Digital Resources for the Classroom are selected and FREE educational resources are preferred as listed in here, thanks to open and sharing empowered by the internet and so many contributors’ work ! Please also refer to the specific subjects for your needs : Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Arts and Music, and Multimedia resources.
Resources for Teaching
The U.S. Departments of Education and Defense launched “Learning Registry,” an open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers who are collaborating to broadly share resources, as well as information about how those resources are used by educators in diverse learning environments across the Web. It catalogs digital educational resources from a range of federal agencies and organizations, such as NASA, the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the Smithsonian, as well as other willing contributors from the academic, nonprofit, and commercial sectors.
What Works Clearinghouse (by U.S. Department of Education) - “The high volume of research on different programs, products, practices, and policies in education can make it difficult to interpret and apply the results. We review the research. Then, by focusing on the results from high-quality research, we try to answer the question “What works in education?” The goal is to provide educators with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.” You can find information organized by subjects and topics. Topics are defined by intended outcome (such as improved math skills), intended population (such as students with learning disabilities), and types of interventions (such as school choice) that may improve student outcomes.
Doing What Works is built with the mission to translate research-based practices into practical tools to improve classroom instruction.
The Common Core Curriculum Map uses an intuitive interface to present in-depth thematic units plans and materials, roughly six per grade level that connects activities with skills outlined in the Common Core Curriculum.Common Core Curriculum Maps: Digital Resources: a nice list of online digital resources and tools for creating, collaborating, researching, and sharing.
WebQuests originated at the San Diego State University Department of Educational Technology. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.QuestGarden is an online authoring and hosting system for WebQuests. Since 2005, over 20,000 WebQuests have been created on the site. QuestGarden members can download WebQuests created by other teachers and adjust them to meet their specific needs. Instructors of courses and workshops can request that a group page be set up so that participants can give feedback to each other as they develop new WebQuests.
FindingEducation, it’s for teachers to find best education resources on the web , backed by findingDulcinea’s hand-selected and professionally edited education resource library. Teachers can manage, organize and share their links, and create web-based assignment their students. (FindingDulcinea is the creator of sweetsearch for students)
Science.gov searches over 45 databases and over 2000 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance.
FREE, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence(free.ed.gov) - more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
AASL Lesson Plan Database - American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Lesson Plan Database, a tool to support school librarians and other educators in teaching the essential learning skills defined in the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. Users can search the database for lesson plans by learning sta
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