Lesson Plans and Assessment Resources
Curriculum Development
I have restructured this section of my web site due to the amount of content and to make it more consistent with the other web pages. All of the content is still available, plus more. If you are looking for the problem sites, check the link on the left titled "Problem Sites and Release Items". Here you will find all sorts of problems that you can use for "problems of the day", homework, quizzes, and tests.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Education World The Explorer The Lesson Plans Page The Math Forum McREL SCORE (Schools of California On-line Resources in Education) Mathematics Lessons Texas Instruments Awesome Library Columbia Education Center's Education Week Educational Resource Information Center Eisenhower National Clearinghouse assessment resources Math Forum Swarthmore College assessment resources National Assessment of Educational Progress North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) Schools of California Online Resources for Educators Secondary Mathematics Assessment and Resource Database
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Blue Web'n Mathematics
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Gives links for specific content(standard) areas and ranks links
on a five-star scale.
http://askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/
A federally-funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. It contains a Question and Answer Service if you need to know the latest information on special education, curriculum development or other education topics? Just AskERIC!
http://www.education-world.com
Follow the link sequence (Math. Teacher Resources. Lesson Plans.) to get to the lessons. This site contains many Lesson plan sites.
http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/
A collection of education resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials) for K-12 Mathematics and Science.
http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/Math.htm
This site contains a collection of approximately 550 free lesson plans, mostly in elementary education. Many of these lesson plans have been submitted through an on-line lesson plan submission form where you can also add your own lesson plans to the resource. .
http://forum.swarthmore.edu
An online community funded in part by the National Science Foundation and hosted by Swarthmore College. It contains a Teachers' Place where you'll find some of the best resources for teaching math at all levels. This space is not only for teachers, but has also been built in part by teachers.
http://www.mcrel.org/
McREL is a private, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve education through applied research and development. Near the bottom of the page is the "Quick Links" pull-down menu. Here you find Hot Links by subject area and a K12 Standards Database. The math Hot Links will provide a lesson plan library and the Connections+ link to activities and resources related to those standards. The standards database has on-line activities related to the standards.
http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/lessons.html
These lessons have been written by teachers for mathematics teachers and students. Organized by grade level with correlation to California standards.
http://www.ti.com/calc/start/teachers.htm
Texas Instruments teacher section: Check out the Free Classroom Activities or the Classroom Activities Matrix of grade level and content by calculator type, link is located at the bottom of the TI page.
Assessment Resources
AEA 267 Perfomance Asssessment Tasks
Learn what Performance Assessment Tasks are and how to design one. See some examples from local school districts.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Office/Teacher/
Assessment_Information/Assessment_Information.html
Assessment information links on lists, resources, and papers.
http://www.col-ed.org/smcnws/assessment.html
Various assessment resource links including a compilation of international, national, state and district collections of assessment tasks and research issues, including International Sources of Assessment.
http://www.edweek.org/context/
Articles and links associated with assessment.
http://ericae.net/intboda.htm#AA
Provides several links which include some of the following categories: Action Research, Alternative Assessment/Performanced-Based Assessment, College Testing Programs, Early Childhood Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education,
http://www.enc.org/reform/reflinx/proass.htm
In this site you will find links to the Ideas and Reform assessment section. Also you can find a link to the ENC publication of Focus. You will find information related to the area of Assessment That Informs Instruction
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/library/ed_topics/assessment/
Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library contains math resources. This website also contains assessment resources from the Summer '94 Workshop at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. The goal of this project was to collect and organize available INTERNET resources on Authentic Mathematical Assessment applicable to Secondary Schools.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/mathematics/
The NAEP mathematics assessment measured the mathematics knowledge and skills of students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in 1996. Contained at this website are the released items of this study and information related to constructed response ideas and suggestions. The next national math assessment will be conducted in the year 2000. Explore some sample questions and related proficiency levels.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/
NCREL Pathways to School Improvement Assessment. Links to various categories of research: Assessment, Early Childhood, Goals and Standards, Instruction, Math,...
http://www.kings.k12.ca.us/math/assess.html
Nine various assessment links including Balanced Assessment, NCTM, 9th grade math proficiency test, and assessment documents.
http://smard.cqu.edu.au/
SMARD is the Secondary Mathematics Assessment and Resource Database.
Questions, comments, and other inquiries about the teaching and learning of mathematics, or about the contents found on this page, can be directed to the AEA 267 math consultants.
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