About Teachers' Domain

About Us

Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards.

Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using “My Folders” and “My Groups” to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.

Teachers’ Domain strives to strengthen teacher knowledge by providing innovative teaching methods that incorporate technology in the classroom and inspire students to learn.

About TD Professional Development

Teachers' Domain online courses provide K-12 teachers new ways to inspire students, broaden content knowledge, and integrate technology into their classrooms. Each Teachers' Domain online course features outstanding digital media from NOVA and other PBS programming, and course pedagogy is driven by inquiry and exploration.

About Our Editions

There are several different versions of Teachers’ Domain available through www.teachersdomain.org – including our standard Teachers’ Domain K-12 edition, the College Edition for higher education institutions, and customized state editions, such as VITAL New York or Massachusetts Teachers’ Domain.

The K-12 edition you see when you sign in depends on the zip code of the institution on your registered profile. For example, your institution is “Public School 334 – The Anderson School” in New York, you will automatically come to the VITAL New York homepage. If your institution is in a state without a custom edition, you will come to the standard K-12 Teachers' Domain edition.

Custom state editions provide a similar set of resources as the standard edition, but state editions organize the resources according to the subject vocabulary used in state educational standards. They may also provide additional resources of local relevance. The College Edition provides a subset of resources appropriate for higher education, organized by college subjectsand courses.

You can switch between editions by clicking on the "Change Editions" link on the bottom of most pages. You can also Change Editions here.

About Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) on Teachers’ Domain allow you additional capabilities that include:

Download
Download these resources to your own computer or compatible viewing device.

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Download and Share
Share many of these with your students and colleagues in any kind of free, educational presentation.

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Download, Share, and Remix
Edit and use (remix) some of these as you create your own educational media mash-ups.

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We strive to make resources on Teachers’ Domain as open as possible, but some of our featured resources come with rights restrictions. To identify open resources with one of these levels of open rights, look for the permitted-use icons in resource lists or on resource pages.

You can also do an advanced search by media type and permitted use.

About Our Funders

Teachers' Domain is a Pathways project of the National Science Digital Library. Major funding for Teachers’ Domain is provided by the National Science Foundation.

Additional funding comes from different grants generously provided by:

National Science Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Open Society Institute
Argosy Foundation
WPPSEF
U.S. Department of Education
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Partnership for a Nation of Learners
Pennsylvania Public Television Network
Vulcan Productions, Inc.
T3 - Teachers Teaching with Technology™ Professional Development Services from Texas Instruments
NASA
PA Space Grant
Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board, Inc.
PSEA, Pennsylvania State Education Association
Poetry Foundation
National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NEA
Bernard Osher Foundation
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
JP Morgan Chase
Liberty Mutual
WPSU
Lawrence Hall of Science
HHMI
Ohio Digital Classroom
Leon Lowenstein Foundation
Ocean Futures Society
SC Johnson
Canon
The Henry Luce Foundation
Lilly Endowment
Mutual of America
Booth Ferris Foundation
Adobe Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Public Television Viewers
Amgen Foundation
Northrop Grumman
POM Wonderful