Early Childhood Education Resources

ERIC consists of journal articles and documents relating to education. The document collection includes curriculum guides, lesson plans, research reports, conference papers, publications of educational associations, and other research and instructional materials.

Education Research Complete covers topics that include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.

Teacher Reference Center contains indexes of many titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.

This resource provides access to over 230,000 scholarly ebooks in a variety of subjects, including close to 800 reference titles.

A collection of more than 2,500 titles from Minnesota's independent publishers. Subjects include Drama, Fiction, History, Literary Collections, Literary Criticisms, Science, Juvenile Fiction, Juveneile Non-Fiction, and much more.

Try searching using the following search terms: "Early childhood education", "early childhood development", and "Foundations in early childhood education" for starters. One search will often provide suggestions for related searches.

Contains full-text for many popular elementary school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile). In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many magazines. This database is designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms.