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ERIC/AskERIC
Educational Resources Information Center
(ERIC)
Under reconstruction - see below.
New ERIC Web site is scheduled to open
September 1, 2004.
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a five-year, $34.6 million contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Rockville, Md., along with its subcontractors, to develop and operate a new database system for the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The ERIC database will use the latest search and retrieval methods to cull education literature and give high-quality access to educators, researchers, and the general public. Complete text of press release.
During the transition period, continue to use this ERIC website to:
- Search the ERIC database.
- Search the ERIC Calendar of Education-Related Conferences.
- Link to the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS) to purchase ERIC full-text documents.
- Link to the ERIC Processing and Reference Facility to purchase ERIC tapes and tools.
- Stay up-to-date about the ERIC transition to a new ERIC database model.
ERIC
is the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.The resources at askeric.org have moved to a new home
Educator's Reference Desk
This new site includes the 2000 lesson plans, 3000 value-added pointers to education information & organizations, and 200 question archives you have been accessing at askeric.org for over 10 years. You can also continue to access the ERIC database at the Educator's Reference Desk. Please visit this new site (www.eduref.org) today!
The AskERIC site and question-answer service itself was discontinued on December 19, 2003. Below is the official notice from the U. S. Department of Education.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your use and support of AskERIC. Over the past decade, our experts have responded to over 335,000 requests for education information, and our web site has served 4.5 million visitors a year. With your help, our site has been called one of the "greatest educator resources online". Thanks for making AskERIC such a success!
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Science Lesson Plans:
| Backpack Science "Sink Or Float" | Grade: 2 |
| Bubble-Ology | Grade: kindergarten - 3 |
| Bubbles | Grade: 1 - 3 |
| Buoyancy | Grade: 3 |
| Color Mixing | Grade: kindergarten - 3 |
| Color My World | Grade: 2 |
| Fact Or Theory | Grade: 8 - 12 |
| How To Create A Rain Stick | Grade: 2 - 6 |
| Ice Cream In A Bag | Grade: 8 - 9 |
| Ice Cream Social | Grade: 3 - 7 |
| It's a Touchy Subject | Grade: 4 |
| Magic Mirror Box | Grade: 4 - 12 |
| Making Plywood | Grade: kindergarten |
| Mysterious Bubbles | Grade: 1 - 2 |
| One Color or Two? | Grade: 2 |
| Oobleck: Liquids and Solids | Grade: kindergarten |
| Seeing Sound and Sonar | Grade: 7 - 8 |
| Shake, Swirl, and Roll | Grade: 2 |
| Surface Tension - Water Sticking Together | Grade: 4 - 7 |
| Mathematics Teaching and Learning |
Mathematics Teaching and Learning
- Directory of Mathematics Links
- Directory of Mathematics Resources
- Illuminations: Gateway to Standards-Based Mathematics
- K-12 Resources for Mathematics Education
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archives
- Math and Physics Help Home Page
- Math Forum
- Math Learning Center
- Mathematics Archives
- Mathematics Program Reviews for Grades 2, 5, & 7
- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
- MathMagic
- Midlands Improving Math and Science
- Professor Freedman's Math Help
- Regional Alliance Hub for Mathematics and Science Education Reform
- Shell Centre for Mathematical Education
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), The
- Spreadsheets in Education
- TERC
- Welcome to Zona Land: Education in Physics and Mathematics
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