CURRICULUM RECOMMENDED READING LIBRARIES

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS GOVERNMENT WEBSITES REFERENCE RESOURCES

Below are some links to other valuable and high quality online resources which is related to audiovisual and media resources, their evaluation, and their effective use.

CURRICULUM LINKS

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

Learning Page
The Learning Page is a "teacher's eye view" of over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings. You will find lessons, features, activities, and tips and tricks for using these collections in your classroom.

S. C. O. R. E. (Schools of California Online Resources for Education)
Sponsored by CTAP, ECTL, and CCSESA, S.C.O.R.E. includes four sites for Math, Science, History/Social Science, and Language Arts. These sites provide lists of electronic resources by theme/topic, lessons by grade level, standards and assessment tools, professional development offerings, virtual projects, Internet classrooms, and more.

Teachers.Net (Teaching Resources)
Described as the "ultimate teacher resource." Contains lesson plans, articles, chatboards, and much more.

Teachers First
TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, their students, and even students' families. Materials are arranged by subject area and grade level, making it easy to locate lesson plans and associated web resources quickly.

History Course Models
The course models that appear on this site are a resource designed to assist teachers in implementing the State Board of Education adopted History-Social Science Content Standards and Framework. In addition to serving as a resource for teachers or developers of local curricula, the models may also be used to plan topics and select resources for professional development. The many and varied instructional resources identified should be helpful to librarians and directors of media centers as school collections are augmented.

Curriculum Frameworks & Instructional Resources
A site by the California Department of Education. Curriculum frameworks are the blueprints for implementing the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education. Frameworks are developed by the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission, which also reviews and recommends textbooks and other instructional materials to be adopted by the State Board.

Learning Resource Display Centers
Locations for reviewing submitted and adopted instructional materials and resources.

RECOMMENDED READING

CA Recommended Literature K-12
California Reading List (STAR)
Caldecott Award Books
Newbery Award Books
California Young Reader Medal
 

LIBRARIES

Butte County Library
Paradise Genealogical Society
California State University Chico Meriam Library
California State Library
Library of Congress Washington D.C.
 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

California Reading Association (CRA)
California School Library Association (CSLA)
California Library Association (CLA)
California Association of Teachers of English (CATE)
American Library Association (ALA)
American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
Association of California School Administrators (ACSA)
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
International Reading Association (IRA)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
 

GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

CDE School Libraries Home Page
CDE Classroom / School Library Funding
CDE'S Resources Catalog
California Department of Education
Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries
No Child Left Behind
U. S. Congress
U. S. Department of Education
 

REFERENCE RESOURCES

AltaVista Translations
An online tool for translating English to Spanish, German, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, or French and vice versa.

American FactFinder
This site of the U.S. Census Bureau is a convenient source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data based on surveys of information.  Users may compare data for different geographic areas.  It also features Reference Maps where users can locate states, counties, urban areas, school districts, places, zip codes, census tracts, census blocks, and other Census geographies.

California Learning Resources Network (CLRN)
CLRN makes it easy for you to find the standards-aligned software, video and Internet learning resources you need.  CLRN experts have identified, reviewed, and organized hundreds of Electronic Learning Resources (ELRs) in a searchable database that allows you to compare key features of selected resources.

California Student Media and Multimedia Festival
The Festival celebrates projects and learning with media and multimedia projects by students.  There are also awards for teachers.  Over 6,000 students and hundreds of teachers took part in last year's Festival!  The Festival is not just for the high-end, expert technology users.  If your students (or you) are using video making or multimedia in your classroom, the Festival is here to honor your efforts.

Center for Media Literacy
The Center for Media Literacy (CML) is a nonprofit educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally.  Dedicated to promoting and support media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating, and creating media content.

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Online dictionary from Cambridge University Press.

Endangered Species
A site of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Through the Listing Program, the Service determines whether to add a species to the Federal lists of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants.

Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.

Just for the Kids - California

• Provides clear and accurate data charts based on publicly available information from the California Standards Test for Language Arts and Mathematics.
• Helps schools benchmark their performance against the top ten performing schools in the state, region and county that have comparable student populations.
• Connects schools to higher performing schools to learn what works as well as a Best Practice Framework and self-audit tool to help set measurable, attainable goals for improvement.

Learning Disabilities Online
A leading website on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals.

Librarian's Index to the Internet
A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 11,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to library users. lii.org is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources.

Picturing the Century:  One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
This exhibit of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) commemorates the 20th Century with photographs.  Studying photographs helps us imagine what it was like when the first airplane took off, when a landing craft ramp fell open on D-day, or when the first man stepped onto the Moon.  The photographs capture the changes of the last one hundred years.  They depict the mundane and high political drama, society's failings and triumphs, war's ugliness and its bravery.

Refdesk.com
Refdesk is about indexing quality Internet sites and assisting visitors in navigating these sites. Refdesk is free and family friendly.

SearchEdu.com
A search engine for educational resources, including useful reference links, calculators, constants, and conversions.