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English news lessons: Free EFL/ESL lesson plans, handouts and podcast for teaching current events and current affairs lessons, and business English. It combines reading, writing, listening and speaking - excellent for DI/UDL teaching.This is an interesting novel approach to teaching a language through current events. It is sort of a crossover between English and Social Studies, which is great. We want to move toward interdisciplinary curriculum, as opposed to isolates and disjointed content areas.

"Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website. For additional information contact info@teachertube.com." If Youtube is blocked at a school, this might not be or you may be able to convince them to unblock it easier.

Site crosses disciplines and age levels. Besides lesson ideas, it has a lot of learning games and activities. Verizon Foundation is the organizer.

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.

TeAchnology.com offers teachers FREE access to thousands of teacher resources, lesson plans, and rubrics.

Ok, who wants to learn Russian? This is a podcast that consists of lessons in Russian, with authentic Russian pronunciation. If you ever tried to learn Latin, you have a glimps of what it would be to try and learn Russian - endless endings, lots of endings!

"NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics." Has lesson resources but also links to web tools by subject.

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.

This is a blog featuring a review of free technology tools for FL and ESL teachers, including methodologies, lesson plans and online resources. Very valuable.

This site has everything from songs, to games to lesson plans for ESL and EFL instruction. It also has a blog for teachers and students.

YLI develops free K-12 civic education resources designed to encourage student interest and participation in the American political process.