Selected Internet Resources for Educators and Education Students

Here is a list of education-related sites that I have collected from various sources. Enjoy!

Books for Youth

ALSC Literary and Related Awards
A list of the annual awards granted by the Association for Library Service to Children. This includes Newberry Medal Books, Caldecott Medal Books,
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/literaryrelated.htm

Books in Print
An online database provided by University Libraries, Books in Print provides bibliographic information on over 5 million books.
http://www.booksinprint.com/bip/

Challenged and Banned Books
Information about how and why books are challenged and banned and links to lists of frequently challenged and banned books.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm

The Children’s Literature Web Guide
Provides access to Internet resources related to books for children and young adults, including award lists; parent, writer's and storyteller's resources; full text children's books; publisher's information; listservs; and author's pages.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Edkbrown/index.html

Coretta Scott King Book Award
An annual award honoring the work of African American authors and illustrators and books that promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all people and their contribution to the realization of the American dream.
http://www.ala.org/ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookawards/corettascott.htm

Imaginary Lands
A portal to three distinct sites: Picturing Books: A Website about Picture Books, Children’s Literature Navigator (a directory of links related to children’s literature, literacy, and early childhood), and Passport: International Children’s Literature.
http://www.imaginarylands.org/

Kidspace @ The Internet Public Library: Reading Zone
Information about children and young adult books and authors as well as links to other online children and young adult literature resources.
http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/rzn0000

Read-Aloud Books Too Good to Miss
An annual list of read-aloud books for primary school, intermediate school, middle school and high school aged students.
http://www.ilfonline.org/AIME/ReadAloud/ReadAloud.htm

Indiana Education Sites

Indiana’s Academic Standards
http://www.doe.state.in.us/standards/

Indiana Department of Education
http://www.doe.state.in.us/

Indiana K-12 School Data
http://www.doe.state.in.us/htmls/education.html

Indiana School Directory
http://www.doe.state.in.us/publications/schooldirectory.html

Indiana Textbook Adoption
http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/olr/textbook/welcome.html

Educational Testing and Assessment

American Psychological Association
Provides information on finding published and unpublished tests and measures as well as a review of the coverage provided by Tests in Print, Mental Measurements Yearbook, Tests, and Test Critiques. Access to the “Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education” is also provided.
http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html
http://www.apa.org/science/fairtestcode.html

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Contains general information on psychological tests as well as guides to effectively their publications, Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print.
http://www.unl.edu/buros/

Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, CRESST conducts research on topics relating to K-12 educational testing and provides online access to their policy briefs, newsletters and assessments and rubrics.
http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/resources/justforteachers_set.htm

Educational Testing Service
The Educational Testing Service provides access to over 20,000 tests and other measurement devices from the early 1900s to the present as well as educational assessment research and analysis.
http://www.ets.org/

Frontline: Testing Our Schools
A Frontline special on educational assessment as they relate to the No Child Left Behind Act.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/

Lexile Framework for Reading
A widely adopted approach for measuring reader ability and text difficulty, the Lexile Framework is recognized as an accurate way to match readers with text.
http://www.lexile.com/EntrancePageFlash.html?1

Yahoo Education: Education Standards and Testing
Includes links to companies and organizations that produce tests as well as test preparation information.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Standards_and_Testing/

K-12 Curriculum Materials

Best on the Web for Teachers
A ranked, annotated list of education related sites.
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/

Blue Web'n
From SBCKnowledge Network, an online library of 1968 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Education World
Education World provides access to original content, such as lesson plans, educational technology, site reviews and journal articles. The site also contains a search engine for educational web sites.
http://www.educationworld.com/

Educator's Reference Desk
Formerly AskERIC, the Educator's Reference Desk includes over 2000 lesson plans and over 3000 links to online education information.
http://www.eduref.org/

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
Dedicated to making federally supported teaching and learning materials more accessible, FREE is a searchable collection of curriculum materials created by federal agencies.
http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html

Gateway to Education Materials (GEM)
Sponsored by the US Department of Education, GEM 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.
http://www.thegateway.org/

Internet Mathematics Library
A searchable listing of math teaching activities and lesson plans.
http://mathforum.org/library/

