Resources for Teachers:

Free Online Logic Course
NYU philosophy professor David Velleman created a self-paced, online logic course for students and teachers: use it at home or in class to learn a new language that will prove more useful than you can imagine.

EthicShare
EthicShare, a collaborative website, contains research materials, discussions, current articles and events about ethics and is a very comprehensive resource for anyone teaching or interested in the field.

Ask Philosophers
If you have a philosophical question, a philosopher will send you an answer.

Philosophy for Kids
Featuring the groundbreaking work of Dr. Gareth Matthews, this website explores how teachers can use children's literature to introduce philosophical issues.

Teach Philosophy 101
Villanova philosophy professor John Immerwahr created a resource-rich page for philosophy teachers: it includes readings, activities, and lesson plans. Though it's targeted at college teachers, much of the material can be adapted for pre-college use.

APA Teaching Philosophy Online Resource Center
The APA Teaching Philosophy Online Resource Center is a website geared for college students but with information, resources and links for pre-college teachers as well.

NIH Curriculum Supplements Series
The NIH Curriculum Supplements for High School Series has produced a program on bioethics. Students can use a new model for ethical inquiry that helps develop thoughtful positions on complex bioethical issues. The supplement's six modules each contain three 45-minute class periods of lessons on a specific issue. Read a related article.

Adventures in Wonderland!
Adventures in Wonderland! is a blog for fourth-grade students created by three schools: May Howard Elementary in Savannah, GA; Elias Park Primary School in Singapore, and and Roscoe Wilson Elementary School in Lubbock, TX. The focus of the blog is on philosophical inquiry.

Agora Publications
"Agora Publications offers dramatic performances of the dialogues of Plato and David Hume to help recapture this valuable Socratic tradition. We revise the texts to make them more accessible to contemporary readers and listeners while leaving them unabridged and striving to be faithful to their original meaning. In this way we contribute to the marketplace of ideas and continue the rich philosophical tradition in which careful and precise thinking blend with literary and poetic creation."

American Association of Philosophy Teachers
AAPT has created several sites suggesting works of literature (novels, short stories, poems and essays) that can be used to illustrate philosophical principles and initiatite philosophical discussion.

Early Modern Philosophy
This site contains classic philosophic texts – Descartes, Hume, Locke, Kant, among others – translated into readable English by Jonathan F. Bennet, a distinguished British philosopher.

Ethics Updates
Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
Although this site hasn't been updated recently, it remains one of the most comprehensive web resources. Maintained by Peter Suber at Earlham College in Indiana, the site includes primary texts, lesson plans, syllabi, bibliographies, philosophical associations, and much more that will be helpful to anyone planning to teach philosophy.

Online Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering
This site is addressed to engineers but it has a great deal of useful information for those interested in teaching ethics (click on Education, then Pre-College Materials).

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This comprehensive overview of teaching philosophy to children challenges the view that the material is beyond the ken of young students. It also provides resources and links.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a non-profit organization run by the editors. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, and technical advisors... All articles are copyrighted by The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the authors of the original articles. The IEP has these reprint stipulations: (1) For educational course packets reproduced by either college-run print shops or private copy services such as Kinko's: all IEP material can be used free of charge, and contacting the IEP is not required. (2) For published books that will receive ISBN numbers, such as textbook anthologies: authors or publishers should contact the IEP general editor by e-mail; the editor's current e-mail address is on the IEP web page. (3) Copies cannot be posted elsewhere on the Internet without permission from the general editor.

Philosophers' Imprint
Philosophers' Imprint collects a series of scholarly articles by some of today's most notable and influential philosophers which are offered free of charge.

Philosophical Films
This very helpful site lists contemporary films that can be shown as examples of philosophical principles; each entry contains a synopsis of the particular film, the philosophical issue targeted, reviews and helpful discussion questions.

Philosophy for Children
This site, created and maintained by Professor Thomas Wartenberg of the Department of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is subtitled "Philosophical Questions from Children’s Stories." It shows how educators and parents can use children’s literature as a springboard for philosophical discussions.

Dr. Wartenberg is organizing an APA Mini-Conference on Philosophy for Children at the Pacific Division meeting in April 2011. For more information, visit: www.kidsphilmini.co.cc

Philosophy Pages
This compendium of information about the Western philosophical tradition includes links to many other philosophical sites.

Philosophy Toolbox
Created by APA's Committee for Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy the tool kit is a dynamic web resource for teachers and students created by volunteers interested in promoting philosophy in the schools. Our current focus is at the high school level but the site will be expanded to include sections on elementary and middle school levels in 2008-2009. We welcome advice, contributions, and volunteers who will help this website become a virtual philosophy community for teachers and students.

POIESIS
POIESIS is a subscription based reference and publishing service offering searchable access to the full text of hundreds of current, recent, and back issues of a growing number of philosophy journals and series. Every word in every available issue is fully searchable, including thousands of articles, book reviews, and dissertation listings, as well as all abstracts, footnotes, and bibliographic listings. Uniquely structured around dozens of philosophy titles, POIESIS includes journals and series published by philosophical societies, departments, university presses, and commercial publishers in several countries."