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SCED 304: Education, Ethics & Change

Resources to support SCED 304 assignments.

Curriculum & Lesson Planning

MD State Curriculum 
The State Curriculum is the document that aligns the Maryland Content Standards and the Maryland Assessment Program and will be available in a number of formats for teachers, central office staff, students, parents, and the other stakeholders.

Maryland Learning Links 
Resource for educators and parents about issues related to special education and early intervention in Maryland.

Partnership for 21st Century Learning: Frameworks & Resources (downloads)
Lesson planning tools for all ages and a wide variety of topics.

PBS Teacher Source   

Topics A to Z (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education) 

Digital Citizenship

Common Sense Media: K-12 Digital Literacy & Citizenship Curriculum 
Materials and lessons designed to facilitate K-12 students' critical thinking, safe behavior and responsible participation in the digital world.

EDUCAUSE 
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Edutopia 
Offered by The George Lucas Educational Foundation, Edutopia is a collection of resources dedicated to improving K-12 learning by documenting and disseminating innovative, replicable and evidence-based strategies for teachers and learners.

ISTE Standards 
The ISTE Standards set a standard of excellence and best practices in learning, teaching and leading with technology in education. 

Maryland Digital Learning Standards (PDF)

Instructional Technology & School Library Media MD State Curriculum 

Education News

News & Newspapers 
National Newspapers offers citations, abstracts and full text newspapers for the Baltimore Sun (FT 9/1990- ), Christian Science Monitor (FT 5/1990- ), New York Times(FT 1999- ), Washington Post (FT 1/1987- ) and Wall Street Journal (FT 1/1984-).
LexisNexis Academic 
LexisNexis Academic includes full text newspapers, company news and financial information, as well as federal, state, and international legal materials. Also contains some medical and reference sources.
Newsbank Access World News: Education Current Events 

 

Education Statistics

ChildStats
America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being

National Center of Educational Statistics - A to Z 
Digest of statistics and reports on a variety of issues concerned with the state of American education. Includes Nation's Report Card. Reports are in download-ready PDF format.

National Public School Information Locator 

Nation's Report Card 
NAEP - National Assessment of Educational Progress

preK-12 Resources

The ICDL contains more than 10,000 digitized children's books in 54 languages from 166 countries.┬á Useful for both children and researchers in international children’s literature.
MasterFILE Premier 
Covers general interest topics such as general reference, health, business, and culture.
MAS Ultra: School Edition 
Contains full text for more than 460 popular, high school magazines. Full text is also available for 50,000 biographies and 60,000 primary source documents.
Primary Search 
Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and contains full text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines.
TeachingBooks 
TeachingBooks includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities. To make a personal account for creating booklists and saving resources, click Educator Login and sign up with your student or faculty e-mail.