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Lesson Plans
ArtsEdNet
This is a site dedicated to art instruction. Lesson plans are used for teaching ESL through an art perspective and other artistic means. There are worksheets and other assignments that students can use with other materials to enhance learning. There are links to many sources to help advance learning.
The Academy Curriculum Exchange
Teachers can share lesson plans through this site. Each plan includes Objectives, Purposes, Resources, and other details about the lesson.
California Learning Resource Network
This site has lesson plans for Language Arts, History, Social Science, and Math. There is also a searchable Content Standards database.
EdSitement
This site contains lesson plans for Art & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language, and History & Social Studies.
Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies
This is part of The Academy Curriculum Exchange. It has links to other resources that contain more current and up-to-date information. Teachers can also discuss ideas and techniques to be used in their classroom.
PBS TeacherSource
This site links to current events and issues that can be used in classroom discussion. Contains complete lesson plans and links to other sources with related topics and interests.
Scholastic for Teachers
This site contains lesson plans, teaching strategies, and other various resources.
Teaching Strategies
The Creative Teaching Site
This site has many helpful ideas and links to make learning more fun and interesting interesting for learners. Also contains tips for time management. Focuses in large part on how technology can be used in instruction and how to implement technology. Also outlines many different sources that can be used in effective teaching and different ways to get information for instruction.
Education World
Provides useful resources for preservice and experienced educators alike. There are several links for new teachers who are searching for tools that will help them become more effective in their instruction.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
This site has many lesson plans and links to interactive websites. Discovery School has special programming on its cable television channel geared specifically towards education and resources that are available for use in the classroom.
Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies
This is part of The Academy Curriculum Exchange. It has links to other resources that contain more current and up-to-date information. Teachers can also dicsuss ideas and techniques to be used in their classroom.
Scholastic for Teachers
This site contains lesson plans, teaching strategies, and other various resources.
Smithsonian Education
This site has resources for educators, families, and students. There are many ideas for lesson plans in preparation for field trips and while on the field trip. There are many graphics for visual aids.
TeachersFirst
This site offers a wide variety of useful tools for teachers and students. There are many ideas for bulletin boards. There is also a professional resources page where teachers can discuss ways to handle difficult situations in the classroom.
Web English Teacher
This site has resources to help students improve reading and writing skills. Also contains resources for mythology and folklore for advanced literature levels.
Technology
Apple Learning Interchange
This site is part of the Apple Computer website. It contains lesson plans, resources, and teaching ideas that are specifically geared towards students learning to use the software available on the Mac OS X operating system. There are also instructions on how to complete the same tasks on the Windows operating system.
The Creative Teaching Site
This site has many helpful ideas and links to make learning more fun and interesting for learners. Also contains tips for time management. Focuses in large part on how technology can be used in instruction and how to implement technology. Also outlines many different sources that can be used in effective teaching and different ways to get information for instruction.
Special Needs
Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
This site is a resource for Special Education educators that provides links to websites that focus on particular special needs issues.
Classroom Management
TeachersFirst
This site offers a wide variety of useful tools for teachers and students. There are many ideas for bulletin boards. There is also a professional resources page where teachers can discuss ways to handle difficult situations in the classroom.
The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources
This site contains over 400 links to additional pages all dealing with classroom management issues. These sites contain resources on how to deal with classroom management issues to what types of discipline to use for certain problems.
You Can Handle Them All
This site helps with disciplinary actions that can be appropriately taken in the classroom. Outlines Behavior, Effects, Action, and Mistakes and also lists related behaviors. Gives explanations of the actions and offers ideas on why the student is acting poorly. Offers suggestions to work toward solving the problem instead of simply "quieting" the problem.
Miscellaneous
ArtsEdge
This site is geared towards the arts (theater, dance, and visual). Contains articles and reports that discuss art issues. There is an extensive Q&A section about artists throughout the world.
Education Index
This site can be used by students, parents, and teachers. Also contains links to educational games and an online forum.
History Channel
This site is directed towards saving history. There is an opportunity for teachers to receive a $500 grant for devising innovative projects in school. Also highlights important events on what happened on each day in history.
KidsKonnect
This site has stories that were written by children and follow a moral. Students can perform research on a vast array of topics which contains all the information that would be necessary for a presentation.
School Safety
This site discusses different forms of school safety, such as bullying and zero-tolerance policies. There are also discussion on specific policies, how they work, what they entail and why they are criticized by much of the community. Much of the information on this site is post-Columbine.