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ADL Curriculum Connections
Curriculum Connections is a collection of original lesson plans and resources that help K-12 educators integrate multicultural, anti-bias, and social justice themes into their curricula. Each edition is organized around a particular topic or theme, and a new edition is published approximately two times per school year.
Doing What Works
EDSitement
Discovery Education
Free Lesson plans from Discovery Education
FREE - Federal Resources for Education Excellence
Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Learningscience.org
Literacy Web
Created by faculty from the University of Conneticut the Literacy Web is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies.
Lesson Plan Central
OER Commons
OER Commons is a portal with free-to-use, openly licensed educational resources, for teachers and instructors. Materials are classified by subject area, grade level (primary, secondary, and postsecondary), and then material type. The latter include Activities and Labs, Assessments, Curriculum Standards, Homework, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plans, Syllabi, Training Materials, Video Lectures, and more.
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Materials are also classified by media format (Audio, Graphics, Text/HTML, Video, etc.). Open-access textbooks are classified by Subject, Grade Level, and Collection.
PBS Teachers
Smithsonian Education
Teachable Moment
Hundreds of interactive classroom activities are available for elementary, middle, and high school
2Teach,LLC
Ultimate Lesson Plan Guide

E - Books

Curriculum-Based Motivation Group : A Five Session Motivational Interviewing Group Intervention
Published in 2002
Curriculum: Construction and Critique
Published in 2002

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Martha Yancey

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Curriculum Related Websites

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
C.A.R.T. A compendium of Assessment and Research Tools
Theory into Practice
Education World
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
National Science Digital Library
NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
Pedagogy in Action - SERC Portal for Educators