Elementary Education Research Guide: Online Resources

The National Center for Education Statistics is the "primary federal entity collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations."

According the site's description, "NEA is America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. Founded in 1857 in Philadelphia and now headquartered in Washington, D.C., NEA proudly claims more than 2.5 million members who work at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs.

ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.

These talks offer insights, concerns, and inspiration while discussing today's educational practices and shortcomings, from a variety of perspectives.

Teacher videos and lesson plan video library.

The Praxis Series™ tests are taken by individuals entering the teaching profession as part of the certification process required by many states and professional licensing organizations. Here you can register for the tests, find information on dates and times and help in preparing for them.

Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy.

(All Ages): This site provides a wealth of free games, puzzles, quizzes, and more. An impressive, rich resource of fun educational games and activities.

(Grades 3 and up): This site features a variety of games and interactive acitivities and leans towards various science and history based adventures and activities, rather than the traditional subjects-specific types of games.

Hundreds of archived lessons are searchable by keyword.

Lesson plans for The Arts, Health & Fitness, Math, Language & Reading Arts, Science & Tech, and Social Studies

Hundreds of standards-based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators

Lesson Plans for Teachers

Contains a resource library as well as lesson plans covering Art & Design, Science & Technology, History & Culture and Language Arts.

From ADPRIMA, a website with education information for new and future teachers. See the links at the bottom for more information on behavioral objectives, measurement, assessment and evaluation.

Lesson plans for primary grades

Mathematics lesson plans for all levels.

Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation provides instructional materials for agriculture education at all grade levels to all public and non-public Kentucky schools. The lesson plans cover a wide range of current topics including nutrition, consumerism, economics, environment and agriculture literacy for urban and rural students.

KET EncycloMedia is an Internet-based comprehensive learning service. It offers teachers and students more than 4,000 videos, 40,000 video clips, and thousands of digital images, all searchable by key word, content area, grade level, and Kentucky academic standards.

Resources posted in the Beacon database are products of professional development activities teaching a standards-based planning model. Included are lesson plans, unit plans and documents related to assessment, standards-based lesson planning modules, informaton on Bloom's Taxonomy, and technology tools.

Key terms with verbs and activities

FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

National Geographic lets you explore your world with map themes, data, and tools for customizing your map, then print it!

NIEonline.com developers work with managers of independent Newspapers in Education programs to offer a selection of useful tools for educators who want to bring news into K-12 classrooms and work to engage students with news media.

Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists.