Student Handouts, Inc.

FREE TEACHING MATERIALS MEETING STATE AND NATIONAL CURRICULUM STANDARDS

Student Handouts, Inc.

We at Student Handouts, Inc., are dedicated to providing educators with 100% free teaching materials–lesson plans, worksheets, handouts, games–everything you can imagine and then some. Everything on our site is instantly accessible and useable. We have materials for every major subject, with our primary focus on secondary education (junior and senior high school, grades 7 through 12).

How to Use This Site: Click on your subject area to the left.  For example, if you teach World History (Global Studies), click on Social Studies.  The Social Studies page will open, showing individual course listings.  Click on World History.  On the World History page, course materials are listed in chronological order and divided into sections based on New York State Regents standards.  Regardless of whether or not you live in NY, you can find teaching materials to use.  If you're doing a chapter or unit on the Age of Discovery and the Columbian Exchange, click on unit 9.25 on the World History page.  You may opt to use everything you see there, or you may select a single item.  It is up to you.  You may teach an entire unit with Student Handouts materials, or you may decide to print up just one reproducible to give your classes as a homework assignment.  It might help to think of this website as a giant online filing cabinet, tracking and organizing reproducibles and printables for you to grab and print at your convenience. 

PowerPoints: Just click and download.  You can use them as-is, or you can add, delete, and/or supplement the existing slides to incorporate your own take on things, textbook-friendly vocabulary terms, etc.

PDF Files: These are otherwise known as "handouts," "printables," or "reproducibles."  You simply click and either save or print the file.  If you're ever out sick without warning, you can email or call your "sub buddy" and kindly ask, "Could you please print ## copies of this handout and have the sub do it with the kids?"  You aren't stuck running to the building to make copies, or asking your sub buddy to search through your filing cabinets.  And of course, you can use these handouts in your everyday teaching.  No longer will you be limited to the "textbook publisher bundle."

Pictures: Add maps and photos to your own PowerPoint presentations and handouts.  Dress up your classroom website.  Post content-relevant items in your class blog.

Formula: There is no prescribed formula here.  There is no "publisher packet" to follow.  You choose what to use and how to use it.  You are in control.  And as all good teachers know, it's what you bring to the classroom and how you engage your students, awakening them to the joys of learning, that matters the most.  You control what you teach.  We are happy to simply help you along the way.