The second publication in the NETS Project, National Educational Technology Standards for Students: Connecting Curriculum and Technology, takes a critical step toward empowering today’s K–12 students for a complex and demanding future. Three dozen teacher-created lesson plans, sequenced by grade level, illustrate the connection between teaching specific disciplines—English language arts, foreign language, mathematics, science, and social studies—and NETS for Students performance indicators. Each lesson sequence addresses national standards for the discipline, suggests related resources, and provides a brief narrative by a teacher who has actually used the lesson in a classroom.

The second part of this versatile and comprehensive resource embraces eight powerful themes through multidisciplinary learning activities. Direct links are made between content standards from two or more subject areas and the NETS for Students performance indicators. Units for each grade range provide developmentally appropriate themes, tools, and resources from which teachers can choose when developing specific learning experiences for their classrooms. Also includes the full text of the National Educational Technology Standards for Students.