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- Cecilia J. Myrick, Ph.D. Home Page-Cultural Diversity Based on Cultural Grounding: A Cross-Cultural Literacy Curriculum for Critical Readers, Writers, and Thinkers in the African Diaspora - Dr. C. J. Myrick conducts on-going teacher-research to develop an authentic approach and curriculum for teaching critical literacy to African Diaspora Students.
butts1.cookman.edu/myrickc
- Children's Literature Web Guide - Links to authors, books, teaching ideas.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
- Co-nect Teleprojects and Activities - Co-nect's collection of online curriculum involve classrooms from all over the world in project based learning. Most teleprojects are free and open to the public.
exchange.co-nect.net/Teleprojects
- Comprehensive Resources for Educators - A variety of teaching resources from the National Council for the Social Studies.
www.socialstudies.org/resources
- CyberEdQuest: Creatures of the Night - Bat and Wolf Webquest and links.
dorishill.tripod.com/index.htm
- Ellen Weber, MITA Center, Multiple Intelligence Teaching Approach - Features multiple intelligence curriculum reform for higher education. New Five-Phase Curriculum Approach to implement inquiry based learning, reflective teaching, brain based curriculum, collaborative teaching and roundtable learning.
www.houghton.edu/personnel/eweber/ellen.html
- Exploring Science As Inquiry Using Manduca sexta - A manual for K-12 teachers on using the Tobacco Hornworm as a tool for inquiry-based science
manduca.entomology.wisc.edu/manual/index2.html
- Haudenosaunee Iroquois Homework Help - A team of native people provides to students culturally sensitive and factual information about the Haudenosaunee also known as the Iroquois (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora).
www.peace4turtleisland.org/pages/homework.htm
- High Performance Charter School Curriculum - Building a coherent and intentional curriculum from the ground up: essential questions, core content, basic skills and "habits of mind" that underlie and connect learning experiences at all levels.
www.topschools.com/Academics.htm
- Informal Education - A resource for community education, informal adult education, community work, youth work, youth development, animation and social pedagogy.
www.infed.org
- Inquiry-Based Learning and Teaching - Contains curriculum units, interactive programs for students, and links to resources.
www.bsu.edu/teachers/burris/iwonder
- Internet Databases for Education and Research - Social science and social studies materials organized into broad learning units; for grades 7-12 and college; fee based; password restricted.
www.socialknowledge.com/index2.html
- Investigating Chicks Through the Multiple Intelligences - A resource for students and teachers for chicken development activities organized according to Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory.
www.ed.uiuc.edu/projects/inquiry/chickscope/chicksmi/Chickscopemi.html
- iwonder - Inquiry-based site with resources for educators (teaching strategies and classroom realities) and interactive activities.
www.bsu.edu/burris/iwonder/index.html
- LEO Launching Education Into Orbit - LEO brings space-based science experiments into the classroom.
www.leohome.com
- Lesson Plans from Smithsonian Education on the Web - topics ranging from presidential elections to ocean ecology to landscape painting, in lesson plans designed for upper elementary and middle school students.
educate.si.edu/lp/lp_fs.html
- Movers and Shakers Unlimited - An advocate for children; educational programs that teach young people how to develop their potential and begin a lifelong Journey of Success.
www.moverandshakerb1.com
- Problem Based Learning - Provides an overview of problem based learning (PBL) and offers a searchable archive of PBL resources.
www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/problem.html
- Science Lesson Plans - Lesson plans for physical and life sciences.
ousd.k12.ca.us/~codypren/lessons.html
- Service Learning and Social Education Demonstration - A demonstration of Service Learning that promotes the development of our young people as active and contributing community members.
www.k12.vt.us/gcs/newwebsite/cslprj/index.html
- Service Learning: connecting learning through action - Teachers and students will find a list of service learning projects.
www.stickyteaching.org
- Supporting Critical Conversations in Classrooms - Critical conversations are important because they highlight diversity and difference while calling attention to the nature and role of literacy in our society. This chapter identifies books that are particularly useful for starting and sustaining critical conversations in classrooms.
education.indiana.edu/~langed/faculty/harste/paper.html
- The National Center for Issues-Centered Education - Introduces teachers to issues-centered approaches to teaching social studies and other school subjects, with the aim of helping teachers create stronger linkages between students' lives and the subjects, topics, issues, and themes they study in school.
coe.sdsu.edu/NCIE/NCIE.html
- The WebQuest Page - Ideas for using the web for research in the classroom, including the one-computer classroom; web rings to link WebQuest projects.
edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
- Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-based Learning - Page supports a staff development workshop on the Internet and inquiry-based learning; developed as a result of an interest in taking Web-based learning to the next level. The workshop empowers teachers with the strategies necessary to make Web learning a truly productive and meaningful experience for their students.
www.biopoint.com/ibr/Welcome.html
- Vermont Community Works - A resource for educators interested in making service learning and social education a core part of the public school curriculum.
vermontcommunityworks.org
- Visible Knowledge Program - The educational site of the New Museum of Contemporary Art offers online classrooms and studios to high school students and educators and interdisciplinary lesson plans.
www.vkp.org
- Web Links for Inquiry-based Learning and the Internet - A useful collection of links on developing questions, search engines, electronic portfolios, and online instruction.
www.biopoint.com/msla/links.html
- Young Authors Workshop - Children in grades 4 to 7 are taken through the writing process in a step-by-step fashion, beginning with how to find ideas for stories and continuing through finding online markets for publishing those stories.
www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/index.html
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