Sunshine State Standards
Related Web Sites Web sites that support teaching and learning SSS

• http://www.firn.edu/doe/

This is the home page for the Florida Department of Education and a source for many resources on assessment.

• http://www.firn.edu/doe/sas/fcat.htm

This is the FCAT home page. It contains links to many resources such as FCAT sample items. FCAT Item Specifications, FCAT brochures for educators and parents, and frequently asked questions about FCAT.

• http://www/fcatexplorer.com/

FCAT Explorer helps students practice the Sunshine State Standards as assessed by FCAT. There is a management system for teachers or parents that track a students' performance. A sign-in name and password are required. Fourth grade reading and fifth, eighth, and tenth grade math are currently available. Other grades and subject are under development.

• http://osi.fsu.edu/wavseries/index.html

The "Ride the Wave Series" is a set of user-friendly flyers on "hot topics" being addressed by school improvement teams and the school community.

• http://web.usf.edu/-sl/RSPIV/Sunshine.html

Developed by West Central Florida, Environmental Education, Regional Service Project IV, this site contains standards-based instructional activities lined to the Sunshine State Standards. The site also contains links to other instructional and professional development sites.

• http://miamisci.org/sss/aboutsunshine.html

This site contains an explanation of the Sunshine State Standards.

• http://gopher.fsu.edu/-jflake/ApFlSun.html

This site shows prototype implementations of the Sunshine State Standards into classrooms.

• http://www/coedu.usf.edu/-morris/coopsss.html

This site offers cooperative learning lesson plans correlated to the Sunshine State Standards.

• http://www.ibinder.uwf.edu/steps/welcome.cfm

This site, created by the University of West Florida (UWF), College of Professional Studies and the Panhandle Area Center for Educational Enhancement offers a wealth of professional development resources including many illustrative instructional activities aligned to the Sunshine State Standards. 

• http://www.onedotnefec.org/fcat

The FCAT Teacher Challenge is intended to help teachers become more aware of the challenges of the The Florida Curriculum Frameworks and FCAT. This site is also designed to increase awareness of the effective teaching practices teachers are already using and also to help teachers identify needs for additional in-depth training.

• http://www.beaconlc.org/beacon

BEACON houses a variety of educational resources to be used by students, teachers, parents, and others involved in developing and implementing curriculum of the Sunshine State Standards.

• http://www.firn.edu/doe/bin00001/crscode/crshome/htm

Course Descriptions identify the essential content and course requirements for each course in Grades 6-12 and are correlated to the Sunshine State Standards.

• www.firn.edu/doe/curric/preK12/ecpt.htm

Sample lessons for the electronic Interdisciplinary Curriculum Planning Tool version 2.1 are available on this site. The Elementary and Secondary Curriculum Planning Tools contain all the Sunshine State Standards benchmarks in applied technology, dance, foreign languages, health education, language arts, mathematics, music, physical education, science, social studies, theatre, and visual arts in the appropriate grade clusters.

• http://fdlrs.brevard.k12.fl.us/fdlrs/StateSoftware98-99.html

Florida DOE Educational Software Project enables educational institutions in Florida to acquire software products at substantial discounts. The catalog provides correlation of software to the Sunshine State Standards, identification of products corresponding to multiple intelligences, and access to an online searchable database.

• http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/sss/

Florida Instructional Technology Resource Center (ITRC) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) created this Web site to direct educators to resources for teaching the Sunshine State Standards.