Links
Our Links page offers a sampling of resources and a banquet of food for thought. Some of the links help explain the potential of the Learning Cultures model, others provide materials to use in the curriculum, and a few are included for fun. To recommend a link for consideration on this page, forward your suggestion to learningculturesinfo@gmail.com.
Activities for Kids--General
Activities for Students--Art
Activities for Students--History/Social Studies/Culture
Activities for Students--Math
Activities for Students--Reading
Activities for Students--Science
Assessment
- 6+1® Rubrics (aka Scoring Guides)
- Crosswalk between 6+1 Traits and the CCSS ELA Standards for Writing and Language
- Degrees of Reading Power
- DIBELS
- Intervention Central
- National Assessment of Educational Progress
- National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
- Reading Fluency Passage Generator
- Running Record: How to
Compelling
Curriculum
Curriculum Resources--History
Curriculum Resources--Math
Curriculum Resources--Reading
- American Girl
- Capstone curriculum books
- Common Core State Standards
- Cricket Magazine
- Highlights Magazine
- Marvel Subscriptions
- Read.gov–"Explore New Worlds. Read."
- Reading Fluency Passage Generator
- Reading Rockets Children's Book Author Interviews
- Running Record: How to
- Smithsonian Institution/Language Arts
- The Onion
- Twenty by Jenny
Curriculum Resources--Science
Curriculum Resources--Social Studies
Curriculum Resources--the Arts
Curriculum Resources--Writing
Humor
Institutions
Instruction and Assessment
Language
- Academic Word List
- Academic Word Lists
- Children of the Code
- Cooperative Principle
- Deb Roy: The birth of a word
- Dr. John Searle: Language, Literacy and the Modern Mind
- General Service Word List
- Language as a Window into Human Nature
- Language Development
- Paul Grice
- Relevance Theory
- Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
- Speech Act
- The Real Ebonics Debate
- Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
Learning
- Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning
- Approach-avoidance Conflict
- Brain Calisthenics for Abstract Ideas
- Children of the Code
- Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
- David Olson–The Search for the Beginning of Wisdom
- Deb Roy: The birth of a word
- Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes
- Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates
- Executive Functions
- Experiential Education
- Experiential Learning
- Flow
- JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
- Khan Academy
- Making Education Brain Science
- Project-based Learning
- Self-control
- Self-determination theory
- Self-regulated Learning
- Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms
- Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
- The Empathetic Civilisation
- Where good ideas come from
Literacy
Magazines for Children and Adolescents
- Action
- American Girl
- Animal Baby
- Appleseeds Magazine
- Art
- Ask Magazine
- Big Backyard
- Biography Today
- Boys' Life
- Boys' Quest
- Calliope
- Cat Fancy
- ChickaDee Magazine
- Chirp Magazine
- Choices
- Click Magazine
- Clifford
- Cobblestone
- Cousteau Kids
- Creative Kids
- Crinkles-Magazine
- Current Events
- Current Health Kids
- Current Health Teens
- Current Science
- Dig
- Discovery Girls
- Dog Fancy
- DynaMath
- Faces
- Fun for Kids
- Girls' Life
- High Five
- Highlights Magazine
- Hopscotch
- Humpty Dumpty Magazine
- Imagine Magazine
- Jack and Jill
- Junior Scholastic
- Let's Find Out
- Mad Magazine
- Marvel Subscriptions
- Math
- Muse
- National Geographic Kids
- National Geographic Little Kids
- National Wildlife
- New Moon Magazine
- New York Times Upfront
- Odyssey
- Owl Magazine
- Plays
- Ranger Rick
- Read
- Scholastic News, Grade 1
- Scholastic News, Grade 2
- Scholastic News, Grade 3
- Scholastic News, Grade 4
- Scholastic News, Grades 5/6
- Science World
- Shonen Jump
- Spider Magazine
- Sports Illustrated Kids
- Stone Soup
- Storyworks
- SuperScience
- Time for Kids
- Weekly Reader News (1)
- Weekly Reader News (2)
- Weekly Reader News (3)
- Weekly Reader News (4-6)
- Weekly Reader News (K)
- Weekly Reader News (Pre-K)
- Yes!
- Zoobies
- Zoobooks
- zootles
Math
Organizations
- American Educational Research Association
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- International Reading Association
- National Center on Response to Intervention
- National Organization for the Education of Young People
- NCTE
- North Dakota Study Group
- Student Achievement Partners
- The Danielson Group
- TIMMS & PIRLS
People
- Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids
- Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning
- Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education
- Carol Dweck
- Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
- David Olson–The Search for the Beginning of Wisdom
- Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes
- Dr. John Searle: Language, Literacy and the Modern Mind
- Francis Wayland Parker
- Jerome Bruner
- JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
- John Dewey
- John Searle
- Maria Montessori
- Michael Tomasello
- Michael Tomasello
- Mikaly Csikszentmihayli
- Paul Grice
- Richard Kahan
- Rudolf Steiner
- Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
- Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms
Professional Development/Teacher Quality
- Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
- National Writing Project
- Professional Development in the United States: Trends and Challenges
- Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad
- Standards for Professional Learning by Learning Forward
Progressive Education
Reading
- Children of the Code
- Dr. John Searle: Language, Literacy and the Modern Mind
- Intervention Central
- National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
- Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
- Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, Executive Summary
- Reading Fluency Passage Generator
- Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
- Visual Thesaurus
