(302KB) Alliance for Excellent Education: "Adolescents and Literacy Reading for the 21st Century." - http://www.all4ed.org/publications/AdolescentsAndLiteracy.pdf
Adolescents and Literacy: Reading for the 21st Century offers a thorough review and analysis of existing research, what is currently known about effective literacy instruction and the impact of successful literacy programs.

(63KB) Alliance for Excellent Education: " How to Know a Good Adolescent Literacy Program When You See One: Quality Criteria to Consider." -
http://www.all4ed.org/publications/Criteria%20for%20Adolescent%20Literacy%20
Programs.pdf 
The purpose of this brief is to provide information to help policymakers, educators, parents, and others concerned with adolescent literacy make informed decisions about literacy programs for struggling readers and the programs' suitability for specific groups of students.

(2 MB) Alliance for Excellent Education: "Reading Next."
http://www.all4ed.org/publications/ReadingNext/ReadingNext.pdf
Ensuring adequate ongoing literacy development for all students in the middle and high school years is a more challenging task than ensuring reading education in the primary grades.  Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy details researched-based as well as practice-based route to strategies addressing the problem.

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement - http://www.ciera.org
The Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) is a national center for research on early reading, representing a consortium of educators from five universities (the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, with the University of Southern California, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Georgia); teacher educators; teachers; publishers of texts, tests, and technology; professional organizations; and schools and school districts across the United States.

Central Regional Technical Assistance Center - http://www.texasreading.org
The Central Regional Technical Assistance Center (CRRFTAC), the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts provides leadership to educators in effective reading instruction through its diversified research and professional development projects. From translating research into practice to providing online professional development, the Center emphasizes scientifically based reading research and instruction. The Vaughn Gross Center is dedicated to improving reading instruction for all students, especially struggling readers, English Language Learners, and special education students.

Colorin Colorado - http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/
This site offers helpful information, strategies, activities, and resources for PreK – 3 teachers who have one or more English language learners (ELLs) in their class. Although Colorin Colorado was designed for PreK-3, much of the information on this Web site is also relevant for grades 4-8. English language learners (ELLS) enter U.S. schools in all grade levels, and with a wide range of backgrounds, reading skills, English language proficiency and content knowledge. Older ELLs (and their teachers) face many of the same challenges that are present with ELLs in the early grades.

Florida Center for Reading Research - http://www.fcrr.org
The Florida Center for Reading Research headed by Dr. Joe Torgensen, includes information for parents about the science of reading, highlights of recent PowerPoint professional presentations, PDF files of recent publications, and additional resources on reading.

International Reading Association (IRA) - http://www.ira.org
Locally, nationally, and worldwide, IRA advocates for policy, curriculum, and education reform that support the best interests of teachers and learners. IRA's international initiatives encourage communication and collaboration among professionals across national boundaries.

Intervention Central - http://www.interventioncentral.com
Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. Jim Wright, a school psychologist from Central New York, created the site. Intervention Central offers strategies for teacher in addition to "Chart Dog," which is a fully functional data-analysis tool to help schools to monitor students' response to intervention.

Literacy Educators and Developing Early Reading Success (LEADERS) -
http://www.education.pitt.edu/leaders/
LEADERS is a four-year project funded by an Eisenhower Grant and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. LEADERS was developed to help teachers address the needs of students who are at-risk for encountering difficulties in early reading. LEADERS is designed to provide intensive, stable professional development and ongoing, in-classroom support for teachers in schools serving high numbers of students who struggle to learn to read.

Literacy Matters - http://www.literacymatters.org/teachers/index.htm
The Education Development Center (EDC) houses Literacy Matters. The goal of the Literacy Matters project is to improve the literacy development of secondary school students, especially those students who are struggling to succeed.

National Center on Student Progress Monitoring - http://www.studentprogress.org/
To meet the challenges of implementing effective progress monitoring, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has funded the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring. Housed at the American Institutes for Research, and working in conjunction with researchers from Vanderbilt University, they are a national technical assistance and dissemination center dedicated to the implementation of scientifically based student progress monitoring.

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu
The Unites States Office of English Language Acquisition National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs.  Resources are written for an audience of parents including parents unfamiliar with or seeking information on the U.S. education system, those looking for ways to facilitate their child's learning both at home and school, and those investigating options and opportunities for their children. Resources written in the native language are cited in English with an indication of the other languages available; those available only in the native language are cited in that language.

National Council of Teachers of English - http://www.ncte.org/
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. Since 1911, NCTE has provided a forum for the profession, an array of opportunities for teachers to continue their professional growth throughout their careers, and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the teaching of English.

