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Writing Lesson Plans | |
| Title: Adprima: Towards the Best URL: http://www.adprima.com/lesson.htm |
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| Description: A good primer for writing lessons plans. Make a note of clicking on "Six Common Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans," for more advice. |
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| Title: NCRTEC Lesson Planner URL: http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/lp/ |
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| Description: Basically a lesson planning
template for teachers. A good way to create formatted lessons for future use. |
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Writing @ CSU: Overview Writing Lesson Plans URL: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/lesson_plans/ |
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| Description: This
site is geared more towards the upper grades. It examines the differences between short and long term lesson planning goals. |
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Common Lesson Plan Models URL: http://mathcs.wilkes.edu/~rpryor/ed589/lessplns.html |
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| Description: A bare bones site, good for
reference. Don't leave without looking at the
examples. |
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LessonsPlanPage.com: 10 Steps To Developing A Quality Lesson Plan URL: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/WriteLessonPlan.htm |
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| Description: Worth visiting to download a
printer friendly copy of the 10
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General Lesson Plan Sites |
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The Gateway to Educational Materials
URL: http://www.thegateway.org/ |
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| Description: This database is searchable by keyword and age group (pre-K through 12th grade). The educational materials are evaluated and indexed from hundreds of other Web sites. They include lesson plans, units of study, Web-based activities, short exercises, and classroom activities. This project is sponsored by the National Library of Education and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Technology.
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AOL@School URL: http://school.aol.com/teachers/lesson_plans/searchform.adp |
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| Description: This free collection of links to lesson plans on the Web is searchable by grade level, subject, and subtopic.
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Education World™ URL: http://www.education-world.com/ |
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| Description: Commercial education website. Click on lessonplans for ideas.
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory URL: http://www.nwrel.org/sky/index.php |
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| Description: NWREL is presently working on an overhaul of their site. But there are some lesson plans to keep you going.
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Subject-Specific Lesson Plan Sites |
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) URL: http://www.iit.edu/~smile/index.html |
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| Description: The SMILE program is designed to enhance the elementary and high school learning of Science and Mathematics through the use of the phenomenological approach. Since 1986 each summer session participant has been asked to create and publish a single concept lesson plan. These lesson plans include the materials needed, a suggested strategy and expected outcomes. There are currently almost 800 lesson plans available. |
Teacher Guides to Online Educational Materials |
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Library of Congress American Memory Project URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html |
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| Description: Brings together text and images of primary source documents like photographs, hand-written letters, and historic documents. There are activities for students and guides for teachers. Examples of feature collections are "Elections," "Immigration," and "Presidents." |
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PBS Teacher Source URL: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ |
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| Description: This site guides teachers to the over 1,400 lessons and activities related to PBS materials. Teaching guides may be searched by grade level, subject, and "standards match." |
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The New York Times Learning Network URL: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html |
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| Description: The "Daily Lesson Plan" is developed in partnership with Bank Street College. This site has lesson plans on a variety of subject areas for grades 6-12. |
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Smithsonian Education on the Web URL: http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/lessons.html |
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| Description: This site for teachers emphasizes inquiry-based learning with primary sources and museum collections. Lessons and activities are for upper-elementary and middle school students. |
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