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SUBJECT SPECIFIC LESSON PLANS CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON CORRESPONDING SUBJECT PAGES.

Columbia Education Center (CEC) Lesson Plans
www.col-ed.org/cur
Contains lesson plans for K-12 written by teachers for use in their own classrooms. Subject matter includes language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and miscellaneous. The lesson plans appear in distinct grade categories: elementary (K-5), intermediate (6-8), and high school (9-12).
The Educator’s Reference Desk (Lesson Plans)
eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons
Contains more than 2,000 lesson plans written by teachers. Subjects include arts, computer science, foreign language, health, information, literacy, interdisciplinary, language arts, mathematics, philosophy, physical education, science, social studies, and vocational education.
Houghton Mifflin Education Place
www.eduplace.com/activity
This Education Place site of publisher Houghton Mifflin contains a classroom resources segment for activity research. A list of topics leads the teachers to assign specific projects for their students. The items are indicated by grade level.
LessonPlans Page.com (HotChalk’s)
LessonPlansPage.com
Contains more than 3,000 lesson plans. The site has a guide to develop a lesson plan. Subjects of lesson plans include math, science, art, music, language arts, social studies, computers and internet, physical education and health, and multidisciplinary. You can also sort lesson plans by grade levels.
Lesson planz.com
LessonPlanz.com
Contains online lesson plans and teaching resources for all grades and subjects. Lesson plans are grouped in the following categories: computers and technology, cooperative learning, health, language arts, literature activities, math, physical education, science, special education, the arts, and thematic units. Resources are in family involvement, games, learning centers, and songs and poems.
Literature Lesson Plans
LitPlans.com
Contains unit plans, teachers’ guides, study guides, and other literature information for middle school and high school teachers. Some of the sites are free, but others are links to where the items may be purchased. You can access resources related to a specific author by selecting the author’s last name from the alphabetic lists.
Math Forum @ Drexel (Lesson Plans/Activities)
www.mathforum.org/library/resource_types/lesson_plans
Contains K-12 lesson plans and library collections organized by math topics and grade level. Topics are arithmetic, algebra, geometry, pre-calculus, calculus, probability/statistics, and discrete math. Grade levels are grouped by elementary, middle school, and high school.
The New York Times Learning Network
www.nytimes.com/learning
This site is designed for teachers, parents, and students. It provides information for individuals in grades 3-12. Teachers of those grade levels can access daily lesson plans based on current events or the site’s archives. Each lesson plan and the article to which it references can be printed out for classroom use. In addition, teachers can use web site photos and questions selected for students in grades 3-5.
PBS Teachers
www.pbs.org/teachers
PBS, an organization operated by 354 public television stations, provides preK-12 resources and professional development for teachers. It lists a selection of books and web sites for teachers and students at all grade levels. Included also are lesson plans, offline activity, interactives, and audio/video. Its resources focus on the arts, health and fitness, math, reading and language arts, science and tech, social studies, early childhood educators, and library media and tech coordinators.
Read Write Think
www.ReadWriteThink.org/lessons
The lesson plans of this web site consist of an extensive collection of items related to reading and English language arts. It has lesson plan sectors displaying grade band (all grades, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12), literacy strand (learning language, learning about language, and learning through language), and literacy engagement. The lesson plans index is organized by title, abstract, grade, and date. The index can easily be sorted by clicking the appropriate header. The user, moreover, may choose either the Lesson Plan Selector or the Lesson Plan Index.
Scholastic Lesson Plans
www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplans.jsp
Lesson plans for all grades from pre-K to 12 in which you can browse by subject (reading, language arts, social studies, math, and science). The categories, moreover, allow narrowing of subject matter. For example, one site (social studies) is divided into subcategories of American history, civics and government, communities and ways of life, culture and diversity, current events, geography and map skills, social issues and conditions, social studies and literature, and world history.
Science NetLinks
www.ScienceNetLinks.com/matrix.cfm
Contains a lesson index on scientific subjects for K-12 classes. It is organized by lesson title, grade, and benchmark. Each lesson deals with one or more learning goals and relies on strategies that strengthen student learning. The lessons do present some materials that students can reproduce.
Teachers.Net
teachers.net/lessons/posts/posts.html
Contains lesson plans in which you can browse by grade level and subject areas. You can also add your own lesson plan.
Teachers Network
TeachersNetwork.org/lessonplans
Contains comprehensive plans organized according to subject matter: arts, classroom management, English/language arts, foreign language, global education, health/physical education, instructional inquiry, mathematics, relations, service learning, science, social studies, special education, and technology. The site indicates grade levels for elementary, middle school, and high school. Readers can also view the most popular teacher-created lesson plans in each subject and grade level.
Podcasts
Intelligenic
www.intelligenic.com/blog/
Curious about integrating podcasts into your classes? Dan Schmit will teach you how to make your own podcasts and cover what you should and shouldn’t do when making a podcast.

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