Teachers' Resources

APS Links

• APS Homepage
• APS Library Services
• Blackboard
• Arlington County Public Library
• Arlington School Board Policies and PIPs
• Electronic Registrar Online
• eSchoolPlus
• STARS

Teaching Resources

Video/Video streaming

• Learn360 Streaming Media
• Discovery Education Streaming
• Cable in the Classroom
• WatchKnow - thousands of educational videos on a wide variety of subjects organized into a searchable Directory

Lesson Plans/Learning Resources

• Library of Congress Learning Page- lesson plans, activities and tips for using LOC's American Memory collections in the classroom
• Thinkfinity (formerly MarcoPolo)- internet content for the classrooms, including lesson plans
• Gateway to 21st Century Skills- Thousands of lesson plans & other teaching resources
• Teachers - ED.gov - Teaching resources, lesson plans, best practices and more from US DOE
• FREE- Teaching and learning resources from Federal agencies
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Teachers' Domain- Multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development
• Library of Congress-Teaching with Primary Sources- See Learning Experiences created by your fellow teachers or create your own 
• Smithsonian Education- Gateway to Smithsonian educational resources.
• Digital History Reader- An online learning experience designed to enable students to develop the analytical skills employed by historians.
• Digital Library for Earth System Education- A geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system.
• Virginia's Community of Learning - a curriculum, instructional, technology and professional development resource for Virginia and worldwide educators
• Atomic Learning (For Remote access - login to Blackboard) - Online software training and curriculum resources correlated to VA SOL and ISTE NETS-S standards
• ProProfs.com - Provides free tools and resources for knowledge exchange
• Academic Earth - Video lectures from top scholars
• Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century- Access to digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries
• eLibrary - Teacher Edition- Create your own bookcarts of eLibrary resources or access ProQuest carts created to align with National standards (Handout on creating bookcarts)
•  National History Education Clearinghouse - Created by GMU's Center for History and New Media and the Stanford University History Education Group, this site provides content, best practices, teaching materials, research, and professional development in the area of history education.
  

SOL Resources

• VA Standards of Learning Resources
• Released SOL Tests
• U.S. History SOL Resources

Copyright

• Copyright (University of Minnesota)
• Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies (Association of Research Libraries)
• Copyright and Fair Use (UMUC)
• Focus On: Intellectual Property Rights - Essays by government, academic, and industry experts introduce intellectual property rights issues and key concepts

Reading Resources

• AdLit.org - A national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers
• TeachingBooks.net - Resources about children's and YA books and authors.
• ReadWriteThink - Provides access to high quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction
• AudioOwl - Download free audiobooks in the public domain on to an iPod or MP3 player
• LibriVox - Download free audiobooks in the public domain

Web 2.0 Resources

• Edublogs - allows you to easily create and manage teacher and student blogs
• VoiceThread - create collaborative, multimedia slide shows that hold images, documents, and videos
• TeacherTube - an online community for sharing instructional videos.
• SchoolTube - provides students and educators a safe media sharing website
• Delicious - a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source
• Wikispaces - easy to use service for creating and managing wikis
• Animoto - produces unique video pieces from photos, video clips and music
• Curriki - a website where the community shares and collaborates on free and open source curricula
• OurStory - save stories, photos, videos on a collaborative timeline
• MindMeister - web-based collaboration tool that uses mind mapping concepts to facilitate multi-user planning, brainstorming, and project management
• Ning - allows you to create a Ning network with ability to post articles, blogs, photos, and videos, host forums and more
• Microsoft Photo Story - Create slide shows of digital photos, adding special effects, sound tracks or narration
  

Internet Safety

• i-SAFE - APS has chosen i-SAFE as its primary resource to incorporate Internet safety into the curriculum

• APS Professional Development Office- Information and forms on PDP, APP, CAP, TESA, National Board Certification, etc.
• ERIC- Education Resources Information Center
• ProQuest -- Professional Education Journals- For Remote access- see librarian or go to Blackboard for password
• Gale Virtual Reference Library - For Remote access- see librarian or go to Blackboard for password
• North Tier- provides online courses to teachers in the successful integration of technology into instruction.
• VDOE Career Resources & Professional Development
• Virginia's PBS TeacherLine- Online Professional Development for Virginia Educators from Virginia's Public Broadcasting Stations.