Teachers

General Teacher Resources

Listed below are many resources that can be valuable to teachers ranging from standards and frameworks to lesson plan sources to local museums.

The California State Content Standards for each subject area can be downloaded in pdf format. http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/index.asp.

The California Curriculum Frameworks for each subject area can be downloaded in pdf format. http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/fr/.

The Resource Area for Teachers (RAFT) offers training, inexpensive materials for projects and other useful resources for teachers in the Santa Clara Valley. http://www.raft.net/.
Calisphere is a joint project of the University of California and the State Department of Education. This website offers educators and students access to more than 150,000 digitized primary sources from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses and cultural heritage organizations across California. The site also provides a single entry point to more than 300 UC-created Web sites on a wide variety of subjects. http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components — collections and courses — that help teachers enhance their students' learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills. The Teachers' Domain collections include classroom-ready multimedia resources for use in lessons or independent study, and the Teachers Domain Professional Development courses utilize many of the same resources along with videos of exemplary classroom practice. The site focuses on science and social studies. http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection.. Click http://www.pics4learning.com for more information or to view images.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators has thousands of lesson plans, website links and other resources. It is a valuable resource for teachers of any grade level and is one of the oldest teacher resource sites in existence.  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/.

Marcopolo Online is a source of standards based resources for teachers. It has seven individual websites dealing with specific content areas. http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx.  The California Marcopolo program is at CSU Monterey Bay: http://marcopolo.k12.ca.us/.

PBS Teacher Resources has links to teacher guides to PBS broadcasts, TV schedules, etc. http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/.

First Years is a website dedicated to the needs of beginning teachers with resources ranging from classroom management to parent conferences. http://theteacherspot.com/firstyears/index.htm.

The Teacher Corner has a myriad of lesson plans, thematic units, seasonal items, bulletin board ideas, teacher resources including classroom management, writing prompts and lots more. http://www.theteacherscorner.net/.

DeweyBrowse is a guide to tons of sources organized around the Dewey Decimal System used in many libraries. The Teacher Resource section has even more in-depth links by subject matter. http://www.deweybrowse.org/.

TeacherFiles.com contains pages full of resources, ideas, activities, lesson plans and educational clip art for teachers: http://www.teacherfiles.com/.
A to Z Teacher Stuff has links to thousands of teacher resource sites. http://atozteacherstuff.com/.

UCLA Institute on Primary Resources has information on how to use primary resources in the K-12 classroom. http://ipr.ues.gseis.ucla.edu/.

The George Lucas Educational Foundation website, “edutopia”, has many valuable sources involving school reform, technology, lesson plans, and projects. http://www.edutopia.org/index.php.

The Gateway Consortium has a website on 21st century skills for teachers and other educators: www.theGateway.org.

The San Francisco Exploratorium website has many science related materials: http://www.exploratorium.edu/index.html.

Ten Cool Sites-updated list of neat places to go along with links to great science sites: http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html.

The San Jose Museum of Technology and Innovation has an education website with teacher resources as well as information on field trips. http://www.thetech.org/education/.

The Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose website has a teacher resource section with materials for preK-8. There is also information on field trips and science nights at your school. http://www.cdm.org/teachers.html.

The California Coastal commission website offers a teachers guide with materials dealing with Waves, Wetlands and Watersheds. The guide is linked to California standards at all grade levels. Information about workshops is also available. http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/waves/waves1.html.

The California Dairy Council has useful health education materials correlated to state standards. http://www.dairycouncilofca.org/.