LibGuides: Education Library Guide: Web Resources

Government

Lesson plans

Publishers often include online access to lesson plans and so on.

History/Geography

National Geographic: Education
UNESCO Women in African History
This website is open to all. UNESCO invites all schools and universities to freely use, promote, and distribute the contents of this website. Each of the figures has a dedicated module. Some modules are already available, while others are in development.
South African History Online

Useful Websites

The following web sites have been carefully selected for providing reliable information. If you are using information from the web, it is your responsibility to make sure that it is from authoritative resources.

Google for Education
Gateway Resources to 21st Century Skills
Free links to thousands of educational resources.
Teachers helping Teachers
Education resources, lesson plans and more
Teaching Resource Exchange
Primary Resources
Free lesson plans, activity ideas and resources for primary school teachers
Teacher Tube
Teacher videos, lesson plan videos, student videos
Teachers' Domain
Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.
Terrific Sites for Teachers
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everthing
Teachbytes
Teachnology
Annenberg Learner
Prometheanplanet - Free teaching resources

South African sites

Thutong : South African Education Portal
Duegot se Mieliestronk
A resource (also available on a cd-rom) for Afrikaans learners
TeacherWeb: Teachers sharing Ideas and Resources
A South African site
Teacher.org.za
SA Teacher
List of articles on Wikipedia Primary Schools (Research Project)
This is a list of articles which are relevant to the South African primary school curriculum: articles in this list need to be reviewed and/or createdhow? by Wikipedians, journals and/or experts.

Information Literacy

Information Skills Lesson Plans
A Directory of Lesson Plan Sites for Information Skills Instruction
LILi: Lifelong Information Literacy
Information researching & critical thinking site for all age & educational levels, developed by an informal group of librarians from all types of California libraries.
How to teach your students about Fake News
What media literacy skills do students need to evaluate the reliability of a news source?
10 questions for fake news detection
News Literacy Project

Languages

Science

Biological Exceptions
A free online life sciences education resource