Teacher Resources - Lesson Plans/Activities
A&E Classroom Teaching Materials
http://www.aetv.com/class/teachingmaterials/index.html
"Each weekday morning the A&E Network offers commercial-free, copyright cleared
educational programming. These programs cover a variety of topics suitable for grades 4
and higher. To check our current listing of A&E Classroom programs click on Classroom
Calendar. Click Teacher's Guides for available guides with vocabulary words and discussion
questions."
ALEX (Alabama Learning Exchange)
http://alex.state.al.us/search.php?fa_submit=PLANS
Brought to you by the Alabama Department of Education, ALEX is designed to compile many
types of educational materials and information into a time-saving one-stop resource for
teachers and administrators. The lesson plans can be searched by subject, grade, and key
word. The ALEX website will also let you create lesson plans. In order to create lesson
plans, users will need to create a free account on ALEX. Your ALEX login and personal
workspace will remain active indefinitely when used regularly. Inactive accounts will be
eliminated if not accessed during a six-month time period.
AOL @ SCHOOL
http://www.aolatschool.com/message
First added in 2000, this site has changed quite a bit. AOL @ SCHOOL is a series of six
online learning portals designed for grades K-2, 3-5, middle school, high school, teachers
and administrators. The student portals provide an easy-to-navigate environment in which
students can access web sites that have been chosen by educators as the best educational
content for that grade level. Additionally, the student portals provide a suite of
functional online tools such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, a calculator and many other
research and collaboration tools. The specially designed portals for teachers and
administrators provide professional development and administrative help and resources, as
well as the ability to search for subject and age-specific lesson plans.
BML Learning Landscapes
http://www.blm.gov/education/index.html
BLM Learning Landscape consists of teacher resources on topics such as Sonoran ecosystems,
dinosaurs, the Columbia River, and riparian areas. Provides innovative classroom
activities, and information on how to obtain lesson plans.
CanTeach
http://www.canteach.ca/
CanTeach has hundreds of lesson plans, thousands of links, and tons of other resources
that can hopefully help you out in planning your lessons. Try the links to the side to
explore elementary resources including lesson plans and songs & poems. Check out some
of the thousands of categorized links. The Now Featuring section has links to timely
lessons and resources.
C-SPAN in the Classroom
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/
Teach the latest campaign news and events with the clips and teaching ideas on this site.
Campaign and election lessons include Meet the Candidates and Write About the Campaign.
CyberBee Election Lessons
http://www.cyberbee.com/election/election.html
Lesson links to Campaign Advertising, Election Progess, Candidates, Issues, and more.
Discovery School Lesson Plans Library
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
DiscoverySchool.com's library holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and
subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains
specific objectives, procedures, discussion questions, evaluation measures, extensions,
reading suggestions, vocabulary lists, and standards correlation.
EDSITEment Calendar
http://edsitement.neh.gov/calendar_November.html
This calendar contains a collection of peer-reviewed websites and EDSITEment lesson plans
covering holidays and special events. The Calendar for November addresses Native American
History Month as well as other historical November happenings. There are daily Web links
and lesson plan activities.
Education Place Activity Search
http://www.eduplace.com/activity/
Hundreds of activities at your fingertips. Many include printable worksheets and other
materials. The activities are arranged by topic or theme.
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
Educators for Social Responsibility: Online Teacher Center
http://www.esrnational.org/home.htm
Educators for Social Responsibility has opened its Online Teacher Center, a free source of
K-12 lesson plans and resources on international security, conflict resolution,
peacemaking, violence prevention, and social responsibility. Materials are timely and
designed to help teach effectively about current issues and world events.
EduScapes
http://www.eduscapes.com/
One of the biggest roadblocks to using the Web effectively in instruction is finding just
the right content or idea. Produced by the Lamb Learning Group, EduScapes not only
provides access to literally thousands of extremely useful sites, but provides a
tremendous library of integration ideas and lessons. Every teacher should visit this site
often; sites like EduScape greatly reduce the time necessary for teachers to use the Web
in instruction.
Free Reading
http://free-reading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
From FreeReading.net, which calls itself "an open resource center and community for
early literacy teachers," comes this very comprehensive resource that anyone involved
in teaching early literacy skills will find helpful. The site covers the scope and
sequence of early reading skills and activities, beginning with letter sound activities
and ending with advanced phonics activities. Each section offers information about the
activities in that section, "tips and tricks for teaching" that skill, and
detailed descriptions of how to teach each skill. There are also many video clips in which
teachers demonstrate the lessons. The site also offers many printable sheets to use with
the lessons.
FunLessonPlans.com
http://www.funlessonplans.com/index.htm
Download preschool lesson plans, themes, electronic booklets, children's songs, games,
health and manners lessons, and crafts. Preschool lesson plans, pre-k lesson plans,
kindergarten lesson plans, kindergarten themes, and children's free printables for
preschool crafts, games, and activities.
Gander Academy's Theme-Related Resources
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/themes.html
Gateway to Educational Materials
http://www.thegateway.org
The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) lets you search or browse thousands of high
quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects from over
320 of the 438 GEM Consortium members. You can browse lists organized by subject or
keywords; search by subject, keyword, title, or grade level; and limit search results to
materials that are free. A project of the U.S. Department of Education, and located at the
Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University. A great tool!
Idea Box
http://www.theideabox.com
Early childhood education and activity resources.
Intel® Education
http://www.intel.com/education/
Connect your students to the World of Science and Technology. Intel's Education Site is a
resource to help you find ideas to inspire your students in science, math, engineering,
and technology education. Click on the Unit and Lesson Plans link to explore a database of
lesson plans that is a part of the Intel® Teach to the Future Program.
