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Online Curriculum Resources
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Sites for State and National Standards
Content Knowledge: A compendium of standards and benchmarks for K-12 education:
http://www.mcrel.org
Sites for Excellent Resources for Standards-Based Units across the Curriculum
http://cnets.iste.org/students/
National Educational Technology Standards for
Students: Connecting Curriculum and Technology provides thirty-six standards-based
lesson sequences and unit resources originally published in a book with this
title. Lessons address national standards in content areas as well as technology,
suggests related resources, and provides a brief narrative by a teacher who has
actually used the lesson in a classroom. Project partners included Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Council for Exceptional Children,
National Education Association, International Reading Association, National Council
for the Social Studies, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics, National Science Teachers Association, and others!
http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo
The MarcoPolo program provides panel-reviewed links to top sites across the curriculum
and professionally developed lesson plans
and classroom activities. The Marco Polo search engine allows you to search by
topic, grade level, and multiple curriculum areas, and it will bring up results
from all the partner sites. MarcoPolo partner sites include: National Council
on Economic Education; Geography, National Geographic Society; National Endowment
for the Humanities/Council of the Great City Schools; National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics; American Association for the Advancement of Science.
http://www.ed.gov/free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence is a site
comprised by over 40 Federal agencies who formed a working group to make hundreds
of federally supported education resources available in one place. FREE focuses
only on resources created with federal support, so all resources are child-safe,
and advertiser-free. You can search for resources by subject or by keyword.
http://www.thegateway.org TheGateway to Educational Materials Project, sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Education's National Library of Education, is a special
project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology. The Gateway
allows you to find connect directly to high quality educational materials, including
lesson plans, activities, and projects from more than 140 federal, state,university,
non-profit, and commercial organizations. Very user-friendly, you can search
by subject, keyword, title, and/or grade level. This should be one of your first
stops in locating resources.
http://www.scholastic.com Scholastic has great resources for teachers, kids,
and parents, including: online activities that allow students to interact with
authors and experts and promote inquiry; lesson plans and reproducibles; professional
resources; virtual field trips, and more. There are multiple ways to search the
site. The teacher's page has a "search" feature that allows searching
by key words.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/search.cfm Blue Web'n, sponsored by
Pacific Bell, is a searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning
sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects,
resources, references, & tools). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all
educational sites, but only the most useful sites -- especially online activities
targeted at learners. Extremely user-friendly, you can browse the Content Table,
browse by Subject Area, or try a Refined Search by grade level, application type,
content area, Dewey number, and/or key word.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learn.shtm PBS
Teacher Source provides lessons/units are extremely high quality, are linked
to national/state standards, and often
provide access to video, historical documents, and multimedia resources. All
can be searched by key words, grade level, content area, and/or national/state
standards.
http://school.discovery.com/ The
Discovery Channel website is filled with terrific resources for teachers and
students. Lesson plans are linked to national standards
and can only be searched by grade level and subject (not keyword). The site also
provides excellent online learning adventures in science and social studies for
students. A link from this site, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators at http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/provides a categorized list of websites found to be of value in the curriculum.
Since the site is updated daily, the links are usually of quality.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us Schools of California On-Line Resources for Education
ties lesson plans to the California State Standards.
Sites for Specific Content Areas
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/index.html Science
NetLinks strives to be a comprehensive "homepage" for
K-12 science educators with activities and websites linked to benchmarks. You
can search the library of reviewed websites and lessons by selecting a science
Benchmark topic.
http://www.nsta.org National Science Teachers Association
Science and math links can be found at: http://www.nsta.org/onlineresources/site/
http://www.enc.org Eisenhower
Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science offers useful free print resources
to teachers, as well as a multitude of online lesson
plans and professional materials.
http://www.nctm.org NationalCouncil of Teachers of Mathematics. Illuminations,
a wonderful new site sponsored by the council, http://illuminations.nctm.org/index2.html,
is designed to "illuminate" the new national mathematics standards
by providing lesson plans, interactive lessons, resources, and much more for
teachers, students and parents.
http://www.ncss.org National
Council of Social Studies. Social Studies links are categorized by the ten themes
of social studies used in the National Social
Studies standards.
http://www.congresslink.org CongressLink, a site developed by The Dirksen Congressional
Center, is committed to exploring new ways to learn about Congress, how it works,
its Constitutional underpinnings, its leaders and members, and the public policies
it produces. The lessons are all developed around Bloom's Taxonomy and linked
to national standards. A truly excellent resource.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/ Xpeditions - Links a huge array
of teaching and learning to national standards in geography.
http://www.econedlink.org/ National Council of Economic Education site provides
lessons and weblinks in economics. Lessons are linked to standards and can be
searched by standard and grade level.
http://www.ncte.org NationalCouncil
of Teachers of English. Practical teaching
ideas in all areas of Language Arts.
http://www.readingonline.org Reading Online – Electronic journal of the
International Reading Association provides many resources and ideas. Links to
Internet sites related to all aspects of literacy can be found at: http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/watch/
http://edsitement.neh.gov EDSITEment, a joint project of the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI WorldCom, provides
online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html Artsedge - links the arts and
education through technology by providing lessons and information in all areas
of the arts, linked to national standards.
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