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"Are the Best Curricular Designs "Backward"?
Very interesting article about how and why we plan our instruction to meet a standard. "It reminds us to begin with a question, What would we accept as evidence that students have attained the desired understandings and proficiencies before proceeding to plan teaching & learning experiences?"

Curriculum Websites from L.A.U.S.D.
A large and very useful list of websites organized according to the subject categories found in the Dewey Decimal system.

"Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Children"
by Dr. Jamie McKinzie
What is an infotective? . . . a student thinker capable of asking great questions" and learning how and what to do with the answers one discovers. Further, an infotective "is a student who has learned to feed on the wild grains and fragments available on the Internet or the shelves of the local library."

Understanding by Design Website (UbD)
A series of questions and answers concerning how to frame general "understanding" types of questions.

Writing Lesson Plans & Instructional Scaffolding
(Bruner; Langer & Applebee)
Has sample types of lessons (Critical Thinking, Multiple Intelligences, Scaffolding, how seating arrangements effect learning, Teacher Roles, etc.) and a sample lesson plan using sailing as an example.