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Project-Based Learning: The Online Resource for PBL

This website contains links to numerous PBL resources, including guides for designing projects, a project library, teaching and learning online strategies, and articles about PBL. Read More

Problem-Based Learning at University of Delaware

The Problem-Based Learning resource collection from the University of Delaware contains a variety of tools that teachers can use to begin implementing a problem-based learning approach in their classrooms, including evaluation tools, videos, and over 100 problem-based learning scenarios with lesson plans. Read More

USCIS Educator Resource Center

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) maintains a free, online resource center for educators and volunteers who are helping students prepare for citizenship. The comprehensive website has information about the naturalization process, links to supplemental teaching resources, and opportunities for professional development. Read More

New Academic Word List (NAWL) Finder and Sorter

EAPFoundation.com offers a free electronic tool for finding, highlighting, and sorting academic words within texts. Their word source is the New Academic Word List or NAWL, a recent update of the Academic Word List or AWL. There is also the option of creating a simple, head word, or word family gapfill, where the found academic words become blanks in the text.  Read More

Scoreboost Writing Across the Tests: Sentence Structure, Usage, and Mechanics – Evaluation

The resource evaluated here for ELA CCRS alignment is Scoreboost Writing Across the Tests: Sentence Structure, Usage, and Mechanics. Read More

Workwise: Math at Work – Evaluation

The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Workwise: Math at Work from New Readers Press. Read More

Math Connection Grade 4 – Evaluation

The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Math Connection Grade 4 from Rainbow Bridge Publishing. Read More

GED Test Strategies Practice and Review – Evaluation

The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Kaplan's GED Test Strategies Practice and Review. Read More

Prep for the GED (Math) Unit 7: Functions & Graphs – Evaluation

The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is PLATO's Prep for the GED (Math) Unit 7: Functions & Graphs. Read More

Pre-HSE MATH 2 Algebraic Thinking, Data Analysis, and Probability – Evaluation

The resource evaluated here for math CCRS alignment is Pre-HSE MATH 2 Algebraic Thinking, Data Analysis, and Probability. Read More