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Find Lessons for K-12 in earth science, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, health/medicine, engineering, social sciences, technology, math/statistics, nature of science, careers. All lessons at ScienceNetLinks include: 1. Purpose (essential question explained) 2. Context (content knowledge and application to real world 3. Motivation (advance organizer serving as a entry event building on need to know) 4. Development (specific lesson plans and scaffolding) 5. Assessment (range of formative, summative, content specific, and 21st century) 6. Extensions ( next steps, scaffolding, and differentiation) 7. Related resources (useful for related investigation). -- @mjgormans

Great blog to follow for Kinder-2nd teachers esp for ELA "Teach the writer, not the writing. Teach the reader, not the reading. We have conversations with our students about their reading and writing to teach the child." "Deb is a literacy consultant and an author. She post writing lessons and reading lessons frequently."

Google Apps lesson plan selector. Even if you don't use any of the lesson plans here, you might get some good ideas to adapt for the need of your students.

"Welcome to Lessonopoly! We are an open educational resource aiming to make life a little easier for busy educators like you. Lessonopoly is a free software portal developed by Silicon Valley Education Foundation. This site was created with constant input from teachers to deliver a set of effective and easy to use tools, even for teachers who do not have time to learn new technologies. Lessonopoly empowers teachers to organize activities inside and outside the classroom, create and share lesson plans, and connect to other teachers by building online communities."

The Basal Alignment Project offers: A library of revised lessons for common Basal reading series (3rd-5th grades), each carefully aligned to the CCSS. Each new lesson includes quality text-dependent questions, improved tasks, and a focus on academic vocabulary. Text Dependent questions -- 3rd-5th grades for Harcourt Trophies There's also a 6th-8th grade group too. These groups rewrite the questions of the book. -- We can always look at the quality and bump it up if needed. But, much of the work is done as a starting point.  Just join on Edmodo using the codes listed on these pages.

Free lesson plans and materials for grades K-3 and 4-8

Career lesson kit developed to support common core

Great lesson for evaluating Internet Site validity. Common Core Writing standards 7 & 8.

Great lesson for evaluating Internet Site validity. Common Core Writing standards 7 & 8.

Want to win 10 flip cameras? Deadline March 31st. Click link for details. Judging Criteria: *Lesson plans must utilize Flip video cameras. *High degree of innovation and originality. *High degree of student involvement. PS If you'd like to brainstorm ideas, contact me and we'll bounce around ideas until we have something that can win!

This is awesome Tracy! Do we get the tax ID #'s required to register from the office?

@Amber Moore - Yes, your office will have that number for you. :-)

"Take the biggest (and the smallest) table challenge: This whole-class geometry lesson gives students a new perspective on area and perimeter. Covers Common Core practice and content standards." -- 6th Grade video example It brings the connection of perimeter and area to life and incorporates critical thinking with a real life scenario.

Reading lesson plans correlated to Common Core

Great example -- and great idea for a lesson to do with your own class!

Perfect timing Tracy! My class is creating magazines this week with their own personal covers, but the inside articles will be created by all. I think the template will be perfect.

Great website with lesson plans and videos on how to integrate technology in the classroom.