Curriculum & Lesson Plans: Home

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This guide includes resources to help with your curriculum and lesson planning.

You may also find the library's Education Research Guide helpful.

Curriculum: State Resources

Oregon Department of Education Curriculum Standards - Standards and Instruction
Links to Oregon content standards and lesson planning materials in all subject areas.
Departments of education for each state

Professional Association Curriculum & Standards Sources

National Association for Music Education

Core Music Standards

National Business Education Association

Business Education Standards

National Council of Teachers of English

Standards for the English Language Arts - Links to standards as well as pages offering discussion and background on their development.
Read Write Think

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
NCTM Illuminations - "Gateway to Standards-Based Mathematics Education". Includes links to lesson plans, multimedia teaching units, selected web resources, reflective teaching materials.

National Council for the Social Studies

Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: Expectations of Excellence - Introductory sections excerpted from the full-length standards publication. (Expectations of excellence : curriculum standards for social studies available in PSU Library -- LB1584 .E97 1994.

National Art Education Association

NAEA Standards

National Science Teachers Association

National Science Education Standards

Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation

Education World's Links to Standards - A listing of content areas with links to standards articulated by the subject area
national organizations.

Planning Resources

Teachers.Net Lesson Plans

EdSitement - National Endowment for the Humanities K12 curriculum site

Library of Congress Classroom Materials

New York Times The Learning Network

Evaluating material found on the Internet

The internet is a fabulous resource for teachers and students. One caution though is that unlike edited publications, you are on your own to decide currency, accuracy, bias, and relevance. Critical evaluation of resources is always important but even more so in the web environment. These resources provide some overviews and checklists for evaluating web resources.

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial -- An excellent comprehensive tutorial covering search engines, search strategies and content evaluation techniques.