Materials on Early Childhood Education may be found in the L, LA, LB, and LC call number areas. The following divisions may be helpful in locating more specific information.

 LB 1025-1050 Teaching (Principles and Practices)

LB 1139.2-1139.5 Early Childhood Education

LB 1141-1489 Kindergarten

LB 1501-1547 Primary Education

LB 1705-2206 Education and Training of Teachers

LB 2801-3095 School Administration

LC 8-6601 Special Aspects of Education

Subjects that you may search include early childhood education, education preschool,
nursery schools, kindergarten, and education primary.

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ERIC ( Education Resources Information Center) provides extensive educational-related literature. Many resources within this database are full-text.

Education Research Completeoffers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals.

Academic Search Complete is a valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database.

MasterFILE Premier is composed of full text journal and magazine articles, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection.

Media Review Digest contains comprehensive coverage of reviews of educational media and entertainment resources.

Hi Websites

Early Childhood Education Web Guide provides information on child development, discipline, safety lesson plans, holiday themes and learning centers.

Education Place from the Houghton Mifflin publishing group has games, project materials, and annotated resource links for children ages K-8. Teachers and parents will find resources in language arts, math, and social studies.

Idea Box includes lots of activities, crafts, games, and songs for young children. Seasonal and holiday activities along with craft recipes for such things as “play dough” are included as well.

National Center for Early Development & Learning , a national early childhood research project, concentrates on enhancing the development of children from birth through age eight. Case studies, reports, fact sheets, and other research documents are accessible from this site.

Education Finance Statistics Center provides financial statistics on public elementary and secondary education as well as specific school district finance data.

The Educator's Reference Desk provides over 2,000 lesson plans, 3,000 links to online educational information and over 200 question archive responses.

Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence gives K-12 students and teachers access to hundreds of free educational resources.

National Center for Education Statistics is the primary agency for collecting data and statistics on education in the United States and other nations.

The Nation's Report Card - National Assessment of Educational Progress assesses what America’s students know and how they perform in various subject areas such as math, science, reading, writing, and other topics.

U.S. Department of Education provides education related information at the national and state level.

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