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Searchable Databases
Educational Association
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. "
PBS
TeacherSource
This
site provides users with over 3,000 lesson plans and activities.
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
This
site provides innovative teaching materials for teachers plus useful
and enjoyable resources for students.
Awesome
Libarary
This
searchable database offers access to online information for students,
teachers and librarians.
NY
Times Learning Network
Site
provides access to daily lesson plans for grades 6-12, written
in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education in New
York City.
WebQuests
This
site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using
the WebQuest model to teach with the web. CLICK ON EXAMPLES!!! Excellent
Site!
Knowledge
Network (Filamentality)
This
searchable database assists users in creating web quests, as well
as locating and accessing ready-made web quests and lessons. Excellent
site!
Multnomah
County Library
This
database of web sites is designed by the librarians from the Multnomah
County Library, Oregon, for student use. Excellent
site.
Nicenet.org
Internet
Classroom Assistant, acts as a virtual classroom where students can
view upcoming schedules, submit assignments, conference, post information
and email students and teacher. Excellent site.
Education
Week
This
site offers full text articles from Education Week and Teacher
Magazine. "Our primary mission is to help raise the level
of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public
of important issues in American education."
Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence
Hundreds
of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal
government are now easier to find.
The
Educational CyberPlayGround
This
site provides teachers, parents, home schoolers, and librarians with
a cybrarian's webliography of links to educational resources in the
arts, music, literacy, linguistics, science, technology, and social
studies.
SchoolGrants
Here
are numerous resources for locating, writing, receiving, and managing
grant proposals for the elementary and secondary education community.
Education
America Network
An
educational e-cruitment website that posts jobs in the field
of education, mostly K-12, across the United States.
Educators
for Social Responsibility
" ESR's
mission is to make teaching social responsibility a core practice
in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills
needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world."
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Searchable Databases and Websites
Electronic Resources from the MK Library
The MK
Library offers remote access to 27 online database subscriptions and numerous e-books.
*Passwords required.
ilp2 - Internet
Public Library2
ilp2
is committed to providing free services to the Internet community,
in the greatest tradition of public libraries.
Refdesk.com
A
one-stop site for all things Internet: news, weather, sports, reference,
encyclopedia, facts on file, search engines, and much more.
Virtual
Learning Resources Center
This
site assists secondary and community college students in their
search for quality information for academic projects.
ERIC
- Educational Resource Information Center
ERIC
is a national information system designed to provide users with
ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature.
This database is searchable and although most articles only offer
abstracts, Eric provides a service to obtain full-text.
New
Jersey Education Association - http://www.njea.org/ NJEA's
mission "...is to advance and protect the rights, benefits,
and interests of members, and promote a quality system of public
education for all students."
National
Education Association
"To
fulfill the promise of a democratic society, the National Education
Association shall promote the cause of quality public education
and advance the profession of education; expand the rights and
further the interest of educational employees; and advocate human,
civil, and economic rights for all."
Association
for the Advancement of Arts Education
AAAE
members get connected to lesson plan ideas and the best arts events
for their students.
National
Council of Teachers of English
The
National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving
the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all
levels of education.
National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The
NCTM's mission is to provide guidelines for excellence in mathematics
education.
National
Science Teachers Association
NSTA's
mission is " ... to promote excellence and innovation in science
teaching and learning for all."
National
Council for Social Studies
NCSS
engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating
social studies.
National
Association for Sport and Physical Education
Educating
the American public about the importance of physical education
for all children and youth is a primary focus.
American
Association of Teachers of Spanish
The
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese has
promoted the study and teaching of Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and
other related languages, literatures, and cultures at all levels.
American
Association of Teachers of French
AATF
promotes the study of languages in general and French in particular.
American
Association of Teachers of German
The
AATG is for teachers of German at all levels of instruction and
all those interested in the teaching of German.
