Curriculum & Lesson Plans: Home

Here you'll find information resources to help with your curriculum and lesson planning.

Other education research guides that might be helpful as well are:

Education Research Guide

Educational Topics & Research Overview

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National Association for Music Education

• Core Music Standards

National Business Education Association

• Business Education Standards -- Discussion of standards in each area with links to online organizations and lesson plans site

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 -- Online full text edition of the standards

NCATE Constituent Organizations (NCATE) -- The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education is an umbrella organization whose constituent members include many professional educator associations including the subject-related organizations. This list may lead you to an organization's web site and to standards and curriculum developed by that organization.

Compendium of K12 Benchmarks and Standards -- A nice site maintained by the Mid-continent Regional Education Lab

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

Hotchalk's Lesson Plans page

Thinkfinity.org

Teachers.Net Lesson Plans

Curricular Resources

EdSitement -- National Endowment for the Humanities K12 curriculum site

Library of Congress Learning Page  -- Digital primary source materials linked to classroom activities and lesson plans

New York Times Learning Network Teacher Connection

Evaluating material found on the web

The web 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.

PSU Library Catalog

Find books, journals, government documents, and other holdings in PSU Library

Subject headings for books about teaching and pedagogy in specific subject areas follow this pattern:

specific topic-- study and teaching (educational level)

some examples:

language arts -- study and teaching -- primary
mathematics -- study and teaching -- elementary
social sciences -- study and teaching -- secondary
biology -- study and teaching -- higher