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Links to lesson plan ideas to teach about 9/11

Lesson plans based on the September 11 theme.

"What are teachers doing to help their students understand the attacks that took place September 11, 2001? Education World has culled from the Web and listservs a list of possible resources. Included: Watch in the days ahead as we add new resources!"

This goes along with what Alan November shared with the group in the spring.

ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan as described by the site, "In this lesson students learn how to use comprehension strategies involving a sequence of planning, predicting, monitoring, and evaluating. Once students learn the strategies, they read a variety of hoax websites and evaluate the content. They then demonstrate their learning through the creation of outlines for hoax websites."

Site has links to resources every subject area in schools today, and many of the links have lesson plans, digital content, and other lesson adders.

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Directory of lesson plans regarding the following topics: Budgets, debts, economic decision-making, entrepreneurship/innovation, exchange & money, goods & services, interest rate, investment, market failures, money supply, opportunity costs and trade-offs, production and consumption, role of government, savings, scarcity & choice, supply & demand, unemployment, general economic resources

"A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students" Includes searchable, categorized directory of lesson plans.

offers music theory lessons covering everything from basic note recognition to difficult chord inversions. The lessons can now be customized to test users on the notes and concepts they need to practice the most. MusicTheory.net also offers calculators and tools handy for composing music. And if you just need some staff paper, MusicTheory.net offers sheets that you can print.

In an effort to make my lessons about plagiarism and the appropriate citation of sources more personal for the students in my rhetoric and research classes, I now use an assignment that forces them into the role of victim rather than thief. The results of my most recent experience with this approach were encouraging

Nature: It's more than just a faraway beach or mountain. It's a fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives-food, drinking water, the stuff we own and the air we breathe. It makes amazing memories, and even protects us from floods and storms! That's why The Nature Conservancy and its 550 scientists have created a new initiative - Nature Works Everywhere - to help students learn the science behind how nature works for us…and how we can help keep nature running strong. Nature Works Everywhere gives teachers, students and families everything they need to start exploring and understanding nature's fantastic factory - videos, interactive games, and interactive lesson plans that align to standards. Hosted by Nature Conservancy scientists, Nature Works Everywhere takes your class around the world to visit nature at its productive best - from coral reefs to bee gardens, from Maine's snowy forests to Africa's grasslands. We'll be adding more lessons each year from around the globe on science and social studies topics that teachers can use as is or customize for their own classroom needs.

Ednovo breaks down the barriers of access to education with a free web application, Gooru, that leverages technology, amplifies the effect of stellar teaching, and inspires students to learn. Gooru provides teachers with the ability to "search and teach" and students with the ability to "search and study" to find curriculum-appropriate web resources for any lesson. Teachers and students then share their lessons and notes with each other to enable learning in a truly social way.

Typing Web is one of those tutorials that provides instant feedback after every free typing lesson. Typing Web offers beginner through advanced typing lessons for free. You can register to track your progress or you can use Typing Web without registering.

Award winning lesson plans for teaching 9/11 collected by Dickinson College

Extensive list of lesson plans and activities related to terrorism.

"Becoming accustomed as a coach to not having your own classroom or your own students was probably challenging. I am sure, however, you quickly engaged in conversations with your colleagues about offering to demonstrate or co-teach some lessons to those teachers willing to share their students with you. Although alien at first, I'll bet it was very rewarding to work with students again and feel that great "high" that a teacher feels when the lesson worked well. "

Thorough lesson plans for claymation project.

'The collection of lessons on this page are designed to target specific math concepts,often in real world settings and situations. Using Google Earth to present the concepts will engage students in a way that will illustrate the usefulness of the idea.'

good collection of presidential inauguration lesson plans

Tools such as real-time data collection, simulations, inquiry based lessons, interactive web lessons, micro-worlds, and imaging,etc.