Several federal and Maryland state government websites provide a
wide array of free educational resources for teachers and
students, including lesson plans, engaging materials for
classroom instruction and professional development
opportunities. Resources for Classroom Instruction: Library of
Congress Teachers Page: Find standards-based tutorials,
interactive student activities, webcasts and more than 85 lesson
plans on topics ranging from history to literature to civics and
government. Also offers more than 19 million primary source
materials, including films, documents, photographs and maps.
National Archives Lesson Plans: Contains reproducible copies of
primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of
the United States, teaching activities correlated to the
National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and
Government, and cross-curricular connections. Federal Resources
for Educational Excellence: The most popular K-12 websites
maintained by the U.S. Department of Education, FR