EDU 2341: Instruction, Assessment and Classroom Management EC-12: Websites for Lesson Plans

The subtitle of this website is "connecting educators to what works," and includes teacher essentials, lesson plans, and technology use in the classroom.

This site offers more than 3 million free and paid resources, created by educators who understand what works in the classroom.

The National Geographic Society is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to exploring our planet, protecting wildlife and habitats, and helping assure that students in K-12 are geographically literate. The Education page at this site provides many great geographical activities for kids.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. You can search by keyword, subject and education level.

TeachWithMe.com was launched in August 2010. TWM is owned and operated by Diane Henderson who lives and teaches in Michigan. Everything's FREE! 1000's of pages: Projects, Patterns, Tips & Lessons

This page includes links to web sites from government agencies that contain lesson plans for use by teachers, home schoolers, and independent learners.

USA.gov searches only federal, state, and local government websites for the public. Its search box works like other search engines you're used to, but USA.gov only returns results from government web pages, most ending in .gov or .mil.

Kathy Schrock has been a school district Director of Technology, an instructional technology specialist, and a middle school, academic, museum, and public library librarian. In 1995, Kathy created the award-winning site, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, to help teachers easily wade through the many resources on the Web. In 1999, she partnered with Discovery Education and maintained the site until late 2012 when the site was retired. Kathy's current online resources may be found on Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything! JoAnn says that her website is a good source for lesson plans.

Pinterest is a great place for lesson plan ideas, and science experiments. See the link below for science lesson plans.

Scholastic has lesson plan ideas and also lesson plans to go along with their books. Jo Ann says that when she was teaching they had Scholastic book fairs in the spring, at which time students could purchase books, and also teachers could purchase books for their class.

This website has worksheets that teachers can print out on all different subjects.

The goal of TeacherTube is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

“Mr. and Mrs. Farino” are the creators and managers of www.TheTeachersCafe.com. They are both current elementary school teachers (4th grade). They originally started the site in 2004 just to have a way to store worksheets in a printable online way. Later videos, and games were added There are four categories: math, science, reading, social studies

The Teacher's Corner is based in Castle Rock, a town about 20 miles south of Denver, Colorado. It contains free resources that are printable worksheets, lesson plans, seasonal items, bulletin boards, collaboration projects, teacher resources, thematic units, and more!