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• Art
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• Economics
• Educational Technology
• Environmental
• Higher Ed
• Language & Literature
• Math
• Music
• Psychology
• Science
• Social Science
• Special Ed
• Web Reviews

General Sources

North Carolina Sources

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction  Contains news, statistics and other reports on North Carolina public schools, full text of the NC Standard Course of Study, employment information, directory of North Carolina Schools and other education offices, and a calendar of conferences and events.

U.S. Government Sources

U.S. Department of Education
    Education Topics A-Z

Education Statistics at a Glance  Online versions of The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics and other reports from the National Center for Education Statistics.

ERIC Homepage  General information about the ERIC service.

Gateway to Educational Materials  A project of the U.S. Department of Education, GEM provides a searchable database of substantial educational materials from various websites.
   
National Library of Education  The federal government's main resource for education information.  

Other General Sources

Academic.Writing  This electronic journal is produced by the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse at Colorado State University.

Blue Web'n  Subtitled "A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web," this site groups web sites by content area, specific subject area, grade level and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references and tools).

CNNStudentNews  News for students, resources for teachers. 

Columbia Education Center This private organization in Portland, Oregon, is involved in projects primarily aimed at small town and rural schools, especially in the areas of environmental, intercultural, science, math, and technology education.  Links to lesson plans, teacher resources and funding resources are provided.

Developing Educational Standards  Sponsored by the Putnam Valley (NY) School District, this site provides an extensive directory of national, state, and local educational standards.

Early Childhood.com  A commercial site maintained by Discount School Supply that offers arts and crafts ideas, online school supply shopping, message boards, articles, related links and other resources for educators and homeschoolers.

edHelper.com  An extensive array of free lesson plans and worksheets for K-12.

Educators Network  Lesson plans, worksheets, theme units, teacher tools, rubrics, etc. 

EducationWorld  Some of the sections of this extensive site sponsored by American Fidelity Education Services are Lesson Planning, Professional Development, Administrator's Desk, Technology in the Classroom, and School Issues. 

Explorations in Learning & Instruction  A database of 50 major theories of learning and instruction.  Each theory is explained with an overview, scope/application, example, principles, and references.  Developed by Greg Kearsley, Nova Southeastern University. 

Global Schoolhouse Collaborative projects, communication tools and professional development resources.

Great Web Sites for Kids  Recommendations from the American Library Association.

History of American Education Web Project  Basic history of American education (with images) written and designed by undergraduates at Notre Dame University.  

The Learning Page  Free teaching resources and clip art.

The Merrow Report  PBS documentary series on youth and learning host by John Merrow.  Merrow speaks with "leading thinkers and doers in education." 

National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing  Research on K-12 testing and assessment.

New York Times Learning Network  Collections of resources aimed at students, teachers and parents.  The teachers' area includes lesson plans. 

PBS TeacherSource Materials for teachers categorized by grade level and subject, information on teaching with technology, professional development resources, an electronic newsletter and more.

Schoolnet  A collection of educational links.

U.S. News & World Report: Education  U.S. News & World Report is well known for its rankings of colleges and graduate schools.  U.S. News Classrom provides lesson plans and activities for K-12. 

 

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance  
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
American Association of School Administrators
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
American Orff-Schulwerk Association
American School Counselor Association
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Association for Childhood Education International
Association of Christian Schools International
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
College Music Society
Council of the Great City Schools   
International Association of Universities
MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Music Teachers National Association
National Art Education Association
National Association for College Admission Counseling
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Council of Teachers of English
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Education Association
National Science Teachers Association
Philosophy of Education Society
 

Children's & Young Adult Literature

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site  Reviews of children's books, lesson plans, curriculum topics, teacher resources, and a newsletter, with helpful search features.  Search for a book by title, author, type, or grade level and or curricular materials by subject, or theme. 

Center for Children's Books  Designed for librarians, teachers, parents, and others seeking information regarding literature-based programming, storytelling, and other practical uses of children's literature.

Children's Literature Web Guide  Includes commentary on children's literature, an annotated Webliography of children's literature sites, teaching ideas, lists of award winners, and many other links to related sites.  Developed by David K. Brown, University of Calgary.

