Blue Hill Regional Technical High School Library: Resources for Teachers

Can your students tell the difference between fact and fiction? The Checkology Virtual Classroom can help. Basic access is free.

This website presents the pros and cons of controversial issues.

The First Amendment & Media Literacy Education

News Literacy. Civil Dialogue. Life Skills

This graphic charts various media sources on two axes: left-right political leaning, and fact-based objectivity.

A collection of tools, strategies, and media resources produced by NOVA and PBS Digital Studios and funded by WGBH.

Provides an interactive timeline, primary sources, lesson plans and answers to FAQs.

Provides hands-on access to thousands of primary sources including letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types. The resources span the course of American history and include an ever-expanding collection of document-based activities created by the National Archives.

A series of educational videos that discuss elements of the Constitution and bring America’s democracy and the stories of “We the People” to life.

Mission of this website: Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

Provides free materials for reading and language arts instruction.

Provides tools that focus on reading comprehension.

News for Students and Teacher Resources
6–12 Grade Level

Teachers can subscribe for free. Subscription includes access to the Boston Herald e-Edition as well as lesson plans that are updated weekly. You can search archives, read back issues, print and email stories.

Teacher and students access the e-Edition using one class username and password.

Sharpen your instructional skills with these professional development resources.

Discover formal, informal, ongoing, and job-embedded professional-development programs.

Learn by product

Turn your phone or tablet into a scanner for document management.

Use this tool to design infographics, flyers, brochures, certificates, menus and more.

An online word cloud art creator that allows you to easily create fun and unique word cloud art .

Create impressive videos and presentations.

Free Powerpoint templates, Google Slides themes and Canva templates for your presentations

Provides copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.

A searchable collection of photos that can be used as you wish.

Provides free images suitable for school use. Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms.

Pixabay is a community of people who share copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist.

Use the "usage rights" drop down box to narrow your search to images that are free to use.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Sign up for a virtual library card to access these resources.