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Curriculum and Lesson Planning
- Educator's Reference DeskIncludes over 2,000 lesson plans.
- CurrikiFree community for K12 educators, including lesson plan sharing.
- Primary SearchFull text for more than 50 popular elementary school magazines, assigned a reading level indicator.
- ReadWriteThinkStandards-based lesson plans that integrate web content into the classroom. Selected by grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and area of literacy practice.
- Teacher Reference CenterIndexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.
Videos for You and Your Students
- Education in VideoResources for both new and experienced teachers tools to increase their knowledge and skills and for education faculty to link abstract theories of education to real-world students and classrooms.
- Kanopy Streaming VideoAn online documentary video streaming service distributing films from Psychotherapy.net, BBC, PBS, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Educational Resources and more.
- Kahn AcademyMicro-lectures on various educational topics.
- Google VideosWorks just like regular Google, but the results include only videos.
- Open Vaultonline access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH.
- Internet ArchiveContains thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive users. Many are available for download.
- Teacher TubeAn online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. View, download, embed, and share videos here.
- Annenberg Media's LearnerChoose "view programs" to browse educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. Create a free account to view video.
Opinion Research
- OpinionArchives.comOpinionArchives provides an electronic archives and some fulltext of 17 leading journals of opinion, politics, arts, history and culture. These primary source materials are invaluable for political science, literature, and other humanities and social sciences studies. Indexing reaches back to the first issues of the indexed publications.
- Public Agenda OnlinePublic Agenda, a nonpartisan, non profit research organization devoted to public opinion, policy analysis, and citizen education, has recently relaunched its Website. Public Agenda Online provides issue guides that cover topics such as crime, education, environment, immigration, social security, and welfare. Each issue guide contains an overview of the issue, a news digest of recent stories, background data, various perspectives on the issue, resources for more information, and analyses of related public opinion drawn from major public opinion polls.