Lesson Plan Resources
Teacher Tools
April 04, 2008
| Lesson Plan Resources |
The Gateway find content in more that 700 education content providers including NASA, PBS, and the National Science Foundation, teaching tools, assessments, and professional development. Provides a 7 minute video on how to search the site effectively. Example: Dream House. Students use scale drawings to solve real world problems involving perimeter and area. NEA is a co-sponsor of this project.
Lesson Plans Pages resources for all grade levels and curriculum areas; math worksheets and flash cards, lesson plan guide and template, science experiments collection, etc.
Thinkfinity in-depth lesson
plans can be selected by topic, subject area and grade level.
Sponsored by Verizon. Formerly Marco Polo Site.
Databases include: Science Net Link, Xpeditions,
Smithsonian, ArtsEdge,
EconEdLink, EDSiteMent, Read,
Write, Think, and Illuminations.
| Teacher Tools, etc. |
Education World lesson plans, five minute fillers, learning games, news for kids, sjpw biz science, worksheet library, writing bug, geography A - Z, internet scavenger hunts, integrating technology into the classroom. Lessons are from Early Childhood to 12th grade.
www.iec-ia.org websiite for Iowa Educator's Consortium includes "deals" for teachers and students on software and hardware
www.lexile.com find the lexile level of any text or tradebook by title, or type in some text and lexile level will be displayed
NOTE: To find the lexile of written documents, worksheets, etc. use Microsoft Word.
1. After you have loaded the document, click on the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click on the Spelling and Grammar tab. In the Grammar section, select the Check grammar with spelling check box. Below that select the Show readability statistics check box. Click Ok.
3. On the Standard toolbar, click the Spelling and Grammar button.
4. If necessary, make spelling and grammar changes. Examine the Readability Statistics dialog box. This will tell you the lexile level.
5. Click to close.
SEEDS professional development information, tools, and templates
Craft Bits for Kids 300 different kids crafts, great for art projects and other class projects
Hot Chalk organize class assignments, lesson plans, announcements and gradebook
Kim's Korner large collection of handy bulletin board ideas
Puzzle Choice crossword puzzle generator plus others including letter tiles, word search, number blocks, anagrams, brain teasers, all kinds of number puzzles, sudoku, prepared word searches on all kinds of topics, online games.
Rubistar 4 Teachers create quality rubrics, many stored templates have written rubrics you can choose to fit your project or objectives
School Express worksheets available for most topics including reading, handwriting, math, science, social studies, and even kindness to animals plus 30 e books to read
Up to Ten 915 computer games with descriptions, age levels, skills that the activity will help to develop
Google Earth Lessons GELessons.com - A Free Public Resource - Providing Teachers with the tools needed to enhance their instruction using Google Earth®, the free program that brings the world to the classroom! A Website By and For Teachers.
Have a website you use and would like to share? E-mail Mrs. Sanders or write a note giving the URL and a one or two phrase or sentence description. It will appear so all of your colleagues can enjoy it too.