National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement -http://cela.albany.edu
The National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA) is the only national research and development center funded by US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to conduct research dedicated to gaining knowledge to improve students' English and literacy achievement in schools across America. CELA is affiliated with the Albany Institute for Research in Education (AIRE) in the School of Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) and works in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Partnership for Reading - www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/recommended.html
The Partnership for Reading site recommends publications designed to help teachers, parents, policy-makers, and other educators implement the findings of evidence-based research with the children, adolescents, and adults with whom they work. 

Reading Rockets READING RESOURCES - http://www.readingrockets.org/index.php
Reading Rockets, a national multimedia project that looks at how young kids learn to read, offers free downloadable print guides for teachers and parents. This includes a teacher's guide that contains instructional techniques and strategies based on what reading research shows is most effective, as well as a family guide available in Spanish, Hmong and Somali. The family guide is a great resource for teachers to share with the parents of English language learner students. The AFT is a national partner with Reading Rockets, which devotes a section of its Web site on how to help kids who are struggling with reading.

Reading Quest Making Sense in Social Studies- http://www.readingquest.org/strat/     Reading Quest.org: Making Sense in Social Studies provides a resource of strategies for reading comprehension.  The strategies are all defined and many include handouts to support implementation of the strategies. This is a good resources for educators who teach social studies.

US Department Of Education  Resource Ordering Site - http://www.edpubs.org/webstore/content/search.asp
This is a link to a variety of resources, many of which are referenced in the Rhode Island Literacy Policy and Personal Literacy Plan Guidelines.  A number of the resources are published in English and Spanish. All publications are provided at no cost to the general public by the U.S. Department of Education. Featured publication at this site is "Helping Your Child to Learn."

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everythingESL.net - http://everythingESL.net
Featuring more than 66 lesson plans, 45 teaching tips, 230 downloads, 830 discussion topics, and 90 classroom resource picks.

Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science (AIMS) Education Foundation - http://www.aimsedu.org/index.html
AIMS Education Foundation creates hands-on, standards-based activities and curricula that are engaging, affordable, and easy-to-use. AIMS supports these activities with professional development workshops and resources. AIMS Education Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of math and science through a meaningful, integrated approach.

Association for Women in Mathematics - http://www.awm-math.org/
The purpose of the Association for Women in Mathematics site is, 'to encourage woman and girls to study to have active careers in mathematical sciences and to promote equal opportunities and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences'. The site includes information on relevant fellowships, grants, research, programs, contests and workshops. There also links to resources for students, parents and teachers related to instruction, careers, biographies and the history of mathematics.

Aunty Math – DuPage Children’s Museum (K-5) - http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/
Aunty Math is an interactive site that is appropriate for children from kindergarten through 5th grade. Aunty Math posts weekly math challenges for students to try. Students can also send in how they solved the challenge. Teachers and parents can access the page to gain more information about the mathematics involved in the challenge also.

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/index.shtm
This site is for teachers, parents and students who seek engaging mathematics. Many of the topics are accompanied by Java illustrations. There are nearly 800 Java applets.

The Math Forum - http://mathforum.org/

The Math Forum is an online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication. This site helps teachers, mathematicians, researchers, students, and parents use the Web to learn math and improve math education. The site offers problems and puzzles; online mentoring; research; team problem solving; collaborations; and professional development.

The Math League - http://www.mathleague.com/
The Math League sponsors contests for grades 4-12. These contests are designed to build, student interest and confidence in mathematics through solving worthwhile problems. Rhode Island is a member of the New England Mathematics League. This site contains sample grade level contests and an excellent 'Help' facility for grades 4 to 8.

The National Center for Educational Statistics - http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/
An outstanding, very user-friendly site sponsored by The National Center for Educational Statistic. Allows the user to design different types of graphs. The site also has interesting graphs available for classroom use.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/siteinfo.html
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project out of Utah State University that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). The manipulatives are sorted by grade span and by mathematics strand.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) -http://www.nctm.org/
NCTM - NCTM is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.

Rhode Island Mathematics Teachers Association (RIMTA) -http://www.ri.net/RIMTA/index.htm
The Rhode Island Mathematics Teachers Association is an organization dedicated to promotion of interest in mathematics and its applications, providing opportunities for the exchange of ideas and materials, improve mathematics instruction, and further the cooperative study of problems related to the teaching of mathematics at all levels.

