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Theme activity pages to help plan your thematic units.

This is a great website to get ideas for centers, bulletin board ideas, activities to do with your class etc.

This article helps explain how to write an EQ.

Great site for things like hulahoop times tables, and active learning projects!

Great sitefor group activities and ice breakers, great for outdoor ed, or just getting the class outside!

Great site to create lesson plans for PE teachers and get new ideas for different units.

I found these samples (based on Wallingford Public Schools) to be helpful for a foundation, but I don't know that I would use them as is for high school unless it was for an introductory lesson.

Really helpful when considering enduring understandings! This is actually from the UbD book.

I really liked this link because it would go along great with the unit that I'm doing for class. The only thing that I don't really like about it is that it's a worksheet so I would rather have the students create their own trees instead of using the worksheet.

I saw some of these math project ideas and thought that they were pretty cool. The only drawback that I found with them is that they don't look like lesson plans, but you can also make them your own.

a website filled with math games.

Great site for money instructors. Only negative is that you might need to be a member to see actually lesson plans but still gives great information.

This is a site that helps give PE teachers ideas about assessment, reaching standards and much more.

I was introduced to this website through a friend a few months ago and believe it is a good resource for soon to be teachers.

This is a pdf. article that offers more information about writing essential questions.

This is a great site to learn and practice using running records for the classroom.

This is the website address for the National Council for the Social Studies. Payment for full resources is required, however there is top social studies news including legislative action alerts and education news.