Resources for Faculty
All Disciplines
Learner.org
"Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge."
MIT Open CourseWare: Highlights for High School
Includes materials from introductory courses at MIT in the sciences, math, languages, writing and literature; AP resources for biology, physics, and calculus; labs and video demonstrations; and high school courses developed by MIT students.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Provides searchable access to MIT's course materials including syllabi, lecture notes, course calendars, problem sets and solutions, exams, and reading lists. Video lectures are available with many courses. Will include materials from most courses by 2008.
Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and Biological Rhythms (National Institutes of Health)
Curriculum supplement series on sleep for grades 9-12. There is a Teacher's Guide including lesson plans and a web portion of student activities.
Under the section for students, there is a sleep database where students can create sleep diaries and generate reports by class.
TeacherTube
An online community for sharing instructional videos.
Offers professional development with teachers teaching teachers. Teachers can also post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
The Critical Thinking Community
"The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve instruction in primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities. We offer conferences and professional development programs, emphasizing assessment, research, instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, quality enhancement, and competency standards."
Advanced Placement Digital Library: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and English (for AP students from Rice U.)
A collection of resources reviewed by a panel of AP educators and linked to the College Board AP content outlines.
Justice Learning
"An innovative, issue-based approach for engaging high school students in informed political discourse. The web site uses audio from the Justice Talking radio show and articles from The New York Times to teach students about reasoned debate and the often-conflicting values inherent in our democracy."
Teaching and Learning (from EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies)
"EDUCAUSE focuses on understanding learners, aligning learning principles and practices together and integrating learning technology-all with the goal of improving student success."
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching)
Merlot is "a continually growing catalog of online learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and user comments" intended to be used by faculty to supplement their teaching. It is organized by major areas of study and supported by "discipline communities". MERLOT was developed and maintained by the California State University Center for Distributed Learning in partnership with a consortium of notable institutions and societies of higher education.
Educator's Reference Desk
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, this site for educators includes resources on educational issues and over 2,000 lesson plans.
GEM (Gateway to Education Materials)
"The Gateway to Educational Materials 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. The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items." Browsable by subject, type, level, keywords, etc.
LoLa
"LoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy."
PBS Teachers
A multidisciplinary collection of teaching materials from the Public Broadcasting Service
DLearn
"DLearn is a learning object repository of shareable, digital, learning materials developed at the University of Arizona."
Information Literacy in the Disciplines
"This resource is designed to assist librarians and teaching faculty in the integration of information literacy into the disciplines. It contains links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education. Organized by discipline, each page is separated into two sections: 1) Standards or Guidelines from Accrediting Agencies & Professional Associations and 2) Curricula, Articles, and Presentations."
Finding and Using Images Online
Provides general information plus tips on finding images online and using digital images in teaching resources. Includes a tutorial on Using Images in Education.
Apple Learning Interchange
A multidisciplinary collection of online resources for preschool through college.
Humanities
The Learning Page (Library of Congress)
"Designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum."
EDSITEment
"EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies." It includes lesson plans that are searchable by grade level, subject, and sub-categories within those subjects.
"All websites . . . have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality . . ."
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: For Teachers and Students
Includes modules on major topics, exercises, primary documents, recommended resources, and professional development.
Best of History: Lesson Plans/Activities
Contains links to over 1200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness, including links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more.
Teaching History with Technology
Includes
resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, games and quizzes that incorporate technology plus inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Also includes examples for United States History and World History courses and information on how to integrate new and emerging technologies into the classroom.
Primary Source Learning: Discover, Learn, and Teach with Digital Historical Documents
Primary Source Learning was created by the Northern Virginia Partnership of An Adventure of the American Mind Program through a Library of Congress grant. "Staffed by classroom teachers . . .
it connects pre-K-12 schools, university programs, libraries, and museums through collaborative programs that deepen student understanding of the curriculum and equip learners with Information Age literacy skills." It includes Teacher Created Lesson Plans on various topics in American history.
For Teachers: Digital History
"Resources are designed to help instructors at all levels bring the past to life and to help students understand that knowledge of the past is our best guide in making decisions that will determine our future." Includes explorations, classroom handouts and guides, learning modules, research guides, and lesson plans.
Mathematics & Science
BioEd Online
From Baylor College of Medicine, this site includes presentations, slide sets, teacher resources, hot topics, and more.
European Initiative for Biotechnology Education (EIBE)
"Seeks to promote skills, enhance understanding and facilitate public debate throughout Europe. . . . The main activity of the Group has been to generate teaching materials for 16 -19 year olds. EIBE Units are collections of activities including a variety of experimental protocols, practical activities, role-plays, information and debates."
Math and Science Gateway
Resources for educators and students in grades 9-12 from the Center for Advanced Computing at Cornell.
Learning Science
"A free and open learning community for sharing newer and emerging tools to teach science (real-time data collection, simulations, inquiry based lessons, interactive web lessons, micro-worlds, and imaging)."
Resources for Learning (American Museum of Natural History)
A collection of activities, articles, evidence and analysis and more, for educators.
ChemCollective (Carnegie Mellon)
Online resources for teaching and learning chemistry. "A collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams."
Biology Project (U. of Arizona)
An online, interactive resource for learning biology. Includes lesson plans and activities by high school teachers.
Office of Science Education (National Institute of Health)
Resources organized by topic and grade level plus lesson plans.
Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (National Institute of Health)
Curriculum supplement series for grades 9-12. Includes lesson plans and interactive material for students.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (curricular materials and lesson resources)
Internet Guide to Mathematics (also Computing)
Digital learning materials for mathematics and computing.
SMETE Digital Library
"SMETE is a dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students." It includes a wealth of teaching and learning materials for science, math, engineering and technology.
iLumina Digital Library: Education Resources for Science & Mathematics
"iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science."
BEN (BioSciEdNet): A Digital Library of the Biological Sciences for Biology Teaching
A portal for online collections of biology education resources maintained by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Requires free registration.
Languages
International Children's Digital Library
A digital library of outstanding children's books from around the world--all languages will be represented at some point
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