Online Curriculum Resources
Curriculum for Internet-Based Learning
- PCDay2: Successfully Funded
Projects and Application Form
- Search here for examples of successfully funded projects that were
submitted to the Smart Valley PCDay Project in 1997. Use these as
examples when you write your own grant applications.
- Distance
Learning, the Internet, and the World Wide Web
- This ERIC Digest explores Distance Learning: "Microcomputers, the
Internet, and the World Wide Web are shaping the current generation of
distance learning, and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and
knowledge systems may be next."
- Getting Started With
Distance Education
- Article with tips and pointers for schools wanting to start using
Distance education. Includes links to support services and service
providers. From The Distance Learning Resource Network Electronic Journal.
- World
Lecture Hall
- The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by
faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For
example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams,
class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.
- Blue Web'n
Learning Sites Library
- Blue Web'n is a searchable database of outstanding Internet learning
sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons,
activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
- CyberSchool
- A well designed and organized online public high school in Oregon,
with a complete curriculum available.
- Chrysalis
School Distance Learning
- A private school for grades 6-12 in which
Distance Learning is the main mode of education.
- Explorer (Math & Science)
- The ExplorerTM is a collection of educational resources
(instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created
materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education.
- American History
102: Civil War to the Present
- Prof. Stanley K. Schultz has
created a course in which much of the information is available on the
Web. One of the most outstanding uses of the Web for this purposes in the
History/Social Sciences!
- K-12 Distance
Education in Science, at the University of Oregon
- These courses
are designed to be self paced. The course material consists entirely of
Web pages and links to other content pages together with homework
assignments and examinations.
- Web Courses in the UO
Physics Department
- University of Oregon online course outlines
and support materials, inlcuding links to Internet online resources.
- K-12
Lesson Plans
- Marvelous collection of links to lesson plans from the L.A.C.O.E.
- Distance
Education
- Distance Education is an international journal which
publishes refereed articles and papers, as well as book reviews, on the
philosophy, theories and practices of distance education, open learning
and flexible delivery systems.
- Distance Learning
Resources
- Resources for information on distance learning and for
contacting others in the field for assistance. Include World Wide Web
sites, addresses for journals and newsletters, and information on
electronic discussion lists.
- Distance Learning Consortium
- A
national consortium of state universities and land grant institutions
providing high quality and economic distance education programs and
services via the latest and most appropriate information technologies.
-
Multimedia Summit for Education - University of Maine
- General
discussion of courseware within the context of WWW, examples of
courseware, and links to other courseware resources
- NASA K12 Internet Initiative
Homepage
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Home of NASA's K12 Internet Initiative. Provides grants and support for
teachers and students using the Internet, as well as opportunities to
meet and interact with NASA scientists.
- Teaching
and Publishing in the World Wide Web
- Classic discussion about using the Web for teaching and learning by
Harry M. Kriz.
- Creating WebQuests & Lessons
- Bernie Dodge explains how to design the WebQuest, an inquiry-oriented
activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact
with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with
videoconferencing.
- Problem Based Learning
- "Problem Based Learning is a curriculum development and delivery
system that recognizes the need to develop problem solving skills as well
as the necessity of helping students to acquire necessary knowledge and
skills." Bob Benoit
- WWW Constructivist Project Design Guide
- "This is a guide to
initiate experienced educators into designing constructivist, cooperative
learning projects around the World Wide Web. Examples of projects
inspired by this guide include The American History Archive Inquirer."
- Computer
Skills for Information Problem-Solving
- Eisenberg and Johnson
address "Learning and Teaching Technology in Context": There seems to be
clear and widespread agreement among the public and educators that
students need to be proficient computer users--students need to be
"computer literate." However, while districts are spending a great deal of
money on technology, there seems to be only a vague notion of what
computer literacy really means.
Sites With Curriculum Units and Lessons
- Lesson
Plans From ITDC
- Lesson plans using online resources.
- WebQuests
From ITDC
- Webquests are units which make extensive use of online resources.
- Dynamic
Syllabi
- "What follows is a growing list of dynamic syllabi devoted
to some aspect of American culture...they serve as online platforms upon
which to stage, manage, or enhance a course and can include various
electronic resources, instructors' notes, exercises and assignments,
course projects, virtual exhibitions, links between course readings and
Web resources, and, increasingly, students' projects.
- WVA
K12 RURALNET Lessons
- Collection of lessons in many subjects from a state with a large
rural population, and using distance education for many years.
- AE
Mystery Spot (lessons)
- Lesson plans with a little "mystery" to them.
Science Units and Lessons
- Hello
Dolly: A Webquest
- An Inquiry-Oriented Activity Where Learners Interact With The
Internet, Evaluate Information, And Formulate A Solution To A
Complex Problem. (Sheep Cloning, Ethics, Economics, etc.)
- Understanding Gene Testing
- Biology Lectures
- Concepts in Science through Molecular Modeling
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- Blood
and Its Components
- A Case
Study of Dioxin Pollution ( Love Canal )
- Balancing
Chemical Equations Using the TI-82
Math Lessons and Units
- Data
Presentation and Statistical Analysis
- Using
Pythagorean Triples
- The
Pi is the Limit or Pi in the Sky
- Algebra
Lesson Plans
- Geometry
Lesson Plans
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- Eating On A Budget
- I want
a credit card--or do I?
- How Many
Ways Can A Team Win A 7-Game Series?
- SCORE
Mathematics Lessons
History and Social Science Lessons and Units
- Our
Government and Constitution at Work
- Project Helping Hands
- Holocuast Unit
- American Immigration Past and Present
- Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the
Constitution
- The
Zimmermann Telegram
- American Justice on Trial
- Ancestral Exclusion
- Democracy Scrapbook
- Life in Our America
- Affirmative Action on Trial
- An
Introduction to Economic Indicators
- LESSON ON ECONOMIC DEMAND
- Gang of Fifteen-
Currency Exchange
- Stock Market Game
(lesson)
- Seeking a Balance in International Trade
- With Liberty and Justice for All (lesson)
- American Revolution (lesson)
- The Turn of the Century
- Civil War Gazette
- Return to Ramon Garza's Web Links Page..