Lesson Plan Links and Resources for Educators

 

Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) ….. http://www.ali.apple.com/

 

AOL@School …… http://www.school.aol.com/

An online educational resource for schools; includes free email, reference tools and filtered Internet search.  Divided into primary, elementary, middle school, high school areas.  Many subject areas covered.  Areas for teachers and administrators too.

 

Arctic Animals of Alaska (Grades 1-2) …… http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/alaska/index.html

Conduct research, write a poem about an arctic animal and create a visitor’s brochure for Denali National Park.

 

BBC Online-Little Kids …….. http://www.bbc.co.uk/littlekids/

Especially for little learners.

 

Cool Kids’ Sites ….. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listgreatkimr.html

A variety of kids’ sites, kindergarten to grade 8, on a variety of topics.

 

Creativity and Butterflies (Grades 2-5) … http://www.col-ed.org/cur/misc/misc45.txt

What does a butterfly dream about when inside a chrysalis?  The

imaginative activities shared at this web site will get your students’ creative

 juices flowing.

 

Curriculum Crossword Connections ……..

http://www.tisdaleschooldiv.sk.ca/kanuski/teachers/web_assign/scavenger/index.htm

Many crossword puzzle opportunities for grades 4-high school.  Topics include Canada studies, holiday crosswords, career study, physics, French tourist attractions, more.

 

ED’s Oasis …… http://www.edsoasis.org/

The purpose of this site is to help teachers learn to use the Internet as an integral part of teaching and learning.  Site contains MANY links of interest to teachers, including a great interactive science site, history, language arts, math, art and many teacher resources.  Join the EdsOasis listserv to keep up on the latest in technology.

 

Free Worksheets! …….. http://www.freeworksheets.com/

6000+ free worksheets in language Arts, Reading, Science, Geography, social Studies, Sentences and Writing, Phonics, History, thinking skills, etc.

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FunBrain ……. http://www.funbrain.com/

               A neat site where you can locate math games and quizzes you wish your students to complete.  After they do so, the site will email you their results!Quizzes on many other subjects also.

 

Illustrating Endangered Species(Grades 5-6) …. http://www.esc2.net/TIELevel2/projects/art

In this project, groups of students form their own ad agencies, research endangered animals, and consider various art styles that would be appropriate to illustrate these animals.

 

Integrating Literature into the Curriculum  ……. http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/lessonplan.htm

Lots of good ideas here for integrating kids’ books and lesson plans for integrating literature grades 1-12.

 

Internet Resources for K-8 Students …. http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/

A recent update of a popular ERIC digest; more than 100 lesson plans written by teachers from all over the United States

 

ISTE Home Page …… http://www.iste.org/Resources/index.shtml

Lesson plans, links, distance learning information and lots more resources for educators.

 

Journey North (adaptable to any grade level) …  http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

Join thousands of other schools collecting migration data for a dozen species and send questions to the organization’s scientists.  Satellite telemetry provides live coverage of animals on the move.

 

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators  http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/index.html

In my opinion, one of the BEST sites for teachers . . .not only lesson plans, but many other useful resources are found here.  See for yourself!

 

Lesson Plan Site……  http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/links/lesson_plans.html

Many excellent links to other collections of educational links.....lesson plans, projects, technology-enhanced lessonplans, lots of plans for primary grades, thematic units and more!  Many vendor sites with lesson plans too!

 

Lesson Planz ……….. http://www.lessonplanz.com/

Indexed by subject area: includes health/nutrition, fine arts, computers and technology, etc.

 

Lesson Plans on the Web …. http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Share.htm

Tons of ideas!  A compilation of lesson plans on the Web.

 

MathStories   …………. http://www.mathstories.com/

Pages are sorted by topic and level of difficulty.  Contains worksheets ready to print and use.

 

Pencilnews.com …… http://www.msnbc.com/local/pencilnews

Internet news and education for kids.

 

Planet Earth Conflict: Yellowstone Wolves (Grades 5-12) …. http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/mtr/ConflictYellowstoneWolf.htm

Should wolves in Yellowstone National Park be removed?  Students research wolves and public policy debates (starting with the links provided at this Web site), then form and defend their opinions.

 

PowerPoint Backgrounds …… http://www.pptbackgrounds.fsnet.co.uk/pptips.htm

Great variety of PowerPoint backgrounds, lots pof hints, tips and tutorials.  A good list of other PowerPoint resources and sites.

 

Puzzlecenter ……. http://www.puzzlecenter.com/

Create and send your own e-puzzle greeting cards. Create crosswords, word scrambles, word searches, anagrams, word shape matches, secret codes and word paint.

 

Sample Lesson Plans ……. http://www.nettech.org/tc/curint/lessons.html

Sample lesson plans from the Educational Technology coordinator’s website.  Also contains WebQuests, online field trips, current research in the field

 

Shareski’s Teacher Resources ………. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listteacherde1.html

A huge list of resources for teachers and students.

 

StoryPlace: The Children’s Digital Library …… http://www.storyplace.org/

Created by public librarians.  Children are able to view online stories, participate in fun games and activities, print out Take Home activities and find great books to read.  Currently there are 5 different themes; activities available in both English and Spanish.

 

Teaching with the Web ….. http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/teaching.htm

Includes a K-2 section as well as resources for other grades.

 

Technology Enhanced Lesson Plans ….. http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/lessons/lessons.html

Looking for integration ideas?  check out this site

 

The Color Sitehttp://www.thecolorsite.com/

Animated coloring pages and games.

 

The Lesson Plan Links Website:     http://rrnet.com/~gleason/lesson.html

A total of 141 sites! Included are lesson plans correlated with the 7

intelligences, CHEM4KIDS (astronomy, biology, chemistry, geography, physics for grades 7-12),   KinderKorner, ePALS classroom exchange, more!

 

The Microsoft Classroom Teacher Network…. http://www.microsoft.com/education/mctn/

Innovative classroom projects, community forum, discussion of educational topics, New Teachers’ Corner, theme-based lesson plans and activities.

 

The San Francisco Zoo ……. http://www.sfzoo.org/

Take a virtual tour of this great zoo!

 

Theodore Tugboat’s Games, Puzzles and Stories for Early Readers ……. http://www.cochran.com/theodore/activities/

Good kindergarten site

 

The Toledo Zoo ……… http://www.toledozoo.org/

 

TrackStar …….. http://scrtec.org/track/index.html

Select your curriculum area and grade level to get specific lesson plans.

 

 

Tech Conference 2001- CYSS - Diocese of Toledo - June 19-20,  2001

Prepared with contributions from  Linda Aubry < strose_aubry@strosepb.org>

Technology Coordinator, Saint Rose School, Perrysburg