Busse Library provides these websites for students and faculty seeking education and teaching resources. Websites reflect a portion of available resources.
Scroll down the desktop or move to a topic of interest:
-- Literature and Education -- Special Purpose Sites -- Gateways to Education Resources -- Lesson Plans and Curriculum Guides -- Schools -- Raising Children -- For Teachers -- For Children and Teens
- Children's Literary Awards: Busse Library Titles
- Education: Easy Readers
- Education: Picture Books
- Education: Popular Titles
- Education: Young Adult Literature
- Adult, Career and Vocational Education - Center for Education and Training for Employment (CETE): Ohio State University
- Assessment and Evaluation - Buros Test Reviews Online - largest index to test information. Busse Library owns the Mental Measurements Yearbook in print.
- Assessment and Evaluation - Practical Assessment Research and Evaluation (PARE)
- Child Care - National Child Care Information Center: U.S. Department Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- Educational Opportunity - Council for Opportunity in Education
- Entrepreneurship - Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
- ESL -- Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA)
- Language and Literacy - Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
- Reading - Family Learning Association
- Rural Education and Small Schools - AEL: Charleston, Virginia
- Service Learning - National Service Learning Clearinghouse
- Teacher Education - American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
- Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences - a bibliography of test names
- Urban Education - Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME): Teachers College, Columbia University
- U.S.-Japan Studies - National Clearinghouse for U.S.--Japan Studies: Indiana University
Gateways to Education Resources
- Argus Clearinghouse: Education
- BBC Online:Learning
- Berit's Best Sites For Children
- Blue Web'n Learning Applications Library - Searchable database of websites in all areas
- Educational Hotlists - from the Franklin Institute
- Education Index
- Education World
- Education World "Best Of" Series
- EduHound - directory of internet resource
- ERIC - U.S. Department of Education database
- EdPubs: U.S. Department of Education Publications
- Free Federal Resources For Educational Excellence Online - nice subject directory
- Gateway to Education Materials
- History of Education - Selected Moments in the 20th Century
- MMC Webliography: Child and Adolescent Development
- NASA K-12 Initiative
- ScienceNet: Toronto Public Library - Science education resources
- Site for Teachers
- Skewl Sites:Best of Education Websites -- teacher researched websites
- TechLearning - Resources for integrating technology into the K-12 school
- U.S. Department of Education
- World Wide Arts Resources
Lesson Plans and Curriculum Guides
- The Big 6 Skills:Information Literacy for the Information Age
- Biography Maker - How to write a biography
- Busy Teacher's Website
- Collaborative Lesson Archive: University of Illinois
- Columbia Education Center (CEC): Lesson Plans
- Curriculum Links for Science Teachers
- Curriculum Online -- a UK federal initiative for public schools
- edhelper.com -- theme units and lesson plans
- EDSITEment: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- Educator's Reference Desk
- How to Read A Painting -- example of a good model for an online lesson plan
- Incredible Art Department
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
- Lesson Planet: Over 30,000 Lesson Plans for Teachers -- requires paid membership to view plans
- Lesson Plans Page
- LessonPlans.com
- ProTeacher -- elementary school resources
- Puzzlemaker: Discovery Channel School
- Quia! -- Create your own learning activities
- Richard Fouchaux's Lesson Plans Collection
- TeacherLINK@ Utah State University
- Teachable Moment - social responsibility
- Thursday's Classroom -- Science resources from NASA
- The Ultimate Lesson Plan Guide: The University of New England
- Virtual Schoolhouse
- Word Problems for Kids
- American School Directory
- American Universities Directory
- Cedar Rapids Area Catholic Education System
- Cedar Rapids Community Schools
- Grant Wood AEA
- Grant Wood AEA Media Center Catalog
- Teach Iowa! -- job listings
- The Beach Center on Disability
- Child Development Institute
- Children Now
- Hoagie's Gifted Education Page
- KidsHealth
- Learn in Freedom: Home Schooling Resources
- National Center for Early Development and Learning
- National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
- National Parent Information Network (NPIN)
- National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT)
- Parents' Guide to the Internet
- Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
- ABC Teach.com
- Behaviour4Learning -- a UK resource for classroom management
- Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project : Montgomery County, Maryland
- Education and Psychology by William James
- Education Week Online
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science (ENC)
- Electronic School Online
- Hazel's Homepage: Resources for Teachers
- Looking at Student Work
- Microsoft in Education
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- National Education Standards: Getting Beneath the Surface. By Paul E. Barton. (c2009). Educational Testing Service (ETS).
- New-Teacher.com
- Scholastic: Teaching Resources
- Survival Guide for New Teachers - from US Dept. of Education
- Teachable Moment - social responsibility
- Teacher Magazine Online
- Teacher's Hub
- TeachersFirst
- TeacherLink
- TeachNet.Com
- Theory into Practice (TIP) Database - 50 Major learning theories and other information for teachers
- U.S. Department of Education
- World Fact Book: CIA
- World Lecture Hall
- WWW4Teachers -- Information on technology in education
- Ask Jeeves for Kids
- Board Games Central - rules and histories
- Great Web Sites For Kids - Selected by the American Library Association
- Kids Domain - games,etc.
- KidzPage! - games, coloring, and jigsaw puzzles
- Little Explorers - Picture dictionary of links for children
- MaMaMedia - online jigsaw puzzles
- Safe Surf Kids: Kid's Wave - Safe sites for kids listed by age-appropriateness
- Teen Reading: ALA An Internet Guide for Teens
- Yahoo: Kids Games, Movies, Music, and More
As a Catholic, Mercy university, Mount Mercy University does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external websites.