Teachers

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Magazine and Journal Articles on Education

•  Academic Search Premier
  Full-text of more than 3,430 scholarly publications and general periodicals.
•  General Reference Center
  Articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books, many with full-text and images.
•  ERIC
  Annotated references to educational materials issued in the monthly Resources in Education and journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education.

Curriculum Ideas

•  Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  Click on Teacher Resources for excellent help with lesson plans and curriculum.
•  NoveList K-8
  Find fiction titles for kids and young adults. Search by title, author, series or reading level to find similar titles and reviews. Click on Teacher Resources.
•  Student Resource Center
  Reference essays, magazine and journal articles, newspaper articles and primary source documents, historical timelines, biographies, and classroom topics. Click on Teacher Tips.

School Information

•  Colorado School Guides
  Searchable online guide to public and private schools, preschools and day care. Not available outside Library.

Academic and Vocational Testing

•  Learning Express Library
  Practice tests for GED, GRE, SAT, ACT, civil service exams and citizenship, ESL courses for Spanish-speakers, Advanced Placement practice exams, Job and Career Help Center and practice for TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language).
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Other Resources

• Educator's Reference Desk
  A national information source funded by the U.S. Department of Education containing more than 3,000 resources on issues of interest to teachers. Discussion groups, links to Internet sites, searchable databases of articles and lesson plans.
• Thinkfinity Search
  A searchable database of quality Internet content for the classroom, provided by Verison and Edsitement. This link takes you to a basic search with subject and grade-level limiters.
• ReadWriteThink's Web Resources
  An eclectic collection of online language arts resources. ReadWriteThink is a partnership between the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. This page also includes an option for browsing lesson plans.
• TeachersFirst.com
  A collection of Web resources and lesson plans (some covering current events) for K-12 classroom teachers, their students and students' families.
• Sites for Teachers
  Ranked by popularity.
• Colorado Department of Education
  A searchable database of lesson plans aligned to Colorado’s state standards, with links to the Colorado Virtual Library and the Gateway to Educational Materials. Includes FAQs about standards and the CSAP.
• National Core Knowledge Coordinator of Colorado
  Core Knowledge curriculum related to Colorado state standards. This site has lesson plans, web resources, and list of Core Knowledge schools and day care facilities throughout the state.

• Colorado Digitization Program
  Lesson plans using the resources of the Colorado Digitization Project, dedicated to providing virtual access to the collections of Colorado’s museums, archives and libraries.
• PBS TeacherSource
  More than 3,500 lesson plans (some standards-linked), articles, printables, activities and games. A portion of the site is devoted to PBS’s television program for beginning readers, “Between the Lions,” with five related titles for each one featured on the show.
• Weekly Classroom Newsletter Template
  From Reading Rockets, ready-to-use, editable newsletter template complete with extra graphics and more than 50 reading tips.