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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Education:
Curriculum Materials & Lesson Plans
Curriculum guides, subject-classified lesson plan archives and specific lesson plan
areas are included from government, and non-profit sites.
Commercial sites offer lesson plans with specific features
(TV connections, sponsors, etc.):
Commercial Education Sites.
If you find a site with curricular materials worth examining, please contact
Dr. Patricia O'Brien Libutti, Social Sciences/Education Librarian.
RU Libraries = Available at the specified Rutgers University Library
RU Libraries-Specific = Available to Rutgers students, faculty, and staff.
WWW = World Wide Web resource, available to all. URLs are included for convenience.
General Research Resources
RU Libraries Resources
- The International Encyclopedia of Curriculum
- ALEXANDER REF LB1570.I5676 1991
- Uncle Sam's K-12 Web: Government Internet Resources for Educators, Students, and Parents
- ALEXANDER STACKS ZA575.A53 1999
RU Libraries Databases
- ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center [OVID]
- Use The ERIC Thesaurus to find subject terms.
The Thesaurus is located within the listing under "Tools".
You will find lesson plans and curriculum guides in the database.
The government sponsored
http://www.eric.ed.gov ERIC site has more recent information,
including 2004-2005 PDFs that include curriculum guides.
WWW Resources
General, covering many subjects:
- Big 6 Newsletter: Mike Eisenburg's Big Six Research Skills newsletter
- Mike developed the concept of Big Six: A set of information literacy skills, with training methods used in
K-12. These skills are: Task Definition, Information Seeking Strategies, Location and Access, Use of Information,
Synthesis, and Evaluation.
This newsletter offers many examples of the concepts in operation, has lesson plans and ideas for teachers.
- URL: http://www.big6.com/
- CMC/EBSS Webliography: Lesson plans and teaching activities
- Critically evaluated libraries of lesson plans, prepared by members of the Education
and Behavioral Sciences Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
* Librarian endorsed. Selected topics are:
Assessment/Educational Tests, Associations, Agencies and Organizations,
Children's and Young Adult Literature, Early Childhood Education,
Educational Administration, Educational Foundations, Educational Statistics
(National & International), ESL/Bilingual Education, Electronic Journals,
Free Educational Materials, General Education , *Instructional Technology,
Lesson Plans and Teaching Activities, Multicultural Resources, *National Standards,
and School Counseling and Psychology.
- URL: http://www.uncc.edu/cimc/
- Educator's Reference Desk
- "The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience
providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the
Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to
Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference
Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans,
3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses."
(from site description.)
- URL: http://www.eduref.org/
- F.R.E.E.: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
- Included in this resource are links to Arts, Educational Technology, Foreign Languages, Health and Safety, Language Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, and Vocational Education resources. An example from one of the many educational pages developed by Federal government agencies is highlighted each day on the front page.
- URL: http://www.ed.gov/free/
- Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
- "The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites."
(from site description.) Most subject areas covered, pre-K to adult education.
- URL: http://thegateway.org/
- IDEAS: Teacher - selected and reviewed sources from Wisconsin
- Provides Wisconsin educators access to high-quality, highly usable, teacher-reviewed web-based resources for curricula, content, lesson plans, and professional development.
- URL: http://www.ideas.wisconsin.edu/
- New York Times Learning Network
- An interactive learning experience for teachers and students, based on the daily edition of the New York Times. Prepared in collaboration with Bank Street professors and New York Times Online staff, the plans reflect the use of the current events in the NYT.
- URL: http://nytimes.com/learning/
- UN Cyber School Bus Home Page
- URL: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.html
Subject area lesson plan resources
Arts
- American Museum of the Moving Image. Living Room Candidates
- This resource, developed for a collection of Presidential campaign political commercials (1952-2004), includes a teachers guide to using this Web based resource.
- URL: http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php
- EDcitement
- The site is a humanities resource collection, useful for lesson plan organization.
Subject areas covered with lesson plans are: arts & culture, foreign languages,
language and literature, history and social studies.
- URL: http://edsitement.neh.gov
- The Library-in-the-Sky
- The lesson plans cover th following subject areas: Art & Music,
Early Childhood Ed., ESL, Foreign Languages, Health, Language Arts
Library, Math, Physical .Education,, Science, Social Studies
Special Education, Technology and Vocational Education.
