Designing a Lesson

Explore some ideas, activities, and promising practices that address your standards.

This page is organized into five major sections:

• A Tip about Getting Started
  Where do I begin?? Try adopting or adapting a lesson that already exists.

• Archives of Lesson Plans and Educational Resources
  Here are some alphabetized archives of free, cross-curricular lesson plans and resources. Subject-specific archives may be found under "Implementing a Lesson" (next step in Standards Based Instruction).

• Making It Happen: Design Tips from the Experts
  You'll probably have some questions. How to do...? Where to find...? What are some ideas about...?

• Other Useful Information
  Here are some resources for new users. These include: State Standards; Responsible use of online resources; Professional development; Surfing, searching, and researching; and Innovative uses of the WWW.

• Promising Practices
  Here are some success stories and promising practices from educators who have used technology in the classroom.

To next step: "Implementing a Lesson"