Education: Teaching Resources

Defines the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.

California's academic content standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics are examined against the Common Core Standards according to law.

Funded by NEA (National Education Association). Has a large set of education resources, lesson plans and the like. Most are free, some are pay. Has state standards included and may be searched by subject, level and more.

A "free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy." It is possible to adapt some of these resources to other educational levels. Use the advanced search to locate learning objects, open textbooks, and more.

May be useful for teaching children how to search for good information currently available to them. Designed for public libraries. Provides full text for more than 1,750 general reference publications dating as far back as 1975. Covers general interest. Includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,019 biographics, 105,787 full text primary source documents, images, flags and maps.

Appropriate for non-college students. Contains: the new encyclopedia, world almanac and book of facts; world almanac of the U.S.A.; The world almanac of U.S. politics; The world almanac for kids.

Full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. Full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Includes thousands of biographies and historical essays. Also includes 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps and flags.

Contains lessons, teaching tools, etc. Lessons are searchable by grade and subject. Can't limit by state standards

Free online resources vetted by scientists and science educators. You can also submit useful resources.

Educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy

An extensive collection of digital video materials supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education reform.

Videos you can purchase on teaching.

Authored by the Committee on Conceptual Framework for the New K-12 Science Education Standards; National Research Council. This promises to have a significant impact on science teaching. You can download the report for free in full text.

Extreme weather, geology, energy, and ecology. Includes video, photos, games, and digital labs. Free registration is required for full access.

Includes information from leading researchers, videos, and a covers a variety of topics.

Free video lessons in Science for high school.Contains 50 50 minute math and science lessons, available to teachers in multiple formats including: streaming video, Internet downloads, DVDs, and videotapes.

Promotes and supports media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating, creating and participating with media content.

Multimedia resources to help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home.

Use the Advanced search to limit your searches to find reviews of material that was written for children.

Has curriculum materials that infuse media literacy into core content. All grade levels.

U. S. Government resource for practitioners delivering digital literacy training. Enables discussion and collaboration to improve quality. Invites users to share content and ideas.

From an emeritus professor at CSUN. Contains a number of links to sites. While sites referenced are somewhat older, there are still links of value.

A how-to resource for managing classroom behaviors. Old fashion in its design, but still quite useful.

Site maintained by John Shindler at CSULA including both problems and alternative behaviors.

American public television's flagship public affairs series. "Credible, thoughtful reporting combined with powerful narrative."

Free streaming of network TV programs and films with minimal commercial interruption

Free library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.

Annenberg Media's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Media videos exemplify excellent teaching.

Streams short comedy films

Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning.

Steams thousands of popular TV shows

Streams art clips, films; a good resource for avant-garde artists' videos.

(UCTV) is a non-commercial channel featuring 24/7 programming from throughout the University of California. UCTV explores a broad spectrum of subjects of interest, arts channel can be viewed at http://www.uctv.tv/arts/

"the window to the art world"

Lots of content, quality varies

YouTube for teaching.

Stream thousands of films and documentaries.

An NCTE publication that contains ideas and lesson plans for middle level, junior high, and high school English language arts teacher. Not peer reviewed

Journal of trends and reports of curriculum aimed at K-12 teachers. In addition, reviews textbooks, supplementary material, and media for educators.

Literacy research and the use of whole language instruction in classrooms. Provides a forum for parents, classroom teachers, and researchers to reflect about literacy and learning.

Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language

Contains information (Indexing and abstracting) about 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals for educators.

Visual thinking, learning and collaboration tool for students, and teachers. Allows collaboration and peer review . Everyone you invite creates, edits and comments on the same document. Requires sign up. Web version of software, Inspiration. Helpful for developing ideas, concepts and keywords.

Useful for collaboration. Free. Requires sign up.

Similar to Mind42. Free. Requires sign up.

Used for web presentations. Free. Requires sign up.

Brainstorming software. Free. Sign up required.

International scope. Searches sites of members for content.

Contest for open access.