"The Library in the Sky is a database of interesting and useful educational Web sites
for those involved in education. Find the information you want through the Search,
User Tabs, by Department, or Materials." (Sponsored by the NorthWest Regional Laboratory).
- URL: http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
Economics
- H.I.P pocket change. The United States Mint
- URL: http://www.usmint.gov/kids/flashIndex.cfm
- OPIC for Kids. Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- "OPIC's Investor's Information Gateway Country Link Database can connect you with more than 20,000 documents and other sources of economic, business, political and social data for all of the countries and areas in which OPIC can currently do business. The links are conveniently grouped into some 20 major categories such as government, business promotion, health, human rights, infrastructure, natural resources, trade, travel, press, diplomacy, etc. There are typically 140 to 150 links available for each country and region. (Africa and the Middle East, Europe and the New Independent States Region, Asia and the Pacific Region, and Latin America and the Caribbean
Region.) (from site description.)
- URL: http://www.usmint.gov/kids
Mathematics
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Mathematics & Science
- ESN has an unusual approach to exploration: rotating sites, "take a chance", "the daily dozen", as well as organized plans, activities, documents, articles, etc. on math and science education.
- URL: http://www.enc.org/
- Illuminations
- Mathematics Internet-based lesson plans are examples of how Internet links
can be used to help create effective standards-based lessons. The section on
Standards includes visual
representation standards.
- URL: http://illuminations.nctm.org/lessonplans/index.html
Science
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Mathematics & Science
- ESN has an unusual approach to exploration: rotating sites, "take a chance", "the daily dozen", as well as organized plans, activities, documents, articles, etc. on math and science education.
- URL: http://www.enc.org/
- America's Story. The Library of Congress
- URL: http://www.americasstory.comm/about/welcome.html
- Franklin Institute's Online Education Inquiries
- Look for the section: Kids Did This! to see many sources of student-produced websites.
- URL: http://www.fi.edu/learning.html
- Return to Flight (NASA Portal)
- Follow current events at NASA, such as: Complete Return to Flight Coverage
- Watch NASA TV (The New Digital NASA Television) or Go to NASA Homepage
(and explore the sections: Life on Earth, Humans in Space, or Exploring the Universe).
- URL: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/rtf_front/index.html
- Teacher's Corner. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- "NASA KIDS offers a fun way for children to learn about NASA's activities and science,
using interactive tools and kid-attractive pages.
NASA KIDS is an on-line or printable resource designed for kids aged 5 to 14.
For older kids check out
Liftoff to Space Exploration."
Teacher Resources include:
Spacelink - A large database of teacher materials, plus a search engine of NASA's resources.
NASA Explores - A web site with curriculum materials produced semi-weekly.
NASA's Education Site - Links to everything NASA does to help improve education.
Great NASA Sites for kids - A list of sites designed directly toward children as the audience.
- URL: http://www.fema.gov/kids/index.htm
Social Studies
- America's Story. The Library of Congress
- "The site was designed especially with young people in mind, but there are great stories for people of all ages, and we hope children and their families will want to explore this site together." You can: Meet Amazing Americans, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play, or See, Hear and Sing.
- URL: http://www.americasstory.comm/about/welcome.html
- American Museum of the Moving Image. Living Room Candidates
- This resource, developed for a collection of Presidential campaign political commercials (1952-2004), includes a teachers guide to using this Web based resource.
- URL: http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php
- EDcitement
- The site is a humanities resource collection, useful for lesson plan organization.
Subject areas covered with lesson plans are: arts & culture, foreign languages,
language and literature, history and social studies.
- URL: http://edsitement.neh.gov
- FEMA for Kids. Federal Emergency Management Agency
- "This site teaches you how to be prepared for disasters and prevent disaster damage.
You can also learn what causes disasters, play games,
read stories and become a Disaster Action Kid. And don't forget to
learn about FEMA."
You can look up disasters that have happened in each state!
- URL: http://www.fema.gov/kids/index.htm
- National Geographic
- The rich geography site provides much to explore for children and teachers alike,
such as The Tale of Three Cities.
- URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
- Whitehousekids
- The site focuses on the occupants of the White House, feturing biographical details on
the President, spouse, "favorites' and pets. There is a link to the official
Whitehouse government page.
- URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
Topical Webliographies: In-depth Evaluated Resources
- Harvesting, Evaluating, and Preparing Core Collections on the World Wide Web
- URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/digitalresources/digitalresourcessec3.htm
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