Lesson
Plan Web Sites
Many of these
sites offer much more than lesson plans. They are listed here because
they offer lesson plans in multiple subject areas. Where possible, we
have linked directly to the portion of the site that deals with lesson
plans. |
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California State University Dominguez Hills PT3 Project |
| Lesson
Plan Site (*
indicates
outstanding site) |
Rated
lesson plans |
Correlated
to national or state standards? |
- AIMS
- Activities integrating
math and science.http://www.aimsedu.org/
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Yes |
Yes |
- *American
Memory Collection
- An outstanding collection of primary resources
from the Library of Congress. Click "
Learning Page" for lesson plans and ideas about how to use this
resource. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
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No |
Includes category entitled curriculum fit,
which relates the lesson to standards area. |
- * Apple
Learning Interchange
- Search
for lesson plans by subject, grade level and state. Teachers who use
the lessons may submit comments, which are included on the site. Other
valuable resources available here.
http://ali.apple.com/action.lasso?-Database=uops&-Layout=Detailed&-Response=/ali/uops.html&-Show
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Site
includes teacher comments on the lesson plans |
Lessons are
searchable by state and standards. |
- ArtsEdNet
- Art resources and lesson
plans from the Getty Museum and others. http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/
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No |
No |
- AskERIC
Lesson Plans
- More than
1000 lesson plans from educators all over the country, in all subject
areas and at all levels. Site also has a link to other notable lesson
plan sites. http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
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ERIC's rigid
lesson plan criteria are available on the site. |
No |
- Athena:
Earth and Space Science for K-12
- Ideas, data,lesson plans and more on earth, weather,
space and oceans, from NASA. http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/index.html
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No |
No |
- *
Blue
Web'n Learning Site
- Outstanding online lessons
using online resources, as well as links to other valuable educational
websites. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
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Yes |
No |
| California
State Standards
Standards
for teachers http://www.ctc.ca.gov/profserv/progstan.html |
- Classroom
Connect
- Lessons
on the site, plus links to other lessons. http://connectedteacher.classroom.com/lessonplans/lessonplans.asp
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No |
No |
- Constitutional
Rights Foundation
- What are your constitutional
rights? This organization says it is dedicated to telling you about
those rights. Click "online lessons" to find lessons on violence prevention,
election-based lessons and more. http://www.crf-usa.org/
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No |
No |
- *CTAP
Model Lesson Plans Using Technology
- Lesson
plan links recommended by the California Technology Assistance Project.
http://ctap.fcoe.k12.ca.us/ctap/Lessons/lesson.index.html
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Lesson
plans are from a wide variety of sources. |
Lesson
plans are from a wide variety of sources. |
- Database
Lesson Plans
- These lesson plans require
the use of a database
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Some
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-Some |
- Discovery
Channel School
- Lesson
plans: all levels; all subjects, Users may search by subject and grade.
Some lessons include links to online resources. http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/index.html
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No |
Yes |
- Economics
Education Web
- K-12 lessons in economics and
resources from the University of Omaha, plus links to other resources
and lessons. http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teach.htm
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No |
Linked to various state and national
standards. |
- Educast
- K-8 Internet
based lesson plans. http://www.educast.com/lessonplansinternet.html
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No |
Yes |
- Educational
CyberPlayground
- Dozens
of links to K-12 lesson plan sites, plus instructions on writing webquests,
rubrics and more. http://www.Edu-CyberPG.com/Teachers/MediaSeek.html
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Lesson
plans are from a wide variety of sources. |
Lesson
plans are from a wide variety of sources. |
- EdHelper
- Lesson plans for all ages
and all areas of the curriculum. Creates printable worksheets. http://www.edhelper.com/
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No |
No |
- Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse
- Links to some of the best math
and science lessons on the web. http://www.enc.org/weblinks/lessonplans/
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NCTE English Language Arts Standards |
- EmTech
Lesson plans
- (Emerging
Technologies) Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education.
A long list of links to lesson plans from various sites. http://www.emTech.net/lesson.htm
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Lesson
plans are from a wide variety of sources. |
Lesson
plans are from a wide variety of sources. |
- Ed's
Oasis: An assortment of web-related
links for teachers:
- Why you
should evaluate sites
- How to
evaluate them
- How to
have students evaluate them
- Web resources
by subject area (including places for students to publish their work
or get e-pals)
- Lesson
plans
- Instructions
for writing web-based lessons. http://www.EDsOasis.org/
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- Education
Planet
- From UCSB
Extension, in partnership with ITSE, is designed to help teachers,
students and parents integrate the web into curriculum. Includes 16,000
K-12 lesson plans in all areas, as well as education-related web links.
