Mount Carmel High School - Library Teacher Resources

ProQuest Professional Education
Over 300 full-text professional magazine and journal titles that address all aspects of K-12 education. This is a great tool for continuing education or professional development resources. See librarian for remote user name and password.

E-Library BookCart Administration
Create or edit a BookCart on Electric Library. A BookCart is a collection of articles and/or web sites selected by teachers on a given topic. It can work as a "reserved reading" library for your class. See Mrs.Pienton if you need help putting a BookCart together.

The Best of the Humanities on the Web
Resources and lesson plans for teachers in the following subjects: Arts & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language, and History & Social Studies. Also has tips for using the Internet in your classroom.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
This site is often cited as one of the best teacher resources on the web. It is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

Lesson Plan Library for High School Subjects
Supported by Discovery Channel School, this site has lesson plans for a variety of subject matters designed specifically for high school students. Particularly good for Literature and History teachers.

LessonPlansPage.com!
This site may seem a little busy and you have to go through a few steps to find what you’re looking for, but you can find unusual lesson plans here, such as teaching prepositions using the game of Twister.

Librarian’s Index to the Internet
Subscribe to this organization’s weekly newsletter which will provide you with an annotated list of the best new Internet resources as selected and evaluated by a team of librarians.

The New York Times Learning Network
Find lesson plans, complete with materials needed to teach the plan. In addition, there are excellent resources for exploring issues in depth, either historical or present day. Have your students read excerpts from The New York Times at or from this site.

The PBS NewsHour Online for Teachers
Focus on building students' analytical thinking and critical analysis skills using subject matter that is relevant and engaging. Find lesson plans, stories and links organized by academic topic. There are news stories written for teens accompanied by comprehension and discussion questions. Sign up to receive a teacher's weekly e-mail update with the latest stories and lesson plans.

Plagiarism Workshop
A Hotlist & Lesson Plans for 9 - 12th Grade. For a great lesson plan, check out "Plagiarism & How to Avoid It" by David Gardner.

Web Based Lessons
A searchable library of web-based lessons, activities, and projects, as well as links to a library of Internet resources at this site. Sign up for free weekly updates sponsored by AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer.

WebQuest Page at San Diego State University
The premier site for WebQuests. Find training materials on how to develop your own WebQuest as well as hundreds of examples of fully developed WebQuests for grades 9-12. Includes all the information you need to implement them, including introduction, process, and evaluation.

American Writing Gateway
The links on this site will direct you to the best online material about some widely taught American writers.

Literature CyberGuides
Looking for a new project for a classic work of literature? Each CyberGuide contains a description of the assignment, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.

Literary Criticism Collection - Internet Public Library (IPL)
Contains critical and biographical Websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, nationality, or literary period.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Teaching Ideas Page
News, resources, teaching ideas and more from NCTE. Sign up for a weekly e-mail newsletter.

Read-Write-Think
Supported by the IRA, NCTE, & marcopolo, this site has high quality lesson plans, and other great resources for reading and language arts teachers. For example, the newest lesson plan is titled "Using Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in Night".

Songs Inspired by Literature
What do Paradise Lost, The Prince, Canterbury Tales and Romeo & Juliet have in common? They all inspired songs. Search this sit for songs inspired by literature, sponsored by Artists for Literacy.

Ad*Access
Ad*Access contains images and database information for more than 7,000 advertisements printed in Canadian and U.S. periodicals between 1911 and 1955. Search or browse the database for ads, or use the timeline for a chronology of historical events.

Best of History Web Sites
This award winning site contains links to over 800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Teaching with Technology is a special section that contains articles about integrating computers in the classroom. In this section you will also find links to dozens of useful resources to help you use educational technology.

American Cultural History: The Nineteenth Century
Covers the Art, Architecture, Economy, Books, Songs, and other aspects of American cultural life in the 1800's. This is broken down by decade and there are great hyperlinks to more in depth informtion.

Cartoons for the Classroom
Use editorial cartoons in your classroom. Lesson plans that incorporate editorial cartoons can be found here. New ones are added every other week. Sponsored by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

Historic Maps in the K-12 Classroom
Resource for high quality images of historic map documents that illustrate the geographical dimensions of American history. Each map is accompanied by lesson plans.

The History of Jim Crow
Created by teachers for teachers, This site offers a selection of classroom resources in social studies, literature and the humanities and the tools to teach the history of Jim Crow. Included are lesson plans, narratives and an image gallery.

Library of Congress Learning Page
Designed to help educators use the American Memory Historical Collections to teach history and culture. There are tips and tricks, activities, and discussion groups, in addition to relevant lesson plans and curriculum suggestions for using the collections in your classroom. English teachers note: there are lesson plans for examining the historical perspective of the following novels: The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath as well as exploring Mark Twain’s Hannibal.

Teaching with Documents from the National Archives
Contains reproducible copies of primary documents important to U.S. History from 1754 to the present and lesson plan ideas for using them. Primary sources include documents, pamphlets, posters, & photographs.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature. Includes teacher resources and student activities.

History Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history. Sections include:

Digital Blackboard Teaching assignments using Web resources	Reference Desk Links to resources on standards, evaluating Web sites and more
Students as Historians Examples of student work on the Web	Making Sense of Evidence Guides for analyzing primary sources with interactive activities
Secrets of Great History Teachers Distinguished teachers share their strategies and techniques	Americans Syllabus Central Annotated syllabi that present new approaches to teaching
Many Pasts Primary documents emphasizing the experiences of "ordinary" Americans	Past Meets Present Articles and resources that link the past with current ideas and events

actionbioscience.org
Provides articles on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education. In addition, the web site provides educators with lessons and resources to enhance bioscience teaching.

The Why Files : Science Behind the News
Great articles and teacher resource page with activities such as designing the perfect basketball shoe. Join the mailing list.

GRACE - Graphical Ruler and Compass Editor
An interactive ruler and compass construction editor for use in teaching the fundamental concepts of geometry to high school students. The online program allows students to draw geometrical shapes and derive proofs from their constructions.

National Library of Visual Manipulatives
A library of interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction. Supported by the National Science Foundation.

This I Believe (from NPR)
Americans from all walks of life share their personal philosophies and core values that guide their daily lives. Hear excerpts (only about 3 min. long) or read the essays. Their is a link to a downloadable curriculum guide with suggestions for incorporating these in to your class and guides for writing and submitting an essay.