This document provides suggested materials for the learning centers from Supporting Every Young Learner: Maryland's Guide to Early Childhood Pedagogy Birth to Age 8. The centers included in this document are Art, Blocks/Construction, Dramatic Play, Literacy, Language and Writing, Mathematics/Problem Solving, Music and Movement, Science and Investigation, and Technology.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This article links to resources to help teachers create their own weather stations, participate in real data projects, and assess their students' knowledge of weather tools.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This document provides a rationale of the importance for using centers in early childhood classrooms. An explanation of the teacher's role is provided along with several resources that are available to teachers for creating a variety of center activities.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
An article about a teacher working with 4th and 5th grade students in centers focused around STEM. These STEM activities are around the “The Science & Technology of Sound & Music.”
Material Type: Reading
An elementary introduction to chemistry vocabulary, tools and concepts used in science curriculum.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This project is about Learning Centers: What are learning centers, how they are beneficial for children and teachers. The main goals within learning centers, and how to design appropriate centers sufficiently. Also included are examples and informational videos.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Module
An English Language Learner is anyone, of any age, whose first (or native) language is not English and is currently learning English. Usually, this term is used in the US for students (K-12 and post-secondary) whose first language is not English
Material Type: Reading
Resource suggestions to explore and consider as a way to support talented and gifted students.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Case Study
This resource provided information about Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory. this theory provides insights into the eight different levels of giftedness that students could possess and provides an explanation of each level. Additionally, there is information from the National Association for Gifted Children and a video introduction from Howard Gardner about his multiple intelligence theory.
Material Type: Module
This handbook is intended to provide educators, community leaders and parents with articles that outline best research and practice around schools and family and community engagement. It offers a roadmap to esnure that every student's academic, personal, social and emotional development is supported.
Material Type: Reading
This lesson plan walks students through the copyright licenses and open educational resources. Students will learn how to author resources using the OER Commons platform, align them to standards, and evaluate them using the Achieve Rubrics.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource can be used by an individual to learn more about the history of special education and the process of special education.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Module, Reading, Unit of Study
This is a complete course for those who are teaching pre-service teachers about Assessment.
Material Type: Full Course
This is a transition plan resource to help students visually see things that they may need to know to become independent after High School.
Material Type: Assessment
This is a template for an inquiry project in a senior level early childhood course.
Material Type: Module
This goal of this course is to introduce learners to phonological awareness, a foundational component of reading development in young children. This unit is meant to introduce pre-service teachers to the concepts of phonological awareness and how to work with English Learners in their oral language development. Phonological awareness is often misunderstood, therefore not addressed accurately in classroom settings. The course is intended to supplement an existing course in foundational reading development.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource is an inquiry project about special education.
Material Type: Lesson
