Lesson Planning
General Resources
- Ask ERIC
http://www.eduref.org
- This collection contains more than 2,000 unique lesson plans that have been written and submitted to Ask ERIC by teachers from all over the United States. Search the database by subject area and grade level. Find lessons related to the arts, computer science, foreign language, health, information literacy, interdisciplinary material, language arts, mathematics, philosophy, physical education, science, social studies, and vocational education. For help in writing a lesson plan, go to ERIC's "Write-a Lesson Plan Guide."
- DiscoverySchool.com
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/index.html
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This is a plentiful resource for accessing teacher-made lessons and accompanying resources. Lessons are organized according to topic and grade level. These articulate lesson plans include clearly written objectives, a list of materials, well-written procedures, discussion questions, evaluation, extensions, vocabulary, suggested reading, and a list of academic standards that are met by the lesson. Under the "For Teachers" web pages in the "Custom Classroom," you can find a lesson planner, puzzlemaker, worksheet generator, and quiz center. (Users must register for access into Custom Classroom, but there is no charge.)
- Kodak Lesson Plans
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Kodak provides lessons for grades PreK-12. Find lesson in subjects such as Art, Career Education, Community Studies, English, History, Foreign Languages, Language Arts, Math, Music, Photography, Science, and Social Studies. This site also offers teaching guides on using a camera and photography. A Digital Learning Center provides information and suggestions for projects designed to help teachers and their students use digital images and computers to inspire creativity and increase learning.
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Learn NC Lesson Plans
http://www.learnnc.org/lessons/
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Part of the North Carolina Teacher's Network, this is a searchable database of lesson plans developed by North Carolina teachers. Contents are organized by subject and grade level. There are a variety of well-made, detailed lesson plans in each subject (Art, Computers, English, Math, Science, Social Studies, etc.) and for each grade level (K-12). By going to Learn NC's home page, you can access their educational journal, "The Beacon."
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LessonPlanz.com
http://lessonplanz.com
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This is a searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grade levels and subject areas. The site was designed to provide an easier way for teachers to find online lessons and teaching resources. Lessons may be located by entering a topic of study in the search box or by browsing the index, which includes a variety of subject areas. You will find direct links to lesson plans and resources in your search results. There are nearly 4,000 hand-selected and reviewed lesson plans and resources in the index.
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Teach Learn Communicate
http://www.alfy.com/teachers/teach/thematic_units/index.asp
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Created by a team of educators, this source is full of lesson plans and thematic units appropriate for the elementary teacher. The Teach Learn Communicate (TLC) website connects to a wide variety of useful lesson plans on the Web in each subject area. Choose from a compilation of Language Arts, Math, Science, or Social Studies materials. Each area includes games, links, stories, and activities to go along with the unit. This site also includes Lesson Builder, a template used for creating lesson plans.
Metasites
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Blue Web'n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
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Blue Web'n is a searchable database of approximately 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, or tools). Create your own Web-based learning pages and online activities using the Blue Web'n Filimentality. Blue Web'n catalogs only the most useful sites – especially online activities directed toward learners.
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Educational Resources & Lesson Plans
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edres.htm
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This web page developed by the College of Saint Benedict / St. John's University consists of over 1000 links to a variety of lesson plans and other educational resources appropriate for grades K-12. The extensive list of resources is organized by subject area and is significantly useful for education students. This well conceived site also includes classroom management resources and links to museums and newspapers.
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
http://goenc.com/
- ENC's collection of thousands of teaching materials is at the core of the Curriculum Resources page. Two types of searches are available- Simple and Advanced. You can also browse through the subject headings to see the broad scope of the collection. ENC links to thousands of Web sites covering almost every math and science topic imaginable. The Web Links area provides direct access to other sites. The Lesson Plans and Activities link has many sites divided by math and science topics.
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Sites for Teachers
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html
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This database contains links to over 800 sites, ranked by popularity, that contain teacher resources and educational materials. These pages provide helpful resources for building lesson plans and thematic units. Sites for Teachers is a good site to gather lesson plans, worksheets, portfolio covers, learning center signs, activities, tests, answer sheets and answer keys for any school subject, K-12. Users can also add their own Web sites by going into the Webmaster's menu.
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University of Alberta Libraries: Lesson Plans
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/subject/education/k12/lessonplans/index.cfm
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The University of Alberta Library offers links to Web sites that guide teachers in developing lesson plans. Users can gain access to a Lesson and Unit Plan Guide and AskEric Write-a-Lesson Plan Guide. Also read a multitude of tips and find other lesson plan pages according to subject. A large lesson plan archive lists a variety of Internet sites that include lesson plans and units.
Multidisciplinary Sites
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Awesome Library: Multidisciplinary
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Multidisciplinary.html
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Awesome Library has reviewed and rated 20,000 web resources to choose Web sites of high quality. Links that have a star next to it have at least one of the following: a very comprehensive source of information, unusually well organized, or contains essential information for the topic. This multidisciplinary web page has over 40 links to lesson plans for grades PreK-12.
