Service-Learning and Community Service at Duke

Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
http://community.duke.edu/

Service-Learning at Duke University
http://www.duke.edu/web/sl/

Research Service Learning at Duke
http://rslduke.mc.duke.edu/

Service-Learning Courses in the Program in Education
http://www.duke.edu/web/pfs/piecourses.html

Community Service Center
http://csc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/

NC Standard Course of Study and EOG, EOC Tests

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/
This page introduces the outlines of the NC Standard Course of Study for each grade and subject in elementary, middle and high school in North Carolina.

http://www.msaveryslinks.bravepages.com/testing.htm
A site with information and links to NC EOG and EOC test preparation and test samples for grades 3-8, including the NC 4th grade writing test.

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us
This is the home page of the Department of Public Instruction for North Carolina. The site provides data about the 2003-2004 test results for each county and school including the writing prompts for 4th, 7th and 10th grade students. There are links to legislative, educator, and student sites.

Resources for Lesson Planning, Activities and Games

http://www.eduref.org/
The AskERIC site has been removed from the web, this is where their lesson plans now reside. Same great resource, just a different url.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
This site offers many ideas for activities, projects and crafts for grades K - 3.

http://www.nwrel.org/learns/web-based/support.php
This is a page of pdf's for tutors from the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory.

http://www.nwrel.org/learns/web-based/resources/ready_activities.pdf
This is a pdf from the above site containing tutor activities that can be used at the beginning or end of any tutoring session.

http://www.literacyconnections.com/AdviceForReadingTutors.html
Here are some tips for reading tutors

http://www.educationworld.com
Designed for teachers, this site has useful lesson plans and further activity ideas.

http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Reading
Some lesson plan ideas for reading, 447 of them!

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/TCAP.htm
Some interactive sites to use with the computers at your tutoring sites. Variety of subjects, grade levels and tasks on this page.

http://www.gameskidsplay.net/
This is a list of different kinds of games for kids with traditional rules.

http://www.behavioradvisor.com/
If you are interested in reading about approaches to behavior management

http://www.figurethis.org/index.html
Fun and challenging math problems for middle schoolers, can be downloaded to play at later.

Study Guides

http://www.studygs.net/
This site is useful for all ages and all sorts of students. Learning styles, various study methods, test preparation, even web page analysis are covered here.

Math sites

http://www.iit.edu/~smile/index1.html
Site has biology, chemistry, physics and math lesson plans divided by subject and category but not by grade. Lesson plans are written for and by teachers, thus are designed for an entire classroom, but can be amended for your tutee.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/index.html
Although this site is cluttered with pop-ups and ads, its lesson plans are worth checking out. Again, the focus is on classroom settings, but you are able to select grade level while selecting subjects. For grades 6-8, the science project section offers interesting ideas if your tutee has need of an inquiry based project.

http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/math_problems.htm
A site with math word problem work sheets for elementary students. Also contains a link to a New Zealand education site's page on teaching problem solving.

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.word.problems.html
This page offers a step by step analysis of how to solve a math word problem.

Graphic Organizer Templates

http://www.graphic.org/index.html
This site has many examples of templates to use in concept mapping and offers explanations of why such tools might help your tutee focus on assignments.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1kwlh.htm

These pages offer graphic organizer templates to assist your tutee in planning and organizing. These links are just two pages from the http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs site, which also offers research-based papers on education topics. The site is somewhat clunky to navigate, a good resource though.

http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/trc/
A teacher resource site, developed by the Georgia Dept of Education, containing lesson plans and instructional resources (such as organizer templates) and other curriculum resources.

After-School and Education Links

Afterschool Alliance
http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/

Child Trends
http://www.childtrends.org/

Harvard Family Research Project
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/

The Out-of-School Time Learning and Development Project
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/about.html

National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST)
http://www.niost.org/

National Afterschool Association
http://www.naaweb.org/

North Carolina Center for After School Programs
http://nccap.net/

North Carolina Public Schools
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/schoolimprovement/closingthegap/

NYDIC Partnerships for After-School Success Toolkits
http://www.nydic.org/nydic/toolkits/index.htm#