Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v01n03
The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) website is excellent. It includes a concise and easily read synopsis of the evolution of constructivism. Topics featured at this site include Constructing Knowledge in the Classroom, In a Constructivist Classroom, and Building an Understanding of Constructivism. For a great place to start, visit the SEDL site.
The Constructivist Zone
http://unr.edu/homepage/jcannon/ejse/ejsev2n2ed.html
For a more in-depth overview of constructivism, visit The Constructivist Zone by Dr. David T. Crowther, University of Nevada, Reno. This reading will help you follow development of this notion called constructivism from a historical perspective.
The University of Massachusetts’ Physics Education Research Group
http://www-perg.phast.umass.edu/perspective/Constructivism.html
This is an excellent source on science education and constructivism. It examines constructivisim as an epistemology and how epistemologies—which are rooted in philosophy and basically mean, "how we know what we know"—influence teaching and learning. For a good explanation about constructivism and epistemologies, visit this site.
Research Matters – to the Science Teacher
http://www.educ.sfu.ca/narstsite/
The National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) supports this site, with a publications page that includes brief articles on constructivism in the "Research Matters – to the Science Teacher" series (http://www.educ.sfu.ca/narstsite/research/research.htm). The articles are short, concise, and great reading. Take a look.
School of Education at the University of Colorado, Denver
http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/constructivism.html
The granddaddy of constructivism sites on the web. The School of Education at the University of Colorado, Denver, has one of the best sites relating to constructivism. If you’re ready to learn more and expand your understanding of constructivism, this is the place for you.