Lesson plans
are rated and correlated to national curriculum
standards. User can search by grade level and subject. Users may rate
the lessons. http://www.educationplanet.com/
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Yes
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Lessons are
keyed to national standards |
- Explorer
- A collection of math/science
lesson plans from the University of Kansas. http://unite.ukans.edu/
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No
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No |
- Folger
Library
- Lesson plans for teaching Shakespeare,
some of which use web-based primary documents to explore life during
Shakespeare's era. http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm
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- G.E.M.
(Gateway
to Educational Materials)
- Sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Education's National Library of Education.
It provides links to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and
other ed resources on the web. http://thegateway.org/index.html
|
No
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Some
lessons are aligned with appropriate state and/or national standards. |
- Geosciences
WebServer
- Web site of the Learning Through
Collaborative Visualization Project (CoVis), a community of thousands
of students, over one hundred teachers, and dozens of researchers,
working together to find new ways to think about and practice science
in the classroom. http://www.covis.nwu.edu/Geosciences/index.html
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- The
Global Schoolhouse
- Much more
than a lesson plan site, GSH contains links to collaborative projects,
communication tools (conferencing, mailing lists, discussion boards),
and professional development resources. Look here for lesson
plans. http://www.gsh.org/
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No
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Lessons
are from a variety of sources. |
- Global
School Net
- Lesson plans, projects, programs,
how to link students with other students. Information for teachers,
parents and students. http://www.gsn.org/index.html
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- Hurricane
tracking
- Teaches mapping skills, math
and meteorology all at once. http://www.teachersfirst.com/storm-f.htm
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- Interactive
Math Lessons and Puzzles
- http://www.mathgoodies.com/puzzles/
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- Internet
Activities for Foreign Language Teachers
- Links to on-line lessons, suggestions
for writing on-line lessons. http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html
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- Internet-Based
Lesson Plans
- For elementary and secondary
math and science. http://www.col-ed.org/smcnws/msres/curriculum.html
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No
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Lessons
are from a variety of sources. |
- *ISTE:
International Society for Technology in Education
- This is
another site that has much more than lesson plans to offer to the
professional educator. Includes professional journals, conference
information, standards, research projects and more. For links to outstanding
lesson plans that integrate technology with all K-12 subjects, click
here.
http://www.iste.org/
|
No
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Lessons
are
from a variety of sources. |
- Lesson
plans from the Columbia University education center
- Lesson plans created by
teachers for use in their classrooms. Divided by subject and grade
level. http://www.col-ed.org/cur/
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No
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No |
- Lesson
plans from the Internet Education Group
- http://www.inet-edu.com/lessons/index.html
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- Lesson
Plan Links
- http://rrnet.com/~gleason/lesson.html#one
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- Lesson
Stop
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/
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- LessonPlanz.com
- Lesson plans divided by
both age and subject, plus teaching tips, seasonal activities, other
resources and articles. http://LessonPlanz.com/
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No
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No |
- Link2Learn:
Classroom activities
- Part of
a site dedicated to helping teachers integrate technology into the
classroom, this page contains a search engine to help teachers find
successful lesson plans in Social Studies, Fine and Practical Arts,
math, science, and Language Arts for high school teachers. http://l2l.ed.psu.edu/success/l2l_indx.htm.
It is part of the Link2Learn
site, developed
by the state of Pennsylvania. http://l2l.ed.psu.edu/success/l2l_indx.htm
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0 |
- Los
Angeles Learning Exchange
- Information
of particular value to teachers. Lesson plans are here.
Also, be sure to check the "web
sites" link on the bottom of the page for
a fantastic bunch of web connections. http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/
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No
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Some |
- Make
a map
- If you want students to work
on developing hypotheses and drawing conclusions from data, this is
a good place to begin. Arc Data Online lets you browse all sorts of
geographic data and create live maps of special areas of interest
such as flood plains, earthquake zones and demographics. Compare population
and food supply, transportation and population, etc; lots of detailed
information about all areas of the world. http://www.esri.com/data/online/index.html
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- Math
Archives
- K-12 math resources from the
University of Tennessee. For lesson plans, click here,
scroll down to "search here by keyword" and search for "lesson plans."
