JSTOR News
| Welcome to the first issue of the JSTOR Teaching Resource newsletter! |
| Teaching Resources is a website and blog that brings together a set of tools designed to help educators integrate JSTOR into the classroom and students to improve their research skills. This new Teaching Resources newsletter highlights the most recent blog posts from the site, along with other JSTOR news for educators.
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| OPPORTUNITY FOR TEACHERS: JSTOR LESSON PLAN COMPETITION |
| Have you designed creative classroom activities using JSTOR? Do you have ideas for engaging student assignments that incorporate content from JSTOR’s journal, book, or primary source collections? Enter our new Lesson Plan Competition! Share your expertise and ideas with other teachers and you could win $1,500.00.
Teachers of all high school grade levels are invited to submit one or more lesson plans on any subject that incorporates content from JSTOR. Up to 8 entrants will be awarded $1,500.00 each. Winning lesson plans will be shared widely with other educators through JSTOR’s Teaching Resources website.
Contest submissions will be accepted from June 15, 2015 through July 31, 2015, and winners will be announced by August 31, 2015.
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| FROM THE BLOG: JSTOR DAILY AS A CLASSROOM RESOURCE |
| Have you had a chance to visit JSTOR Daily, our new online magazine that connects news and current affairs with related scholarship on JSTOR? Learn more about the site and its potential as a pedagogical resource from Cathy Halley, the Editor of JSTOR Daily. |
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| NEW TEACHING RESOURCE: GLOBAL PLANTS IN THE CLASSROOM |
| Our newest teaching resource is a companion to JSTOR Global Plants, called “Global Plants in the Classroom: Botany 101" (or just Botany 101, for short).
Botany 101 is a freely available resource and study aid to help teachers and students of botany-related courses use Global Plants. The resource consists of nine units that introduce basic concepts in the study of botany. The topics range from plant anatomy, to botanical illustration, to economic botany. Each unit includes a short video introduction, key concepts, vocabulary, and example materials that include Global Plants resources and journal articles on JSTOR.
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