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updated July 28, 2009 |
Collections
of Lesson Plans:
- LEARN NC
- MarcoPolo
SchooNoodle - online social bookmarking for web resources and lesson plans for K-12
- EduHound Site Sets - Eduhound
and Time for Kids have partnered to provide topic-based online resources.
- WebQuests - created by Guilford Co. Schools; sorted by grade level and subject
- Blue
Web'n - search by content, grade level, and application.
- How Stuff Works - Express - Free registration for teachers. Resources
include unit lesson plans, printable worksheets, and the magazine you may
print out for class use. Great for math, science, and technology.
- Teachers.net - post or access lesson plans
- PBS Teacher Source -Contains
over 3000 lesson plans & activities and concepts across the curriculum
that meet state and national standards.
- CEC Lesson Plans -
Participants in the Columbia Education Center projects have created lesson
plans categorized by subject area (Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science,
and Misc.) There are also links to web activities.
- Dole 5 A Day - Teachers
Lesson plan ideas for Language Arts,
Math, Science, Social Studies and even music that correlate with
healthful eating.
We
also have Dole 5 A Day CDs available for check out!
- Teachnet.com -
Lesson plans by subject
- The Educator's Reference Desk
- Lesson Plan Central
- Lesson Plans Page
- LessonPlanZ.com
- Classroom Central - Teacher
and Student Resources - From Tony Brewer Technology and Learning Center. The
links on this page are specifically selected to make the job of locating discipline
specific online resources easier and quicker for busy K-12 students and teachers.
- Education World
- The Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the
Internet, offers education professionals, parents, students, and administrators
a place where they can start each day to find the lesson plans and research
materials they are looking for. This site is updated daily with fresh new
lesson plans and curriculum ideas, articles on issues that are of interest
to educators, parents, and students, and much more. (Good resource for copyright
issues).
- Learning Page.com - Lots of worksheets to printer out: Basics
(like the alphabet. calendar, money, time, numbers, etc.) and Theme Sheets,
- RHL
School - Free teaching resources that include worksheets
for reinforcement and review. Many worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.
Reading Comprehension, English Basics, Math Problem Solving, Research Skills,
Math Computation. Answer keys available.
- abcteach
- Free printables for the classroom. Month by month
unit lessons. Check out Apples
in August. There is also research and report information including black line
maps you can print.
- CanTeach - Hundreds
of lesson plans, thousands of links, and tons of other resources like songs
& poems, classroom management, and school & class pledges.
- Teacher
Net
- Lesson
plans, resource links, and much more.
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Subject
Specific Sites:
Language
Arts
Spelling
Activities -
links to different ways to spark an interest in spelling
"Active"
spelling
13
Exciting Reading Activities from Children's Book Council
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Provide educators and
students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in
reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content. |
Starfall.com - The Starfall reading program is designed
specifically for the emergent reader. It makes use of interactive books and
rhyming word family games that teach phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary
building and spelling skills. You are welcome to use the Starfall program in
your school for free!
The
Button Jar - use this activity to jump start a
creative writing exercise.
Will
the Real Punctuation Mark Please Stand Up? - fun
lesson plan for emergent readers.
"Busy
as a Bee" - Similies
Preposition
Boogie
Musical
Spelling Rules
Spelling
Strategies for High Frequency Words
Spelling
Practice
Spelling
and Vocabulary Ideas
Vocabulary
Lesson Plans
Vocabulary
Sort
Spice
Up Your Spelling Words
The Reading Genie
Syllabication
Rules -
printable charts
The
EFL Playhouse - for teachers of young English language learners
Phonics For Free
- Target
lessons you can print out
100 Things To Do With Books - How would you decorate one of the character's bedrooms?
What would your character like to receive as a Christmas (or birthday) gift?
What happened in the story before you started reading it? How would you make
your book into a movie? Get creative with responses to literature with the excellent
suggestions compiled at this site.
Printable
Writing Activities -
Find writing prompts by grade level, or try the book report templates, poetry
formats, and letter and writing skills student worksheets. (From abcteach)
Book Adventure
- You'll love this site! Students
can take quizzes on-line to practice for AR. You can register as a teacher and
set up a class. Then you can tell your students to take quizzes at home and
even earn points for prizes. Also
available are resources for teachers.
This is a free site by Sylvan Learning Foundation.
Elements
of Style - Intended
for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature,
it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and
concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most
commonly violated.
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Math
- Math
Idea of the Month - Sign up
to become a member of the Math Idea of the Month Club and you will receive
free seasonal Math ideas by e-mail each month for the grade level you teach.
You can also access the Math Idea Archives for every grade. From: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
Math.
- A+
Math - On-line flash cards
(or create your own), games & puzzles, and worksheets, or you can choose
to print them out. There is also a Homework Helper.
- Lyndsey's
Mania - On-line Geography and Math quizzes, puzzles,
and more. There are also worksheets you can print out.
- Math
Fact Cafe
- Math facts
practice sheets you can print. They are labeled for grades 1-4 but K and 5
could find uses for them too. You can even print out the answer sheets. Depending
upon the grade level, there is practice in addition (including decimals),
subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions. If you can't find a
worksheet to fit your needs, there is a facts sheet generator you can customize.
There are also 'flash cards' that students could practice with while on the
Internet.
- Figure
This!
- Need ideas for math challenges? Here are some
great ones.
- Cool Math 4 Teachers
- Math Forum - Teachers' Place




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Science




Social
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Art
ArtEdventure
Crayola Creativity Central
Incredible Elementary Art Lesson Plans
The Lesson Plans Page - Art



PE
PE
Central
- PE lesson ideas and instructional resources.



Music
Children's Music Web - A group of like-minded websites devoted to music education
for children.



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Technology
Skills
On-line
5th grade technology and information skills integrated with NC standard course
of study
- ISTE
- International Society for Technology in Education
Collections of
Web Quests:



Time Fillers
- Take
Five - ideas for
before the bell rings or for those students who finish early.
| Parsley
Technology Integration Lesson Plan Forms |
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