German Language Resources for Students and Teachers: Resources for Teaching German

This is a site where teachers can upload teaching materials and "borrow" from other teachers. Since it's a German site, the materials can support subject-based teaching of German as well as German language instruction.

This is a cooperative site, with many valuable resources for teaching German.

This site is a collaboration of several German universities, German publishers, the Goethe Institute, and the American Association of Teachers of German. It offers teaching tips and materials, a German-teaching blog, and other resources for German teachers and students.

This site, supported by the Max Kade Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides lesson plans and authentic materials, including scanned images of authentic documents.

Professor Andreas-Lixl-Purcell has provided a wealth of links to online resources to support German langauge, literature, and culture. While the site might seem overwhelming, it's worth delving into.

"GermanShare is a community supported website designed to provide teacher-tested resources for German teachers of all levels."

Nancy Thuleen provides a host of resources for teaching beginning and intermediate German. The general-interest pages contain many links to German language and culture sites.

This German site contains teaching materials in German to support both the teaching of German language and subject-based German learning.

This site provides instructional materials and activities for various levels of German. Click on ITG und DU for descriptions of the activities and guidance in their use.

German publisher Hueber offers this wiki with valuable information on foreign-language teaching.

Angelika Davey is a German who offers private lessons to children and adults, including business clients. Her blog offers teaching ideas, teaching content, resources, and information about technology.

The Auswärtiges Amt provides current awareness information on Germany and the German language, as well as opportunities for language learning and a toolkit for recruiting students into German langauge study.

ProTeacher is a social networking cite for teachers, with opportunities for teachers engage in forums, chats, and blogging on pedagogical topics.

These tests can be used for placement at the A1, A2, and B1 levels or as assessments.

The BPB offers ancillaries to selected films on important political, social, and historical topics.

This site, sponsored by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, provides support for teachers who wish to use active-learning techniques like blended learning and project-based learning, and comprehensive assessment.

This site includes course materials, professional resources, and language-specific resources for many languages, including German.

Dr. Teresa Kennedy provides the results of her research on language study and the brain, along with suggestions for effective FL teaching based on brain research.

“SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization that provides authentic foreign language resources in more than 175 native languages. SCOLA receives and re-transmits foreign TV programming from around the world and provides other foreign language resources, language lessons, and learning material on this website.” SCOLA's resources include video and radio resources.

The Internet Second Language Collective is a community of FL teachers that make teaching materials available online to teachers and learners. The materials include worksheets and videos.

This riddle book, part of Project Gutenberg, is a great source of authentic language materials for German instruction.

The Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung provides this site of readings in civics, culture, and other topics in daily life for young adults.

This site offers German lessons on Biologie von A bis Z.

This site brings together a community of educators focused on curriculum development at the intersection of German Studies, Environmental Humanities, and community engaged learning.

This site is a collection of open-access teaching materials and curricular resources related to sustainability and environmental topics. In addition to 15 modules on relevant topics, there are worksheets, a description of how learning objectives relate to the National Standards, a bibliography, and links to additional online resources.

DaF-Community is a collaborative community that provides resources for German instruction.

GLOW is an interactive database of German programs, tutors/translators, and job seekers in the U.S.

This is an organized, searchable/filterable, curated directory/collection of free resources for comprehension-based communicative German language education, with a guide for teachers of how to use those resources.

Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of German in conjunction with Wunderbar Together. This project is a collaborative initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and implemented by the Goethe-Institut. It contains A new way to view materials: Standards-based materials that are accessible on almost any device.

The Goethe Institute offers monthly teaching materials from the German-speaking world. Bit- size interactive PDFs for immediate download and use in your classroom include one image/video and three to four interconnected tasks. For German beginner students in Middle/High Schools (Level A1-A2).

This site allows users to generate word puzzles (word-search, crosswords, matching, word scrambles, etc.).

Audacity is a free, open-source software for recording and editing audio files. The Audacity site has a wiki with tips and tutorials and an international forum.

This tool is intended to help clients identify machine translations submitted by professional translators, but it can also be used to show students how easily they can be caught if they submit machine translations as their own work.

This tool allows teachers to create cloze passages by inserting texts of their choice.

Edmodo is a free social learning and networking platform for students, teachers, and parents.

This site provides pronunciation help for many words in a plethora of languages.

This free site allows teachers to create customized Jeopardy games. Teachers can also browse the database of Jeopardy templates, including ones related to German language, history, and culture, created by others.

Languages Online allows teachers to create interactive activities (matching, memory, tetris, among others) and also provides ready-made interactive games and activities in several languages, including German.

Cambridge University's Language Center makes two types of FL teaching resources available: language courses and language learning objects. Both are available for free use under the Creative Commons License.

Schoology is a free academic-based social network that focuses on collaboration. It can be used with both PCs and mobile devices.

Super Teacher Tools allows teachers to create games (Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionnaire?, Matching) for instructional purposes. THere's also a classroom timer, a group creator, and a random name generator.

TodaysMeet provides a platform for students to engage in backchannel conversations, reflections, questions, or other collaborative active-learning activities.

Voca is a free vocabulary learning tool for Windows- and Linux-based computers. You can download the tool and vocabulary lists, some of them created for specific textbooks and curricula, some of them thematic.

Sparklebox offers attractive thematic posters with common vocabulary.

This tool provides a vocabulary drill/testing exercise. Teachers and learners can create their own exercises, and there are Vokabel apps for the iPhone and Android telephones.

WeSpeke is a free global community in which learners can connect to practice languages and share interests.