Research Clips and Briefs (NCTM) -http://www.nctm.org/researchbriefs.aspx
Research Clips and Briefs are an important resource for finding research-based answers to questions about mathematics teaching and learning.  Clips are short and provide only the findings. Briefs include more information and list related research.
 

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IEEE Virtual Museum - http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/index.php

Imaging life without telephones, TVs, computers, x-rays, lasers, and the Internet.  Hard to do?  As diverse as they may seem, all these technologies, and many others, have one thing in common -  they all use electricity and magnetism.  At this site you will explore the history of these technologies, find out how they work, and learn about some of the people who invented them,

TeachEngineering Digital Collection - http://www.teachengineering.org/
The TeachEngineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms.

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Lifeedu.org - http://www.lifeedu.org
lifeedu (pronounced, "life e-d-u") is a 501 c (3) nonprofit organization established for the creation, production, and distribution of educational materials on DNA, genetics, and modern biotechnology for middle school, high school, general undergraduate and the general public.

National Science Education Standards - http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/
The National Science Education Standards present a vision of a scientifically literate populace. They outline what students need to know, understand, and be able to do to be scientifically literate at different grade levels. They describe an educational system in which: all students demonstrate high levels of performance, teachers are empowered to make the decisions essential for effective learning, interlocking communities of teachers and students are focused on learning science, and supportive educational programs and systems nurture achievement.

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) - http://www.nsta.org/
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) is the largest organization in the world committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. NSTA's current membership of more than 55,000 includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in and committed to science education.

Networking for Leadership, Inquiry and Systemic Thinking (NLIST)
http://www.nlistinquiryscience.com/enter.htm
Proposed jointly by the Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) and the Education Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NLIST has initiated key networking processes and is producing useful Internet products for more effective science education program implementation.

Professional Development for Math and Science Teachers -  http://www.pdmathsci.net/
Professional Development for Mathematics and Science Teachers: Findings from a decade of Local Systemic Change (LSC) Projects presents major findings from a 10- year, large scale study of 75,000 mathematics and science teachers who participated in 88 LSC projects, with support from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education. The LSC projects provide valuable lessons in providing effective professional development to K-12 teachers to improve mathematics and science classroom instruction.

Project 2061 Benchmarks - http://www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/bolintro.htm
Project 2061's benchmarks are statements of what all students should know or be able to do in science, mathematics, and technology by the end of grades 2, 5, 8, and 12. The grade demarcations suggest reasonable checkpoints for estimating student progress toward the science literacy goals outlined in SFAA.

Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair - http://www.risef.org
The purpose of the Rhode Island Science and Engineering Fair, one of Rhode Island's premier student research showcases, is to promote science education and investigation by RI students. Over 90 local schools register approximately 500 students from all over the state.

Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium Program
http://www.spacegrant.brown.edu/RI_Space_Grant/overview.htm
The R.I. Space Grant Program is a congressionally mandated nationwide NASA-funded program designed to act as a space-science resource and to enhance science literacy and learning opportunities in space-related science at all levels of education, from elementary school through graduate school and beyond. There are 52 distinct Space Grant Consortia in the US (all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and Washington, DC).

Teacher Education Materials Project (TE-MAT) - http://www.te-mat.org/default.aspx
The TE-MAT (Teacher Education Materials) Project was funded through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to Horizon Research, Inc. (HRI) to develop an online resource to support professional development providers as they work to enhance the capacity of pre-service and in-service teachers to provide high-quality K-12 mathematics/science education. The site features a Conceptual Framework that highlights key elements critical to the design and implementation of effective professional development programs, with numerous links to relevant reviews of materials and practitioner essays. It also features Reviews of Materials that is a searchable collection of reviews intended to help K-12 mathematics and science professional development providers more easily select materials appropriate for their program goals.

 

Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/index.html
This web site by the National Institutes of Health, is about the history of forensic medicine. Over the centuries, physicians, surgeons, and other professionals have struggled to develop scientific methods that translate views of bodies and body parts into 'visible proofs' that can persuade judges, juries, and the public. Three online activities and three lesson plans introduce forensic medicine, anthropology, technology, and history. Designed specifically for students and educators, the lesson plans provide educators with ready-made resources for the classroom and the online activities promote active learning for students.

Annenberg Media -
http://www.learner.org/progdesc/index.html?uid=139&sj=lit
Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.

American Federation of Teachers - http://www.aft.org/
The American Federation of Teachers was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers.  It is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO. The AFT has more than

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) - http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/index.jsp//
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents 175,000 educators made up of superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members from more than 135 countries and 58 affiliates.  This site has resources covering various aspects of effective teaching and learning—such as professional development, educational leadership, and capacity building.