Learning Page
http://www.learningpage.com
This is a great place for lesson plans, worksheets, and activities.
Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
Lesson Plans for Social Studies
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/index.html
Dr. Martin Levine's Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers site has useful
Internet links for social studies teachers. It is the most complete social studies
resource I've seen on the Internet. There are also links to social studies services,
newsgroups, and curriculum.
LessonPlansPage.com
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
The Lesson Plans Page has over 2,500 free lessons! You can find the newest lesson plans by
selecting "Most Recent Additions." Looking for Holiday lessons? They're all
available in the" Seasonal Lesson Plans" section. You may also want to take a
look at the Educator Discussion Forums! You can participate in discussions with other
educators on a variety of topics. Also, you may like the Weekly Science Experiments
section and Math Worksheets section.
Lesson Stop
http://www.youthline-usa.com/
Microsoft Education Lesson Plans
http://www.microsoft.com/education/LessonPlans.mspx
To help teachers incorporate technology into their classrooms, Microsoft provides
technology-rich lesson plans searchable by grade level, theme, learning area, and, of
course, Microsoft product. Each lesson plan is user-friendly (often with pictures and
step-by-step instructions for the teacher) and strongly integrates the use of Microsoft
products in the learning process.
NASAexplores: Express Lessons & On-line
Resources
http://www.nasaexplores.com
NASAexplores provides free weekly K-12 educational articles and lesson plans on current
NASA projects. Printable and downloadable, these supplemental curriculum resources meet
national education standards. NASAexplores seeks to generate awareness of and to build
students' interest in space, science, mathematics, geography, and technology. Materials
are adapted to three reading levels [K-4] [5-8] [9-12]. NASAexplores is managed and
operated by the Marshall Space Flight Center Education Programs Department.
NBC American Dreams School Project
http://www.bay-breeze.com/americandreams/
This website contains lesson plans and activities for middle school and high school
classes based on a variety of themes highlighted in the American Dreams program. These
include topics such as family relationships, friendship, love, war and peace, sibling
conflicts, school, courage, diversity, grades, and heroes. The interdisciplinary materials
will focus on the content areas of language arts, social studies, and the arts. All
educational materials are correlated to national educational standards.
Newton's Apple: Activity Guides
http://www.tpt.org/newtons/alpha.html
Fact-packed lessons and activities are neatly organized by topic from a now defunct TV
show. Thank goodness they left the content up! There is a good list of materials from acid
rain to zoo veterinarians. Each topic contains an activity, related web links, referrals
to articles, and ideas for further exploration.
Newton's Apple: Science Try-its
http://www.newtonsapple.tv/
From the same site comes an archive of quick science experiments
that require simple materials to complete. These are from six seasons of the Newton's
Apple program.
PBS Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachers
This site contains over 2,000 lesson plans and student activities in
the categories of Arts & Literature, Health & Fitness, Math, Science &
Technology, and Social Studies. There are educational resources tied to PBS programming
and correlated to local, state and national standards. Search by subject, grade level or
keyword.
PBS Teacher Source: Math
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm
PBS TeacherSource provides math lesson plans and activities for all grade levels,
preschool through high school. For instance, choose Geometry for grades 3-5 and get 42
projects ranging from bridge building to tessellations to the geometry of bike design to
"Sir Cumference and the First Round Table." Many activities are interactive and
you can match the activity to your state standards.
RHL School
http://rhlschool.com/
"Your place to get an enormous supply of free quality worksheets for teaching,
reinforcement, and review. Free worksheets that are truly unique! Many of these worksheets
can serve as the basis for lessons."
SchoolHistory.com
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/
This site is a well produced site providing downloadable worksheets, online quizzes,
lessons and categorized Internet links for high school history pupils and teachers.
Teacher's Corner
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/
This is yet another well planned teachers' resource page including Lesson Plans according
to subject, Thematic Units, Seasonal Items, Experiment of the Week, and a Teacher's Helper
in addition to many other links.
Teachers.Net Lesson Bank
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
TeacherSource (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Another great resource from PBS, TeacherSource contains over 3000 free lesson plans and
activities that you can search by subject, grade level, keyword, or format. Subjects are
Arts & Literature, Health & Fitness, Math, Science, Social Studies, Pre K-2, and
Library Media.
Teaching with Historic Places (National Park
Service)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/descrip.htm
Teaching with Historic Places offers classroom-ready lesson plans. Created by National
Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators, these lessons use
historic sites to explore American history. All of the lessons are available free of
charge on the Web. You can browse the collection in four ways, each of which includes a
short description of every lesson: By location; By theme; By time period; By National
Standards (Grades 5-12). Although designed for middle school students learning history,
social studies, geography, and other subjects, TwHP lessons are easily adaptable from
upper elementary through high school, and even for college courses. Each lesson includes
maps, readings, and photographs, all of which are accompanied by questions. At the end,
activities pull together the ideas students have just covered and require them to initiate
their own research. Teaching with Historic Places has developed an online Author's Packet
to help you write a lesson plan using a format designed by a leading history educator.
TEAMS Distance Learning
http://teams.lacoe.edu/
This is an extensive site packed-full of quality K-12 resources for teachers in all
curricular areas.
TrackStar
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp
TrackStar is an on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites
(URLs) into lessons. The list of resources acts like a table of contents and remains
visible throughout the lesson allowing the user/student to easily browse through the
lesson and stay on track.
Under5's Pre-School Website
http://www.underfives.co.uk/
Find Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Activities & Crafts, Holidays and much more for your
P-K and Kindergarten classes.
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