Lesson Plans and

Other Time Saving Sites

Here is a hodge podge of sites to help you save time and find exciting ways to engage your students. Face it, we need to work smarter not harder. Keep in mind one site is not suited for all. Depending on your grade level and your subject, you may love one site and hate another. Once you find a lesson plan site you like, email it to yourself and add it to your favorite bookmark list.

Tools for Teachers

101 Activities for the One Computer Classroom
Wonderful tools alphabetically arranged.

MarcoPolo is a partnership between the WorldCom Foundation and leading educational organizations. Their objective is to provide free, high quality Internet content for K-12 teachers including professional development.

  • Gaggle.net Safe email for students. The system automatically monitors message content. If a suspicious message is detected, it is sent to the teacher for review. The teacher decides whether to send the message on to the intended recipient.

  • Create Venn Diagrams.

  • Frontiers Teaching Guides Off air taping rights are granted for this series and teaching guides and lesson are exceptional. The Frontiers Decade is the best of the Scientific American Frontiers programs aired on PBS. Check out the lesson plans and guides.

  • National School Board Guidelines for children's use of Internet
    Just out and worth a look.

  • Funbrain.com Can you have to many favorites? I like this site. Really good stuff for teachers especially test taking online. You create the test (varied types) and give students password to get there. It then GRADES the test and you have option of giving immediate or later feedback. You can print grade sheets! Easy to use.

  • Rubric Construction Set compliments of David Warlick (Thanks David)
    Select number of objectives then fill in.
    Check out a sample off the WebQuest for Poe Rubric Sample

  • Schoolnotes.com
    [Now this is really cool]
    Schoolnotes.com is a free community service that allows you to create notes for homework and class information and post them on the web in seconds. As more and more families come online it is an excellent way for teachers to create a web presence without the hassle of webpage design. Note: you need an email to register but it only takes a minute to sign on and post your first note. To see what it looks like, check out my sample entry at:

    http://www.schoolnotes.com/27573/cwilson.html

  • Quia.com
    [My favorite] Quia is a free service that allows you to: create games and quizzes over the Internet and share them with others, give online quizzes and track students' scores, create your own home pages for posting assignments, class schedules, and links to your favorite websites. When you create an activity on Quia, you get your own personal URL (web address) that you can share with anyone that takes you right to your creations. You can even have teams of students create the activities. They are ready instantly and then have them swap online to play.

    Hundreds are already created for you. Check out the activities already created you can use with your students or create your own. When you create one Quia will give you the URL address to get back to your creation.

  • PuzzleMaker
    Create and print customized word search, crossword,math squares,cryptograms, and math puzzles using your word lists

  • M-Tech Worksheet GeneratorThis site is free and fueled by coffee. So you know it is one of my favorites. If you need a worksheet fast, this is the right place.

  • Hot Potatoes
    This one you have to download but it's FREE. The freeware Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

  • AnagramGenius Online
    This FREE service is based around a less powerful version of the remarkable Anagram Genius software. Great to help you create ice breaker or warm up activity. Use names of people, places, or terms and give your students' brain cells a challenge.

  • Crossword Puzzles
    Can view online and download applets to create your own. Check out the samples and if you are up to adding to your webpage check out the FAQs.

    Lesson Plan Sites

    Some are better than others depending on your subject area. When you find one you like, email it to yourself and bookmark it on your computer.

  • Another nice lesson plan index from the ISLMC

  • Apple Learning Interchange
    Lesson plans divided by Elementary, Middle, and High

  • AskERIC Lesson Plans - Search by subject
    Arts, Foreign Language, Health, Language Arts,Math, PE, Science, Social Studies, Technology, Vocational

  • AskEric - Other Sources of Lesson Plans
    Access links to various lesson plan sites

  • Awesome Library
    Search by grade, subject,other links

  • Blue Web'nA great site that is search or you can click on content table or subject area.

  • CanTeach
    Access by categories: Discussion lists plus elementary resources

  • Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans
    Teacher developed lesson plans by grade level and subject.

  • Community Learning Network
    WWW Resources for K-12 Students and Teachers

  • CopyCat PressIdeas and activities for K-3. Nice site.

  • Cyberbee Curriculum ideas plus lesson plans and treasure hunts

  • Connected Teacher
    Lessons to integrate the Internet into curriculum areas.

  • Discovery Channel School Lesson Plans Library
    Grade levels: K-6, 7-12

  • Eduhound Lesson Plan Links
    [One of my favorites but what works for me might not work for you.]

