- Children's
Literature Web Guide - Links to authors, books, teaching ideas.
- Comprehensive Resources
for Educators - A variety of teaching resources from the National
Council for the Social Studies.
- CyberEdQuest: Creatures
of the Night - Bat and Wolf Webquest and links.
- 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).
- 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.
- Informal Education - A resource
for community education, informal adult education, community work, youth
work, youth development, animation and social pedagogy.
- Inquiry-Based
Learning and Teaching - Contains curriculum units, interactive programs
for students, and links to resources.
- 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.
- Movers and Shakers Unlimited
- An advocate for children; educational programs that teach young people
how to develop their potential and begin a lifelong Journey of Success.
- The National Center for
Issues-Centered Education - Introduces teachers to issues-centered
approaches to teaching social studies and other school subjects, with
the aim of helping teachers create stronger linkages between students'
lives and the subjects, topics, issues, and themes they study in school.
- Problem
Based Learning - Provides an overview of problem based learning
(PBL) and offers a searchable archive of PBL resources.
- Service Learning: connecting
learning through action - Teachers and students will find a list
of service learning projects.
- 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.
- Using the Internet
to Promote Inquiry-based Learning - Page supports a staff development
workshop on the Internet and inquiry-based learning; developed as a
result of an interest in taking Web-based learning to the next level.
The workshop empowers teachers with the strategies necessary to make
Web learning a truly productive and meaningful experience for their
students.
- Vermont Community Works
- A resource for educators interested in making service learning and
social education a core part of the public school curriculum.
- Web Links for Inquiry-based
Learning and the Internet - A useful collection of links on developing
questions, search engines, electronic portfolios, and online instruction.
- The WebQuest
Page - Ideas for using the web for research in the classroom, including
the one-computer classroom; web rings to link WebQuest projects.
- 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.
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