Lesson Plan Archives

As part of our effort to promote digital equity, we have only included an alphabetized list of free resources in this archive.

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• Alfy: The Web Portal for Kids
  This free Web site has a totally graphical interface with links to "kid-friendly" and safe Web sites that deal with topics of interest to children. Teachers: click on Teachers to get to the "Teach, Learn, Communicate" page. There, you will find choices for thematic units for the preK-3 curriculum. Note: there is heavy use of Flash and Shockwave, so this site is not "Bobby" accessible for learners with disabilities. There are also pop-up screens with advertisements.
• Apple Learning Interchange
  This is a dynamic site created by Apple Computer staff. It contains resources, units of practice, projects, lesson plans, worksheets, interactive flash cards, and other handy resources for teachers. The content changes daily.
• ArtsEdge
  The Kennedy Center's Teaching Materials focus on the national art education standards and provide K-12 teachers with curriculum units, lesson plans, activities and other ideas for integrating the arts into classroom teaching.
• Berit's Best Sites for Children
  Berit's Best Sites for Children contains information about 1000 children's websites. Each site is rated for content and modem speed. The sites include such topics as Creepy Crawly Things, "Serious Stuff" like Government and Environment, activity sites for coloring or crafts, and "Safe Surfing." The site is easy to navigate and full of appropriate activities for children.
• Blue Web'N
  Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added.
• Busy Teachers' Web Site.
  This Site is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet. It has an extensive, diverse list of subject areas.
• Challenge County
  This Web site is funded by the Technology Literacy Grant Consortium. Its purpose is to consolidate resources to help teachers integrate technology into Language Arts and Mathematics.
• The Curriculum Archive
  This site contains a large number of lessons and encourages teachers to share their own ideas with others by submitting their lesson plans on-line. This URL replaces the Lesson Plan database from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Note: the flashing banner is distracting, so scroll down to search for lesson plans.
• Collaborative Web Page
  By Tammy Payton. One of the easiest activities that a classroom can do, is find another classroom and correspond with each other. But what do you say? What can you do? One possibility is to share data and create a collaborative Web page: the published product of shared information from one or more outside sources.
• Education World's Home Page.
  This site offers lesson plans, articles, and discussion groups on a variety of topics and issues.
• Educational CyberPlayGround's Database of Educational Resources
  This is found under the "Teachers" section of the main page. It contains a host of links to educational resources in a variety of academic subject areas. Educational CyberPlayGround also contains a "hotlist" of K-12 Internet schools.
• Educator's Reference Desk: Lesson Plans
  Formerly known as the AskERIC Web site, his collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans that have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.
• The Educators' Reference Desk
  The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice. This replaces the ERIC database.
• eThemes
  eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes, created for educators to use in their classrooms. Although only teachers approved by the eMINTs program may make requests for resources, all educators are encouraged to search the extensive database of existing eThemes. Currently, there are more than 500 eThemes on topics from Adobe House to Yellowstone National Park.
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) Website
  This Web site is a collaborative effort of more than 35 federal agencies that makes hundreds of Internet-based education resources easier to access. It can be easily searched by subject and topic.
• Funbrain.com
  FunBrain has a huge library of ready made quizzes for your students to take online with Quiz Lab. Here is the curriculum guide with educational games designed for learners of all ages, grouped by age, subject, and grade level. For example, try the "cash register game" for making change when students purchase a fictitious item.
• IClasses.org
  These online courses were developed at at the Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative (OVEC), with the goal of providing high-quality, dynamic online courses for students in grades six through twelve. They are especially useful for migrant students.
• Intel's Unit and Project Plans
  The Intel Web site has a collection of Learning Projects and links to other sites with exemplary Lesson Plans. There is also a Technical Glossary of terms associated with the Internet and online software.
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the best Web sites for teaching and learning. One of the oldest and best eductional resources, this site is now supported by discovery.com
• The Lesson Plans Page
  This is a source of over 1500 free lesson plans for Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Music, Physical Education, and so forth. The site has a lot of advertising, but there are many excellent lessons to be found.
• LETSNet: from Michigan State University College of Education and Ameritech
  LETSNet is a dynamic on-line environment where teachers can develop their understandings of the Web and find ways to effectively use - or make sense of - the World-Wide Web in their classrooms. Resources are organized by "big idea", teacher, or subject area. The list is not extensive, but the lessons and concepts are quite detailed, and some are interdisciplinary in nature.
• National Geographic's Xpeditions
  This is an extensive lesson plan bank. The lesson plans on this site were written by educators and have been tested in the classroom. Together, they address all of the U.S. National Geography Standards, the five geography skills, and the main geographic perspectives.
• New York Times Learning Network
  This site is excellent for grade levels 6-12. Besides the "daily lesson", the Learning Network contains a well-organized bank of archived lessons, activities for students, and discussion topics and resources for parents.
• PBS TeacherSource
  Integrating curriculum, professional development and community resources, PBS TeacherSource aggregates the services PBS and its member stations provide educators, and helps teachers learn effective ways to incorporate video and the Web in the classroom. Currently, there are five lessons that are integrated with the "Islam, Empire of Faith" television broadcast.
• Teachers Helping Teachers
  Look for teaching ideas and tips for many subject areas, including classroom management ideas. Check for weekly updates, participate in chat sessions.
• Teacher Talk
  Teacher Talk is published by the Center for Adolescent and Family Studies at the School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington,IN. It is a publication for preservice and secondary education teachers that exists as a series of World Wide Web documents. Anyone is welcome to use these resources as long as they indicate that the article or lesson plan is a part of Teacher Talk which belongs to Indiana University.
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
  Since the beginning of 1996, "The Gateway" Consortium has been sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. There is no fee to join the consortium, and using The Gateway is free to everyone. The Gateway has over 26,000 lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. Teachers can conduct full text, keyword, or title searches, then select your desired grade or education level and submit the search. Retrieved records will link directly to the Internet resources they describe.
• Web Sites and Resources for Teachers
  This is an archived, annotated collection of sites and curriculum resources from the Internet for teachers to use in their classrooms. These sites, organized in nine categories, include lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects, and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.
• Web-Integrated Science Environment (WISE)
  This is an inquiry-based set of capstone projects for science classes from Berkeley.

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