Other Educational Resources

• Classroom of the Future  [opens in a new window] - The NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future serves as the space agency's principal research and development center for educational technologies. The Classroom of the Future™ opened on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University in 1990 with one employee whose job involved delivering NASA educational materials and programs to local classrooms. Today the Classroom of the Future provides NASA with the educational research and expertise necessary for creating and delivering state-of-the-art education to the NASA audience, be they young or old
• The Center for Comprehensive School Reform  [opens in a new window] - The National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform's Step by Step-an online collection of select tools and resources designed to aid schools as they plan, implement, and sustain schoolwide reform programs.
• Education Index  [opens in a new window] - An annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily. There's also a place to find out more about us, and about all that the Education Index has to offer.
• Edvantia - formerly AEL.Org   [opens in a new window] - Edvantia (formerly AEL.Org) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation that provides education research, development, professional development, and consulting services in the P-12 arena.
• K12 Practitioners Circle - NCES - Dept of Ed.  [opens in a new window]
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators  [opens in a new window] -  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.
• The Knowledge Loom - What Works in Teaching & Learning  [opens in a new window] - A workspace where threads of thought and experience can be drawn from many sources to craft a cohesive and useful body of wisdom. This resource is developed and maintained by The Education Alliance at Brown University. Seed funding during 1998-2000 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
• The Library of Congress Site  [opens in a new window] - More than 10 million digitized historical artifacts are available on the Library of Congress' web site ranging from ancient manuscripts to Civil War maps, from classic blues recordings to Coca-Cola commercials, from Dust Bowl photographs to Thomas Edison's first films. These unique primary sources are the raw materials of history, and bring students into close personal contact with the people, places, and events of our nation's past. K-12 classroom teachers are provided with tools to bring these collections to life on the Library's Teachers page at: http://www.loc.gov/teachers.
•  Read Print.com  [opens in a new window]-- A free online library that offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast to read on line.
• Libraries at Fairmont State and Pierpont Community and Technical College  [opens in a new window] - Online library resources provided by the libraries at Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community & Technical College.
• Teacher Connections from the NY Times Learning Network  [opens in a new window] - The New York Times Learning Network includes lesson plans, news, test preparation, web explorers and more...