Lesson Plans
 
Surfing the Net with Kids 
Http://www.surfnetkids.com 

This site allows teachers to choose broad subject topics. Then it shows topics that the site has information and ideas on, for instance, earthquakes. It then lists activities and additional sites that will help teachers plan their lessons. 
 

The Digital Classroom 
http://nara.gov/education/teaching/teaching.html 

This site provides activities and lesson plans that correspond to national history standards.  The links that are most interesting are those that show students how to create their personal school archive.  It shows students what background information they need, as well as step-by-step instructions for completing the task. 
 

The Lessons Plan Page 
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ 

This is another well organized site that I visited.  It is set up in a fashion that allows you to pick and click on what you want to see quite easily.  It offers a java enhanced version as well as a non-java enhanced version.  It has all kinds of lesson plans for a variety of grade levels.  What I did not like about this site is although it did have a lot of lesson plans, I read a couple of them and did not like some of those that I read.  The other thing that I did not like about this page was that there is that there is a lot of advertising banners all along it. 
 

Teachers Net Site, The Online Resource 
http://www.teachers.net 

This website contains options to search for various topics, one in particular is Lesson Plans.  Under the heading of Lesson Plan you are given the option to choose a variety of subjects and grade levels.  Once highlighted there is an expanded list of many lesson plans that describe the procedures in great detail of carrying out the lessons.  Other topics included in the website are classroom research, technology resources, professional development, educator resources, reference materials, and financial matters.  After selecting a specific topic you can choose what you want to research more specifically. 
 

The Busy Teachers' Website 
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/k12wel.html 

The Busy Teachers' Website is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / 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. 
Teachers may want to direct students toward certain sites as part of their lesson plan. I have not classified the sites as to grade level since many sites have several components (i.e., pictures, text, sounds, etc). Some components may be quite appropriate for elementary students (e.g., pictures, sounds), while text in the same site may be at a high school level. As part of the annotation for each site, you will find notation as to site components, i.e., text, pictures, audio, etc. I feel that any site with the words; "direct source material", will be of great help for any professional educator.  What I love about this perticular site is the lessons plans that come prepare to help the teacher to include computers in the classroom. 
 

Crayola Art Education 
http://education.crayola.com 

This site allows you to view all of the products from Crayola. You can click on an icon that allows you to see different art lesson plans for different subjects and grades. They also have a forum where you can post or read lesson plans that have worked for you or other teachers. They also have an area where they display art work from students around the U.S. 
 

Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers 
http://www.csun.edu/%7Ehcedu013/index.html 

This site is actually intended for secondary education teachers.  As an elementary school teaching canadate, I would not use this site but if I was a Social studies teacher in secondary school I would use this site.  The reason why I would is because it is a fantastic site.  The links are easy to follow to various different topics.  The topics include:  Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies,Online Activities,Teaching Current Events, Other Social Studies Resources, National Council for the Social Studies, Newsgroups and Mailing Lists, Social Studies School Service, Educational Standards and Curriculum Frameworks, and a section on What's New This Month.  I really liked the site because it is updated regularly and was not made and left.  Plus the site has won various awards in teaching, and awards for educational web sites. 
 

McREL’s Internet Connections-Lesson Plans and Activities 
http://www.mcrel.org/connect/lesson.html 

This is a wonderful resource for teachers of all grades.  The main page is broken up into 8 subjects.  My interest lies in reading, therefore, I clicked onto the Language Arts title.  The next page that came up was amazing.  It was a list of 29 possible areas in which to get sample lesson plans.  McREL’s web site is an award-winning education site, and after spending over an hour looking around I can see why.  This site also explains how school districts may fit standards-based education into the instructional time available to them.  McREL’s also provides the names and summaries of links to Internet resources for lesson plans, activities and curriculum resources-linked with corresponding subject-area content standards.  This site proves to be a valuable resource center for all teachers. 
 

