Education Resources at the Miller Library

Here’s a helpful site for elementary teachers: nationalgeographic.com/kids. This site offers a wide range of games and activities as well as crafts, recipes and science experiments.

In The Development of Play, 155.4 C678d 2006, author David Cohen examines how and why children play. He also studies what they learn from playing and how they play with friends,siblings and parents.

My Life As A Furry Red Monster, 791.5 C614 2006, by Kevin Clash, gives us a wonderful look at the man behind the monster. Kevin Clash has been on Sesame Street for 26 years and as Elmo, has educated more children than any teacher in this country.

starfall.com is a fun and educational website for children who are learning how to read. The site is helpful for children, parents and educators. It focuses on reading and phonics through fun games and stories and provides many great printables.

aplusmath.com is a fun and educational site for elementary students. The site offers worksheets, games and flash cards. A great place for students to go and warm up for the upcoming school year.

The Sesame Workshop.com is a non-profit,educational website. It discusses the benefits of the organization’s programs in the U.S. and worldwide. The Sesame Workshop sponsors workshops for infants on up to preteens. It also works with a Nickelodeon network, Noggin, to create quality programming for preteens. Early childhood education will always be the backbone of Sesame Street but it is making important strides in other areas as well.

In 1969 PBS started something that made huge strides in early childhood education. Sesame Street was revolutionary in it’s style and technique. Robert Morrow’s book, Sesame Street and the Reform of Children’s Television, 791.45 M872s 2006, discusses how this amazing program taught so many of us our ABC’s and much, much more.

Saturday mornings in the 1970’s would not have been complete without Schoolhouse Rock. These short snippets of math, history and english taught a generation the importance of conjunctions, interjections, how a bill becomes a law , the Preamble to the Constitution, etc. Now this entertaining and educational collection is available on DVD at the Miller Library DVD 371.33 S372 2005.

Earlychildhood.com is a wonderful tool for anyone in the field, or studying early childhood education. It focuses on curriculum planning and arts and crafts. It also provides articles that promote professional development.

www.theideabox.com is a great resource for anyone studying early childhood education. It offers many fun activities as well as songs and games. This site even provides Sunday school crafts, games and recipes.