Simpson Library: Education: Internet Resources

Internet Resources by Topic

Code of Virginia
Access through Virginia's Legislative Information System (LIS)
U.S. Department of Education
Virginia Department of Education Resources
Virginia Standards of Learning
K-12 Standards & Instruction
Use the list below or the menu on the left side of screen to browse Virginia SOLs by subject

Education World
Includes lesson plans, instructional strategies, teaching resources, and reviews.
Education.com - Lesson Plans
Education.com's pre K through 5th comprehensive lesson plan library was created by educators.
Edutopia
Sponsored by the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Edutopia was created to encourage authentic and engaged learning. The collection includes videos, lessons, and teacher blogs that can serve as a resource to novice teachers.
NASA Educational Resources
Search hundreds of resources by subject, grade level, type and keyword. Lesson plans and teaching materials support STEM curriculum.
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Provides lesson plans, journals, policy research, grants and professional development resources.
National Endowment for the Humanities: EDSITEment!
Provides lesson plans by subject, theme, and grade level.
News Literacy Teaching Resources
From News Literacy Project, teaching resources to assist with instructing students about news literacy
National Geographic Education
Provides lesson plans for grades K-12.
NOAA Educational Resources
The NOAA Education Portal is your one-stop shop to connect with learning and teaching resources about the ocean and atmosphere. Discover curricula, lesson plans, and real-time data to bring NOAA science into your classroom.
PBS Learning Media
Provides classroom resources for grades pre-K-12.
Smithsonian Learning Lab
Provides over 2,000 resources for grades PreK-12 on a variety of subjects.
Teacher.org Lesson Plans
Teacher.org's lesson plans are brought to you by teachers who are committed to encouraging conceptual understanding and lifelong learning.
Virginia Education Association
Provides classroom management strategies, lesson plans, and teaching strategies.

FAQ: Finding Information about Psychological Tests
From the American Psychological Association (APA)
Includes recommendations for finding both published and unpublished tests
Testing and Assessment
Links to Other Testing-Related Sites
International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)
Official website for the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). The site includes over 3,000 items and over 250 scales that have been constructed from the items. New items and scales are developed on an irregular basis. The items and scales are in the public domain, which means that one can copy, edit, translate, or use them for any purpose without asking permission and without paying a fee.

Psychological Tests for Student Use
Small set compiled by a professor at the York University, Canada.
Your Personality
Free research-based online tests maintained by R. Chris Fraley, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Center for Educational Leadership (CEL)
Case Studies, Webinars, Frameworks and Learning Tools
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE)
CREDE promotes research by university faculty and graduate students and provides educators with a range of tools to help them implement best practices in the classroom
Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
CPRE conducts rigorous program evaluation and research studies using qualitative and quantitative methods, advanced survey techniques, and data analysis. CPRE consists of a broad network of leading experts. This network of premier researchers features experts in a diverse array of education topics.
Headquartered with University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Established within the U.S. Department of Education by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002.
The mission of IES is to provide rigorous evidence on which to ground education practice and policy.
National Center for Research on Gifted Education (NCRGE)
The National Center for Research on Gifted Education is a collaborative effort of researchers from six universities: Michigan State University, Berkeley, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, University of California - Santa Cruz, and University of Connecticut.
National Education Association - Research & Publications
NEA Research provides comparative state data and national averages on a host of important public education statistics, teacher salaries, student enrollment, and revenue and expenditures each year.
Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development
From the NEAG School of Education at the University of Connecticut
UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Global Education Digest

In the social sciences and the sciences, scholars use the terms "primary" and "secondary" differently from scholars in the arts and humanities.

Primary research refers to the research conducted by the authors of the original source. The source will describe the authors' methodology, results and conclusions. This might be raw data, letters, research or study, tests, news reports, interviews, or some journal articles.

Secondary research describes or analyzes the research done by others. These include news analyses, magazine articles, some journal articles, scholarly books, opinion pieces or editorials. These can be excellent resources that can lead you to additional primary research on your topic.

Newspapers Databases

Current News

Factiva
Current national and international news articles
Nexis Uni
National and international newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, company profiles, court cases
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)
1999-present. National and international newspapers; television and radio news transcripts

Historical Newspapers

American Periodicals Series Online
1741-1940
Provides digitized images of more than 1,000 American magazines, journals, and newspapers.
New York Times (ProQuest)
1851-2016
Washington Post (ProQuest)
1877-2003
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest)
1881-2015