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Lesson Plan Sites

Apple Learning Interchange
Apple's Lesson Ideas, Student Gallery, and Technology Showcase.

Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
A collection of lesson plans organized by subjects and with an accompanying search engine.

Beacon Learning Center
Teacher classroom resources and student activities.

Blue Web'n
An online library of 2007 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).

Busy Teachers Web Site
This site serves as a meta-list of links to other sites with lesson plans and classroom activities.

CEC Lesson Plans
The Columbia Education Center (CEC) disseminates teacher training and curriculum development projects, many of them federally funded. The CEC Lesson Plans page offers a large number of teacher-submitted lesson plans organized by grade level in five categories: Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Miscellaneous. Plans are clearly written, standardized, and they cover a wide range of topics.

Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans
These lessons plans developed by teachers are categorized by subject area as well as grade level.

Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
E.D. Hirsch at the University of Virginia started this movement to promote cultural literacy in the school curriculum, and this site offers teacher-created lesson plans based on his program. Lots of interesting lessons here even if you don't buy into the whole Core Curriculum concept. Also links to the Baltimore Curriculum Project Lesson Plans. Looks like a great site!

Curriculum Archive
The Curriculum Archive is a central repository for free lessons and classroom projects.

DOE Gateway to Educational Materials
This web site from the US Department of Education offers more than 7,000 lessons, prekindergarten through adult education, that are available free to educators. You can do a search by keyword, title, subject, or description. You can also indicate desired grade levels. It links to resources on other web sites. I did a search for Holocaust at middle-school level. It gave me 15 documents to check out. One was a world wide web treasure hunt. Another was a teaching guide for the movie, The Diary of Anne Frank. This is a well-organized web page.

Discovery School Lesson Plans
Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. Use the pull-down menus to browse by subject, grade, or both.

Educator's Reference Desk
The Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Education World
An online resource where educators can find the lesson plans and materials.

Eduplace
Search for K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans by curriculum area and grade level.

The Gateway to Educational Materials
This site has a database of lesson plans, curriculum units and other great information that can be found on the World Wide Web.

Intel Education
This easily searchable site can find lesson plans and unit plans that integrate technology.

Kevin Kearney's Social Studies Index
This teacher's web site has some good ideas for lessons, as well as links to other good sites. Check them out!

LearningPage.com
Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found here.

Lesson Planner
Lesson Planner will help organize your busy classroom. Now you can create and store your lesson plans in your Custom Classroom account! Edit, print or download your lesson plan to your computer with a click of the mouse. Even more — link to puzzles, worksheets and quizzes that you have created with the teacher tools on DiscoverySchool.com!

Lesson Plans 4 Teachers
A complete guide to online lesson plans for K-12 Teachers.

Lesson Plan Finder at Teachervision.com
Search for lesson plans and activities. (You can subscribe for additional benefits.)

Lesson Plans from the 1992 Geography Academy for Teachers
Lesson plans for all of the continents.

Lesson Plans Page
A collection of over 450 free lesson plans organized by subject and grade level for teachers to use in their classroom. Teachers can also add their own.

Lesson Plan Search
Search more than 2000 lesson plans categorized by subject area.

LessonPlanz.com
LessonPlanz.com is searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grades and subjects.

Library in the Sky
Lesson plans are included as one of the options within specific subject areas.

Louisiana Challenge K-12 Lesson Plans
Lessons developed by teachers from Louisiana for all grade levels and subject areas.

MarcoPolo
Learn about and access the high-quality, standards-based lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Websites and other resources available on MarcoPolo.

McREL - Lesson Plans
Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards; common sense organization of small but growing group of lessons and support materials built around subject areas and topics. Even those these standards are not from the Sunshine State Standards, many of them are the same. You can do a query to find specific topics and should be able to quickly find comparable standards.

Microsoft Lesson Plans
Microsoft lesson plans for teachers and students.

National Geographic Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans and Teacher's Guides from National Geographic.

New York Times Lesson Plans Archive
The New York Times newspaper has exceptional lesson plans that are easily searched.

No Strings Attached
Provides wireless laptop lesson plans and support.

Open Court Resources
Original resources and links to external resources to assist teachers of the Open Court Reading program (K-6). All resources on the site are free and organized by grade level and Open Court Reading unit. All of the units included here can be used as thematic units by elementary school teachers of any grade and any basal reader. Open Court Resources.com now provides reading resources for grades preK-6. Resources for promoting literacy vary by unit and grade level, however, you can expect to find lesson plans, GLAD chants, powerpoints, movies, picture files, links, the Open Court Reading Discussion Board, recommended literature, and a complete sight word teaching system aligned with the 1st grade decodable books.

PBS TeacherSource
This PBS site for educators can help them plan their lessons and more easily access resources on television and the Web. Station schedules (with listings for local stations) are combined with lesson plans and online exercises for students to make this a sort of one-stop site. Resources include lesson plans that are correlated to select state andnational curriculum standards, activities, and guides for teachers; these are organized into six major subject areas. Visitors can search by keyword or by selecting a subject or grade level from a pulldown menu. Links to additional related resources and a bibliography are provided.

Read*Write*Think
NCTE (National Council for Teachers of English) and IRA (International Reading Association) are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content. (Excellent interactive lessons!)

Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources
Lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.

SuccessLink Great Teaching Ideas
The Great Teaching Ideas program is a free resource for Missouri Teachers providing useful lesson plans and teaching activities. Missouri teachers submit their own units and lessons to SuccessLink via an online submission form. Approved lessons are posted on the SuccessLink Web site for all teachers to freely print and use with their own curriculum. Lessons are aligned to the Missouri Show Me Standards as well as the new Missouri Grade Level Expectations, content ranges from kindergarten through twelfth grade in all subjects.

TeacherLINK
An online teacher resource for public educators and students.

TeacherVision.Com
This great web site is full of lesson plans and teacher resources. There is also a teacher newsletter you can sign up to receive by e-mail.

Teachers.net Lesson Plan Bank
This site encourages teachers to share their lessons with others, and view those already posted.

Teachers First
TeachersFirst is a collection of Internet resources and lesson plans drawn from around the world. Each resource is selected and reviewed by one of TeachersFirstís reviewers, all of whom have classroom teaching experience. Reviewed resources are grouped by subject and grade level, so that teachers can find what they need quickly. TeachersFirst concentrates on resources which can be used in teaching. Their audience is "teachers in the trenches" and they try to meet their needs wherever possible

Teachers' Village
Teachers' Village includes information in the following areas: New Teachers; Lesson Plan Ideas; Field Trips; Schoolhouse; Hop Topics; Publishers and Catalogs; Courses; Forms; Remediation; Technical Support; Terms & Tools; Fairs, Festivals, & Contests; and TV Shows & Movies.

Teaching with Documents
This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.

Technology Enhanced Lesson Plans
Organized alphabetically, these plans were developed to include Internet links in lessons that are already commonly taught: digestive system, plants, transportation, etc. While limited in scope, the plans presented are well thought out and ready for use.

TERC
Math and science lessons.

Top Teaching Resources
Links to lesson plans sites on the web.

TrackStar
TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!

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Last Modified March 7, 2007
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