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Teaching Guides
Check out our free Teaching Guides and dive deep into our courses. Whether you need fresh instructional strategies or a clear view of your teaching roadmap, you’ll find practical tools and resources to boost your teaching practice. Browse all teaching resources
Teaching with OER Project
Discover OER Project—where student-centered, skills-driven learning comes alive. Dive into our teaching guide to surface strategies that make lessons relevant and engaging.
Historical Thinking Skills
Unlock the power of historical thinking. Our guide shows you how thinking skills such as causation, continuity and change over time (CCOT), and sourcing work together to build stronger analytical skills at every step for deeper, more-connected learning.
Teaching Sensitive Topics
Teaching social studies means guiding students through the complex social, political, and economic issues shaping our world while fostering thoughtful, respectful conversations about topics that matter.
Data Literacy
Bring data to life in your social studies classroom. This guide helps you teach students to decode data visualizations and uncover the stories behind the numbers in history.
Teacher Events: Professional Development Workshops
Our 2025/26 professional learning events include the big ideas and fresh voices of historians, authors, adventurers, and scientists. See upcoming sessions below or check out our full slate for the year!
Teacher Blog: Insights and Articles for Teachers
Get teaching tips, fresh takes on familiar content, and insights from the field you can use in your classroom. View all blog posts
Taking a Lesson from Climate History
How did 17th-century cooling upend empires, economies, and daily life? The Little Ice Age shows policy—not temperature—decides if climate shocks break or bolster societies.
Professional Development for Teachers
Looking for online PD? We've lined up professional development sessions with the topics you'll be teaching throughout the year so you can find the learning you want when you need it.
Real-time help and support
You've got teaching questions? Get answers! Choose the type of support that works best for you: hop on a 1:1 call, post in our Community forum, click real-time tips embedded on the site, and more. View help and support
Schedule a support session
Whether you’re looking for inspiration or a jump-start, our team is ready to connect. Set up a 15-minute call with an OER Project educator.
Join the discussion
Teachers are brilliant, right? Connect with educators around the world, ask questions, and brag about your students.
Learn where to find our teaching tips
See how hitting the hammer that appears throughout our website brings up real-time tips (the kind you get from that teacher friend down the hall).
Integrate with your LMS
You can take it with you. Embed our courses and materials in your LMS, Google Classroom, and more.
Community Forum: Active Discussions
What’s better than one teacher? A whole community of teachers! Connect with educators around the world, ask questions, and brag about your students. We’re here for it. And give feedback directly to our team about what’s working and how you’re using OER Project. View all discussions