Education Service Center Region 17 (ESC17)
http://www.esc17.net



ARTSEDGE
ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects.

ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
Charactor Counts
Mission: To improve the ethical quality of society by changing personal and organizational decision making and behavior.
Curriculum Corner and TAKS Resource
Welcome to Curriculum Corner!
This website is a resource center for the faculty and staff at Georgetown Independent School District in Georgetown, Texas. We hope this website will provide teachers and staff at Georgetown ISD with the resources and tools they need to support learning and instruction.

Please visit the specific curriculum area in which you are interested to view scope and sequence documents and other helpful resources for the classroom. For information about the curriculum in general, please visit the About the Curriculum. Overview presentation.

Sincerely,

The GISD Instructional T.E.A.M.
Encyclopaedia Britannia
Provided by the TEXAS State Library Archives Commission, the Texas Education Association, and Education Service Center Region 20.
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. Its first pages of information were shown May 9 in Washington, D.C., where the massive effort was announced by some of the world's leading scientific institutions and universities. The project will take about 10 years to complete.
ESCITE
Workshop Registration
Free online course helps students plan careers
A free online learning program from Microsoft is helping middle and high school students think about careers they might like to pursue and the skills necessary to attain those careers. Called CareerForward, the course has students examine their skills and interests as they investigate potential career paths and other aspects to independent living, such as financial management skills. Its four components address specific aspects of 21st-century careers.
GM Education Website

The new and improved General Motors Education website at www.gm.com/experience/education/index.jsp serves as an additional education resource for parents, students, and teachers. It gives kids an opportunity to see how technology plays a role in their everyday lives. The site recently underwent a redesign to improve its organization and make it more kid-friendly via look and feel. Here are some highlights of the new education site: Build your own ZR1 in Mr. Stephens' Engine Shop Recycler's Challenge: Help the kids recycle by catching the correct items in their bins. Watch out for non-recyclables! www.gm.com/experience/education/5-8/games/recycle_challenge/ recycle_challenge.jsp An interactive quiz on the on the way things were "back in the day," titled Retro Techno And for teachers: Lesson Plans: We've redesigned our teacher resource page to make lesson plans easier to find. Now search by grade level, topic, and/or National Standard. Lesson plans in Spanish are also available. www.gm.com/experience/education/teachers/index.jsp Weekly Reader and GM created an updated middle school classroom curriculum with National Standards to celebrate GM's 100th birthday
Libraries of Europe
The European Library searches the content of European national libraries.
NASA's Blast Back to School
Blast Back to School 08.11.09
Start the school year off with NASA educational resources. Credit: NASA
As you get ready for the new school year, consider adding a little space to your class. NASA offers educational resources for use with kindergarten through college, as well as resources for the informal education community. Many of NASA's educational products are quick and easy to find on the NASA Web site. Here are some opportunities and resources to help kick off the new school year.
New Smithsonian site lets teachers and students create short historical movies
“Picturing the 1930s” enhances students’ visual literacy skills, Ferster noted, adding that PrimaryAccess “offers teachers another tool to bring history alive.”

“Picturing the 1930s,” a new educational web site created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the University of Virginia, allows teachers and students to explore the 1930s through paintings, artist memorabilia, historical documents, newsreels, period photographs, music, and video. Using PrimaryAccess, a web-based teaching tool developed at the university’s Curry Center for Technology and Teacher Education, visitors can select images, write text, and record narration in the style of a documentary filmmaker
Our Courts 21st Century Civics
Our Courts is web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. Our Courts is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support.
Smithsonian Cultural Tours
The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies is offering a series of free online tours that invite educators, families, and students to learn about America’s diverse cultural heritage by examining objects drawn from the Smithsonian’s vast collections. The cultural heritage tours "allow viewers to delve deeper and learn even more about African American and Latino history and culture through the prism of art and historical objects," said Director of Programs Stevie Engelke.
The British Library
If you can't find it in our Library look in the British Public Library. They have maps and all sorts of neat stuff.
The Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library provides a wealth of information for people to use. You will find almost everything a brick and mortar one has to offer.
The Royal Society of England
The society, the world's oldest scientific institution, have released famous literature on the web that it has published in its journals over the centuries as part of celebrations to mark its 350th anniversary.

The works include a 1770 scientific study confirming that composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a genius and, more recently, acclaimed scientist Stephen Hawking's early writings on black holes.

Called Trailblazing, the interactive site contains 60 articles chosen from among the 60,000 that have appeared in the Royal Society's journals.

Newton's theory on light and colours in the 1600s, that continues to provide the basis for theoretical physics, will be published along with a gruesome account of a 17th-century blood transfusion.

A paper by Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, will also be released on an experiment to fly his kite in a storm to prove that lightning is electricity rather than a supernatural force.
WatchKnow.org
Wikipedia co-founder launches YouTube-like web site for children

Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has launched a new web site designed to gather and organize educational videos for students ages 3 to 18. The site, WatchKnow.org, currently features more than 11,000 videos across 2,000 categories on subjects such as math, science, and history. The nonprofit site features new software, developed specifically for the site by Sanger, that allows wiki-style collaboration among users. "Think of it as YouTube meets Wikipedia, filtering out everything but quality educational videos," Sanger said.
World Digital Library

About the World Digital Library Project

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, archi­tectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

The Planning Process

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington proposed the establishment of a World Digital Library (WDL) in a speech to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO in June 2005. The Library of Congress is currently engaged in a planning process to determine how this vision can be realized. Participants in the planning process include national libraries and other libraries and cultural institutions from around the world that have expressed interest in joining the project, as well as UNESCO and IFLA. The planning process is being underwritten by a gift from Google, Inc.