Questions

Will you be adding activities for more grades?

Yes, our plans are to expand the site to include more grades in the future. If you are a teacher or museum educator, please consider submitting a lesson plan!

How can Teach It lesson plans be reused?

Unless stated otherwise, Teach It lesson plans are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (also known as a CC BY-SA 4.0 license). Under the link above, you can read the legal code and learn more about the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.  

Under this license, you are free to both share and adapt the lesson plan in whatever way you would like as long as you provide appropriate attribution and you license any adaptations under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license. As long as you are reusing our content within the terms of the license, you do not need to ask our permission!

How do I provide attribution?

When providing attribution or giving credit, Creative Commons recommends following the “TASL” approach: Title, Author, Source, and License. 

For example, to properly provide attribution if you were reusing this Teach It lesson about individuals in Connecticut history:  

“Making a Difference: Individuals in Connecticut History.” By Rebecca Furer on TeachItCT.org. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notice that both the original article and the license terms are linked separately.  

While not required, if you are reusing our content, we would love to hear about it! Feel free to let us know how you are using Teach It lessons in your classroom by emailing us at teachitct@cthumanities.org.

I’m not sure how to incorporate state standards into my activity. Is there anyone I may ask for help?

Feel free to contact us at TeachItCT@CTHumanities.org. We are happy to provide curricular support to teachers and contributors.

We’re a historical society. What are the benefits to us of using Teach It?

Our Teach It team hopes that you will find many benefits to creating activities for Teach It. The primary benefit is that posting an activity on the Teach It website gives not only state, but national and international exposure to your organization and the history of your town or region. Teach It activities provide a way for you to extend your organization’s reach well into Connecticut’s education community and beyond. Teach It activities allow you to use content that you’ve already created, add primary source materials from your organization’s collections, and offer step-by-step instructions to align your content with state standards. Better still, the Teach It website will be linked to ConnecticutHistory.org, Connecticut Humanities’ popular and award-winning website featuring history content from each of Connecticut’s 169 towns.