Tips, Tricks and Resources to help in creating lesson plans and finding the right information to support them.
Lots of lesson plan links and resources like handouts and worksheets to accompany them.
Lots of Lesson Plan Links
- Lesson Plan sites for K-12 Teachers
- Huge list of links to sources of lesson plans on the Internet for all grade levels.
- The Gallery of Teaching and Learning - Home
- The Gallery of Teaching & Learning, Created by the Knowledge Media Laboratory of theCarnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- American Writers Classroom Resources
- A companion site for C-SPAN's special television series for 2002 Created by Cable. Offered as a Public Service.
- historicalsocieties
- Fitchburg State College list of links to 12 Massachusetts Historical Societies offering a variety of educational resources.
- Corning Museum of Glass | Resource on Glass
- Learn all about the history of glass with a visit to the museum, or using the variety of resources on this educational site. Extensive lesson plan resource document in PDF format available.
- NARA | Federal Register | U. S. Electoral College
- The official U.S. Electoral College web site, providing current presidential election state electors timeline and roles and responsibilities, laws and requirements, and vote distribution.
Use the Electoral College Calculator to predict who will win the next presidential election. Teaching Resources page - Antiques Roadshow | Teacher's Guide | PBS
- Teaching resources using the "material culture" of artifacts as the starting point.
Fun Stuff on CafePress
Education News and Links
Tools you can use
Free and Low-fee Resources for a variety of purposes
- TeacherWeb® - Intro
- TeacherWeb -- Easy to create, Easy to update websites for Educators. Costs $27/year for an individual account, with options available for school-wide integration.
- Litsum: The Most Free Literature Summaries, Study Guides and Book Summaries
- Litsum is a totally new alternative, with the most free book summaries.
- The Math Forum - Math Library - Logic/Foundations
- The Math Forum's Internet Math Library is a
comprehensive catalog of Web sites and Web pages relating to the study
of mathematics. This page contains sites relating to Logic/Foundations. - Photo Periodic Table Posters
- The Most Beautiful Periodic Table Poster in the WorldAfter four years of photography, my periodic table poster is now available!
This is the same poster featured as a tear out special section in the December 2006 issue of Popular Science
magazine, but of course the versions sold here are much bigger... - Media Literacy Curriculum and Lesson Plans
- Media Literacy Student Work Curriculum Lesson Plan: Early Humans "Wanted" PosterLesson Plan: Awesome SnacksLesson Plan: Math At WorkLesson Plan:
- Thinkfinity Search
- Cool search engine for curriculum resources.
- Rubistar - Cool free tool for creating scoring rubrics, including problem-based learning assessments
- RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
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Developing the Curriculum (6th Edition)
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Developing an Online Curriculum: Technologies and Techniques
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Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture
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Interesting sites and news about teaching
General tips for life and classroom management
Fun Stuff on CafePress
Standards, evaluation and theory
- ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library
- ERIC/AE Home Page
Search TitleAuthor URL Serial Name Institution Keyword for Index EDUCATIONAL QUALITY Accountability Rationales & Approaches Reporting Achieve Data Indicators Elem-Sec Education
Resources for curriculum planning on Amazon
Learning by Doing: A Comprehensive Guide to Simulations, Computer Games, and Pedagogy in e-Learning and Other Educational Experiences
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Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change
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The Modern Practice of Adult Education: From Pedagogy to Andragogy
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Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy: Reading, Constructing, Connecting (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
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American Education and Corporations : The Free Market Goes to School (Pedagogy and Popular Culture, Volume 1)
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K-12
- Lesson Plan Resources
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R - DedicatedTeacher.com: Quality Educational Materials
- The DedicatedTeacher.com eStore is the leading online supplier of electronic versions of books and educational resources for teachers and parents.
- About Bettendorf Community School District
- If you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, click on the icon and follow instructions. A flagship school district in a premier city. ABOUT OUR DISTRICT The Bettendorf Community School District enjoys a rich tradition of excellence in education. We are a keystone in a
- Big Lots! | Teachers' Lounge
- From BigLots stores Teacher Community area - Resources, projects and classroom tips.
