Tools for Teaching

Inspire and Learn

Curriculum Resources:
Videos, Curriculum Guides and Resource Packets
Curriculum guides help to introduce the study of New York City and other topics. Videos include a look at the Lower East Side in the 1930s and other topics useful for you in your teaching. In the image packets, each image or document is accompanied by inquiry questions and ideas for incorporating it into your classroom work.

Download Images, Maps and Documents from NYPL's Digital Gallery
More than 700,000 searchable images, maps and documents to augment your classroom curriculum. Try searching for your neighborhood to bring up maps and pictures of how it developed! Click here for a short video on how to search and use digital gallery images. 

NYPL on VoiceThread!

Theme-based interactive slide shows with DBQs for the classroom using the NYPL Digital Gallery. Create your own online, narrated slide presentations on a wide variety of topics!

Online Exhibitions
Curated resources for supporting teaching and learning - many with interactive elements or curriculum ideas. Just a few examples:

• Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam Includes beautiful sacred texts from each belief system, educational materials and photos of "faith on the street" from fellow New Yorkers.  
• Immigrant City:  Teaching immigration? Find pictures and Voicethreads to use with your students, contribute to a Google My Maps to point out special sites, share immigration stories, and find/share lesson plans. The site also has links to other immigration resources as well as suggested reading. Click around and come back to explore as this resource develops!
• African Americans and American Politics
• Digital Schomburg - all of the wonderful exhibits, images and even books made available by the Schomburg Center.
• Historical Postcards of New York City

Subject rich databases with articles, audio, glossaries, translations and more! Click here for a short video on how to search for what you need. A few examples we find useful:

• Opposing Viewpoints
• Literature Resource Center
• Authors A-Z (Twayne's Authors Series)
• History Resource Center
• Amazing Animals of the World
• Science Online

Also check out Digital Schomburg for online exhibitions, images and even digital books on the global black experience.

Teach Mapping Skills with NYPL's Digital Map Rectifier!
 

Learn About HomeworkNYC Apps homeworkNYC.org
Learn more about how students can use HomeworkNYC "apps" powered by the Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library, and Queens Library right from their social networking pages to help them with homework! 

For you:

Search journals  for research on teaching and learning including, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and others.

Online Journals for School Librarians

Links to full-text professional journals of interest to school librarians (and reading teachers) in the databases of The New York Public Library.

Visit Our Teacher Collections

Todt Hill-Westerleigh Library
Bronx Library Center

These special collections include:

• Practical resources for  teachers
• Hundreds of books and periodicals to help you
• Creative ideas for the classroom
• Integrating literature across the curriculum 

For your students: 

• Resources for Student Homework
  Recommended databases for student research. Many have articles with read-along audio, translation capabilities and citation methods as well as images, related searches and highlighted vocabulary for skim and scan practice.  
• Authors for children
  A great resource for author study programs and book reports.
• Interactive books for younger readers on line
• Authors for young adults
  Check out "Stuff for the Teen Age"!
• Ask Librarians Online
  E-mail and chat reference from NYPL librarians.
• ¡Información en Vivo!
  Haga preguntas por línea computarizada.
• Find GED Preparation Programs in NY State or check out the GED compass to find more information.

The New York Public Library thanks The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation for their generous support of Teaching and Learning Programs at NYPL.