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Lesson Plans Page
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/index.html
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Launched in October of 1996, The Lesson Plans Page is a collection of over 1,000 lesson plans designed primarily at the elementary level. Kyle Yamnitz, students, and faculty at The University of Missouri developed lessons in the following subject areas: Math, Science, Music, Language Arts, Computers & Internet, Social Studies, Art, P.E., Health, Multi-Disciplinary, and other lessons. There are lesson plans and activities that elementary school teachers can use in their classrooms. College students can also gather example lesson plans or ideas as a basis for their own lesson plans.
- teAchnology: The Web portal for educators
http://www.teach-nology.com/
- TeAchnology provides users with lesson plans that are categorized by subject. A few subjects of the lesson plans available at teAchnology are music, computing, math, social studies, and literature. Worksheets, rubrics, and printables can be found at teAchnology. TeAchnology offers theme units in core subject areas with resources to help users build thematic units.
- Utah Education Network
http://www.uen.org/curriculum/corelessonplans.shtml
- Utah Education Network is an accumulation of lesson plans for grades kindergarten to twelve. The lesson plans can be searched by subject area or grade level. Users can find lesson plans for fine arts, health education, language arts, physical education, science, and more. Each lesson plan has a summary, curriculum tie, learning outcomes, instructional procedures, and additional resources with links.
Arts & Humanities
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ArtsEdNet
http://www.getty.edu/education/
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The ArtsEdNet Web site contains a variety of teaching and learning materials, such as art examples from worldwide collections. A well conceived list of art related lesson plans may be accessed according to grade level (K-12) or by alphabetical listing. There are a variety of subject area art lessons and integrated curriculum units to choose from as well as a Getty Scope and Sequence guide linked to the National Standards for Art Education.
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Crayola Lesson Plans
http://www.crayola.com/educators/index.cfm
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Crayola provides lessons with hands-on learning experiences, linked with core curriculum standards. New lessons are added each week. Find colorful, creative curriculum ideas for preschool age children. Users can search lessons by media, curriculum, grade, timeframe, or theme. In addition, users can download lesson ideas from the new Crayola Dream-Makers teacher's guide, "Weaving What We Are," which provide art activities that engage students' imaginations as they examine their own culture and the qualities that make up good character.
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EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
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This Web site created by the National Endowment for the Humanities connects to high-quality material educational resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom via the Internet. Subject areas include literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, history and social studies. All sites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and likely impact in the classroom. This user-friendly Web site contains links to over 100 of the top humanities sites that relate directly to the compilation of creative, quality online lesson plans.
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Education World: Arts & Humanities
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/ah.shtm#art_history
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In Education World, educators can find lesson plans relating to art history, foreign languages, language arts, literature, dance and music, visual arts, educational technology, and more. Teachers can also gather ideas through research materials and articles written by education experts. A search engine is provided that will only search educational Web sites. Keep updated with site reviews, daily features and columns, teacher and principal profiles, and employment listings.
ESOL
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ESL flow
http://www.eslflow.com
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ESL flow is a valuable, easy to use Web site that offers teaching ideas, lesson plans, and activities. These activities are appropriate at the elementary, pre-intermediate, and intermediate levels to improve ESL speaking, listening, grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing classes. This site contains a resource section for additional ideas, creative works, and links to articles on pedagogy, guides, grammars, and other popular sites such as sample tests for the Cambridge Certificate. Pages are divided according to content theme, language skill, and level of difficulty. Excellent Resource! (May require a high-resolution screen and/or adjustment of fonts. Macintosh users note that pages cannot be printed from a Mac.)
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The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/Lessons/
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This is a monthly web journal for teachers of English as a second language. This site contains a myriad of useful lesson plans and ideas. In this site, there are resources to help teachers prepare for the first day of class. Other topics include helping students with conversational English, exploring multicultural perspectives, playing learning games with an entire class, and practicing grammar, listening, pronunciation, reading, or writing skills. In addition, users can find classroom handouts, web based textbooks, games and puzzles. This Web site also provides teachers with articles and research papers on teaching techniques.
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Lesson Plans and Resources for ESL and Bilingual Education Teachers
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslindex.html
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This site offers dozens of links to ESL, bilingual, and foreign language lesson plans, activities and games in the areas of writing, grammar, mathematics and science. The bilingual links also include languages such as Spanish, French, German, Italian, and other languages. Educational resources, educational standards and frameworks, employment opportunities, and links to professional associations are also available.
Language Arts & Reading
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Lesson Plans: Language Arts
http://www.nwrel.org/sky/mat.asp?ID=3&search=2&m=23&d=6
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Library in the Sky is a database of interesting and useful educational Web sites for those involved in education. As part of Library-in-the-Sky web site, these language arts links direct users to reading, writing, spelling, grammar, creative writing, and literature based lesson plans for all grade levels. Find AskEric lesson plans, mini-lessons from the Columbia Education Center, PBS TeacherSource lesson plans, and much more.
