The CRC provides access to curriculum guides, frameworks, and courses of study in various ways. Listed below are some approaches you might use.
The CRC has a printed collection of curriculum guides, courses of study and frameworks acquired from school systems and state departments of education across the U.S. Most of these books are shelved in the Curriculum Guide section of the CRC and are arranged so that all books for a given curriculum area are shelved together. Curriculum guides may be checked out for three weeks and renewed twice.
This first approach involves searching for curriculum guides, frameworks, and courses of study that may be located in the Curriculum Guides book section of the CRC. This approach begins with a search in UCLID (the UC Libraries online catalog)
For curriculum guides in the curriculum areas below, type the following:
For science, type: science and education – curricula
For social studies, type: social science and education – curricula
For mathematics, type: mathematics and education – curricula
For language arts, type: language arts and education – curricula
Etc.
6. Click “Search”
Currently the CRC acquires very few paper curriculum guides relying on KCDL Online (described below) for access to these documents.
Searching for curriculum guides, frameworks, and courses of study using KCDL Online is a second approach. KCDL is a library of thousands of curriculum guides, frameworks, courses of study, and curriculum standards developed and used by state departments of education and school districts across the U.S. Through the online index KCDL Online, you can locate online full-text copies of newer curriculum guides (mostly since 2000) as well as earlier guides located on microfiche and filed in the CRC.
This approach to locating curriculum guides begins with a search in UCLID (the UC Libraries online catalog)
To access the KCDL:
You may also combine the above curriculum area with a “Specific Subject” Just click on the arrow in the “Specific Subject” window and hold down the mouse key until you find an appropriate subject, for example, U.S. History. Select this term by clicking on it.
Next, by going to the window marked, “Educational Content” and holding down the mouse key, you will find that you have a choice of various items, depending on what you are looking for in your curriculum guide. For example, you might be particularly looking for course content, or educational philosophy, or student educational objectives. Also, by holding down the Control Key, you can click in this window on more than one of these terms to use in your search.
You can click on the appropriate grade level(s) in the “Grade Level” window as well.
After clicking on “search”, you will get a list of documents that meet your criteria; those with a page icon after the listing will be full-text. The non full-text listings will provide abstracts and the reference number of the microfiche. Many of these microfiche are located in the CRC and can be viewed and/or printed out on the microfiche reader/printer.
You will find that most documents for 2000 – 2002 will be full-text online. By clicking on these years, your search probably will net mostly full-text documents. If you are certain that you only want to access full-text documents online, just click in the box at “Results With Full-Text Documents” before clicking on “Search.”
The Web also provides access to many curriculum guides, frameworks, and courses of study. The following are some typical sites and metasites providing curriculum guides, frameworks, and courses of study.
State Departments of Education Sites
These sites will often provide access to state developed curriculum frameworks,
state standards, and curriculum guides as well as other types of curriculum
bulletins.
Ohio Department of Education
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/
Below are two Websites that provide links to the state department of education for each state.
IDEANET
http://www.doe.state.in.us/htmls/states.html
EROD
http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list.cfm?category_cd=SEA
School Districts on the Web
At the following site, links can be found to the Websites of many school districts from across the United States. Visiting these Websites can possibly provide access to curriculum guides produced locally or at least contact information so that these can be obtained.
EduHound Schools on the Web
http://www.eduhoundschoolsontheweb.com/
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