Curriculum Connections on the WWW
Children's and Young Adult Literature
ALA "BEST" LISTS --Includes Notable Books, Best Books for Young Adults, Notable Children's Books, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, Notable Children's Computer Software, and Selected Videos for Young Adults.
AMERICAN JUVENILE COLLECTION --Research collection that contains children's fiction and folklore printed by American publishers from 1910-1960.
CAROL HURST'S CHILDREN'S LITERATURE NEWSLETTER --Carol Hurst is a storyteller, lecturer, author, columnist, and language arts consultant; her newsletter includes book reviews, teaching ideas, links to author interviews, professional topics, and more.
CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL --This site lists services intended for the use of teachers and librarians. It provides quick access to current recommended social studies and science books for children.
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WEB GUIDE --This is THE children's literature web address leading to dozens of other sites and leaving very few web sites for children's literature not connected. Included are ALA "best" and award lists, parent, writer's and storyteller's resources, full text children's books, publisher's information, discussion list-servs, author's pages, etc.
DATABASE OF AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE --Campus of Ohio State University, compiled and indexed this database of award-winning children's literature. Parents, teachers, and older children can access high quality book titles via keyword or phrase searching, or by using a form to indicate reading level, genre, language, historical period, gender of the protagonist, and ethnicity of the protagonist, among other elements. Books listed have been recognized with awards ranging from the Caldecott Award to ALA Notable Books for Children to the Coretta Scott King Award, to name a few. Honorable mentions are alos included.
International Children's Digital Library
NOTES ON THE WINDOWSILL -- Formerly known as The Web Online Review this is a resource by and for people who love children's books. Its primary goal is to evaluate books seriously.
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY --Publisher's Weekly provides information on best-sellers, including picture books, fiction and nonfiction books, and paperbacks.
SLJ-BEST SITES FOR LIBRARIANS -- brings you websites of interest to children's, young adult, and school librarians.
VANDERGRIFT'S 100: LIST OF YOUNG ADULT AUTHORS AND TITLES --This list, which changes each year, includes books of historical significance. Many of the titles are in paperback, and almost all will be in public libraries. This list is intended to provide guidance for those unfamiliar with literature for young adults, but it is not exhaustive.
Professional Resources
ASKERIC VIRTUAL LIBRARY --Not just lesson plans but access to all kinds of education tools and resources.
AWESOME LIBRARY K-12 EDUCATION DIRECTORY: for teachers, students and parents -- The Awesome Library organizes your exploration of the World Wide Web with 12,000 carefully reviewed resources. It includes a directory, an index, and a search engine.
BRODERBUND -- "A number of Broderbund products enjoy widespread acceptance in schools. Teachers report that their high quality and ease of use enhance the curriculum and motivate students to learn. Many titles continue to be best sellers in the school as well as the home computing market." (Taken from the Broderbund homepage.)
CLASSROOM CONNECT ON THE NET --Connects to MANY other sites including online schools, teaching resources, products and information found by searching. A really unique feature is the 'teacher search"
EDWEB HOME PAGE --The web page for keeping up with the latest in education trends, reading about computer success stories, and using the web with teaching.
ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE ON ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION --Gives access to the test locator (for finding specific tests by subject, title, author) as well as other testing helps.
EISENHOWER NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE --Provides links to primarily math and science lessons.
ITCS TOP TEN K-12 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES--Internet Training & Consulting Services, favorite sites for K-12 students and teachers.
KATHY SCHROCK'S GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS --As the home page states, this site is a collection of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.
LETSNet-MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY --Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students is a place where teachers can develop their understanding of the Web and find ways to effectively use the World Wide Web in their classrooms.
MID SOUTH EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE CLEARINGHOUSE -- "Several faculty and staff members of the Univ. of Memphis have established the Mid South Educational Software Clearinghouse. The MSESC has begun collecting software programs from all over the world. Special emphasis will be placed on software that is useful in teaching students with a variety of needs."
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES --NCSS serves as an umbrella organization for teachers of history, geography, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and law-related eduction. It's website provides information about other internet links and resources, journals and publications, standards and curriculum, and teaching resources.
NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION --The NSTA web site offers information about education resources, NSTA Standards for science teacher preparation, publications, and a list of notable science children's books.
PENN LIBRARY-EDUCATION/K-12 --Penn Library's web resource links to educational institutions, subject resources, sites for children and teachers, and internet initiatives.
PETER MILBURY'S SCHOOL LIBRARIAN WEB PAGES --This is an excellent list of resources for school librarians.
TEACHER/PATHFINDER --This is essentially a collection of links to a large number of on-line resources which has something for everyone involved in K-12 education professionally or as a parent.
TOM SNYDER PRODUCTIONS EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE --All of these products combine technology with cooperative learning and critical thinking. They promote discussion, problem solving, reading, writing, and working together.
Resources for Lesson Plans
AskERIC Lesson Plans This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States and the world.
CURRICULUM STUDIO --This site is designed to provide teachers with K-12 curriculum materials, programs, personal contacts and any other information that relates to the performing arts and national education goals.
COLLABORATIVE LESSON ARCHIVE A place where teachers and students share ideas and opinions.
ENCARTA ONLINE -- A teacher friendly site packed with lesson plans, teacher material, and worksheets.
G*E*M--The Gateway to Educational Materials is a consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to the substantial collections of educational materials found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial internet sites.
GEORGIA LEARNING CONNECTIONS This is the Georgia Department of Education's curriculum web site integrating the Quality Core Curriculum standards, lesson plans, web resources, assessments, plus thousands more resources for Georgia teachers.
HANDS-ON SCIENCE CENTERS WORLDWIDE --This page contains pointers to worldwide public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education.
HOTLIST: ONLINE EXHIBITS --This site contains a list of online educational interactives and online educational exhibits.
ICONnect CURRICULUM CONNECTION -- An AASL/ALA project.
INDEX TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S PUBLICATIONS --This goes back to 1888. The index includes the National Geographic Magazine, Traveler, World, NGS books, TV specials and home videos.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANSHIP - CHILDREN'S LITERATURE RESOURCES --A list of links for all sorts of children's literature web sites.
K-12 TECHNOLOGY : ONLINE MAGAZINES
KIDS WEB-DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR SCHOOLKIDS --Presents students with a subset of the Web that is very simple to navigate, and contains information targeted at the K-12 level. Each subject section contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to schoolkids. There are also links to external lists of material on each subject which more advanced students can browse for further information.
LESSON PLAN LINKS Full text lesson plans from the Washburn University Curriculum Resources Center.
THE LESSON PLANS PAGE 2000+ free lesson plans for PreK-12.
THE LIBRARY IN THE SKY -- Sponsored by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, this site is clear and easy to understand with a variety of categories such as lesson plans, discussion groups, projects, and materials, with links to related subcategories.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY LESSONS & ACTIVITIES The National Geographic Society's Geography Education Program works with educators all over the country to produce lessons, units, and activities designed to bring good geography into the classroom.
SWARTHMORE'S MATH FORUM -- This site is the most extensive math site on the Web and offers materials for both students and teachers. New visitors to the Math Forum are encouraged to start at the help desk and to take the guided tour.
TEACHER'S NET --Teacher networking resources with lesson plans and searching capabilities.
UNCLE SAM FOR KIDS --Information about our government, American history, information on other states and countries, endangered species, geography, general and life sciences, space exploration and other misc. information like the Boy and Girl Scouts of America.
VIRTUAL SCHOOLHOUSE --A "meta-library of K-12 internet links" with a search interface.
YAHOO! LISTING OF K-12 LESSON PLANS
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