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Internet Resources in Education
Contents:
[Associations/Organizations/Research Centers]
[Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology]
[Education (General)]
[Electronic Journals and News Services]
[ERIC]
[Government and Statistics]
[Graduate Schools of Education]
[Lesson Plans and Activities for Teachers]
[Mailing Lists, Chats and Blogs]
[Publishers]
[Standards and Frameworks]
[Students' Pages (K-12)]
[Style Guides]
Related Subject Pages:
[Career and Job Information]
[Curriculum Laboratory]
[Financial Aid]
[Grants]
[Psychology]
UCSB Library Research Guides:
[Education]
[California
Department of Education Standards, Frameworks, and Publications]
[Children's Literature]
[Counseling/Clinical/School
Psychology]
[Educational Directories and
Rankings]
[Tests and Measurements]
Associations, Organizations, and Research Centers
- Education Resource Organizations
Directory (EROD)
- Scholarly
Societies in Education
- Yahoo: Education:
Organizations
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education (AACTE)
- American Association of School
Administrators (AASA)
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- American Council on Education (ACE)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- Association for Educational Communications and
Technology (AECT)
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
(ASCD)
- Association of American Colleges and
Universities (AACU)
- California League of Middle Schools
- California School Boards Association (CSBA)
- Center for Education Reform
- Center for the Future of Teaching & Learning
- Computer-Using Educators (CUE)
- Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- Education Commission of the States
- EDUCAUSE
- Educational Testing Service
Provides information on the PRAXIS, TOEFL, GRE and other exams, including
registration and sample questions.
- Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Research, UCSB (ISBER)
- International Reading Association
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- Linguistic Minority Research Institute, UC (LMRI)
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
- National Association of Elementary School
Principals (NAESP)
- National Association of Secondary School
Principals (NASSP) principals.org
- National Center for
Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
- National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
& Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA)
Formerly National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE).
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE)
- National Council for the Social Studies
- National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE)
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(NCTM)
- National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (formerly NICHCY)
- National Education Association (NEA)
- National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
- National Science Teachers
Association (NSTA)
- Policy Analysis for California
Education (PACE)
- Public Policy Intitute of California
- Regional Educational Laboratories,
National Network of
Links to all the Regional Educational Laboratories for
educational research and development supported by the U.S. Education Department,
Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
- TESOL Online (Teachers of English
to Speakers of Other Languages)
- UCSB Koegel Autism Center
- UNESCO
Education
- WestEd (Far West Laboratory for Educational
Research and Development)
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Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology
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Education (General)
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Electronic Journals and News Services
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ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
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Government and Statistics
- California Commission on Teacher
Credentialing
- California Department of
Education
Includes data and statistics on education in California.
- California Department of Education
Specialized Media
Information on specialzed media and equipment for students with disabilities.
-
California Education Code
- California Learning Resource Network
Provides information on electronic learning resources that meet the California
curriculum standards and frameworks.
- California Postsecondary Education
Commission
- California State Board of Education
- Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Materials
Information on curriculum frameworks and instructional materials adoptions in California,
maintained by the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission.
- ED Pubs
Free education publications are available from ED Pubs, the U.S. Department of
Education's Publications Center. To order free books, brochures, videos, and more,
click on the link here or call ED Pubs toll-free at 877/433-7827.
- Education Finance Statistics
Center
Includes statistical data on education finance in the U.S.
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Internet-based education resources supported by U.S. Federal government agencies.
- Federal School Code Search Page
Search for Federal School Codes that are assigned to each school qualified to receive and disburse
financial aid. These codes are required on many financial aid applications.
- National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES)
Includes many statistical reports and publications on education
in the U.S., including The Digest of Education Statistics and The Condition of
Education.
- National Institute for Literacy
Includes
facts and statistics from literacy research studies.
- National Library of Education
- No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Information about the No Child Left Behind Act (January 2002) from the U.S. Department of Education.
- Office of Special Education
and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education
- Santa Barbara County Education Office
- UNESCO
Institute for Statistics--Education
Includes selected international statistics from the UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, as
well as other publications, documents, and the UNESCO statistical database.
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Education A-Z Index
- U.S. Network
for Education Information
- What Works Clearinghouse
"Established in 2002 by the U.S. Department
of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the
public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education."
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Graduate Schools of Education
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Lesson Plans and Activities for Teachers
- AIMS Activities/Lesson Plans
Sample activities from various AIMS publications. (AIMS=Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science)
- Amazing Space for Educators
- Big6: Information Skills for Student Achievement
Information and lesson plans on the Big6 approach to teaching information literacy.
- BioClassroom
- Blue Web'N: A Library of Blue Ribbon
Learning Sites on the Web
An online library of internet sites searchable by subject, grade level, and format (lesson plans,
activities, projects, resources, references, and tools).
- Busy Teachers' WebSite K-12
- CNN Student News
- Columbia Education Center Lesson
Plans
- Cornell Education Gateways
- Crayola Creativity Central Lesson
Plans
- CultureQuest
Activities for exploring languages and cultures of the Hispanic world.
- Discovery Education Lesson
Plans Library
- EDSITEment Lesson Plans (National
Endowment for the Humanities)
- Education World Lesson Planning Center
- Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plans
Contains the lesson plan archives from the former AskERIC web site. Good examples of traditional lesson plan format.
Site also includes Write-a-Lesson Plan Guide for
developing a lesson plan.
- EPA Teaching Center
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's web site for teachers includes lesson plans, activities, background
information and links to environmental education sites.
- Gateway to 21st Century Skills: A Project of the GEM Exchange
- Getty Museum Curricula
Lesson plans from the Getty's art education web site.
- History Channel Classroom
- IDEAS
- Learning Page ... especially for Teachers
Lesson plans and activities for teachers using the Library of Congress American Memory collections
of over seven million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings.
