Outreach: Teaching Resources
The links below are provided as a service to teachers and students. CIS is not responsible for the content of outside links.
General
- US Department of Education
- Illinois State Board of Education
- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees
- The Gateway to Educational Materials
- The Virtual Reference Desk
- Foreign Language Portal
- Foreign Language ERIC Resources
- International News Portal
- Outreach World
- Planet Edu
K-12
- Peace Corps, World Wise Schools
- UNESCO Culture Sector
- UNESCO Education
- UNICEF Voices of Youth
- University of Alberta Libraries
- International K-12 Resources Portal
- College Board
- International Studies in Schools
- Caretakers of the Environment International
- Marco Polo
- Education Planet
- Social Studies Curriculum & Resources
- PBS Teachers
Post-Secondary
- US Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education
- UNESCO Higher Education Portal
- College Board
Cultural
- Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
- The Field Museum, Chicago
- DuSable Museum of African American History
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Old Town School of Folk Music
- Chicago Cultural Center
- Chicago Historical Society
Funding Opportunities
University of Chicago Resources
- Museums:
- Libraries:
- Area Studies Centers and Internationally-focused Programs:
- Center for East Asian Studies
- Center for East EuropeaSn and Russian/Eurasian Studies
- Center for Latin American Studies
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Committee on African & African-American Studies
- Committee on Central Eurasian Studies
- Human Rights Program
- Katz Center for Mexican Studies
- Nicholson Center for British Studies
- South Asia Area and Language Center
- South Asia Language Resource Center
- Transnationalism Project
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (compiled by the Department of Education)
- Frontline Diplomacy opens a window into the lives of American diplomats and U.S. foreign policy -- how it is formulated in Washington and implemented at our embassies abroad. Transcripts of more than 1,300 interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel capture their experiences, motivations, personal analyses, and private thoughts. (Library of Congress)
- Earth and Space Science provides activities, animations, and lessons on astronomy, the solar system, and earth's structure, processes, and history. Topics include earthquakes, faults, tectonic plates, soil liquefaction, Antarctica, convection currents in water, continental drift, extremophiles, auroras, subduction, Curie point, ozone, climate change, earth's magnetic field, and seasons. (Exploratorium, National Science Foundation)
- Global Climate Change is an introduction to the world of scientific research on climate change. Learn about physical processes underlying the earth's climate, data on how the climate is changing and the role of human activity, and questions and uncertainties that researchers continue to explore. The site is organized in four parts: the atmosphere, hydrosphere (oceans and water), cryosphere (snow and ice), and biosphere (living organisms). (Exploratorium, National Science Foundation)
- Learning About Fossil Fuels features lessons on coal, oil, and natural gas. Learn how coal is formed and used, and about technologies for cleaning up coal. Find out how oil is squeezed out of the earth and how natural gas is extracted from the ground and sea. (Department of Energy)
- Milestones in the History of Energy and Its Uses features a timeline of energy developments and uses since the 1700s. Learn about biomass, coal, electricity, geothermal, natural gas, nuclear power, oil, solar power, wind turbines, and transportation. See biographies of individuals who contributed to energy and science. Read a history of energy in the U.S. from 1635-2000. (Department of Energy)