Education

On this page, you'll find resources to help you in the classroom, from lesson plans to classroom materials, as well as links to a number of education organizations and career resources.

• Lesson Planet
• The Educator’s Reference Desk
• A to Z Lesson Plans
• Academic Info
• The Education Place
• New York Times Learning Network Teacher Connections
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Education
• PBS TeacherSource
• ReadWriteThink
• PBLU: Project Based Learning Project Database

• American Experience on PBS
• American Indian Film Gallery at Univ. of Arizona
• Digital collections by the Library of Congress
• Archive of American Television
• C-Span Video Library
• Civil Rights Digital Library
• Discovery Education programs
• EVIA Digital Archive Project
• HippoCampus
• International Monetary Fund
• Science Cinema
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive
• Smithsonian Learning Lab
• Stanford University Health Video Library

Websites with Streaming Video

• Academic Earth
• Annenberg Learner Classroom Resources
• CBC Digital Archives -For Teachers
• Digital Public Library of America
• Google Videos
• Internet Archive
• MIT Video
• National Geographic
• Nova
• TED ED
• TED Talks
• YouTube
• YouTube Education

Quotes & Jokes

• Education Humor
• Quotes on Teaching and Learning
• Wisdom Quotes
• School Jokes

Cartoons

• Education Cartoons and Comics
• Education Cartoons by Marty Bucella
• Education "l i t e"
• Humorous Education Cartoons
• Teacher Cartoons

Games

• Gamequarian
• Crazy Games: Math
• Arcademics Skill Builders
• BBC History Games
• Fun Brain
• iCivics

Puzzles & Brain Teasers

• Create Your Own Crossword Puzzles
• Puzzlemaker
• Parade: 125 brain teasers for kids
• Readers' Digest: Brain teasers for kids

National Organizations

• American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
• American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
• Children's Defense Fund
• Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS)
• National Art Education Association (NAEA)
• National Association for Music Education (NAFME)
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
• National Education Association (NEA)
• National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
• National School Boards Association (NSBA)

Kansas Organizations

• Kansas National Education Association (KNEA)
• Kansas Art Education Association (KAEA)
• Kansas Association of American Educators (KANAAE)
• Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE) 
• Kansas Association for the Education of Young Children (KAEYC)
• Kansas Speech Communications Association (KSCA)
• United School Administrators of Kansas (USAKS)
• Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB)
• Kansas Association of Teacher Educators (ATE-K)
• Kansas Association of Teachers of Science (KATS) 
• Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA)
• Kansas School Counselor Association (KSCA)
• Kansas School Superintendents Association (KSSA)
• Kansas State Department of Education

Missouri Organizations

• Missouri National Education Association (MNEA)
• Missouri Art Education Association (MAEA)
• Missouri Association of Rural Education (MARE)
• Missouri Council of School Administrators (MCSA)
• Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development
• Missouri Distance Learning Association (MODLA)
• Missouri Middle School Association (MMSA)
• Missouri Music Educators Association (MMEA)
• National Association for Multicultural Education District 5
• Missouri School Boards' Association (MSBA)
• Missouri School Counselor Association (MSCA)
• Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA)
• Missouri Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association
• Science Teachers of Missouri (STOM)
• Technology Education Association of Missouri (TEAM)

Testing Resources

• Educational Testing Services (ETS)
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
• National Center for Research on Evaluations, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)

Licensing and Standards

• Kansas License Requirements and Applications
• Missouri Teaching Certification Requirements
• Missouri Teaching Certicate
• Common Core State Standards Initiative
• State of Kansas Academic Standards
• State of Missouri Academic Standards
• Kansas Curriculum
• Missouri Curriculum
• National Council for the Accreditation of Teachers Education (NCATE)
• Praxis
• Teach-Now online certification at Moreland University
• TEFL Certification