International Children's Digital Library  A project of the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab and the Internet Archive, this site provides online access to 200,000 children's books from 21 countries. 

McBookWords:  Authors and Illustrators on the Web  Provides links to Web pages by children's authors and illustrators. 

SmartWriters.com  Designed for children's literature writers and teachers, this site includes publishers' directories, information about arranging author visits to schools, links to lesson plans and advice for writers.

TeachingBooks.net  Multimedia resources for children's literature.

ARTSEDGE: The National Arts and Education Information Network  Provides teaching resources and professional materials to support art education as the center of curriculum.  ARTSEDGE was established by the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts.  

ArtsEdNet  The Getty's art education website that provides lesson plans and curriculum ideas, image galleries and exhibitions, a listserv for art educators and learners, a variety of publications on art education and links to other sources of information art education.

Art Studio Chalkboard  Resources on art fundamentals for artists and students of art.

Art Teacher on the Net  Provides a variety of resources on art education for teachers, parents and homeschoolers.  

Edsitement  The National Endowment for the Humanities links to the best of the humanities on the web, with categories of Art & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language and History& Social Studies.  Each category is subdivided into lesson plans (for K-12) and websites.  

National Art Education Association

Character Education

Goodcharacter.com  Live Wire Media provides teaching guides, information on service learning, character in sports and related information. 

International Bureau of Education  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) centre for the content of information.  With particular goals of creating a forum for dialogue on educational policy, collecting, analyzing, and disseminating educational information and performing surveys and studies on comparative education, the IBE provides data, research and publications via their website.

EcEdWeb  Links and resources for all levels of economics education.  This site is maintained by the National Campaign for Economic Literacy.

CyberSmart  Macmillan/McGraw-Hill's curricula, faculty development and related services for teaching with with Internet.

Educational Software Directory  This site provides information on software for purchase, along with software reviews.  Links to publishers, organizations, publications and news about educational software and technology are also provided.

Educational Technology: A Guide to Resources on the Web  A Webliography from the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Edtechnot.com  News and research in educational technology, billed as "where educational technologists come to think."

Institute for Learning Technologies  This Columbia University institute engages in research and development to transform education through learning technology.

Intel Learning Projects  Unit and project plans from teachers in Intel's Teach to the Future Program, reports of how teachers are using technology in the classroom, etc.

Learning Resource Server   Links to research and projects in educational technology from the College of Education at the University of Illinois.

Environmental Education

Environmental Education on the Internet  Classroom and student resources, grant and organization information.

Spirit of Trees  Provides recourses on the scientific, symbolic and aesthetic dimensions of trees.  Includes folktales, poetry, lesson plans and essays.

Higher Ed

Almanac of Higher Education  Data and information on all aspects of higher education from the National Education Association.  Adobe Acrobat required to read files.

HEPROC  The Higher Education Processes is a network of educators from 40 countries who use the website to share ideas through electronic forums, databases, news archives and links to other information on higher education.

U.S. News & World Report: Education  U.S. News & World Report is well known for its rankings of colleges and graduate schools. 

Language and Literature

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Center for Applied Linguistics 

Edsitement  The National Endowment for the Humanities links to the best of the humanities on the web, with categories of Art & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language and History& Social Studies.  Each category is subdivided into lesson plans (for K-12) and websites.  

Foreign Language Teaching Forum  A discussion forum (with archives) of information on foreign language teaching.  The website also provides links to articles and other information.

Language and Learning Across the Curriculum  A committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, provides links, a discussion list and a bibliography of information on the role of language, both oral and written,  in the learning process.  

Languages Across the Curriculum  Resources and links on the study and use of language throughout the curriculum to prepare students for the multilingual demands of a global society.  

National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) The center conducts research to improve English and literacy competencies in schools in the United States.  CELA is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement.  

Teach Spanish.com  Lesson ideas, information on Spanish speaking countries, teacher and student discussion boards, job search information for Spanish teachers and numerous links to all aspects of teaching Spanish.

Math

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education  News, polls, curriculum resources, web links, professional resources and more.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics  Interactive math manipulatives developed with an NSF grant.

Music

K-12 Resources for Music Educators  An extensive directory of sites for band, choral, orchestral and classroom music education.

