Informal Education - A resource for community education, informal adult education, community work, youth work, youth development, animation and social pedagogy.
Young Authors Workshop - Children in grades 4 to 7 are taken through the writing process in a step-by-step fashion, beginning with how to find ideas for stories and continuing through finding online markets for publishing those stories.
CyberEdQuest: Creatures of the Night - Bat and Wolf Webquest and links.
Supporting Critical Conversations in Classrooms - Critical conversations are important because they highlight diversity and difference while calling attention to the nature and role of literacy in our society. This chapter identifies books that are particularly useful for starting and sustaining critical conversations in classrooms.
Internet Databases for Education and Research - Social science and social studies materials organized into broad learning units; for grades 7-12 and college; fee based; password restricted.
Co-nect Teleprojects and Activities - Co-nect's collection of online curriculum involve classrooms from all over the world in project based learning. Most teleprojects are free and open to the public.
Problem Based Learning - Provides an overview of problem based learning (PBL) and offers a searchable archive of PBL resources.
Vermont Community Works - A resource for educators interested in making service learning and social education a core part of the public school curriculum.
Haudenosaunee Iroquois Homework Help - A team of native people provides to students culturally sensitive and factual information about the Haudenosaunee also known as the Iroquois (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora).
Lesson Plans from Smithsonian Education on the Web - topics ranging from presidential elections to ocean ecology to landscape painting, in lesson plans designed for upper elementary and middle school students.
High Performance Charter School Curriculum - Building a coherent and intentional curriculum from the ground up: essential questions, core content, basic skills and "habits of mind" that underlie and connect learning experiences at all levels.
Service Learning: connecting learning through action - Teachers and students will find a list of service learning projects.
Comprehensive Resources for Educators - A variety of teaching resources from the National Council for the Social Studies.
The WebQuest Page - Ideas for using the web for research in the classroom, including the one-computer classroom; web rings to link WebQuest projects.
Ellen Weber, MITA Center, Multiple Intelligence Teaching Approach - Features multiple intelligence curriculum reform for higher education. New Five-Phase Curriculum Approach to implement inquiry based learning, reflective teaching, brain based curriculum, collaborative teaching and roundtable learning.
Visible Knowledge Program - The educational site of the New Museum of Contemporary Art offers online classrooms and studios to high school students and educators and interdisciplinary lesson plans.
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