Lesson+Plans

__[|Admongo]__is a game and curriculum designed to educate students about the forms and methods of advertising.

[|Child Care & Early Education Research Connections]promotes high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making. Our vision is that children are well cared for and have rich learning experiences, and their families are supported and able to work. Through this Web site, we offer research and data resources for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and others.

[|Common Craft]: Online tutorials and lessons.

[|The Emily Post Institute]A website, where you can find information about business etiquette, wedding etiquette, everyday etiquette, ...

[|Exploring Computational Thinking] is a series of lessons for designed to help middle school and high school students explore mathematics and science concepts. Google developed these lessons to use Python. As Google states in their Teacher's Guide Introduction to Python, the reason for using Python is, "A computer program gives students the opportunity to directly apply the algorithms they learn in class and provides them with a tangible reason for using variables rather than specific numbers in math."

[|The Federal Reserve Education.org] provides teachers with lesson plans, publications, games and simulations, videos, activities, tours and programs, and quizzes teach economics.

[|Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)]Teaching resources and lesson plans from the federal government. Search by subject, animations, primary documents, photos, or videos.

[|Flexbooks]CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the “FlexBook™,” CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.

[|Freetech4teachers] The purpose of this site is to share information about free resources and lesson plans that teachers can use in their classrooms.

[|Higher Education Assignment Toolkit (HEAT)]These resources will help you to prepare an assignment that meets the requirements of higher level study. We designed them to suit different approaches to learning so you’re sure to find something here that will interest you. Fire up your assignments with HEAT!

[|The Innovative Educator]

[|K-12 Energy Lesson Plans and Activities] Offers 350 lessons on energy efficiency and renewable energy. They're organized by grade level and topic -- biomass, geothermal, fuel cells, ocean energy, solar power, transportation fuels, wind energy, and energy efficiency and conservation. Learn about passive solar buildings, advanced photovoltaics, or basic wind turbines.

[|The Khan Academy] is a not-for-profit organization with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. With a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 207 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

[|McREL] has lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning, including activities developed for specific benchmarks. Subject areas include the Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Civics, Economics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Health and PE, History, Language Arts, Math, Multi/Interdisciplinary, Science, and Technology.

[|NBC Learn]NBC Learn is the education arm of NBC News. We are making the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities. [|National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Resources for English language acquisition programs, statistics, policy, and research. Covers the No Child Left Behind Act; adult English language learners; early childhood education; national, regional, and state-specific statistics; curriculum development examples; policy history; and web resources. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [|PBS LearningMedia] is your destination for easy, instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pathfinder Swap Wiki!Space to share your best guides to resources.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Project Look Sharp] is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Rhyme 'n Learn]is a series of math and science lessons presented in short rap music form. About half of the raps are provided in video format with visuals to support the lesson. The other half of the lessons are audio only, but do have transcripts available to help your students or you follow along.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Schooltube] has online tutorials and lessons

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Shambles.net]is a website supporting school communities worldwide over 30,000 links to moderated teaching and learning resources.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Share My Lesson]is a place where educators can come together to create and share their very best teaching resources. Developed by teachers for teachers, this free platform gives access to high-quality teaching resources and provides an online community where teachers can collaborate with, encourage and inspire each other.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Thinkfinity]Loaded with a great deal of information for educators and reaches across the spectrum of subject areas and includes state standards.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Vimeo Video School] is a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos. Start by browsing our Vimeo Lessons, or find specific video tutorials created by other members.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Virtual Learning Resources Center] The VLRC includes selected sites in a growing list of subject/information areas including: full-text magazines, newspapers, electronic text archives, art history, biography, biology, career information, psychology, history, government information, literature, medical information, social sciences, legal information, American Civil War, Art, Careers, Crime, Directories, Economics, Education, English Language, Electronic Texts, Foreign Languages, Geography, Genealogy, Government Information, Health/Medical, History, Legal Information, Lesson Plans, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Reference, Science, Technology, Tutorials on the Web, and Writing Style Guides.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|WatchKnowLearn]has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness.