Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is a searchable database of lesson plans designed to incorporate the digitized resources of federal, state and international libraries and information providers. About the Gateway:
"The Gateway expands educators' capability to access Internet-based lesson plans, instructional units and other educational materials in all forms and formats. The Gateway's goal is to improve the organization and accessibility of the substantial collections of materials that are already available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites to educators and learners.

The Gateway is a nonprofit consortium membership organization serving educators and trainers at all levels in the USA and around the world."
Access is free to users; consortium members pay a fee to make their records available to Gateway. Gateway then standardizes the metadata and adds elements to enhance access to the resources by K-12 teachers, their targeted user group.

The Gateway organization was formerly GEM, a USDoE-funded school library project designed to develop content, technology and data standards for K-12 education. The project has been funded by the National Educational Association since 2005 and is now known as The Gateway.

Some cool resources easily findable through Gateway:

Two Unreconciled Strivings: African-American Identity in the Gilded Age, 1877-1915

On Becoming a Certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers: A NARA Teaching with Documents Lesson Plan

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