Annotated Resource List

For

Early Childhood Education

 

Lesson Plans

 

http://mi00040.monroe.k12.la.us/mcs/
community/early_child/early_child.html

Early Childhood Resources. Hundreds of sites for every imaginable activity.

http://www.teachingk-8.com/

Teaching K-8.  A treasure chest of curriculum ideas. This month's current activities are featured, with past activities in an archive for easy access throughout the year.

http://www.janbrett.com/

Jan Brett’s Homepage. 

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators. A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.        

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/
Hollow/1213/

Kinder Korner. Kinder Korner is a resource website

 for teachers and others interested in early childhood education, Pre-K through 2nd Grade. 

http://www4.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/
PEP/teach.htm

Teaching Ideas for Early Childhood Special Educators. Don't reinvent the wheel - there are lots of ways to share teaching ideas on the web.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/
kinder/funpage.html

Fun Pages for Kid’s. There are lots of fun activities on this page for kids to do to learn  more about plants.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Science/
intro.html

Activities at Home. This section contains a sampling of science activities-- organized roughly from easiest to most difficult--suitable for children from preschool through the early elementary grades.

http://www.proteacher.com/

ProTeacher. Early childhood  lesson plans, activities and resources for the classroom

http://lessonplanz.com/

LessonPlanz. Search or browse thousands of preschool-12 lesson plans and resources in all subjects.

http://www.teachers.net/cgobon/lessons/
sort.cgi?searchterm+Pre-school

The Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Bank is an opportunity to share teaching ideas, lesson plans and projects.

http://www.li.net/~ndonohue/child.html

Early Childhood Greets the Web includes hundreds of projects, lesson, crafts, songs and thematic activities.

http://www.scholastic.com/index.asp

Scholastic Network. Lesson plans, classroom activities and many other award winning resources.

http://www.preschooleducation.com/
index.shtml

Preschool Educattion – Discover the Fun …

Lesson plans, bulletin boards, thematic units and more.

http://nuttinbutkids.com/

Nuttin' But Kids Main Page Early childhood learning activities for more than 50 themes.

http://www.bv.net/~stormie/

Preschool Teacher. Pre-K curriculum and lesson plan ideas; includes free materials and resources for sale.

http://www.geocities.com/~chicky-ma-ma/

The Idea City Place! Over 650 activity ideas for young children. Theme based art, math, science, games, songs, dramatic play and more.

http://lessonplanz.com/

LessonPlanz. Search or browse thousands of preschool-12 lesson plans and resources in all subjects.

http://www.classroom.net/home.asp

Classroom Connect.  Webquests, conferences, lesson plans, tutorials, newsletters and more.

http://www.youthline-usa.com/lessonstop/
index.html

Lesson Stop. Within the 7 subject area pages, you'll find about 500 links to web sites organized by topic and grade level, which provide access to thousands of lesson plans.

http://lessonplanz.com/

LessonPlanz. Search or browse thousands of preschool-12 lesson plans and resources in all subjects.

http://www.graphic.org/home.html

The Graphic Organizer. Takes you deeper into the practical applications of graphic organizers such as brainstorming webs and thinking process maps.

 

 

Reference and Research Tools

http://www.edweek.org/

Education Week – Best of the Web. Online newspaper for educators.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/
Hollow/1213/

Kinder Korner. Kinder Korner is a resource website

 for teachers and others interested in early childhood education, Pre-K through 2nd Grade.  

http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_
Digests/ed405398.html

Hispanic Preschool Education: An Important Opportunity. An ERIC digest article that talks about programs and strategies successful in bringing in Hispanic children to preschool.

http://www.kidsource.com/ASHA
/bilingual.html

Children and Bilingualism. If you are considering teaching your child a second language at a young age, then this is a good reference article for you.

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/
content2/add.nimh.html

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This is an excellent three part booklet from the National Institute of Mental Health that provides an in depth summary of ADD -including diagnosis, treatments, coping strategies, medication options, myths about other treatments and more.

http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/teacher/
teacherframe.html

Alphabet Superhighway Organizations. An annotated list of helpful support groups that offer ideas, and free stuff for teachers.

http://www.surfnetkids.com/

Surfing the Net With Kids. A weekly review of fun, educational Web sites by Barbara Feldman, for the the San Diego Union-Tribune.

http://will.state.wy.us/sis/ecdc.html

Internet Sites for Early Childhood Development

 

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/
pep/pz.html

Preschool Zone. Resources for Early Childhood Special Education.

http://www.steck-vaughn.com/

Steck-Vaughn.

http://www.classroom.net/home.asp

Classroom Connect.  Webquests, conferences, lesson plans, tutorials, newsletters and more.

http://www.youthline-usa.com/lessonstop/index.html

Lesson Stop. Within the 7 subject area pages, you'll find about 500 links to web sites organized by topic and grade level, which provide access to thousands of lesson plans.

http://lessonplanz.com/

LessonPlanz. Search or browse thousands of preschool-12 lesson plans and resources in all subjects.

 

 

Associations

http://knowledgeloom.org/servlet/
external.class?url=http%3A%2F%2F
www.npeat.org

American Council of Education. News, events and initiatives that affect education.

http://www.aft.org/

American Federation of Teachers. The AFT represents teachers, school support staff, health care professionals and state and municipal workers.

http://www.naeyc.org/

The National Association for the Education of Young Children. Promoting excellence in early

childhood education

http://www.burtchy.com/ecpdn/

Early Childhood Professional Development Network.

