Research Guides: Education: Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources

California Curriculum & Instruction
California Content Standards and Frameworks
Defines the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
Common Core State Standards
California's academic content standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics are examined against the Common Core Standards according to law.
Gateway to 21st Century Skills
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.

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Originally funded by U.S. Dept. of Education - a joint project with Syracuse University. Was originally affiliated with the producers of AskERIC.
Merlot
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.
MasterFILE Premier
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.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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.
Middle Search Plus
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.
Awesome Library for Teachers
Education World
Internet Mathematics Library
TeachersFirst.com
TeachHub
Contains lessons, teaching tools, etc. Lessons are searchable by grade and subject. Can't limit by state standards

learningscience.org
Free online resources vetted by scientists and science educators. You can also submit useful resources.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Digital Library
An extensive collection of digital video materials supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education reform.
ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
Videos you can purchase on teaching.
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
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.
Jason Project
Extreme weather, geology, energy, and ecology. Includes video, photos, games, and digital labs. Free registration is required for full access.
National Science Foundation special reports
Includes information from leading researchers, videos, and a covers a variety of topics.
MIT BLOSSOMS ( Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies)
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.

Center for Media Literacy (CML)
Promotes and supports media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating, creating and participating with media content.
Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Resources by Annenberg Media
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.
Literature Resource Center*
Use the Advanced search to limit your searches to find reviews of material that was written for children.
Project Look Sharp
Has curriculum materials that infuse media literacy into core content. All grade levels.

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Media literacy goals of organization at Ithaca College are to:
promote and support education; provide pre-service and in-service training and mentoring in; work with teachers to create new or revised teaching materials and pedagogical strategies; infuse media literacy into core content; evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy as a pedagogical approach.
US Digital Literacy
"US Digital Literacy is dedicated to providing many resources for learners, teachers, principals, parents, and ALL education stakeholders to become better equipped in today’s digital world. Please check back often for updates and new information about digital literacy."

Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
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.

BehaviorAdvisor
A how-to resource for managing classroom behaviors. Old fashion in its design, but still quite useful.
Classroom Management Resource Site
Site maintained by John Shindler at CSULA including both problems and alternative behaviors.

Frontline
American public television's flagship public affairs series. "Credible, thoughtful reporting combined with powerful narrative."
Hulu
Free streaming of network TV programs and films with minimal commercial interruption
Internet Movie Archive
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.
Lerner.org
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.
MiniMovie Channel - THIS IS MINI MOVIE CHANNEL
Streams short comedy films
Open Vault
Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning.
OV TV
Steams thousands of popular TV shows
UbuWeb
Streams art clips, films; a good resource for avant-garde artists' videos.
UC TV on demand
(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/
Vernissage TV
"the window to the art world"
TeacherTube
YouTube for teaching.
Kanopy
Stream thousands of films and documentaries.
Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites
Full Length and Short Films Online

Classroom Notes Plus*
An NCTE publication that contains ideas and lesson plans for middle level, junior high, and high school English language arts teacher. Not peer reviewed
Curriculum Review*
Journal of trends and reports of curriculum aimed at K-12 teachers. In addition, reviews textbooks, supplementary material, and media for educators.
Talking Points*
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.
TESL-EJ
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language
Teacher Reference Center*
Contains information (Indexing and abstracting) about 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals for educators.

Webspiration
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.
Mind42
Useful for collaboration. Free. Requires sign up.
Mindomo
Similar to Mind42. Free. Requires sign up.
Prezi
Used for web presentations. Free. Requires sign up.
bubbl.us
Brainstorming software. Free. Sign up required.