CollegeBoard.com/Teachers - http://www.collegeboard.com/counselors/teachers/index.html
The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity.  This site gives teachers some necessary resources to help connect students to college success and opportunity along with links to AP Central^®, SpringBoard™, and Professional Development Workshops in your area.

Federal Resources for Education Excellence - http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html
The Federal Resources for Education Excellence Web site is an excellent resource for students, teachers and parents which covers all areas of the curriculum and all grade levels.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Contains hundreds of organized lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Also includes a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional development. The site is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

LD Online - http://www.ldonline.org/educators -                                                                     LD online is a website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech and related disorders.

LibriYox - Accoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain - http://librivox.org/
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then release the audio files back onto the net (pod cast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the Internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, and public domain project.

LINKS Learning - http://www.linkslearning.org/Teachers/_index.html
LINKS Learning began in 1998 as a multi-state project to develop electronic resources that support states in their efforts to implement educational reform. By September 2000, the project had moved to focus on the development of a state of the art, E-learning, professional development resource. Washington State has managed LINKS Learning and continues to guide its development. The site is organized in two basic ways - by the roles of key educational stakeholders such as kids, teachers, principals, superintendents and parents and by areas of subject matter content.

Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (MCREL) - http://www.mcrel.org/
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), draws upon the best of more than 30 years of education research to create practical, user-friendly products that help educators create classrooms that provide all students with opportunities for success.

National Education Association - http://www.nea.org/index.html
The National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest professional employee organization, is committed to advancing the cause of public education. NEA's 2.8 million members work at every level of education—from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States

New England Compact Web Page - http://www.necompact.org/index.htm
The New England Compact focuses upon the development of Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) and State assessments based on those expectations. Some helpful links for teachers are:

• Teacher Support materials
  http://www.necompact.org/ea/gle_support/gle_intro.asp
• Professional Development for Reading and Writing
  http://www.necompact.org/ea/gle_support/ela_intro2.asp
• Professional Development for Mathematics
  http://www.necompact.org/ea/gle_support/math_intro.asp
• Universally Designed Assessments
  http://education.umn.edu/nceo/TopicAreas/UnivDesign/UnivDesign_Resources.htm

Rhode Island Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (RI-ASCD) http://rhodeisland.ascd.org/
Rhode Island ASCD (RI-ASCD), a diverse community of educators acting as a dynamic force for educational excellence, improving the quality of teaching and learning for the success of all learners. RI-ASCD is an organization for Rhode Island professionals who are committed to equity and quality for all learners.

Rhode Island Middle Level Educators (RIMLE) - http://www.rimle.org/
The Rhode Island Middle Level Educators (RIMLE) plays an important role in promoting effective middle level education. It provides a vehicle for exchanging ideas, encourages partnerships with other organizations, and supports teachers and administrators in their ongoing efforts to make certain all young adolescents reach high standards. RIMLE's mission is to promote state wide advocacy in support of a quality education for young adolescents ages ten to fifteen and promote professional growth opportunities to those who serve these youngsters.

The Education Trust - http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust
The Education Trust works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, pre-kindergarten through college, and forever closing the achievement gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth. Our basic tenet is this—All children will learn at high levels when they are taught to high levels. The Education Trust advances its mission along several fronts; from raising its voice in national and state policy debates to helping teachers improve instruction in their classrooms. Regardless of where it occurs, our work maintains a relentless focus on improving the education of all students, and particularly those students whom the system has traditionally left behind.

The New York Times Learning Network - http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html
The New York Times sponsors this site. It has a wealth of resources including Lesson Plans, Word of the Day, On This Day in History and Crossword Puzzles for all content areas.

The Partnership for 21 st Century Skills - http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education. The organization brings together the business community, education leaders, and policymakers to define a powerful vision for 21st century education to ensure every child's success as citizens and workers in the 21st century. The Partnership encourages schools, districts and states to advocate for the infusion of 21st century skills into education and provides tools and resources to help facilitate and drive change.

Thinkfinity - http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx
Thinkfinity.org makes it easy for educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson plans, interactive activities and other online resources. Thinkfinity.org also provides a wealth of educational and literacy resources for students, parents and after-school programs.  All of Thinkfinity.org's 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and reference materials are reviewed by the nation's leading education organizations to ensure that content is accurate, up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students. At Thinkfinity.org, you'll find primary source materials, interactive student resources and grade-specific research lists to help you tailor materials to meet your needs. Start exploring now!

