LibGuides: Education: Teaching Resources

Curriculum Resource Center

Most curriculum materials, K-12 textbooks, leveled readers, and educational software are housed in the Curriculum Resource Center, operated by the School of Education. This library also has a wide selection of childrens' and young adult literature. Hours vary by semester.

The Curriculum Resource Center is located in:

ES 1125 ( 902 W. New York Street on the 1st floor, facing the Natatorium)

For more information, call

Erin Cassity 317-274-6866.

Curriculum Resource Center

Classroom Management Resources

Harry Wong on teachers.net
Harry Wong's monthly column.
NEA Classroom Management

Grants & Funding

CICF (Central Indiana Community Foundation)
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CICF is a public charitable foundation transforming central Indiana in three ways:By supporting donors, family foundations and their professional advisors on charitable giving, awarding grants to effective not-for-profit organizations, and providing leadership to address community needs and seize opportunities.

CICF was established in 1997 as a partnership between The Indianapolis Foundation, serving Marion County since 1916, and Legacy Fund, serving Hamilton County since 1991.

With $550 million in assets, CICF’s mission is to inspire, support, and practice philanthropy, leadership, and service in our community. Our work is centered on our vision for central Indiana’s future.
IMLS
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; enhance learning and innovation; and support professional development.
Lumina
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Lumina Foundation strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access to and success in education beyond high school.
Lumina Foundation is a private, independent foundation established in Indianapolis in August 2000. We employ 46 staff members and have invested assets in excess of $1 billion. This total ranks Lumina among the nation’s top 40 private foundations.
Next Gen/Gates Foundation
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Next Generation Learning Challenges is a collaborative, multi-year initiative created to address the barriers to educational innovation and tap the potential of technology to dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States.
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust
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The Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust seeks to help people in need, especially women, children and families; to protect animals and nature; and to enrich community life in the metropolitan areas of Indianapolis and Phoenix.
Geographic Priorities

In keeping with the wishes of Mrs. Pulliam, the Trust accepts requests from only charitable organizations located in and serving the metropolitan areas of Indianapolis, Indiana and Phoenix, Arizona, with the exception of environmental requests. For environmental requests, the Trust will consider proposals from charitable organizations throughout Arizona and Indiana, if the project has statewide impact.
NSF (National Science Foundation)
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Photo - NSF building, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington. Click for credit. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.9 billion (FY 2010), we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities.
Pew Charitable Trust
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The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life.

We partner with a diverse range of donors, public and private organizations and concerned citizens who share our commitment to fact-based solutions and goal-driven investments to improve society.

Video Resources

Teacher Tube
EduTube
Discovery Education Streaming
**Requires a subscription

Learning Styles

General Lesson Plan Resources

ASCD
Educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.
EDSITEment: Best of Humanities Lessons
EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a proud member of the Thinkfinity Consortium of premier educational websites
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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.

All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is not intended to represent a complete curriculum in the humanities, nor does it prescribe any specific course of study.
EDUCAUSE
A nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
Edutopia
George Lucas Educational Foundation is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives.
Learner.org
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Our mission is to advance excellent teaching in American schools through the development and distribution of multimedia resources for teaching and learning. We are a division of the Annenberg Foundation, which funds a wide range of programs in education and other areas.
PBS Teachers — Resources For The Classroom
Teacher lesson plans, online activities, classroom resources, and professional development projects are available at this public PBS education Web site.
ReadWriteThink
Peer-reviewed source of lesson plans from the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English. Primarily covers reading and English/language arts.
Rubistar4Teachers
Create custom rubrics.
TeachNology: Lesson Plans for Teachers
Provide services designed to support educators' in effectively incorporating technology in teaching and learning.

PBL

Project Based Learning is an instructional approach built upon authentic learning activities that engage student interest and motivation. These activities are designed to answer a question or solve a problem and generally reflect the types of learning and work people do in the everyday world outside the classroom.

Project-Based Learning: BIE

Assessment, Standards, & Evaluation

AASL (American Association of School Librarians)
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The mission of the American Association of School Librarians is to advocate excellence, facilitate change, and develop leaders in the school library field. AASL works to ensure that all members of the school library field collaborate to: provide leadership in the total education program, participate as active partners in the teaching/learning process, connect learners with ideas and information, and prepare students for life-long learning, informed decision-making, a love of reading, and the use of information technologies.
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Indiana Standards & Resources
ISTE
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The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education.

ISTE represents more than 100,000 education leaders and emerging leaders throughout the world and informs its members regarding educational issues of national and global scope.
McREL: Mid-Continent Research for Ed Lab
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McREL is a private, 501 (c)(3) education research and development corporation. That’s our standard, legal definition—but it doesn’t capture who we really are: A committed staff of research and education experts working every day to help educators change the odds for success for all students
CEAP (Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation)
CAEP advances equity and excellence in educator preparation through evidence-based accreditation that assures quality and supports continuous improvement to strengthen P-12 student learning.

Wordle

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Documents & Presentations

Alternative Research Assignments
Guide to Literature Reviews
Intro to Lesson Plans & Learning Outcomes
Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan Template
Courtesy of the National Earth Science Teachers Association

OER (Open Education Resources)

Center for Educational Research & Innovation
Creative Commons
Merlot-Multimedia Educational Resources
MIT Open Courseware
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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), available at http://ocw.mit.edu, makes the course materials used in the teaching of all MIT undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user in the world. Educators utilize the materials for curriculum development, while students and self-learners around the globe use them for self-study or supplementary use. With more than 2,000 courses now available, OCW is delivering on the promise of open sharing of knowledge.
OER Commons
OER Consortium
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The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by the OER Center for California, Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College, OCW Consortium and many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses.
OER Hewlett Packard
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The Foundation's programs have ambitious goals that include: helping to reduce global poverty, limiting the risk of climate change, improving education for students in California and elsewhere, improving reproductive health and rights worldwide, supporting vibrant performing arts in our community, advancing the field of philanthropy, and supporting disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Open/Alternative Textbooks

C K-12 Flexbook
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CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.
OpenStax (formerly Connexions)
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Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month.
Flatworld Knowledged
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Our books are free online. We offer convenient, low-cost choices for students – print-on-demand softcovers, audio books and chapters, self-print options, and more. Our books are open for instructors to modify and make their own (for their own course — not for anybody else's). Our books are the hub of a social learning network where students learn from the book and each other.