Music Education Resource Base   A bibliographic database of more than 30,000 resources in music and music education from 32 Canadian and International journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the present. The journals are fully indexed by title, author, and subject. (from the Music Education Resource Base web site.)

MusicResults  Free tools for music educators including videos of music instructors teaching technique, online registrations for concerts, competitions and other events, schedules, a daily poll, chat rooms, message boards, fundraising information and more.

Psychology

APA Center for Psychology in Schools and Education  The CPSE promotes psychology's presence in policy and programs 
for schools and education.  The Center coordinates programs that bring the knowledge and methods of psychology to bear on national issues of social reform related to schools and education. (from the APA CPSE website)

School Psychology Resources Online  An index of sources on a variety of topics in school psychology aimed at psychologists, parents and educators.

Science

BioInteractive  Virtual labs, animations and tutorials from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  Includes an children's area. 

BiosciEdNet  A portal of digital libraries for biological education resources, spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education  News, polls, curriculum resources, web links, professional resources and more.

Exploratorium  Website of the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, includes online experiments and interactive exhibits. 

ExploreScience  Multimedia science activities.

KineticCity  An interactive game on the history and future of everyday science.  For grades 5 and up.  Produced by AAAS.

NASA Observatorium  Public access site for Earth and space data with resources for educators.

OceanLink  Resource guide for teachers, "Ask a Scientist" and Question and Answer archive, ocean news. etc. 

USGS Learning Web  The U.S. Geological Survey provides lesson plans, activities, and project ideas in Earth sciences.

WeatherNet Classroom  The American Weather Service sponsors this site on "live, local and national weather data, interactive lessons, mapping & graphing tools, time-lapsed camera images."

Social Studies

American Memory  Primary source materials from the Library of Congress, including text, photos, audio and video.  The Learning Page provides lesson plans and activities for using the materials in the classroom.

America's Story  Children's section of the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

Digital Classroom From the National Archives and Records Administration, the Digital Classroom offers material and advice on teaching with the primary documents of the NARA.  Educational publications published by NARA and professional development information are also included.

Edsitement  The National Endowment for the Humanities links to the best of the humanities on the web, with categories of Art & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language and History& Social Studies.  Each category is subdivided into lesson plans (for K-12) and websites.  

socialstudies.org  Information service from the National Council for Social Studies that provides news, links, a discussion board, teaching resources and other information for social studies educators.

The International Social Studies Project  This collaborative project by UNC Chapel Hill's School of Education and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction promotes international and global/world studies.

Special Ed

LD Online  From the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, this site provides both basic and detailed information on learning disabilities, bulletin boards and "Ask the expert" for interaction, and news and research reports on leanring disabilities. 

UVA Special Education Web  A variety of information on special education, including basic history, interventions, etc., links to internet resources, a directory of professionals in special education and information for parents.

 

Web Reviews

Blue Web'n "Hot Sites of the Week"
DiscoverySchool.com "Best Web Links"
EducationWorld "Site Review"
Skewl Sites:  The Best in Educational Web Sites  Researched by teachers for teachers, also issued as a newsletter by subscription.
 

These education journals have regular columns reviewing web sites:

Curriculum Technology Quarterly.  “Cybersources.”
Education Digest.  “Caught on the Web.”
Educational Leadership.  “Web Wonders.”
Instructor.  “Electronic Learning.”
Library Journal.  “WebWatch” and NetConnect Supplement
School Library Journal.  “Web Site Reviews” and NetConnect Supplement
Science & Children.  “Finds and Sites.”
The Social Studies.  “Tech Talk for Social Studies Teaching.”
Teaching Children Mathematics.  “News from the Net.”
Teaching Pre K-8.  “Hot Websites.”
TechTrends.  “Web & Wild.”
Technology & Learning.  “Web Sightings.”
THE Journal.  “EduNet.”

The websites above are suggestions to aid in your research. They are not intended to be a specific endorsement of content, other than that the Randall Library believes it to be a useful research resource. They are not a comprehensive list of resources for this topic and should not be the reseracher's only resource. The Randall Library is not responsible for the validity or relevance of content on the websites above, nor does it purposefully mean to mislead the researcher towards a specific topic, philosophy, or concept.

Last Update: December 12, 2005