The Teacher Guide: Your Daily Planning Hub

The Teacher Guide is the best place to begin planning each lesson in GSE Bookshelf+. It brings together everything you need to teach a chapter or unit, including lesson ideas, instructional resources, assessments, standards alignment, and student materials, all in one place.

1. From the landing page, select Course beneath your class.
2. Open your textbook.
3. Select the chapter or unit you'd like to teach.
4. Click Open.
5. Select View next to Teacher Guide.

The Teacher Guide will open with all of the instructional resources for that chapter or unit.

The Teacher Guide is organized to help you quickly find the resources you need.

Teacher Guide

Begin with the Teacher Guide for lesson ideas, instructional strategies, and activities. Each lesson is aligned to state or national standards, giving you flexibility to choose the activities that best fit your students while still meeting curriculum requirements.

Student Assignments

Assign an entire chapter or unit to your students from one convenient location.

Student Resources

Provide additional support with resources such as:

• Lesson Activities
• Student Support Guide/ELL Support Guide

These materials are great for differentiation and helping students who may need additional reading or instructional support.

Assessments

Access chapter assessments, pretests, answer keys, and other evaluation resources.

Teacher Resources

Find instructional materials such as:

• Teacher Tools
  • Maps
  • Graphic Organizers
• Correlation Guides
• Standards Alignment Documents
• Additional instructional resources

These resources are designed to save planning time by putting everything together in one location.

PowerPoint Presentations

Download fully editable PowerPoint presentations for each chapter.

The presentations can be opened in:

• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Google Slides
• Apple Keynote

Many teachers use these presentations to display maps, photographs, and primary sources for the entire class, making it easier for everyone to focus on the same content together.

The Teacher Guide is designed to be your daily teaching companion.

Instead of searching through multiple menus, you'll find lesson plans, activities, student resources, assessments, standards alignment, and presentation materials all organized by chapter or unit.

Whether you're preparing tomorrow's lesson, looking for differentiated resources, or identifying standards-aligned activities, the Teacher Guide is the best place to start.