Teaching Materials Center

The best of Asian art at the tip of your fingers for use in the classroom or at home.

Art lesson plans and resources for all grade levels, Pre-K through 12, integrating the arts for a variety of themes and subjects.

Curricula, lessons and activities for the arts, including dance, literary, musical, visual and theater.

Your destination for tools and strategies for engaging with modern and contemporary art.

A free, interactive web site that introduces the Civil Rights Movement through the unique lens of Smithsonian collections.

A list of virtual museum tours from around the world

Writing lessons that inspire students to write across all genres with confidence (grades 1-5+)

The Children's Poetry Archive is a place where everyone can listen to poetry. Listen to Roald Dahl, Allan Ahlberg, Langston Hughes, and other poets read their work.

Teachers who work with English as a Second Language learners will find ESL/ESOL/ELL/EFL reading/writing skill-building children's books, stories, activities, ideas, strategies to help PreK-3, 4-8, and 9-12 students learn to read.

CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12.

High-quality reading passages with aligned assessments (grades 3-5+)

Activities and videos featuring Pilkey's Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

A daily selection of online stories, songs, crafts, and activities.

A reading resource for grades preK - 3 grade.

Writing prompts for elementary students.

'Common Sense Education' has compiled a top 10 list of notable Language Arts links.

Explore curricular materials by grade or subject.

"All provide opportunities to develop students' competence for Common Core Anchor Reading Standard 1". From the Center for Urban Education.

Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.

Free, personalized reading skills practice to use with students of all ages. Search. Select. Share. See skills grow.

"Teachers from all around the world are using ReadTheory to help their students improve their reading comprehension skills in a fun way that keeps them attentive and motivated."

FREE content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade

Includes hundreds of standards-based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices. These are aligned with Common Core Standards.

Various projects sorted by grade level.

Focuses specifically on struggling readers, with 25 weekly lessons. Each lesson has guides and activities using common household materials (grades K-3)

The site offers VOA's popular articles, with language exercises that include videos, vocabulary and listening practice, conversations with a native English speaker, and more. Especially good for English learners.

"From assessment to practice, Writable helps schools organize their writing programs around research-backed instruction and feedback – for every teacher and student." Create a FREE teacher account, and have your students use free accounts for two months.

Watch videos of children's stories in Spanish.

Practice and learn a variety of languages.

Bilingual fairy tales, with text, audio and video.

Stories and resources for French language learners

Open educational reading resources, includes resources in a variety of “underserved languages” (languages with a lack of quality early reading resources).

Free Access from Finger Lakes Library. Required: free library card

300 free online language classes

Math games that are ideal for ESL students or for those learning Spanish.

Well-known stories translated into Spanish. Includes text, audio and video.

Established in 1980 as the Center for Population Options, Advocates for Youth champions efforts that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.

Teacher-designed health and PE lessons on all levels

Health and physical education lesson plans that can be searched and browsed by topic and grade levels.

Includes principles and standards for school mathematics, online activities, and lesson plans for grades pre-K through 12.

Lesson plan resources shared by teachers, for elementary, middle school and high school levels.

A compilation of math curriculum resources and links for elementary students.

The World of Mathematics is an interactive eBook available online and on mobile devices. Using some of the most advanced web technologies and educational principles, we want to make advanced mathematical ideas as accessible and exciting as possible.

'We Are Teachers' links 60 notable websites for teaching and learning math.

Multimedia lessons on mathematics topics for grades 3-6 that include videos, quizzes and other activities to engage students with the material.

Free access to Tumble Math from the Finger Lakes Public Library. Required: free library card.

Experiments to try at home.

Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking.

Free searchable lessons related to sustainability.

Videos of science experiments/lessons.

Provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

A collection of lessons and web resources, arranged by subject area to help you quickly find resources in your interest area, and then use them to create lesson plans or at-home activities.

Books, resources and freebies for teaching science to K-12.

Interactive periodic table.

Online science activities

Lesson plans, standards and other educational resources for K-12. Topics are varied throughout all Earth and Space Science.

Independent journalism for students and teachers on all that is science.

Connects students / classrooms to scientists.

Multimedia lessons on science topics for grades 3-6 that include videos, quizzes and other activities to engage students with the material.

Contains lessons for primary and secondary levels, for topics such as Biology, Geography, Geology, Water, and more.

Collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards — historical documents, literary texts, and works of art — thematically organized with notes and discussion questions.

The mission of the Bill of Rights Institute is to educate young people about the words and ideas of America’s Founders, the liberties guaranteed in our Founding documents, and how our Founding principles continue to affect and shape a free society.

CRIS is an advanced Geographic Information System program that provides access to New York State's vast historic and cultural resource databases and now digitized paper records.

Empowering literacy, reading fluency and global awareness through current events and books.

Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

"History Unbound will facilitate teachers’ ability to locate and review documents that conform to the Social Studies New York State Common Core standards and improve student preparation for the NYS Regents Examinations by pointing to the Library of Congress Primary Sets, New York Heritage collections and secondary literature including lesson plans and web-based and regional face-to-face workshops on inquiry based learning."

iCivics prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials.

Provides lesson plans, primary sources, presentations and other classroom materials. You can also search by state and standard for specific lesson plans.

History through video, podcast, maps, and articles.

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines engaging, leveled content with integrated formative assessments and insights to supercharge engagement and learning in every subject. Students and teachers use Newsela to find digital content from hundreds of the best sources.

Create a free account with NewseumED to access a variety of activities for source evaluation and working with primary sources.

New York Heritage is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and anyone else who is interested in learning more about the people, places and institutions of New York State.

Links to primary resource databases.

Search for Jackdaws in the TMC, and lesson plans for using primary resources!

Get information on elected officials, key votes on big issues, and more. Project Vote Smart is a non-partisan, nonprofit educational organization.

'We Are Teachers' has compiled a list of notable social studies links.

StudentNewsDaily.com is a non-profit current events website for high school students.

A leading online resource for American History teachers and students.

Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.

From the National Archives. Includes worksheets, lesson plans, primary source documents and more.

News articles on current events, related to math, science, and social studies.

Open-access high school textbook for U.S. history. Provides citation for text.