Smithsonian EducationSmithsonian lesson plans emphasize inquiry-based learning using primary sources and museum collections. Each plan is print-friendly and provides you with all the materials you need—photographs, reproductions, handouts, activities, suggested strategies, standards information, and additional online resources.
Education.comPrep for class with comprehensive, teacher-created lesson plans. Ideas for differentiation mean these free lesson plans make learning fun for every student.
Celebrities in Cognitive ScienceIncludes articles, web sites and profiles of Jerome Bruner, John Dewey, Jean Piaget, David Hume, Lev Vygotsky, and more
Classics in the History of PsychologyOriginal historic papers on such classic theories as Behaviorism, Cognition, Developmental Theory, Gestalt Theory, Neuropsychology, and more.
FunderstandingThis site briefly explains 12 different theories on how people learn and also contains curriculum, instruction, and assessment information.
Project ZeroProject Zero was founded by the philosopher Nelson Goodman at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1967 to study and improve education in the arts. Goodman believed that arts learning should be studied as a serious cognitive activity, but that "zero" had yet been firmly established about the field; hence, the project was given its name.
InstructionalDesign.orgInstructionalDesign.org is designed to provide information about instructional design principles and how they relate to teaching and learning. Instructional design (or instructional systems design), is the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of instruction. Resources on this site were created by Greg Kearsley and Richard Culatta.
RIMSPortalRIMS is a regional cooperative for educational services through Riverside, Inyo, Mono, and San Bernardino: four Southern California counties with a partnership to support quality education. The four counties of RIMS developed this partnership so that resources can be stretched farther, enabling each county to serve its teachers and students more effectively.
