Title: Welcome to Lexington History Museums Collections and Archives Online! Location: Lexington, MA Annotation: A collection of Lexington history with archives of the American Revolution, family collections, flag collections, Lexington Event Ephemera, Postcards, Property and Landmarks, and WWI collections. Use: Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework. Searching: Searching searches the Lexington History Museum's online collection.

Title: Welcome to the Peabody Institute online catalog! Location: Andover, MA Annotation: A collection of artifacts, documents, and images on Native and Indigenous people of the Americas. Use: Connect with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework for grade 3–12. Searching: Searching searches The Peabody database.

Title: CEEE Annotation: Educational resources, professional development, virtual tours, and lesson plans for teachers to teach about environmental sciences. Use: Connect with Massachusetts Science Technology, and Engineering framework. Searching: Searching searches the entire CEEE website. Materials can be filtered by grade, type, subject, and more.

Title: Classroom-Ready History Curriculum Annotation: Teacher lesson plan resources and materials for History, Critical Thinking, and professional development. Use: Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework for grades 6–12. Searching: Searching searches the entire OER Project website.

Title: Teacher Resources Annotation: Provides FAQs, student question video series, recommended reading, primary sources, virtual programming, virtual lectures, online site tours, and lesson plans centered around the Salem Witch Trials and modern day Witch Trials. Use: Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework, and Massachusetts English Language Arts and Literacy framework. Searching: Searching searches the entire Salem Witch Museum website.

Title: Curriculum Toolkit Annotation: Teacher lesson plans / activities to teach food education for K–12 students. Use: Connects with Massachusetts Comprehensive Health and PE framework. It also states that it can connect with Arts, English Language, Math, Science, Social Studies, and World Language. This is more for what the activities entail, rather than its main focus. Searching: Searching searches the entire Island Gown Schools website.

Title: Lessons Annotation: Lessons on teaching agriculture, food production, and horticulture in the classroom. Use: Connect with Massachusetts Comprehensive Health and PE framework. Searching: Searching searches the entire Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom website. Filtering lets you search by lessons, resources, grade levels, standards, outcomes, topics, courses, and teaching strategies.

Title: NH's Marine Science Center Annotation: Provides information on ocean environment and creatures. Provides links to additional New England resources for ocean education. Use: Connects with Massachusetts Science Technology and Engineering framework. Some of the additional resources provides connections for K–12. Searching: Searching searches the Seacoast Science Center.

Title: Education and Outreach Type: Collections Annotation: Teacher resources for different time periods from Medieval, Early Modern, Empire and Industry, Victorians, Early 20th Century, Interwar, Second World War, and Postwar. Each includes primary sources for classroom use. Use: While these resources are from Britain, they can be easily adapted to align with the Massachusetts History and Social Science framework. Searching: Searching searches the entire National Archives site.

Title: Cold War on File Type: Collection Annotation: Educational resources on why the Cold War emerged with teacher's notes, introduction, and primary sources. Use: While the primary sources are from British records, they have many primary source materials on the Cold War that can be incorporated with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework for grades 9–12. Searching: Searching searches the entire National Archives site.

Title: Student Awareness of Fire Education Program (S.A.F.E.) Location: Cambridge, MA Annotation: Fire safety resources for classroom and home use. Includes escape plans, games, and videos for students. Use: Connects with Massachusetts Comprehensive Health and PE framework for grades K-3. Searching: Searching searches the entire Cambridge Fire Department's website.

Title: 1775-1776: Revolution & Independence Location: Boston, MA Annotation: Contains facts, primary sources, and games for students to learn about the Revolutionary War. Use: Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework for grade 5 Searching: Searching searches the entire Massachusetts Historical Society website.

Title: Resources for Teachers Location: Newton, MA Annotation: Contains lesson plans, vocabulary lists, primary sources, and curriculum connections for visiting the Historic Newton Museum. Use: Can use as a connection to local history when talking about the original colonies, slavery, and mapping changes. Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework. Searching: Searching searches the entire City of Newton government website.

Title: Toolkit: Raising Asian American Children Location: Amherst, MA Annotation: A collection of resources from action guides to articles to to videos to podcasts to help caregivers and educators with celebrating the diversity of Asian culture, and how to deal with discrimination and stereotyping. This Toolkit does not focus on Pacific Islander Heritage. Use: Specifically designed for caregivers and educators for at home or in the classroom, but some resources can be used with kids. Searching: Searching searches the entire EmbraceRace site. You can search all resources or browse by topic.

Title: Research Collections Location: Boston, MA Annotation: A collection of archives and museum collections centered around John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States. Includes an Ernest Hemingway collection, JFK speeches, press conferences, Presidential diaries, executive orders, and more. It also includes lesson plans, activities, and more. Use: Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework and Massachusetts English Language Arts and Literacy framework Searching: Searching searches the entire JFK library. Searching allows filtering by source, object type, digitized collection, subject, person, place, organization, contributor, curricular resource, and site content.

