Inquiry-Based Learning and Teaching - Contains curriculum units, interactive programs for students, and links to resources.Children's Literature Web Guide - Links to authors, books, teaching ideas.
The WebQuest Page - Ideas for using the web for research in the classroom, including the one-computer classroom; web rings to link WebQuest projects.
Informal Education - A resource for community education, informal adult education, community work, youth work, youth development, animation and social pedagogy.
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.
WaterWorks -- Inquiry in the Classroom - This resource helps teachers do inquiry with students in the classroom, using fountains as a theme. Activities to help students observe, ask questions, and plan investigations are all important parts of creating an environment where real science is happening.
Visible Knowledge Program - The educational site of the New Museum of Contemporary Art offers online classrooms and studios to high school students and educators and interdisciplinary lesson plans.
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.
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.
CyberEdQuest: Creatures of the Night - Bat and Wolf Webquest and links.
Comprehensive Resources for Educators - A variety of teaching resources from the National Council for the Social Studies.
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 conversations in classrooms.
Exploring Science As Inquiry Using Manduca sexta - A manual for K-12 teachers on using the Tobacco Hornworm as a tool for inquiry-based science
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.
Institut de Coaching International - Un organisme international spécialisé dans la formation de coaches, basé à Genève et qui rayonne dans lensemble du monde francophone.
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.
Web Links for Inquiry-based Learning and the Internet - A useful collection of links on developing questions, search engines, electronic portfolios, and online instruction.
LEO Launching Education Into Orbit - LEO brings space-based science experiments into the classroom.
Active vs. Passive learning - Article compares active and passive approaches to learning.
iwonder - Inquiry-based site with resources for educators (teaching strategies and classroom realities) and interactive activities.
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.
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.
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 truly productive and meaningful experience for their students.
Cecilia J. Myrick, Ph.D. Home Page-Cultural Diversity Based on Cultural Grounding: A Cross-Cultural Literacy Curriculum for Critical Readers, Writers, and Thinkers in the African Diaspora - Dr. C. J. Myrick conducts on-going teacher-research to develop an authentic approach and curriculum for teaching critical literacy to African Diaspora Students.
Problem Based Learning - Provides an overview of problem based learning (PBL) and offers a searchable archive of PBL resources.
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.
Staff Development - A variety of staff development methods from the adult education virtual community, The Learners Realm.
Vermont Community Works - A resource for educators interested in making service learning and social education a core part of the public school curriculum.
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).
Science Lesson Plans - Lesson plans for physical and life sciences.
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.
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.
