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This 25 min. video tutorial shows how to set up your flipped classroom and use iMovie to create polished lectures for your lessons. Your adult or young learners may also use the information to create their own presentations or peer-teaching lessons.

A great lesson plan for writing collaboratively. Students extract memento and write them on large cards/pieces of paper. They then create the poem by placing the cards on the floor or table. The teacher (or students) select a topic that the quotations should reflect. It makes students thing about the real meanings within the text. Students discuss their found quotations as they write them. The 5 min. video shows students discussing and coming to realizations as they collect and collaborate. Great speaking, writing, reading activity.

Detailed lesson ideas for using this popular online building game.

From Learn Alberta, this set of lessons has vivid cartoon animations. Skip the Intro, if you have low tolerance for kids' cartoons. This lively and practical set of lessons should be fine for young learners (7-11).

Part of a lesson from Modern Lessons (EdTechTeacher): shows how to put a pdf file into a background, then add to /write on by importing into Explain Everything. The teacher using a Know-Want to Know-what I learned graphic for her example. Excellent tutorial with pedagogical implications.

These wonderful videos take you from initial lessons to interviews with teachers and students to advice by the expert, and a view of how those lessons are put to use in the classrom. Amazingly good teacher training in 26 videos.

"ESLville is a totally free site dedicated to providing teachers with downloadable lesson plans & handouts for teachers and students. All of the files here are made exclusively for this site, while others can be submitted by teachers like YOU! Simply go to our file archive and start downloading! No registration required! Why is ESLville so fast, simple, and convenient to use? Because sometimes, a teacher needs a lesson plan on-the-go: not just any plan, but a good one. That's what ESLville is here for: for you! The ESL instructor."

A crazy huge collection of free curriculum resources, well sorted by age, theme, subject, et al., and with a search engine. These would be great for lessons in geography, history, social studies, ecology, intercultural understanding, etc. Many of the resources are activities, such as "Be an African Family" where you decide how to make the most of the rural village where you live.

These lessons include Scholastic's Interactive Weather Maker, showing how humidity and temperature levels relate to rain and snow storms; Bytesize Science on the chemistry of snowflake making; and why the full moon gives more light in winter. Video explanations are embedded in R. Byrne's site.

" The Railroad Journey and the Industrial Revolution isn't about the building of railroads. In the video John Green covers how rail travel led to changes in where people lived, where they vacationed, and how they interacted with each other. A short lesson on the origin of Greenwich Mean Time is included too. "To bring the lesson into a current context, Green also does a nice job of making comparisons between the effects of the development of railroads and the effects of the development of the Internet." T/H R. Byrne

A smartphone based lesson y N. Hockly. Students take photos of a topic offered by their coursebook, then work on generating the vocabulary to talk about the topic before looking at the lessons in the textbook.

"My favorite thing about PlanBoard is how easy it makes organizing resources. You can upload files, create links, connect to files in Google Drive, and more. All resources are not only saved by lesson, but they are added to resources for your instructional unit-making future planning much more efficient. You can even indicate curriculum standards with just a couple of quick clicks. PlanBoard has many state curriculum standards available, or you can upload your own."

"EDUCATOR TOOLKIT News & Media Literacy In today's 24/7 digital world, we have instant access to all kinds of information online. Educators need strategies to equip students with the core skills they need to think critically about today's media. We teach foundational skills in news and media literacy through our Digital Citizenship program, specifically through our Creative Credit & Copyright and Information Literacy topics. Built on more than 10 years of expertise and classroom testing, these lessons and related teaching materials give students the essential skills to be smart, savvy media consumers and creators. From lesson plans about fact-checking to clickbait headlines and fake news, we've covered everything. To learn more about our approach, read the Topic Backgrounder on news and media literacy."

"Online learning resources are great for differentiated learning styles. The flipped aspect allows anyone to learn anywhere, anytime and at their own pace. So where can we go to learn not only academic lessons, but practical skills that help us lead enhanced lives? "If you haven't already, you've got to check out the Solution Fluency Activity Planner. Professional development, top-notch lesson planning, and plenty of resources for building practical skills are all waiting for you there." Note -- some of these resources are not free, but most include some free areas. Includes Khan Academy, EdEx, SchoolTube, Instructables, Hack Design, GCF Learn Free, E-Learing for Kids, Memrise.

"The key to IELTS Writing Task 2 success is to give the examiner exactly what they want and nothing else. "Below you will find everything you need to achieve a high score in IELTS Writing Task 2. "It includes: 5 Step Approach Video Writing Task 2 Tips Essential Skills Sentence-by-Sentence Structures Common Topics Full Lessons On All Question Types. Grammar Sample Answers Correction Service Easy to Understand Infographic" This lesson is oriented toward passing the IELTS Writing Exam, but it is a useful set of exercises and activities, including a video, for anyone learning how to write an academic essay

Excellent lesson plan suggestions for this important item in education. Collaborative, creative, connective, communicative. Includes film, print, and online media.

This site has many readings, mostly non-fiction, graded by U.S. school grade level (K-6), with accompanying lesson plans and connections to U.S. Common standards. Nice to have pre-made lessons, but the readings are not authentic, of course. Use as supplemental activity, or cheap source of downloadable pdf files with readings and activities.

Uses free articles on CNN to create new lessons every day. pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar are included.

A lesson in writing and reading poetry. Poetry is a great way to introduce students to the idea that English is not only for science, but can also express feelings vividly. This activity makes a good lesson plan for listening, discussion, speaking, reading, and writing. Can be adapted to many ages-levels.

"CK-12.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to education. Their website offers a large collection of resources for students and teachers like Brain Genie which I previously shared. The bulk of their resources are math and science centered where students can learn about chemistry, physics, algebra, and geometry just to name four. They also offer resources for other content areas as well including history, English, and SAT prep. Their website is free to join and offers a wealth of learning resources and activities. Their site offers articles, quizzes, interactive lessons, videos and students can keep track of their learning as they complete lessons and activities and members can upload their own resources to the site as well. " This looks like a good attempt to crowd-source materials for K-12 in the U.S. Could have uses for ESL/EFL, particularly with content- and project-based learning.