Online Lesson Plans and Resources
A quick reminder that UEN.org has thousands of vetted resources that are available at no cost to students and educators.
For example:
- eMedia video on demand
- Utah’s Online Library and Preschool Pioneer.
- UEN has licensed over 100 fully online courses for secondary students from BYU Independent Study that can be easily imported to Canvas.
- Canvas Commons can also be activated by local Canvas admins. This is a catalog of already developed resources to share and reshare through Canvas.
Finally, we also have a 24/7 educational broadcast channel UEN-TV. You can view the schedule here. This is an option for students without access to home computers or Internet.
We’ll be highlighting more of these resources on UEN.org and through our social media channels. We are also responding to inquiries through our handy Contact Us form.
- Visit Follett Discover
- This is the Jordan High School digital library. It contains a large number of non-fiction eBooks as well as fiction audio and eBooks
- Go to the 3rd ribbon down to Lightbox. There are items for ELA, science and history with interactive text, video, audio, quizzes, web sources, etc. on the topic title. All can be accessed by your students with their student login. As a teacher you login as firstname.lastname, your last name is the password.
- You also have access to the following database or eBook databases not available at UEN online library:
- WorldBook Advanced (HS-college) Spanish and French encyclopedias, science and drama databases and primary documents (L:canyonsdistrict P:student)
- Salem Online (HS – College) eBook reference for history, psychology, health, science and technology (P: beetdigger)
- WebPath (K-12) vetted websites. As easy to use as Google.
- Destiny Discover JHS Library more than 2000 eBooks, audio books, and interactive subject specific Lightboxes to support teacher online lessons.
- National Library of Medicine – Visible Proofs Education site. Explore several forensic topics through the online activities and lesson plans below.
- National Library of Medicine – Harry Potter’s world: Renaissance, science, magic and medicine
- National Library of Medicine – Exhibition lists
Stanford History Education Group – Think like a HistorianTeAchnology provides free and easy to use resources for teachers K-12NoveList Plus – reading suggestions, series, read a-likes galoreLibrary of Congress Teacher page with professional information for using Primary Sources Curriki – create share and explore high quality K-12content
Resources for History, Geography, P.E. Film/Art, Science, Math & Ourselves
History Resources-Teachers (curated by Catherine Bates, BHS Librarian)
World War II
World War II Images and Art
Diaries and Journals
University of Washington Collection of WW II Primary Sources
Library of Congress State Standards
DocsTeach — Includes online activities that can be completed on the website then emailed to teachers.
Local Collections
Utah State University Digital Library The digital collections of USU can be found here. Many of these collections contain digitized materials from Merril-Cazier Library’s Special Collections. There are truly amazing collections here (e.g. De Villers Book of Hours (Links to an external site.)), Utah specific collections (e.g. Highway 89 ), and really fun ones (e.g. The Bear Lake Monster ).
Utah Digital Newspapers Find digitized copies of many of Utah’s newspaper. A great website for doing historical research.
Mountain West Digital Library “A central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region. We provide free access to over 900,000 resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, counties, and municipalities in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, Hawaii, and other parts of the U.S. West.”
Geography
Culturegrams on Utah’s Online Library — Includes activities and worksheets students can complete with information from the Database
Geography for Geographers
Middle and High School apps for Geography
Geographic Resources from the Smithsonian
World Mapper
Gapminder
Appalachian State University has a crazy list of things
General Reference
U.S. History and World History in Context (bengals) (Jordan does not own but I will purchase if you like it.)
Library of Congress State Standards with associated primary source sets
DocsTeach — Includes online activities that can be completed on the website then emailed to teachers.
TPS teacher network, requires login but they just started a group about teaching primary sources online
Library of Congress Revisiting the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic
ABC-Clio Open access resources
P.E. Free Streaming Video
| Math Resources
| Film and ArtsTimeless ClassicsTeaching Writing online : eBook copy of Inquire for High School for 40 students plus teacher |