- Lesson Plans and
Resources for ESL, Bilingual and Foreign Language Teachers
- Lesson Plans and
Resources for Social Studies Teachers
- Library in the Sky Lesson Plans (Northwest Regional
Educational Laboratory)
- Math Forum Teacher Exchange (Drexel University)
- Mid-continent Research for
Education and Learning -- Lesson Plans
Lesson plans, activities and educational
resources organized by content areas.
- NASA Education
- NASA Quest
- New York Times
Daily Lesson Plan Archive
- Newton's Apple
Includes over 300 streaming video clips, as well as teacher activity guides on science topics.
- NGA Classroom (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
- Nova Teachers
- Ocean Explorer
- PBS Teachers
- Science House
- Science NetLinks Lesson Index
- SCORE (Schools of California Online Resources for
Education)
- SEGway Lessons (Science Education Gateway)
- Sites for Teachers
- SMILE Program Lesson Plans (Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning
Enhancement, Illinois Institute of Technology)
- Smithsonian Lesson
Plans
- Talk About Trees
- Teacher Planet
- Teacher Planet: Lesson Plans 4 Teachers
- Teachers.Net Lesson Bank
- U.S. Geological Survey Education
- Yahoo: K-12 Lesson Plans
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Mailing Lists, Chats, and Blogs
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Publishers
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Standards and Frameworks
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Students' Pages (K-12)
- A+ Research & Writing for High
School and College Students
- Aesop's Fables
- African American World
- Amazing Space
- American Memory Timeline
- American Presidency, The
- American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
- American President: An Online Reference
Source
- American Red Cross Museum
- American Red Cross Science Lab
- American Rhetoric
- America's Story from America's Library
- The Anne Frank Web Guide
- Aunt Annie's Craft Page
- ATN Book Lists
- BAM! Body and Mind
- Baseball Hall of Fame
- Beach Kids
- Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
- Biography.com
- Bookhive, The
- Boowa & Kwala Games Galore
- California Mission Links
-
Camelot Project, The
- Chateau Meddybemps Learning Activities
- Circle of Stories
- Clara Barton-Kids Corner
- CNN Student News
- Coloring Books!
- Constitution
of the United States
Includes the complete text of The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and The
Decaration of Independence from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Convert-me.Com: Interactive Units Converter
- CoolMath.com
- Country Reports
- Deserts in the American Southwest
- Dinosours (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
- Disney.com
- Dole SuperKids
- Elmo's Keyboard-o-Rama
- EPA Climate Change Kids Site
(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
- EPA Environmental Kids Club
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website for grades Pre-K through 4.
- EPA High School Environmental Center
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website for grades 9-12.
- EPA Kid's Air
- EPA Planet Protectors Club for Kids
- EPA Student Center
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website for grades 5-8.
- Exploratorium:Online Activities
- Exploring Planets in the Classroom
- ExpoMuseum
- Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Hands-On Astronomy
Activities for Kids
- Fact Monster: Online Almanac from Information Please
- FactFinder Kids' Corner
Facts and statistics about the 50 states from the U.S. Census.
- 50states.com: States and Capitals
- Fish Kids
Helps kids identify healthy fish to eat.
- Flashlight Readers: A Club for
Kids Who Love Books
- Florence Nightingale
- The Food Timeline
- From the Andes to the Artic: Explore
American Indian Heritage through Music (Smithsonian Global Sound)
- GeoNet
- GirlsHealth.gov
Current health information for girls between the ages of 10 and 16.
- Great
Web Sites for Kids (Association for Library Service to Children, American Library Association)
- Guys Read
- Hispanic Heritage
- The History Place-Child Labor in America 1908-1912
- Homework Helper
- Human Anatomy Online
- Images of Native Americans
- Internment History
- InfoNation
- iwannaknow
- Johnny Appleseed and Apples Web page
- Just One More Book
- K.E.W.L. (Kids' Excellent Web Links)
- KidsClick!
- Kids.gov
- KidsHealth
- KidSpace @ The Internet Public Library
- Kids Zone: Discover Africa
- Kindergarten Literacy and Math
- Lawrence Hall of Science Kids' Corner
- Learn About Chemicals Around Your House
- Math Flashcards for Kids (Grades 1-5)
- Mexico for Kids
- Miracle of Fall, The
- Mission Science Lab, The
- Myths and Fables from around the World
- NASA Education
- NASA for Kids
- NASA Kids Club
- NASA Space Place
- Native American Cultures
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of the
American Indian Online Exhibitions
- New York Times Student Connections
- NIDA for Teens (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
- Nurses Change Lives
- Ocean Explorer
- Online Games for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
- Physics Life
- Picturing Modern America
- Planet Tolerance
- POTUS: Presidents of the United States
-
RainforestWeb.org: Sites for Kids
- Salem
- SEGway for the Public (Science Education Gateway)
- Science Clips
- Science Fair Project Resource Guide
- Sesame Street
- Sexual Health
- Smithsonian Education for Students
- Smithsonian Kids - Collecting
- Stone Age People
- Storynory
- Talk About Sex
- Teen Page
- Teen Reading
- Teenwire
- ToxMystery
- ToxRap
- United Nations Cyberschoolbus
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service--Especially for Kids!
- U.S. Geological Survey Educational Resources
- U.S. Mint, H.I.P. Pocket Change
Information about coins and coin collecting.
- U.S. Presidents-United in Service
- The Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes
- White House for Kids
- Why Files: Science Behind the News
- Windows to the Universe
- Women's Adventures in Science
- Wonderville:Interactive Activities
- World Almanac for Kids
- Yahoo Kids
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Author: Lorna Lueck
Last modified: August 2008
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