NICHCY Connections...
to Curriculum Resources

November 24, 2003
Updated December 7, 2007
Approx. 5 pages when printed



Author
Kyrie Dragoo
Research Analyst, NICHCY

NICHCY is pleased to connect you with curriculum resources. We hope that you find information here that's helpful in addressing your individual concerns. You can also take a look at our other Connections pages, and more will be coming soon.

The list below isn't intended to be exhaustive of the curriculum resources available. We'll be adding to this page constantly, so you may wish to check back monthly to see what's new! New entries will be marked with a .

• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (Free)
  http://www.free.ed.gov/
  Resources from the US government for various age levels and subject areas.
  
  
• The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
  www.thegateway.org/
  A searchable database of general education curriculum materials sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.



• The Educator's Reference Desk
  www.eduref.org/
  This database of lesson plans (formerly known as the AskERIC Lesson Plans) is searchable by grade, subject area, and keyword. The lessons are mainly from the general curriculum, but many can be adapted for children with disabilities.
  


• E-subjects: Curriculum and Lesson Plans
  www.esubjects.com/
  The site is broken into areas for students, parents, and teachers. Some materials can only be accessed with a subscription to the site.
  


• DiscoverySchool.com
  http://school.discoveryeducation.com/
  DiscoverySchool.com provides innovative teaching materials for teachers, and is constantly reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school, and high school. You can browse lesson plans either by grade or by subject. The Curriculum Center also offers activities, worksheets, puzzles, quizzes and more to help you teach science.
  


• Sites for Teachers
  www.sitesforteachers.com/
  Sitesforteachers.com provides only links to sites that contain teacher's resource and educational material. Sites are ranked by popularity.



• A to Z for Teachers
  www.atozteacherstuff.com/
  A to Z Teacher Stuff provides access to thousands of lesson plans through theme and lesson plan pages, as well as LessonPlanz.com.
  

• About.com's Links to Special Education Teaching Strategies and Best Practices
  http://specialed.about.com/od/teacherstrategies/Teaching_Strategies_and_Best_Practices.htm
  


• About.com's Links to Mainstreaming/Inclusion Information & Strategies
  Mainstreaming: http://7-12educators.miningco.com/msub81mainstreaming.htm
  Inclusion/Integration: http://specialed.about.com/od/integration/Integration.htm
  


• Instructional Strategies on the Internet
  http://www.newhorizons.org/spneeds/inclusion/teaching/front_teaching.html#strategies
  Links to special education teaching and learning technique sites reviewed by the Washington State Department of Education.
  


• Intervention Techniques
  http://special.edschool.virginia.edu/information/interventions.html
  Special education majors at the UVA review journal articles on teaching techniques for students with disabilities.
  


• Pre-school Zone: Resources for Early Childhood Special Education
  www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/pz.html
  


• Teachers Helping Teachers
  www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/SpecialEducation.html
  Special Education lesson plans submitted by teachers.



• TeacherVision.com Search Engine
  http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plan/resource/5775.html
  Searching under the word "Curriculum", "Disabilities" or the phrase "Special Education" brings up a list of articles and web resources on that subject, broken down into subtopics.

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• Curricular accommodations can really, really help students with disabilities.
  www.nichcy.org/pubs/bibliog/bib15txt.htm
  Learn more about curricular accommodations in this NICHCY Resources You Can Use on making adaptations for students with disabilities.
  


• What does the research have to say about useful enhancements or adaptations to curriculum for students with disabilities?
  www.cast.org/ncac/
  The National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC) offers, among other valuable resources, several in-depth articles on effective classroom practices, based upon a review of the literature. Read online what research reveals about explicit instruction, differentiated instruction, currciulum-based evaluations, and peer-mediated instruction and intervention.
  


• Curriculum: Effective classroom practices.
  Universal design for learning is a way of building curricular adaptations into teaching tools that draws on new brain research and new media technologies to respond to individual learner differences. Visit the National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC) Web site, where extensive materials on universal design are offered, at: http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/index.html
  


• LD Online
  http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/strategies.html
  LD Online provides a wealth of materials for and about students with learning disabilities. You'll find articles about specific instructional strategies and techniques for for this population, including:
  • General classroom instruction, accommodations
  • Teaching phonological awareness, reading
  • Teaching spelling
  • Teaching oral and written language
  • Teaching organization, active reading/ listening, and study skills
  • Teaching mathematics
  • Teaching social/ behavior skills

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• Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Early Childhood Research Institute
  www.clas.uiuc.edu/
  The CLAS Early Childhood Research Institute collects and describes early childhood/early intervention resources that have been developed across the U.S. for children with disabilities and their families and the service providers who work with them.
  


• The Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Learning Disabilities
  www.fln.vcu.edu/ld/ld.html
  Links to sites and articles with information pertaining to teaching foreign languages to students with various disabilities. Some information is specifically on curriculum, adaptations, and activities, but most of the information is on general resources.
  


• NCELA, the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs
  www.ncela.gwu.edu
  NCELA provides links to state-by state policies and resources as well as compiled information on meeting the educational needs of linguistically and culturally diverse students in the U.S. Curriculum standards, information on accommodations for state-wide assessments, and state policy information available in foreign languages, are linked to if available.
  


• Foreign Language Lesson Plans and Resources
  www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslsp.html
  Links to many pages of lesson plans for teaching foreign languages. The lessons are designed for regular education classes, but can be adapted for special education.
  

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• You may find it helpful to visit our Connections page on Disability Publishers. Many of these offer curricular materials especially designed for working with students with disabilities.
  

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• Connection to curricular resources in different subject areas (e.g., math, science) for students with disabilities.
  
  
• Tell us what curriculum topics we should add to this list of Connections! Drop us a line at: nichcy@aed.org
  
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