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" What is Taught in EEI The EEI Curriculum is 85 K-12 grade units that teach California content standards in Science and History-Social Science to mastery. The EEI Curriculum also supports your students' efforts to master English Language Arts standards. The Curriculum teaches standards through an environmental lens, including understanding resources, conservation, where our food, energy, and water come from, and complicated decision-making processes related to climate change, green chemistry, and use of public lands. As students are taught the EEI custom learning objectives and standards, they also learn the Environmental Principles and Concepts. California examples make learning relevant, connecting students' learning to the communities they live in, and stimulating their involvement with the world around them. All of this bolsters your students' academic content mastery. "

Some great resources for teaching both content and ELA standards.

"iKeepSafe is dedicated to the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with Google to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible digital citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. Each workshop contains a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation."

Welcome to Wonderopolis®, a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Brought to life by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), our Wonders of the Day® will help you find learning moments in everyday life-ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs. Wonder is for everyone. It can happen anywhere and at anytime. Connecting the learning we do in our schools, our homes, and our communities, Wonderopolis walks the line between formal and informal education. Each day, we pose an intriguing question and explore it in a variety of ways. Our approach both informs and encourages new questions, sparking new paths of wonder and discovery in family and classroom settings. - See more at: http://wonderopolis.org/about/#sthash.X4AZFEHQ.dpuf

From the website: "Pora Ora is a FREE 3D world designed to make learning fun, where primary school children are rewarded for completing educational tasks that are linked to the national curriculum. The educational content is embedded in games and quests throughout the world, so children really are learning while playing. "

"Professional Development is a life-long learning process that involves different activities including individual progress, continuing education, inservice education, peer collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring. The importance of professional development lays in the fact that it is closely related to the overall quality of education and students achievements. Teachers who stop learning and suffice themselves with the curriculum content soon turn into hard working students only a step above their actual students."

Wixie is an online authoring tool students can use to explore and master the curriculum by combining their pictures, text, and voice.

"How have schools successfully transformed their students' learning experiences by incorporating 21st Century Skills into teacher practice, curriculum, assessment, and professional development?"

"Project SWELL (Stewardship: Water Education for Lifelong Leadership) is a district-based science curriculum that teaches children about the importance of the region's waterways. The impact of human-water interaction is explored through a well-balanced, comprehensive, and hands-on water quality and pollution prevention course of study. Project SWELL fosters a sense of stewardship for the natural environment through education, and empowers the future leaders of America to improve the condition of San Diego's coast and waterways."

"Bestselling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy. With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them. Both a call to action and a blueprint for creating more effective classrooms, Focus: Elevating the Essentials for Radically Improved Student Learning will challenge your assumptions about schooling and show how educators who have embraced this approach quickly achieved spectacular results."

Free K-12 educational videos ... organized. Tens of thousands of excellent, educational videos in a huge, intuitive directory. Organized, reviewed, rated, and described by teachers. Ideal as a supplement to a curriculum or for independent study. Designed for teachers, students, parents, homeschoolers, educators ... and all life-long learners!

"Flocabulary is Educational Hip-Hop Thousands of teachers, schools & districts use our songs & videos to engage students and raise scores."

This one costs a little but looks really good.