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
Provides extensive resources for K-12 students and teachers covering 20 major categories of curriculum subject matter; excellent source of background material and curriculum content as well as teaching activities.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Kooker Kids
Online games, coloring pages, easy craft projects, early learning, kids activities, art galleries, and more!
http://www.kookerkids.com/index.htm

Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies
A huge listing of internet sites that freely provide K-12 curriculum resources.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html

Lesson Plans Page
A collection of over 2,500 lesson plans, most of them at the elementary level, developed and selected by students and faculty at The University of Missouri.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

The Learning Page
A project of the Library of Congress, The Learning Page is designed to help educators use The American Memory Collection to teach history and culture. The Learning Page contains lesson plans, tips for using primary resources, discussions and activities.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/

MarcoPolo
MarcoPolo is a nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the MCI Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students. MarcoPolo includes seven content Web sites with lesson plans, student interactive content, downloadable worksheets, link to panel reviewed Web sites and additional content created by education organizations.
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx

Merlot
A free and open resource primarily designed for students of higher education, Merlot provides access to online learning materials, including peer reviews and assignments.
http://merlot.org/Home.po

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
Links to lesson plans that and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning.
http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/

Teachers’ Domain
A multimedia digital library for the classroom that includes background articles for each resource, correlations to national and state curriculum standards and media-rich lesson plans.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/

Sites for Teachers
Links to lesson plan sites, classroom projects, interactive activities and other sites that provide curriculum support resources. The sites are ranked by popularity.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/

Organizations, Associations and Government Agencies for Education

Access Indiana: Education and Training
A portal to education agencies and associations in Indiana.
http://www.in.gov/ai/education/

Educational Associations and Organizations
This site contains an annotated list of over 30 educational associations and organizations selected by the US Department of Education.
http://www.ed.gov/about/contacts/gen/othersites/associations.html

Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD)
EROD is a directory used to identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.
http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/

Indiana Department of Education
Links to state education information as well as current news, listservs and related web sites.
http://www.doe.state.in.us/

State Education Departments
Links to US State Education Departments.
http://edstandards.org/St/StandardsSED.html

U.S. Department of Education
Includes information on policies, programs, publications, research and statistics.
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Yahoo Education Organizations
Links to education organizations and professional education associations.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Organizations/

Standards in Education

Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
Developed by a Task Force of the National Council for the Social Studies and approved by the NCSS Board of Directors in April 1994.
http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/

Developing Educational Standards
Standards by subject and locale
http://edstandards.org/Standards.html

Indiana’s Academic Standards
Full-text versions of Indiana’s academic standards, standards resources and assessment materials.
http://www.doe.state.in.us/standards/

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
An independent organization that has developed standards in 27 different fields for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do.
http://www.nbpts.org/standards/index.cfm

National ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students
Developed by The Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), the standards are currently being revised to reflect changes resulting from the No Child Left Behind Act.
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=113&DID=1583

National Standards for Health Education
Developed by the American Association for Health Education.
http://www.aahperd.org/aahe/template.cfm?template=natl_health_education_standards.html

National Information Literacy Standards
Developed in 1998 by the American Association of School Librarians.
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslissues/aaslinfolit/informationliteracy1.htm

National Science Education Standards
Developed by the National Research Council in 1995.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/

National Standards for Arts Education
Developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, the National Standards for Arts Education outline what every K-12 student should know about the arts.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/standards/

National Standards for Dance Education
Developed in 1994 by the National Dance Association.
http://www.aahperd.org/nda/template.cfm?template=standards.html

National Standards for Foreign Language Education
Developed in 1996 by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3392

National Standards for Music Education
Developed in 1994 by the National Association for Music Education.
http://www.menc.org/publication/books/standards.htm

National Standards for Sport and Physical Education
Developed by the National Association for Sport & Physical Education.
http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/template.cfm?template=publications-nationalstandards.html

National Standards for the English Language Arts
English language arts standards developed by the International Reading Association and National Council of English Teachers in 1996.
http://www.ncte.org/about/over/standards/

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Math standards and expectations for all grade levels as set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1991.
http://standards.nctm.org/