The Collaborative Lesson Archive 
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/589.html 

A notable site for teachers of all grade levels.  This archive is a collection of lesson plans submitted by any teacher that is conncted to this site.  Over 10,000 educators view this web site each week.  This site is first broken down into grade levels and then again by subject areas.  Once the grade level and subject are chosen, a list of lesson plans appear by title, name of issuer and date submitted.  You then have the opportunity to take a look and print out any lesson plan that interests you.  I chose kindergarten reading and came up with a list of over 300 lesson plans!  I found a fun and educational activity to use with first graders thanks to a lesson plan created by Fannie Sexton called Chocolate.  The lesson plan is broken down into steps so that the activity is easy to read and follow.  It gives the general topics/themes, prerequisite lessons, objectives, materials, stimulus questions, and much more.  This site is another helpful web site in which teachers should take advantage. 
 

Endangered Species Lesson Plans 
http://www.inforamp.net/~jlvitale/inte7.html 
 
This site has incorporated numerous lesson plans dealing with endangered species.  There is something for all age groups, from K-12. Each plan is listed by title and followed by a short summary, so that you may read what the site is about before connecting.  This is a great site for children to learn about wildlife and the species that are struggling to survive.  Pictures of the animals are also included.  There are also many links from this site. 
 
Lesson Plans 
http://www.cybercomm.net/~learn/projects1.htm 

This website helps teachers with lesson plans and there are other links on the web to connect to that teach teachers how to create their own site.  This would be a very creative and interactive way to get children interested in the computer. 
 

Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection 
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/Activity-Structures/ 

This site contains several ideas for classroom activities integrating technology.  The activities span several subject areas and many age groups.  Teachers could use the ideas on this page to integrate technology into their own classrooms, or they could generate their own ideas based on the ones in this site. 
 

AskEric Lesson Plans 
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/ 

Many lesson plans can be found by subject through this web site.   Teachers can also submit lesson plans to AskEric.  This site also links teachers to other sources of lesson plans.  It’s a great place to start a search for lesson plans. 
 

Awesome Library 
http://awesomelibrary.org/lesson.html 

The Awesome Library web site contained lesson plans for grades Kindergarden through 12. The way this web site works is kind of like a library, you pick a subject, a grade level, and a topic, and the computer tries to set you up with a lesson plan based of your information. I thought that this was a easy way to locate lesson plans and would be great for parents and teachers to take advantage.
 

Pathway 2000 Lesson Plans 
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/lessons.htm 

I especially liked this one because it was filled with lesson plans that deal with life experiences. These plans help reinforce to students what they learn from their life experiences. Of course it had different lesson plans for different grade levels and it covers a wide variety of choices of experiences. 
 

Microsoft in K-12 Education 
http://www.microsoft.com/education/k12 

    This site focuses on teaching and learning with technology.  The site shows how technology in the classroom can enhance students learning and increase teacher productivity.  There are many articles under different sites within the microsoft site, like the K- 12 connection.  Lesson plans are shared by teachers for every subject.  There are teacher guides that go with the lesson plans.  There are also real stories from different schools about how to use technology, from teachers and students. 
 

MSN Microsoft Encarta 
http://www.encarta.msn.com 

This site is full of links to great teacher resources.  There's an 
encyclopedia online and the latest info on tech products on the 
market.  It gives you options to visit global sites, see lesson plans, 
or add a lesson plan, learn about new games (educational too), and 
have the latest updates on issues in your field.  I'd personally enjoy 
the global links.  Seeing what teachers are doing in other countries 
as well as in my own state is important and can aid in developing 
your own goals and methods for teaching. 
 

Discovery Channel School 
http://discoveryschool.com 

This site allows you to enter the grade, subject, and unit of interest. It then gives you ideas, activities, suggested readings, and additional sites to help guide your lesson plans. It also provides special thematic monthly unit ideas. The unit this month is The eye of the storm. 
 

Kindergarden Connection 
http://www.kconnect.com/ 

This site was a network of educational resourses and materials intended for educating younger students. This site includes many lesson plans on several different areas of study that would be useful for a kindergarden teacher in helping them gain ideas for classroom activities. The activities and lessons that I looked at appear to be fun, interesting, and effective at driving home a point. 
 

PEC Lesson Plans
http://pe.central.vt.edu/pelessonplans.html 

This web site was posted by students at Virginia Tech and is filled with many great lesson plans. They have the page set up for helping teachers come up with topics and ideas to teach their students. After you chose a topic they have posted lesson plans relevant to that topic for a variety of grade levels.
 

      
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