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Tap into the Web and learn how to preserve our planet -- and help others learn how, too. Lesson plans on environmental issues and recycling.

Collection of teacher submitted lesson plans, various sujects

collection of lesson plans

The New York Times has a nice Learning Network behind the scenes for educators and students with daily lesson plans, a lesson plan archive, and more, all leading back to the content of the New York Times. A variety of subjects are covered.

This website lays out the framework for completing Project Based Learning projects. Teachers are assisted through identifying learning, constructing assessments, designing activities, designing the process, and planning for management. The site provides a lot of direction for integrating technology in the classroom.

This lesson plan from the Smithsonian uses primary documents, in this case letters from people in Japanese-American interment camps, to discuss a particular era in history. It offers insight into different views of history and the power of primary documents. It also uses lots of great material from the Smithsonian archives.

Teaching Today is a McGraw-Hill Company that features teaching tips, lesson plans, articles, and more. This particular article, "Beyond Podcasting Basics," features what can happen when teachers are able to move beyond the basics of podcasting: students who can produce more full-featured, professional products. This how-to article addresses the selection of sound equipment, recording tips, podcasting on a Mac, Windows podcasting, finding music for podcasts, and publishing a podcast.

Cynthia Rylant: a collection of web and database resources from the The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. Let us guide you to the resources you need to help your children and students become effective learners. Sample lesson plans for teaching literature.

In this lesson plan, teachers work with ESL (English as a Second Language) students to practice present and past tenses of verbs. They also work to differentiate between simple and progressive tenses, as well. They listen to an audio component and then complete identification-type tasks using an Excel spreadsheet and MS Word document. Students receive immediate feedback.

This is a video that can be played for classes of various sizes, as it captivates your attention with relevant examples and graphics. The teacher on the video takes you through each step in the process of converting fractions to decimals in a way that is easy to understand and relate to. The pictures that are used are very current (Michael Phelps, Barack Obama, etc.), making it even more fun. Independent practice and extension activities could be easily planned after watching.

This lesson plan--sure to be popular!--asks students to participate in a debate on whether video games help with literacy, based on a NYTimes article by Motoko Rich. This lesson allows kids to be reflective and analyze the differences between media beyond the debate question itself.

Online resources for project-based learning lesson plans.

This site helps teachers and students get the most out of the National Park Service, particularly in the planning of Field Trips. It could work with multiple subject matters.

The National Center for Educational Statistics created this site to help students and parents learn about school systems, plan for college, play math games, take math quizzes, participate in probability and graphing exercises, and much more. The "Create a Graph" feature comes in handy when teaching bar graphs, pie graphs, and line graphs in lower elementary.

This economics lesson was developed by The Department of Treasury, Citigroup, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Here is one of the developers: Money Math: Lessons for Life teaches students responsible financial practices before they develop bad habits. For example, one path to accumulating wealth is to start saving at a young age and let compounding interest pay you for your effort. Another is to plan your budget realistically, by bringing your income and expenses into balance-minimizing spending so that you will have money to save. These two life lessons alone would reduce credit card debt, reduce financial pressures on families, and increase personal savings and wealth. It's a long, but thorough course.

A free site where members can find and contribute lesson plans and other educational support materials. Members can also review and rate the contributions and join groups to promote collaboration locally or globally. Nonmembers can view the resources.

EconEdLink is run by the National Council on Economics Education and is a clearinghouse for Economics lesson plans, which are usually surprisingly good, given that Economics teachers have to try twice as hard for engagement! Haha!

This interdisciplinary lesson plan (civics, health, and science are covered) helps students pick apart myths about science that arise on the campaign trail. Obviously, it's time-sensitive, but it's important for kids to know that what candidates say is not always, well, the truth, particularly when it comes to science.