Selected Education Websites
Education Web Links
These are some websites you may find useful for curriculum planning and general information – not to be confused with authoratative education databases.
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Lesson plans, programs and workshops for teaching Shakespeare (K-12).
- American Library Association (ALA)
- The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 64,000 members. It promotes the highest quality library and information services and public access to information.
- Library of Congress
- More than 10 million primary sources online.
- Massachusetts Reading Association
- Promotes reading and writing for all learners through professional development and advocacy.
- National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA)
- This website has links to “Literacy Corner” a resource for teachers of young children; and “Professional Development” for improving literacy teaching and learning.
Math & Science
- CoolMath4Teachers
- “Lesson plans and ideas for teaching math skills, mentor program for new math teachers, information about professional development.” NCTM News Bulletin
- Math Goodies
- Math help–K-12 activities.
- NASA Kid’s Club
- “Games and activities designed to teach science, technology, engineering, and mathematical concepts to students in kindergarten
to grade 4.” NCTM Bulletin - Project Interactive
- “Creates, collects, evaluates, and disseminates interactive Java-based software that helps elementary and middle grade students explore science nad mathematics.” NCTM Bulletin
- Reflections
- NCTM professional development resource. Videos, lessons, and questions “to guide teachers’ reflection.” NCTM Bulletin
Instructional materials and more
- Awesome Library
- 29,000 reviewed sources specifically designed for teachers, students, parents and librarians including lesson plans and fun game ideas.
- Beginning Teacher’s Tool Box
- Includes new teacher’s survival tips, mentoring, newsletter, blogs and more.
- Blue Web’n
- An online library over 2,000 outstanding internet sites categorized by subject and grade level.
- CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics)
- A private, non-profit organization: a group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems. This site offers lesson plans and supporting material with a focus on English as a second language.
- Curriculum Archive
- “The Curriculum Archive is a central repository for free lessons and classroom projects.”
- Columbia Education Center
- Offers lesson plans created and contributed by teachers who’ve used them successfully in their classrooms and web-based teaching resources created as part of the ECHO (Environmental, Cultural, and Historical Outlooks) projects abroad.
- Discovery School
- Sponsored by the Discovery channel this website has links to Lesson Plans Library, Teaching Tools, Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Educators, Curriculum Center and Teacher’s Store.
- Education World
- Links for lesson plans (relative to current events), school administrators, professional development, technology integration, and Education World at home.
- ePals Classroom Exchange
- “The Internet’s largest community of collaborative classrooms engaged in cross-cultural exchanges, project sharing and language learning. ePALS is also the leading provider of school-safe emailTM, eMentoring and web-browsing technology for the global educational market.”
- FREE – Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
- “More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.”
- New York Times Learning Network
- This website contains current news articles with related lesson plans, as well as current news “conversation starters”, crossword puzzles, science Q&A, who’s who & what’s what and “on this day”
- PBS Teachersource
- Sponsored by PBS this site touts education’s best resources by curricular subject, topic, grade level and standard; in-depth online professional development through PBS TeacherLine; details on PBS station outreach activities in your community; and much more.
- Puzzlemaker
- “A puzzle-generation tool for teachers, students, and parents. This site allows you to create customized word searches and crossword or mathematics puzzles using your own word list.” NCTM News Bulletin
- Solution Site
- The Solution Site contains K-12 lesson plans that offer teachers from all subject areas a variety of opportunities to use thematic units and student-centered learning activities in the classroom. The units and lessons contained within this site encourage problem solving and group collaboration to build higher level thinking skills while devising meaningful solutions.
Children’s Websites
- Internet Public Library – KidSpace
- Internet Public Library – TeenSpace
- Voices of Youth
- NOBLENET for Kids
Learning Disabilities
US Education Statistics
School Psychology
Local Resources
- McQuade Library
- Massachusetts Department of Education
- Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
- No Child Left Behind
Professional Organizations
- American Federation of Teachers
- Council for Exceptional Children
- International Reading Association
- National Council of Teachers of English
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- National Education Association
- National Science Teachers Association
- Massachusetts Teacher’s Association
- Learning Disabilities Association of America