Curriculum Materials Library - Helpful Links


Useful Links:
UGA Libraries’ Homepage
CML Resources
Refworks
Endnote

American Juvenile Collection: From Long Island University the American Juvenile Collection “is a Research Collection of Fiction, Folklore and Fairy tales in Juvenile books, 1910-1960, by American Publishers, including some appropriate earlier titles.” No information is available on how often it is updated.

Awesome Library K-12 Education Directory: For teachers, students and parents — The Awesome Library organizes your exploration of the web with over 12,000 carefully reviewed resources. It includes a directory, an index, and a search engine.

Best of the Best: Please see YALSA’s Best of the Best below.

Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Newsletter: Carol Hurst is a storyteller, lecturer, author, columnist, and language arts consultant; her newsletter includes book reviews, teaching ideas, links to author interviews, professional topics, and more.

Children’s Book Council:  This site lists services intended for the use of teachers and librarians. It provides quick access to current recommended social studies and science books for children.

Children’s Notable Books List, provided by the American Library Association’s Association for Library Service to Children.

CML News & Events: Keep up with the newest additions to the Libraries’ collections as well as Libraries’ News.

Copyright & Educational Fair Use: Use this Board of Regents’ guide to copyrighted materials for use in education. For further assistance with copyright questions, please contact UGA’s Office of Legal Affairs.

Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature: Discover winners of over 108 awards from more than 10,000 records. Maintained by Lisa R. Bartle of California State University at San Berdardino.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Provides links to primarily math and science lessons for K-12 educators.

The Gateway: The Gateway to Educational Materials is a consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to the substantial collections of educational materials found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial internet sites. Funded by the National Education Association.

Georgia Department of Education—Georgia Performance Standards: The mission of this website is “providing information and resources necessary to help meet the educational needs of students. The goal of this web site is to provide a dynamic, interactive online resource that will enhance and support teaching and learning in Georgia with the Georgia Performance Standards as the main focus.”

International Children’s Digital Library: The mission of ICDL, from their website is “…is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.  Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.” Books are available in a wide variety of languages and are full-text. All titles are available in the public domain. Response time for this site is a bit slow.

Math Forum @ Drexel: An extensive site, featuring math problems and answers to tough questions from Ask Dr. Math. Established in 1992 and kept current.

CML Media Catalog: Browse the CML’s collection of films and other media.

CML Periodicals: Discover the periodicals housed in the CML.

National Council for the Social Studies:  CSS serves as an umbrella organization for teachers of history, geography, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and law-related education. Its website provides information about other internet links and resources, journals and publications, standards and curriculum, and teaching resources.

National Council of Teachers of English: Explore resources for elementary, middle & secondary classrooms, as well find new materials for educators.

National Education Association:  Looking for lesson plans? Visit the National Education Association’s site for plenty of ideas.

National Geographic: Education:  Provides access to maps, teaching resources, multi-media resources and much more.

National Science Teachers Association: The NSTA web site offers information about education resources, NSTA Standards for science teacher preparation, publications, and a list of notable science children’s books.

PBS Learning Media: Join forces with PBS for access to tens of thousands classroom-ready film clips, lesson plans and more. Membership is free, but after three visits, users will be asked to create an account.

School Library Journal—Book Verdict: More lists of recommended titles from School Library Journal.

Smithsonian Institution: Educators’ Resources: This site unites educators with specialists in a wide range of fields. A partial list of resources includes the Air & Space Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, African Art Museum and many more. Curriculum resources are available as well as special features, such as a classroom videoconference.

Teachers.Net: A blog, a chat room, and more, offering lesson plans and even job opportunities.

Vandergrift’s Children’s Literature Page: Maintained by Rutger’s School of Communication and Information, suggests titles in a wide range of topics: female voices in picture books; African-American Juvenile Literature, Asian-American; Hispanic-American; Native American, sensitive subjects and more. The resulting lists are just that, a list, but without reviews. Updated frequently.

YALSA’s Best of the Best: Get the lists of best books & media from the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association.

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