http://volweb.utk.edu/teacher.htm
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- Math
Lessons from Access Indiana Teaching and Learning Center
- Pre-K thru 12 lesson plans plus
other math resources. http://tlc.ai.org/mathlp.htm
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- Math Lesson
Database
- Maintained by the University
of Illinois department of Math, Science and Technology Education;
mostly middle and high school lessons. For real fun in a lab with
a high speed connection, check out the java
lessons, which allow students to explore probability using prizes
in cereal boxes, rocket launches and other interesting subjects. http://www.uiuc.edu
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- Math
Online
- http://www.math.com/teachers/centers/lesson
plans.html
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- Microsoft
Lesson Plans
- Maintained
by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the site features lesson
plans in a wide variety of areas, some lined to specific software,
such as Excel or Encarta. http://cecasun.utc.edu/~tpa/mcallister/lesson.html
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No
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Many
of the lesson plans are linked to some appropriate standard. |
- Museum
of Tolerance
- Includes exhibits and primary resources, as well
as lesson plans and suggestions for teachers. http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/
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- NASA
Educators Resource Center
- Attention Science Department! http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/dx/basket/trc/trchome.html/trc2/trchome.htm
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- RiverDeep
Interactive Learning
- You can take out a three month trial membership
in this site and explore their interactive lessons in k-12 math and
science. You'll need to download a couple of plug-ins for your web
browser but it's well worth the effort. Dozens of interactive simulations
allow students to see how something works, develop a hypothesis, change
assorted variables, chart the results of their changes, and begin
to understand their environment, their body or some scientific concept.
http://www.riverdeep.net/html/home_frame.html
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Some lessons are keyed to national
and state standards |
- Safe
Water
- K-12 Lesson plans from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/exper.html
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- Science
Made Simple
- Hands-on projects for children. http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/index.html
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SCORE standard-connected
resources (Schools of California Online Resources for Education)
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- Science
Gems
- Includes WebQuests designed by
teachers attending summer workshops at the University of California
at Irvine. http://www.sciencegems.com/
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- Shakespeare
Globe USA
- Lesson plans, scholarly materials,
virtual tour of the Globe theater in England, links and more. http://www.shakespeare.uiuc.edu/
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- Shakespeare
Lesson Plans
- For lessons on the most commonly
taught plays as well as general Shakespeare references and background
resources on Elizabethan life and times, hie thyself to
http://www.teachersfirst.com/shakespr-f.htm
http://www.teachersfirst.com/shakespr-f.htm
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- Smithsonian
Institution
- Includes lesson plans
for science, language arts, social studies and the arts. Click "learning
resources" for ideas on how to use the material on this site.
http://www.si.edu/
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Yes
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This
page tells
which lesson is linked to what standard (art, social studies, language
arts, science.) |
- Spotlight
on Voices and Visions
- Links to video, audio and written information
on a dozen of American's leading poets. An excellent resource for
English teachers. http://www.learner.org/catalog/literature/vvseries/vvspot/index.html
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- Spreadsheet
Lesson Plans
- These lessons require
students to use a spreadsheet
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-Some
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--Some |
- Teachers
Helping Teachers
- Maintained by a Los Angeles
teacher, this site includes random lesson plans and other useful links.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/#anchor581196
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No |
-No |
- Teachers
First
- Click
here to find an Internet
tutorial, research
tools, (ERIC
resources, copyright info, dictionaries, MLA citation info and MUCH
more), professional
resources (ESL,
guidance, ADHD, hearing impaired), web
links and lesson plans divided
by topic and age level ), Mind
Stretchers:
fun projects and puzzles. http://www.teachersfirst.com/
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Yes
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Lessons
are from a wide variety of sources. Some are aligned to standards. |
- TeacherVision
- K-12
lesson plans searchable
by subject, grade level and theme. Site has other valuable information
for teachers on integrating technology into the classroom. http://www.teachervision.com/index.html
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No
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-No |
- Thinking
Fountain
- Science explorations for children, from the University
of Minnesota Science Museum. Outstanding graphics. http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/
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- ThinkQuest
- A library
of outstanding on-line lessons, developed by students and teachers,
that utilize the Internet for teaching. http://www.thinkquest.org/
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Many are prizewinners
in the ThinkQuest competition |
--No, |
- Turn
of the Century Child
- An outstanding lesson plan that
uses primary resources to involve students in a study of the life
and times of children in the early 1900s. It also helps students and
teachers understand the incredible depth of material available to
them on the Internet.http://www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~debbie/library/cur/20c/turn.html
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- WebQuests
- A WebQuest is a special
kind of web-based lesson, usually a simulation. Use someone else's
first; then create your own.
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Yes
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--No, |
- Last
but not least, Excuse Buster!
- Suitable for almost any
age and any subject, this is a webquest designed to get students to
think about why we all make excuses. The examples are funny, the interactive,
online "mad-lib" exercises provide a little grammar reinforcement
and a LOT of laughs, the group activity provides practice in organizing
ideas, and the overall lesson provides insight into a very serious
subject. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listexcusesmr.html
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