Lessons on Amazon
The Teacher's Right Hand: A Resource Guide of Reading & Writing Strategies, Lesson Plans, and Rubrics
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Lesson Plans for the Busy Librarian: A Standards Based Approach for the Elementary Library Media Center, Volume 2
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Teachers Lesson Plan Book For Elementary School
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Storytime Slam: 15 Lesson Plans for Preschool and Primary Story Programs
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Best Lesson Plan Websites for Educators
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Links
- Informal Education
- A resource for community education, informal adult education, community work, youth work, youth development, animation and social pedagogy.
- The WebQuest Page
- Ideas for using the web for research in the classroom, including the one-computer classroom; web rings to link WebQuest projects.
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- Links to authors, books, teaching ideas.
- Investigating Chicks Through the Multiple Intelligences
- A resource for students and teachers for chicken development activities organized according to Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory.
- Young Authors Workshop
- Children in grades 4 to 7 are taken through the writing process in a step-by-step fashion, beginning with how to find ideas for stories and continuing through finding online markets for publishing those stories.
- The National Center for Issues-Centered Education
- Introduces teachers to issues-centered approaches to teaching social studies and other school subjects, with the aim of helping teachers create stronger linkages between students' lives and the subjects, topics, issues, and themes they study in school.
- CyberEdQuest: Creatures of the Night
- Bat and Wolf Webquest and links.
- Supporting Critical Conversations in Classrooms
- Critical conversations are important because they highlight diversity and difference while calling attention to the nature and role of literacy in our society. This chapter identifies books that are particularly useful for starting and sustaining critical conversations in classrooms.
- Internet Databases for Education and Research
- Social science and social studies materials organized into broad learning units; for grades 7-12 and college; fee based; password restricted.
- Co-nect Teleprojects and Activities
- Co-nect's collection of online curriculum involve classrooms from all over the world in project based learning. Most teleprojects are free and open to the public.
- Web Links for Inquiry-based Learning and the Internet
- A useful collection of links on developing questions, search engines, electronic portfolios, and online instruction.
- Service Learning and Social Education Demonstration
- A demonstration of Service Learning that promotes the development of our young people as active and contributing community members.
- Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-based Learning
- Page supports a staff development workshop on the Internet and inquiry-based learning; developed as a result of an interest in taking Web-based learning to the next level. The workshop empowers teachers with the strategies necessary to make Web learning a truly productive and meaningful experience for their students.
- Problem Based Learning
- Provides an overview of problem based learning (PBL) and offers a searchable archive of PBL resources.
- Movers and Shakers Unlimited
- An advocate for children; educational programs that teach young people how to develop their potential and begin a lifelong Journey of Success.
- Vermont Community Works
- A resource for educators interested in making service learning and social education a core part of the public school curriculum.
- Haudenosaunee Iroquois Homework Help
- A team of native people provides to students culturally sensitive and factual information about the Haudenosaunee also known as the Iroquois (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora).
- Lesson Plans from Smithsonian Education on the Web
- topics ranging from presidential elections to ocean ecology to landscape painting, in lesson plans designed for upper elementary and middle school students.
- High Performance Charter School Curriculum
- Building a coherent and intentional curriculum from the ground up: essential questions, core content, basic skills and "habits of mind" that underlie and connect learning experiences at all levels.
- Service Learning: connecting learning through action
- Teachers and students will find a list of service learning projects.
- Comprehensive Resources for Educators
- A variety of teaching resources from the National Council for the Social Studies.
- Ellen Weber, MITA Center, Multiple Intelligence Teaching Approach
- Features multiple intelligence curriculum reform for higher education. New Five-Phase Curriculum Approach to implement inquiry based learning, reflective teaching, brain based curriculum, collaborative teaching and roundtable learning.
- Visible Knowledge Program
- The educational site of the New Museum of Contemporary Art offers online classrooms and studios to high school students and educators and interdisciplinary lesson plans.
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- College English- TETYC- RTE- CCC- English Ed
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- Character Education - Lesson Plan
- The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is the governoring body for all public K-12 schools in North Carolina. They provide information and support to North Carolina's public schools. North Carolina Character Education Partnership
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- Oxfam's Cool Planet for teachers - Resources
- Oxfam GB's website for teachers - resources
