CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet?s potential to reach peers and experts around the world. Below is a catalog of projects that are currently being or have been sponsored by CIESE . Each project has a brief description and links to the National Science Standards and NCTM math standards it supports.
Grace Poli is the Media Specialist at the José Martà Middle School in Union City, New Jersey. Grace holds a B.A. in History with K-8 Certification, an M.A. in Urban Education and certificates in K-8, ESL, and Media Specialist. She is currently pursuing her Supervisors & Administrators certificates. She has worked in Union City School District as a humanities teacher, administrative intern, and media specialist since 2000.
Free-Reading is an ongoing, collaborative, teacher-based, curriculum-sharing experiment. We're looking to provide a reliable forum where teachers can openly and freely share their successful and effective methods for teaching reading in grades K-1.
Our premises are:
* The research on how students learn to read is well-established.
* The research on which instructional techniques work is well-understood.
* The voices of those who know what works best -- the classroom teachers -- are rarely heard in instructional design.
* The power of "we" is far greater than the power of "you" or "I."
The primary purpose of this document is to define what PreK – 12 students should know and be able to do in order to use technologies for learning.
Youth Radio's mission is to promote young people's intellectual, creative and professional growth through training and access to media and to produce the highest quality original media for local and national outlets
Through hands-on practice, working relationships with industry professionals, and production of award-winning programming, Youth Radio students learn the basics of broadcasting. In th
The easy-to-use site and peer network designed by and for teachers is coming to Yahoo! Create, modify, and share standards-based curriculum.
The Virtual Reference Room is a collaborative effort to provide teachers, students, and librarians and families rapid electronic access to web-based, video, and print resources for teaching the Massachusetts K-12 Curriculum Frameworks.
The NAEP Questions Tool provides easy access to NAEP questions, student responses, and scoring guides that are released to the public. Both national and state data, where appropriate, are presented. Explore the tables below to see how many questions are in the tool.
The School of Rock Expedition was a 13 day educator professional development expedition aboard a scientific ocean drilling vessel. Learn more about the expedition via videos, blogs, and interactive activities. Download curriculum developed by the educators on the expedition.