Faculty Resources

• Anthem
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage information.
• Apple Learning Interchange  
  • Find some of the resources collected to help make your teaching life easier.
• CNN
  • Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies for current events and social studies, at all grade levels, K-12.
• Discovery School
  • Find Teaching Tools, Lesson Plans and a Teachers School
  • Puzzle Maker
• EdGate
  • Education site designed by Gateway computer.  Find Lesson plans and Teachers computer tools.
• Education World
  • For educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.
• Educator's Reference Desk 
  • This site brings you the resources you previously found at ERIC/IT and AskERIC: lesson plans and links to online education information.
• Encarta Online Lesson Plans
  • Searchable lesson plan collection and educational resources available from Microsoft® Education.
• ERIC Database   
  • The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Dept. of Education produces this premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.  
• ESchool News
  • Covers all aspects of school technology news, events, issues, key players, products, services, and strategies
• Food and Nutrition Resources for Teachers
  • Subject-specific bibliographies of books, audiovisuals, articles, and web resources.
• The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
  • A consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial sites.
• Global Schoolhouse  
  • Provides online opportunities for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning experiences.
• LEARNNC
  • Lesson plans and teachers' resources in all subject matters and grade levels from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Education Department.
• Library of Congress
  • The Learning Page, Especially for Teachers
• Maine Department of Education
  • Resources for Maine educators.
• Maine Education Association
  • Professional organization advocating for its 25,000 members while inspiring them to be leaders in the educational process
• NARA Digital Classroom
  • National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Teaching with documents and more.
• Our Documents
  • New suggestions and lesson ideas for all grades on how to integrate OurDocuments.gov into your social studies classroom.
• PBS Teacher Source
  • Features Lesson Plans, Standard Match and Activities
• Proquest K-12
  • Formerly Big Chalk,  an online learning resource for educators and their students.
• Scholastic.com
  • Teacher Resource Center and Online Activity Center.
• Smithsonian Center for Education
  • Search Lesson Plans, Resource Bank, Media Catalog and Field Trips
• TeacherVision.com
  • Find lesson plans and resources to make your teaching life simpler
• U.S. Department of Education
  • Provides information about the Department and its policies, and programs, as well as current news in education and teachers' resources.
• Windows on Maine
  • Integrated technologies, including streaming video, audio, animation, interactive resources including Flash, searchable text, photographs, datasets, hot spots, web links and transcripts, document Maine's history and the Gulf of Maine ecology as impacted by its dominant and changing resources, the forest and the sea.