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Teaching and Learning Links

RIDER UNIVERSITY

GENERAL

TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES

MENTORING RESOURCES

RESOURCES FOR ADJUNCTS  (Links to be added shortly)

  • Handbook for Adjuncts, created by the College of Continuing Studies
  • College of Business Administration Orientation Memo
  • Westminster Choir College: New Faculty Tips, Academic Calendar, one-page Academic Calendar

DATA/RESOURCES

  • CIESE classroom projects - This web site provides teachers with projects that have children working with REAL DATA.
  • Cyberchase - PBS kids' show grounded in great math teaching. You must watch, and also play the games on this website.
  • The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) - National Science Foundation (NSF) website, offers free science-related resources to the public, including text, graphics, interactive video, links, and other resources pertinent to computing, engineering, global mapping, physics, mathematics, earth science, paleontology, and more. By 2007, the site will house the largest collection of science-related material available on the Internet, and it will include three portals mega-websites that can personalize a broad array of Internet functions. The portals will be titled Using Data in the Classroom, NSDL Educators Portal, and Science Pictures.
  • Statistical Online Computational Resources (SOCR) - The SOCR resources allow instructors to supplement methodological course material with hands-on demonstrations, simulations, interactive graphical displays illustrating in a problem-driven manner the presented theoretical and data-analytic concepts.Through interactive Java-based web GUIs, demonstrations, and experiments, students and researchers learn about variation, modeling, visualization, and data interpretation.

MATH

  • National Council for Teachers of Mathematics
  • Virtual Manipulatives Library - Great web site for on-line math manipulatives. It provides sample activities for using virtual manipulatives.
  • MathematicallySane - Promoting rational reform of math education. This website is a great resource for finding research and resources for promoting educational reform.
  • IMAP (Integrating Mathematics & Pedagogy) - This web site has video vignettes that are great examples of interviews of children's thinking.
  • NJ Mathematics Curriculum Framework - New Jersey Math Coalition
  • Venn Diagrams - This site helps you create Venn Diagrams. Take a look!
  • Math Forum - The Math Forum @ Drexel
  • Marilyn Burns MathSolutions Newsletter
  • Illuminations (math resources based on NCTM’s standards & principles) - Internet resources to improve mathematics teaching and learning
  • Geometer's Sketchpad - A highly interactive, dynamic, open-ended software tool that allows for exploration in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. The Online Activity Guide and Java Sketchpad allow you to publish Geometer's Sketchpad figures on the WWW. Download a free demo of Geometer's Sketchpad.

SCIENCE

  • NSTA, National Science Teachers Association - Links to web resources, discussion boards, listserves, conferences, etc.
  • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) - A K-12 math and Science Teacher Center.
  • Science NetLinks - Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.
  • Extreme Science - The extremes of nature with images, video, etc.
  • NASA CORE - Your resource for NASA produced multimedia materials for the classroom.
  • PALS - PALS is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks.
  • ScienCentral - independent news video about science, technology and education. Great intros to interesting topics.

TECHNOLOGY