Secondary Education: Lesson Planning Sources

These sets provide rich new primary sources from libraries, archives, and museums across the country that are classroom-ready for students and educators alike. The newest Primary Source Sets were developed in collaboration with DPLA’s expanded Education Advisory Committee and are designed for secondary and higher education. Each set includes a topic overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, discussion questions, and classroom activities.

Our collection of K-12 curricula include timely lesson plans and multi-grade units that promote critical thinking and assist educators in teaching current events topics through the lens of diversity, bias and social justice. Filter by grade level: High School

Find Art & Culture lessons on anthropology, art history, folklore, mythology, religion, and more; World Language lessons on languages and the cultures of which they are a part; History & Social Studies lessons on American (including our popular AP U.S. History index) and World History, civics, government and society; and Literature & Language Arts lessons, including AP Literature offerings, on great writing and great literary works throughout the ages.
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From Annenberg Media, this is an outstanding collection teaching materials on a variety of subjects areas. Online textbooks, professional development materials, interactive lessons and videos.Searchable by subject and grade level. Free registration is required.

Curriculum search engine with more than 350,000+ teacher-reviewed curriculum resources. Subscription required, 10-day free trial.

The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials and learning exercises, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material. These peer reviewed sources support teaching and curriculum.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Resources are classified by subject, grade level and material.

Free, standards-aligned instructional media that can be filtered by subject, grade-level and resource type. The site often features links to supporting materials including essays and discussion questions, references to textbooks, follow-up suggestions, transcripts of an activity, and more.