Title: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 Location: Salem, MA Annotation: A webpage with information on the Salem Witch trials including a brief history, notable people, and frequently asked questions. It includes links to past and present exhibitions on the Salem Witch trials. If a class were to visit, they advertise an hour self-guided tour to learn about the Salem Witch Trials through the galleries. Use: Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework for grade 3, or background connections if The Crucible is read in class. Searching: Searching searches the entire Peabody Essex Museum website.

Title: Digital Collections for the Classroom Type: Teacher Resource Annotation: A collection of teacher resources to teach World History, Arts, Black History, and Literature in the classroom. While the content focuses on Chicago, Illinois history, it also has information on Midwest history which we may not know about on the east coast. It also contains helpful articles on how to read a transcript, how to date a photograph, and more. Use: Connects with Massachusetts Arts framework, Massachusetts English Language framework, and Massachusetts History and Social Science framework. (Obviously some things will connect with local Chicago frameworks, but there are pieces that are overarching.) Searching: Searching searches within the Digital Collections for the Classroom, but it is possible to accidentally navigate to the Newberry Library website. You can also filter by grade level, subject, topic, type of materials, and dates.

Title: Primary Source Strategy Database  Type: Teacher Resource Annotation: Searchable strategies for teaching with primary sources for classroom use specifically for English Language Arts with suggestions for theme, units, and state standards. Use: Connects with Massachusetts Language Arts and Literacy framework and Massachusetts History and Social Science framework. Searching: Can filter by topic, grade level, subject, and source type. Searching searches the entire Read Write Think website.

Title: DocsTeach Type: Teacher Resource Annotation: An online tool for teachers to create classroom activities by selecting a tool, choosing primary sources, and customizing instructions through the National Archives. Use: Teachers must create a login for full access. There are a handful of ready-to-use activities. Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework. Searching: Searching is not available unless you choose to explore, discover, or create. Searching searches the entire DocsTeach site.

Title: Educator Resources Location: Sturbridge, MA Annotation: Provides resources for field trips to Old Sturbridge Village along with 3D tours, lesson plans, activities, e-civics, and additional primary sources for teachers to teach students about rural life in the early 1800s, abolitionism, and town meetings. Lesson plans include PDFs, videos, and primary sources with connection to Google Classroom. Use: Connects with Massachusetts History and Social Science framework for grades 5, 9–12. Searching: Searching searches the entire Old Sturbridge Village website.

Title: Curricula Location: Boston, MA Annotation: STEM and engineering unit plans for K–8. Teachers can download unit plan packages (with options to purchase materials through the site). Packages come with PDFs, Google Slides, instructions, and anything else needed for the lesson. Aimed at developing problem-solving abilities. Use: While it does list state standards it is connected to, Massachusetts is not on the list. But the lessons do connect with the Massachusetts Science Technology and Engineering framework for grades K–8. Searching: Searching searches the Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) and EiE curricula.

Title: Education Location: Brighton, MA Annotation: A collection of categories from Science, Engineering, Math, History, and Early Learning. Each category contains multiple lesson ideas, videos, articles, and more. Allows for connection with Google Classroom. Use: Each lesson idea has connected Massachusetts curriculum standards. You need to sign in to see the full standards connection. Lessons are labeled grade levels. Searching: Searching searches the entire GBH site.

Title: Online Resources for Educators Location: Cambridge, MA Annotation: A collection of resource links that spans categories such as the Arts, ESL, Children's Lit, K–12 Curriculum, Educational Technology, Foreign Languages, K–12 Schools, Language Arts, Massachusetts, Reading, Science, SEL, Social Studies, Special Education, and so much more. Use: Delivers resource sites for teachers to incorporate into lessons, professional development, or discover something new. Searching: Searching searches the entire Harvard Graduate School of Education site which could potentially bring up other resources for teachers.

Title: The Learning Network Annotation: Lesson ideas, writing prompts, quizzes and vocabulary, photos, videos, and more for teachers to incorporate into their classroom to discuss English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science & Math, ELL, Art, and Current Events. Use: Teachers can use ideas for warm ups, lesson ideas, etc. and can be adapted to fit Massachusetts curriculum. You do not need to have a New York Times subscription to access. Searching: Searching searches within The Learning Network.

Title: Learning Resources Location: Lexington, MA Annotation: Book, articles, film, etc. resources related to discussing race and equity issues of today. Use: The materials align with the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework when discussing the civil rights movement and comparing it to current events. Books selected can also connect with the Massachusetts English Language Arts and Literacy Framework for high school with Reading Standards for Literature and Reading Standards for Informational Text. Searching: Searching searches the entire Lexington, MA government website.

Title: Resources for schools and teachers Location: Amherst, MA Annotation: A collection of information and activities from outside agencies, centers, chapters, and organizations for classroom use. Use: A starting point for teachers to find different educational resources within Massachusetts. Searching: Searching searches the entire Amherst, MA government website.

Title: Resources for Educators Location: Boston, MA Annotation: Offers virtual tours, field trips, activities, school readiness, engineering, empathy, teaching guides, and professional development workshops for teachers. Most are focused around elementary teachers, but activities are Pre-K–12. Activities are geared toward younger children, but some of the chemistry activities could be used at the higher levels. Use: Great for teachers to support Earth Science or STEAM in the classroom. Searching: Searching searches the entire Boston Children's Museum's website.