John's Web Page
A forum for discussions about liberty and unconventional wisdom, thought-provoking stories and information, and an opportunity to talk through a live message board. John joins the conversations as "Stosselabc." This site also offers links to other noteworthy web sites.

Teaching Tools for Economics
Engage high school and college students with an economic series featuring John Stossel.

More about Stossel's Teaching Tools for Economics from the Stavros Center

John's Top Educational Titles
Use John Stossel's thought-provoking programs to launch lively classroom discussions and motivate students to question conventional wisdom, gather and analyze information and distinguish between fact and opinion.

Streaming video from ABC's 20/20 program

Izzit.org offers exciting classroom tools, from the daily current events service to classroom videos by television producers who create and distribute programs that spark curiosity and lively classroom discussions.

Education World® posts various links to national standards in social studies, U.S. history, and civics. The site offers various activities that integrate current events into the study of these subjects.

The Foundation for Teaching Economics
Lesson plans, seminars, and classroom support for teachers. Their popular "Hot Topics" emails offer lesson plans that focus on the economics imbedded in current events.

Izzit.org offers exciting classroom tools, from the daily current events service to classroom videos by television producers who create and distribute programs that spark curiosity and lively classroom discussions.

Knowledge Delivery Systems
Knowledge Delivery Systems is an award-winning professional development provider to states, districts, schools, individual teachers, and educational organizations across the country. The KDS Classroom is an e-learning platform with on-demand online content, including streaming video and synchronized PowerPoint slideshows.

EconomicsAmerica® offers a list and description of each national voluntary standard in economics. Online lessons for each standard and all concepts are offered.

Common Sense Economics web site includes instructor resources, student resources, including links to some economics activities and comics.

High School Economics Topics, with definitions and articles.

The Library of Economics and Liberty offers resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.

National Council on Economic Education: EconomicsAmerica® includes economics lessons that relate directly to state standards.

Foundation for Economic Education's web site has an online library, a searchable index of past articles from its monthly journal, and information on seminars for students and teachers.

EconEdLink and Thinkfinity provides online lessons for all social studies and economics standards and concepts.

Ten Key Ideas are ten fundamental ideas to help you explore and understand the world around us using the economic way of thinking.

Shocking Economics demonstrates the size and power of the American economy.

Rappin' the Ten Principles of Economics teaches the basics of economics and provides an idea for a project for economics classes. The site also offers advice to students about writing well.

The Center for Civic Education posts the national standards for civics and government, as well as programs for teachers and students, such as "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution"

Smithsonian Education offers various resources linked to U.S. history, culture and other subjects.

EconEdLink and Thinkfinity provides online lessons for all social studies and economics standards and concepts.

Education World® posts various links to national standards in social studies, U.S. history, and civics. The site offers various activities that integrate current events into the study of these subjects.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence provides links to teaching and learning resources in U.S. history and government, created by various federal government agencies. All resources are electronic or available to teachers at no cost.

American Heritage Education Foundation provides its "America's Heritage: An Adventure in Liberty" curriculum free via download or CD.

Politopia, produced by the Institute for Humane Studies, is an interactive website that offers a political model that differs from the usual Left-Right labels. Where do you fit in?

The American Ideal of 1776: The Twelve Basic American Principles

Exploring Constitutional Law explores some of the great issues and controversies surrounding the U.S. Constitution.

The U.S. Courts educational outreach web site provides a wealth of information about the role of the federal courts and the Constitution.

EnglishTeacher.com provides teaching resources for English teachers, includes resources, lessons, and activities.

EnglishTeacher.com also has resources for teachers to help guide their students to write book reports.

For kids to write book reports: InfoPlease.com, ABCTeach.com

Science NetLinks offers a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, as well as standards-based Internet experiences for students.

Science NetLinks has lessons written for teacher, but include student-ready materials.

The Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World Project

The Singing Revolution is a documentary about Estonia's struggle for freedom from Soviet domination and oppression. This is an emotional documentary that covers the struggle for freedom and the evils of totalitarianism. This web site offers educational DVDs with which collectors can create their own classroom materials, using the included maps, hours of additional interview footage, printable historical documents, musical performances, and much more.

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Videos, charts, visually friendly.

Transparency.org is a global organization working to fight corruption.

Peace Through Commerce® is an integrated outreach, education, and engagement program illuminating the contribution that commerce, trade, and economic development make toward building sustainable peace.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy.

Learner.org provides free professional development and teacher resources in many subjects, produced by Annenberg Media.

Teach-Nology.com offers free and easy to use resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, and more, for teachers.

Tecweb.org offers a simple guide to Bloom's taxonomy.

Discovery Education provides lesson plans and resources in many subject areas.

Discovery Education is also a good source for rubrics, graphic organizers, and portfolio ideas.

ReadWriteThink is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation. It provides lessons, standards, and student materials.

GoodCharacter.com offers character education resources, lessons, character building experiences, and more. Thinkfinity.org is an initiative of the Verizon Foundation. Their goal is to improve student achievement by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.

How to create a wiki: Video, Slide Show

LiveWireMedia.com offers a set of DVDs that focuses on getting teenagers empowered to make good choices in their lives.