(ECPDN) is committed to designing and developing high-quality educational courses for staff who work in educational settings with young children and their families.

http://www.ume.maine.edu/~cofed/eceol/
welcome.shtml

Early Childhood EducationOnline. offers support and opportunities for information exchange to all educators: families, teachers, caregivers, and others.

 

 

Rubrics and Assessments

http://www.odyssey.on.ca/~elaine.coxon/
rubrics.htm

The Staff Room. This page contains the links to individual rubrics,  while the assessment page has links to other forms of assessment and evaluation and a list of sites that offer information about assessment

http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html

Understanding Rubrics

What does a good rubric contain?

http://madison.ssd.k12.wa.us/CHAMBERS/
rubrics.htm

Rubric Design

Sample rubrics for various assessments.

http://coe.ilstu.edu/phklass/eaf493/
assess.htm

Classroom Assessment Resources and Links

Sample Rubrics

http://www.odyssey.on.ca/~elaine.coxon/
Reporting/assessment2.htm

The Staff Room. Checklists, Anecdotal Reports, forms and of course great sites offering more Rubrics.

 

 

Interactive Sites

http://mi00040.monroe.k12.la.us/mcs/
community/early_child/early_child.html

Early Childhood Resources. Hundreds of sites for every imaginable activity.

http://www.pbs.org/rogers/

Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood.  Mr. Roger’s house neighborhood, song list and more.

http://www.bonus.com/

Bonus.com. Students can enjoy enriching and entertaining activities that take them from the ocean depths to the farthest reaches in space. 2,000 + activities.

http://www.ajkids.com/

Ask Jeeves for Kids. This site allows you to ask questions in plain English and after interacting with you to confirm the question, Ask Jeeves for Kids takes you to one and only one web site that answers your questions.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/
eslcafe.html

Dave’s ESL Café. The Internet's Top Site for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World

http://www.searsportrait.com/storybook/
index.html

StoryBook Station. Story Creations and personalized letters are customized with your child's name. Just choose a story or letter and answer a few short questions.

http://www.worldkids.net/pooh/100aker.html

Winnie the Pooh and An Expedition to A Wonderful Place. Students will enjoy the map that allows one to click on places from Winnie the Pooh stories and take adventures. The site requires active listening to interpret what is

http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
aesop1.html

Aesop’s Fables. This site contains many of Aesop's Fables.  I believe students would be motivated to listen to the peer's voice and also I think many students would try to figure out the moral or lesson to be learned by the story before the reader tells them.

http://www.kidsource.com/tobbs/

Meet Professor Tobbs. These wonderful activities help children develop important mathematical ideas and thinking skills that they will use in math, science and in everyday situations.

http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/prek.html

Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site. This page offers reviews of books useful in preschool as well as interesting teaching ideas for some of the best books.

http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/projects.html

School World Projects. This site  was designed with the premise that schools should be allowed to participate in a wide range of varied programs and projects and interact with other schools from around the world.

http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/

Alphabet Superhighway.  Great site that include interactive sites, lesson plans, cyberzines, challenge chasers and parents lounge.

http://www.billybear4kids.com/

Billy Bear’s Playground. You will find links to other sites that include lots of great links.

http://www.ctw.org/

Children’s Television Network.  Sesame workshop.

http://www.geocities.com/Enchanted
Forest/3278/index.html

Topher’s Castle. Features Winnie the Pooh and breakfast cereal character guides; magazines, links, and free stuff for kids, comics and cartoons, a mystery page, and more.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!

KidsClick - web guide/search engine for kids by librarians.

 

http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville

Welcome to Seussville!. Fun and games on the Random House website.

 

http://www.nickjr.com/bluesclues/home.html

Blue’s Clues – Nick Jr.

 

 

Professional Development

http://www.ecewebguide.com/

The Early Childhood Education Web Guide seeks to provide childcare professionals with the most up-to-date Internet resources.

http://www.ecewebguide.com/online_
ece_journals.htm

Online Journals.  Several links to journals devoted to the interests of Early Childhood.

http://www.triangle.co.uk/ciec/index.htm

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. An online journal for professionals working with young children and their families

 

http://ecrp.uiuc.edu

Early Childhood Research and Practice. An Internet journal on the development, care, and education of young children

http://www.udel.edu/sine/ecrq/index.html

 

Early Childhood Research Quarterly Early Childhood Research Quarterly includes articles presenting significant research and scholarship on all topics related to the care and education of children from birth through 8 years. 

http://www.scholastic.com/ect/

 

Early Childhood Today. This is the electronic version of the popular magazine, Early Childhood Today, which is published by Scholastic.

http://www.healthychild.net/

Healthy Child Care. A bi-monthly magazine with information on health issues impacting young children in classrooms or child care settings

http://www.northfork.com/preschoolpub/

Preschool Publications, Inc.

 

http://www.naeyc.org/resources/journal/
default.asp

Young Children  
A searchable index of the tables of contents and some reference lists from the NAEYC's official journal. 

http://www.teachingstrategies.com/

Teaching Strategies. Learn how curriculum is linked to teaching and learning through revised curriculum goals and objectives that clearly define what children should learn.

http://www.ehsnrc.org/

 

Early Head Start National Resource Center. The Early Head Start National Resource Center provides information about training, conferences, and technical assistance to the newly established Early Head Start Programs. In addition, you can link to full text articles on early childhood development and health, family and community partnerships, and program management.

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ecedirectory

Topics in Early Childhood Education. This site offers articles on various topics: Emergent literacy, computers, active learning environments.

http://www.burtchy.com/ecpdn/

Early Childhood Professional Development Network.

(ECPDN) is committed to designing and developing high-quality educational courses for staff who work in educational settings with young children and their families.