PBS Teacher Source - http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
PBS offers 3,000+ lesson plans and activities for all grade levels and all areas of the curriculum. Watch a video primer on the national NCTM standards featuring interviews with educators involved in developing the standards

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center - http://www.careercornerstone.org/
The Sloan Career Cornerstone Center is an ever-expanding resource center for anyone interested in exploring career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, and medicine. Almost everything on this site is also downloadable in PDF and PowerPoint formats. Explore degree fields, comprehensive education, networking, job hunting, career planning resources, and personal interviews with hundreds of people who offer candid insight into their own diverse careers.  

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies - http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/index.html
Find resources using search fields to access more than 1,300 rich Smithsonian educational resources, find your state standards in all content areas, and search lesson plans in Arts and Design, Science and Technology, History and Culture, and Language Arts.

Rhode Island Board of Governor's of Higher Education - http://www.ribghe.org
This Web site is meant to be a resource for students, families, and educators to help make the most of the 6th through 12th grade years and beyond. It will help answer questions and provide the tools needed to understand and to take advantage of available opportunities in higher education.

Rhode Island Diploma System -http://www.ride.ri.gov/highschoolreform/dslat/index.shtml
Welcome to the Rhode Island Diploma System Local Assessment Toolkits. This collaborative project of the Rhode Island Department of Education and The Education Alliance at Brown University was made possible with the generous support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The toolkits contain resources to help schools develop, implement, and sustain graduation portfolios and exhibitions and use common tasks as part of their local diploma system.

Cooperating Librairies Automated Network (CLAN) - http://www.rilibrary.net/   
If you have a CLAN library card, you can use a large selection of research databases for free. Full text articles from the Providence Journal are available through ProQuest. A variety of national newspapers and magazines, many with full text, are available through EBSCOhost.

Gilbert Stuart's Birthplace - http://www.gilbertstuartmuseum.com/
The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace is a multifaceted attraction that takes one on a journey back in time. Not only is it a showplace for reproductions of the works of one of America’s foremost portrait painters, it is an authentically restored and furnished workingman’s home and the site of the first snuff mill in America. The lovely wooded homestead on the banks of the Mattatuxet Brook also features a partially restored grist mill and a fascinating fish ladder.

Office of Marine Programs at URI - http://omp.gso.uri.edu/
The Office of Marine Programs (OMP) is the education and outreach arm of the Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) at the University of Rhode Island (URI). OMP efforts reach audiences in Rhode Island, throughout the United States, and around the world. OMP's team of dedicated marine scientists, professional educators, project managers, designers, and communicators collaborate with scientists and graduate students from GSO and marine and environmental academic and research programs from around the globe.

Providence Children's Museum - http://www.childrenmuseum.org/htdocs/index.html 
Rhode Island's only museum especially for children and their families. Providence Children's Museum is a hands-on place where kids, ages 1-11, and grown-ups play and learn together. Come and explore the swirling, whirling ways of water, discover the bones beneath your muscles and learn how much fun learning can be!

Rhode Island Audubon Societyy - http://www.asri.org/ 
At Audubon Society of Rhode Island, an independent state environmental organization, you can walk, snowshoe or cross-country ski on a beautiful refuge, borrow a book, video or DVD, arrange a classroom program, learn about bird feeding, how animals survive the winter, vernal pools and more, host a child's birthday party, buy a nature related gift, sign your child up for summer day camp, or participate in a wide menu of programs.

Roger Williams Park Zoo - http://www.rogerwilliamsparkzoo.org/ 
The Roger WIlliams Park Zoo's education department offers many exciting programs for people of all ages.  The Zoomobile travels to schools, community centers, and retirement homes spreading the important message of conservation of our natural world.  On-grounds programs include Zoocamps, Preschool and After-School Adventures, Overnights, Scouts and Family Programs.

Save The Bay - http://www.savebay.org/default.asp
The mission of Save The Bay is to ensure that the environmental quality of Narragansett Bay and its watershed is restored and protected from the harmful effects of human activity. Save The Bay seeks carefully planned use of the Bay and its watershed to allow the natural system to function normally and healthfully, both now and for the future.

Slater Mill - http://www.slatermill.org/ 
Slater Mill is committed to offering school programs that are enriching, enjoyable and tied directly to the curriculum requirements of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Subject areas include industrial history, American history (early 19th century), economics, textile industry, manufacturing, technology, labor history and others. Programs are offered on our centrally located site (just off Interstate 95 in Pawtucket, RI) or at your school. Slater Mill educational programs are appropriate for elementary, middle and high school students, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in colleges and universities.

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