Curriculum Resources (Inquiry Based Learning)

Curriculum Resources Sites:

Web Links for Inquiry-based Learning and the Internet Web Links for Inquiry-based Learning and the Internet: A useful collection of links on developing questions, search engines, electronic portfolios, and online instruction. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.biopoint.com/msla/links.html Co-nect Teleprojects and Activities 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://exchange.co-nect.net/Teleprojects/ Comprehensive Resources for Educators Comprehensive Resources for Educators: A variety of teaching resources from the National Council for the Social Studies. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/ Vermont Community Works Vermont Community Works: A resource for educators interested in making service learning and social education a core part of the public school curriculum. (Curriculum Resources) http://vermontcommunityworks.org Young Authors Workshop 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/index.html Children's Literature Web Guide Children's Literature Web Guide: Links to authors, books, teaching ideas. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html Service Learning: connecting learning through action Service Learning: connecting learning through action: Teachers and students will find a list of service learning projects. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.stickyteaching.org Service Learning and Social Education Demonstration 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.k12.vt.us/gcs/newwebsite/cslprj/index.html Haudenosaunee Iroquois Homework Help 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). (Curriculum Resources) http://www.peace4turtleisland.org/pages/homework.htm Supporting Critical Conversations in Classrooms 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 (Curriculum Resources) http://education.indiana.edu/~langed/faculty/harste/paper.html Ellen Weber, MITA Center, Multiple Intelligence Teaching Approach 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.houghton.edu/personnel/eweber/ellen.html CyberEdQuest: Creatures of the Night CyberEdQuest: Creatures of the Night: Bat and Wolf Webquest and links. (Curriculum Resources) http://dorishill.tripod.com/index.htm Internet Databases for Education and Research 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.socialknowledge.com/index2.html The WebQuest Page The WebQuest Page: Ideas for using the web for research in the classroom, including the one-computer classroom; web rings to link WebQuest projects. (Curriculum Resources) http://webquest.sdsu.edu/ Movers and Shakers Unlimited 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.moverandshakerb1.com/ The National Center for Issues-Centered Education 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://coe.sdsu.edu/NCIE/NCIE.html Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-based Learning 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 (Curriculum Resources) http://www.biopoint.com/ibr/Welcome.html Problem Based Learning Problem Based Learning: Provides an overview of problem based learning (PBL) and offers a searchable archive of PBL resources. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/problem.html Lesson Plans from Smithsonian Education on the Web 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://educate.si.edu/lp/lp_fs.html Investigating Chicks Through the Multiple Intelligences 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/projects/inquiry/chickscope/chicksmi/Chickscopemi.html Informal Education Informal Education: A resource for community education, informal adult education, community work, youth work, youth development, animation and social pedagogy. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.infed.org/ High Performance Charter School Curriculum 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. (Curriculum Resources) http://www.topschools.com/Academics.htm