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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The Learning Page is a "teacher's eye view" of over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings.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.
Online resources for education.
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
U.S. Children's Book Awards
Children's Book Awards
LOCAL LIBRARIES
Butte County Library
Chico Senior High School Library
Paradise Genealogical Society
California State University Chico Meriam Library
NOTABLE LIBRARIES
Library of Congress Washington D.C.
Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature Fresno, California
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Charlotte, North Carolina
Palmerston District Primary Library Canberra Australia
Ventura Vista School Tucson, Arizona
Peter Milbury's Network of School Librarians Web Pages
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)
Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK)
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
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.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Online dictionary from Cambridge University Press.
Columbia Guide to Online Style
Presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources. The unique element approach used makes this a useful reference book
for citing electronic sources regardless of the specific bibliographic style you may be required to use.
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.
Favorite Poem Project
Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States,
founded the Favorite Poem Project shortly after the Library of
Congress appointed him to the post in 1997. Since its
launch, the Favorite Poem Project has been dedicated to
celebrating, documenting and promoting poetry's role in
Americans' lives. This exceptional collection of 50 short
video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and
speaking personally about poems they love. In addition to
creating these collections, the Favorite Poem Project has been
dedicated to strengthening communities through the art of poetry
and has developed successful programs for libraries,
communities, and schools.
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.
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.
Butte County Office of Education