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Lessons and videos that can be used in Physical Education!

A lesson idea which incorporates music, art, and movement all at the same time.

These lesson plans use primary sources utilized by the detectives in History Detectives to give students practice with analyzing, questioning and following up on information contained in a variety of primary sources.

This website is an excellent resource for teachers who have a classroom set of iPad's or tablets. Many teachers have classroom tablets but do not know how to integrate them into the classroom. This website has a list of great apps to download for tablet use in classrooms. Students need to be engaged, challenged and be able to practice the skills learned. Using classroom tablets as a group/partner activity or individual use is a great way to incorporate technology into a lesson plan. High school students are a great age to use tablets with because they are more mature than elementary/middle school and (hopefully) will respect the technology devices.

This video was really helpful. The only thing that has changed is Desmos is not available as an add-on to Google Drive. I had to go to the Desmos webpage but everything else worked well. This will come in handy as I create more project-based lessons.

Teach your students to listen with the power of public radio! Free lessons and engaging real world stories for your classroom.

Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum. Great interactive activities and lesson plans for all subject areas.

A site of lesson plans and activities that are really amazing. It says that a subscription is required but some activities can be accessed without one. Based in the UK.

iCivics allows students to explore and learn about American and local government by taking on different civic roles in games.

NBC Learn is the educational arm of NBC News dedicated to providing resources for students, teachers and lifelong learners. The online resources NBC Learn has created for the education community leverages nearly 80 years of historic news coverage, documentary materials and current news broadcasts. Includes videos and lesson plans.

Create story books with super easy tools. Publish your own hardcover or paperback books. Promote them to our worldwide community. Easy to use, great addition to a lesson plan.

This website is very popular with English Language Learner teachers. It has articles divided by level of difficulty and with comprehension questions. It also has many current and relevant articles

This article offers 10 ideas to integrate social studies with ELA and reading. Small, simple ideas from lesson plan tweaks to adding books to libraries to integrate social studies into ELA.

This website offers step by step instructions on how to integrate subjects into physical education and vice versa. In addition, it offers several links to actual lesson plans and ideas.

NEA has provided a list of curriculum resources for STEM in the classroom. A lot of these resources can be integrated into multiple subjects for an effective STEM classroom.

Great resource for great lesson planning in all content areas.

Explain Everything is a screencasting interactive whiteboard app.

Screencast anything and make it interactive. Students can use their devices and jump in on the lesson! Seems very engaging and interactive!

Provides a list of resources on integration, lessons, research, effective strategies, etc.

For those who haven't explored it yet, Google Earth's Voyager feature is a great resource for geography and mapping activities to integrate into lessons. (Launch in the Chrome browser).

This is a new site that I like to visit with students. It allows the opportunity for them to take a brain break and pick which activity they do. What I enjoy is that there are calming ones that we can use when they come in from recess/lunch and dancing ones for after a long test/lesson.

This is my favorite website for elementary kids to get some wiggles out. The kids love the variety of activities, along with getting "points" and then leveling up to different characters. I love the site because I have the ability to choose an amount of time for the students to engage in physical activity and what I want to focus on. I made "Choose the Go Noodle" reward cards for homework winners.

Great site for integrating brain breaks and physical activity throughout the day. Connections to content material as well.