- Outta Ray's Head
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/
- Outta Ray’s Head is a collection of lesson plans used in the classroom by Ray Saitz and many contributors. This Web site contains only language arts lesson plans in the subjects of literature, poetry, library, and writing. Users can also explore the links page to find additional resources suggested by Saitz.
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Story Arts Online
http://www.storyarts.org/
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Heather Forest, director of non-profit Story Arts of Huntington, New York developed this Web site to provide information on the importance of storytelling in the classroom. This site has received many educational awards and is funded by a Bell Atlantic Foundation grant. Students and teachers can read international folk tales and fables in the story library. Find lesson plans, activities, rubrics, storytelling advice, information on selecting stories for the classroom, suggestions for a listening center, and a bibliography of essential storytelling books for the classroom.
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6+1 Trait Writing Lesson Plans
http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/lessonplans.php
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The six-trait analytical model provides assessment and feedback to students and teachers. Educators use the 6+1 Trait Writing Scoring Guide to help students improve their writing skills. The NW Regional Educational Laboratory has compiled lesson plans for grade levels from early elementary to high school. Lessons include a description of needed supplies and lesson description. The lessons are organized around the six writing traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Users can search by grade level and specified writing trait.
Math & Science
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NCTM Illuminations
http://www.illuminations.nctm.org/
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) offers detailed lesson plans, interactive multimedia math lessons and activities, links to selected web resources, video vignettes of teaching and more for grades PreK-12. This Internet resource is based on NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Some goals of Illuminations include improving the quality of teaching and learning in mathematics for all students by providing professional development for mathematics teachers and standards-based resources for classroom use.
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Learningpage.com
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/menu_wkshts/plans_oceans.html
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Free membership to this resource includes access to lesson plans, worksheets, printable books, theme sheets, and clipart. All of these resources are free and may be downloaded and printed directly from this Web site. The science-based curriculum is written and designed for Pre-K - third grade. All instructional materials are professionally produced and tested by teachers in the classroom. Each thematic unit includes Language Arts and Math linked objectives. Users must "become a member", but there is no charge.
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Science NetLinks
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
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Science NetLinks is part of an Internet-based learning initiative called MarcoPolo, sponsored by WorldCom Foundation. Regularly updated, Science NetLinks provides a wealth of information for K-12 educators that include lesson plans and a collection of reviewed Internet resources. Lesson plans are based on the Benchmarks of Science Literacy. Users can search lessons according to subjects or grade ranges. In addition, student-ready materials such as e-sheets (online worksheets that enable students to engage directly in Internet activities) are available.
Music
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Art and Music Lesson Plans and Units
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/ArtMusic.htm
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The lesson plans and units included are part of Core Knowledge, a Web site that promotes specific, shared content. Teachers contribute units and lessons filled with valuable and coherent ideas, strategies, and resources. This Web page has 11 comprehensive music units and lesson plans that are provided in PDF format created with Adobe Acrobat. The units and lessons links that have gold stars next to them have received best reviews for their objectives, procedures and activities, assessment methods, and general effectiveness.
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Music Lesson Plans and Resources
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edmusic.htm
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This link is part of a Web site entitled, "Educational Resources and Lesson Plans" that was primarily developed for education students at the College of Saint Benedict and St. John's University, but can also be very beneficial to teachers. Under the subject of music, users will find a variety of links to lesson plans ranging from AskEric pages to various Web sites developed by teachers all over the world. Each link has a brief description of the lesson content.
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New York Times Learning Network: Music
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/music.html
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The Learning Network has developed lesson plan units that use recent New York Times articles as sources for examining important curricular topics in interesting and exciting ways. These lesson plans are written for grades 6-12 and vary in musical trends, such as current popular music, international music, and operatic music. Interdisciplinary connections, vocabulary lists, and extension activities are included in the lesson plans. Users can search for lesson plans by highlighting "Lesson Plan Archive."
Social Studies
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Lesson Plans for Social Studies
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
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Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN) has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find very useful. Find topics about Ancient Greece, Women in History as well as a multitude of other topics in between. The links offered have useful annotations and connect to Social Studies related Internet sites.
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National Geographic Lesson Plans
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/lesson_plans/index.html
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The National Geographic Society, "the world's largest scientific and educational organization," provides students and educators with a variety of educational materials. Students can experience an "online adventure", look at printable maps of the world, or read interesting facts and reference resources in "homework help". Teachers can access lesson plans by keyword search or by browsing. A listing of other resources is available to help teachers enhance lessons.
- National Geographic Xpeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
- National Geographic Xpeditions contains geography lesson plans and activities based on the U.S. National Geography Standard. Places & regions, physical systems, human systems, environment & society, and uses of geography are a few of the standards. Xpeditions also provides users with atlas maps and categorizes lesson plans by grade and standard.
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Jeannie Kamerman,
Director, Curriculum Library
University of West Florida Library
Date Last Updated: April 2007
Links Maintained by Bryan Reingruber: May 2006
