CONTENT KNOWLEDGE: The McREL Standards Database
A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education, Second Edition
http://www.mcrel.org /standards-benchmarks/
The information contained in this book (online) represents McREL research; they consulted 116 national- and state-level documents that address standards and benchmarks in various subject domains. This effort produced the 255 standards with their accompanying 3,968 benchmarks that are detailed in this text.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC)
http://www.enc.org/nfindex.htm
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) is funded through a contract with the U.S. Department of Education to provide K-12 teachers with a central source of information on mathematics and science curriculum materials.

National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
http://cresst96.cse.ucla .edu/index.htm
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational testing.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.nctm.org/
NCTM has developed a set of standards for school mathematics that address content, teaching, and assessment. These standards are guidelines for teachers, schools, districts, states, and provinces to use in planning, implementing, and evaluating high-quality mathematics programs for kindergarten through grade 12.

National Curriculum Standards
http://www.a sh.udel.edu/ash/teacher/standards.html
Helping all students to achieve high academic standards is currently a major concern of many of the nation's districts and schools as well as of the federal government. Both content and performance standards are important resources for reaching this goal because they provide a framework for curriculum design as well as criteria for school accountability. This site includes links to web sites that contain information on specific national and state standards.

National Science Education Standards
http://www.nap. edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/
The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

National and State Standards at MediaSeek
http://www.med iaseek.com/educators/standards.htm
MediaSeek's mission is to provide products and services that identify, select, and deliver learning titles and education standards to educators, parents, and adult learners.

State Standards
http://www.statestandards.org
A comprehensive list of state educational standards for the non-commercial use of teachers to research relevant lesson plans for their classrooms.

Alabama State Department of Education
http://www.alsde.edu/ver1/

Alabama Classroom Improvement Information
http:// www.alsde.edu/ver1/section_detail.asp?section=54

Florida Department of Education
http://www.firn.edu/doe/doe home.htm

The Intech 2000 Forum for Florida Educators
http://intech2000.miamisci.org/

Florida Sunshine State Standards
http://www.firn.edu/doe/me nu/sss.htm

Georgia Department of Education
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/

Georgia's Quality Core Curriculum
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/

Mississippi Department of Education
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/

Mississippi Office of Academic Education: Science Framework
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/acad/id/curriculum/Science/science2.htm

North Carolina Public Schools Infoweb
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/

North Carolina Science Curriculum
ht tp://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/science/index.html

South Carolina Department of Education
http://www.state.sc.us/sde/

South Carolina K-12 Curriculum Standards
http://www.stat e.sc.us/sde/test123/standard.htm

South Carolina Science Standards
http://www.state.sc.us/sde/educator/standard/science/science.htm