  • ePALS Classroom Exchange
    By categories

  • ED's Oasis Teachers' Guild Lesson Plan Library
    Divided by K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 9-12

  • Education World
    Subject areas plus special themes.

  • Educate The Children
    Lesson Plans + Worksheets and other resources.

  • Encarta Lesson Collection
    Browse by subject or use search engine.

  • Free Worksheets. Com Over 4,500 worksheets plus lesson plans and oodles more.

  • Gareth Pitchford Primary Resources Hundreds of worksheets and resources.
    Art, Math, Science, Other

  • Gateway to Educational Materials
    Lesson Plans and Curriculum Units. Can search using boolean connectors!

  • K12 Lesson Plans by Gina Otto
    Innovative Ways to Teach and other Interesting Lessons including Absurd Math

  • K-12 Innovative Lesson Sites
    linkslesson plans or teaching materials sites

  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
    Great resource for all subject areas

  • LearnNC
    Lesson plan access requires password but you can use teacher links.

  • LessonPlanSearch.com
    Over 1,300 searchable lesson plans

  • Lesson Plans
    Another link site for lesson plans but with a few that are unique.

  • Lessons complements of Mr.McKenzie
    Sites are alphabetical.

  • Lesson Plans
    Chapman University links to various sites which have lesson plans and teaching materials

  • Lesson Plans Bank
    About.com site

  • Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum
    Lesson plans and teaching materials

  • Lesson Plans from Core Knowledge National Conferences
    Can access by grade level.

  • Lesson Plans On The Internet
    Swift Speciality Schools WWW Pages

  • Lesson Plan Place
    Inet.edu site by subject

  • Lesson Plans Links and Ideas
    Another short list but some unique links

  • Lesson Plans
    A good math site by Nathan Heath

  • Lesson Plans and Units
    Focus is on math and science.

  • Lesson Plan Site for the Overworked Teacher
    Lesson plans with a focus on themes and holidays materials

  • Lesson Plan Search Engine
    Homework Central's search engine by using a subject or topic

  • Links to Lesson Plans
    Small Planet Communications links page

  • Marcia's Lesson Links
    Marcia has tried to search out the different.

  • Marc's Lesson Plans Page
    Mostly K-3 lessons

  • Mr. Froggles Science Projects
    Hands On Science (Primary)

  • New York Times Learning Network
    Daily Lesson Plan Archive

  • Pam's Lesson Plan Page
    Good elementary with thematic units .

  • PBS TeacherSource
    Over 1,400 lesson plans and activities.

  • Rainbow Horizons Publishing
    Commercial site but has free unit and puzzle of the day

  • Sabine Teacher's Lesson Plan Page
    Links lesson sites mostly the usual big ones.

  • Scholastic Lesson Plans
    Various subjects with reproducibles and online activities.

  • Stephanie Ashley's Lesson Plans
    By subject

  • Swad's Top Lesson Plan Sites
    Links to various sites which have lesson plans or teaching materials mostly for elementary folks

  • Teacher Guide
    A Teacher's Guide to using Cartoons in classroom. Really different with elementary and middle lessons.

  • Teacher TidbitsWeb Integrated Lesson Plans. WebQuests based lessons.

  • TeachWeb
    K-12 with search or by categories

  • The Teacher's Desk
    Over 250 lesson plans

  • The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank
    By Category or Grade Levels: Pre-school, Elementary, Middle, Senior plus you can post your own

  • The Educational CyberPlayGround
    A bit different. Categories include: Arts, Internet, Linguistics, Literacy, Music, Teacher Resources, Technology

  • The Lesson Plans Page
    Over 500 free lesson plans

  • The Teacher's Corner
    Resources, lesson plans, thematic units, seasonal activities, and bulletin boards.

  • VolWeb
    Lesson Plans from the Volunteer State: Tennessee

  • University of British Columbia Education Library
    Lesson Plans by Category

  • Web Site And Resources for Teachers
    By categories and features a Just for kids section

    Other Hot Resources

  • Southern Middle Library Media Center Link
    Can be accessed from SMS Homepage at http://www.roxboro.net/sms
    When I find neet tools for research, I hinge them on this page. You can find a source for 10,000 magazines, 9,000 books online, neat search engines, NCWiseOwl link, plus connections to local and area newspapers.

  • NC EducationPlaceThis is the homepage for this lesson plan/resource page. Lots of connections for teachers in North Carolina,

  • NC Dept. of Public Instruction

  • Create your own webpage as easy as 1, 2, 3.... Just fill in the blanks and you're on your way.

  • Teachers Connect

  • Midlink Middle School Online Magazine

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