Middle School 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 United States and other nations."

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.

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.

Teacher videos and lesson plan video library.

Hundreds of archived lessons are searchable by keyword.

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

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

Lesson plans for middle school and high school students.

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.

Revised Bloom's Taxonomy provided by Iowa State University.

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.