Teacher Resources: Humanities & the Arts

Customizable and downloadable resources, including slideshows, work sheets, and video clips featuring curators and museum educators discussing MoMA's collections, offer myriad possibilities for classroom instruction in modern and contemporary art education.

An infographic with reminders about teaching grammar successfully.

Aids and resources for writers and teachers of writing.

Hugh collection of printable maps.

Interactives for grades K-12 that develop skills in organizing and summarizing, inquiry and analysis, writing poetry, writing and publishing prose, and learning about language.

TeacherServe offers a series of instructional guides on important topics in the humanities on the secondary level. Each guide provides commentary along with instructional tools.

A resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects.

The purpose of this website is to provide you with lesson plans, tools, tips, and strategies for teaching the American Civil War.

This new format traces historical developments across time, touching down on locations vital to our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in each tour launch primary and multimedia sources.

All sorts of charts for lesson plans, study help and quick reference.

Zoom In is a free, Web-based platform that helps students build literacy and historical thinking skills through “deep dives” into primary and secondary sources.

Here are some engaging ways to teach students about primary sources.

Beyond the Bubble unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create a new generation of history assessments.

DocsTeach offers seven free tools that educators can use to create interactive learning activities based on any primary source in the National Archives. The seven tools are: Finding a Sequence; Focusing on Details; Making Connections; Mapping History; Seeing the Big Picture; Weighing the Evidence, and Interpreting Data.

Hosted by the University of William & Mary School of Education, this site provides a good model for primary source-based classroom activities, presenting historical cases for students to crack. Each case presents kids with clues to analyze in order to form a conclusion to each investigation. The clues come in the form of primary documents and images and include secondary sources.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history.

The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities.

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Digital Vaults focuses on a curated collection of 1,200 items. Within the site, there are activities designed to help students discover important connections between primary sources.

Learn how to find, use, and cite primary source materials.

Here is a database of more than 7,000 primary source documents and images from around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, WDL can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource.

Scholarly reviews of online primary source archives, including teaching potential.

Dance in science, pop art in Spanish, or photography in math -- there’s no end to the ways arts can be integrated into other curricula. Educators from Bates Middle School, in Annapolis, Maryland, share arts-integrated lessons and resources that might be useful at Shepaug.

Here is a great art history resource that features content organized by time period, style, artist and theme.

Here is a wealth of resources for educators who wish to use art across the curriculum. Topics are explored through images and interpretations, biography, video interviews with artists, and top-notch lesson plans. The target audience is K-12.