This lists a bunch of fun crafts for students about fruits and vegetables to help students identify what category each item belongs to.

This website lists some really great books and things to encourage students to read and learn. It incorporates activities where students sound out their words and match letters.

JumpStart's collection of fun social studies activities is free, printable, and designed for students of different ages. These activities cover topics in geography, history, civics, and many other related subjects. Parents and teachers using them can rest assured that the kids are learning as much as they're having fun.

This website lists a TON of cool science activities and experiments for Kindergarten students! It has games, activities that include math along with science like counting leaves, and also lessons about germs and how to properly wash your hands! A lot of good useful information here.

This website lists different games and activities for grades preschool through second grade, as well as listing milestones that each child should be reaching at points in their development.

This website lists different lesson plan forms and templates for grade levels 1-8, as well as lesson plans specific to geometry and algebra courses for other students.

The website lists SO MANY great resources for creating, downloading, and printing off lesson plans. It is basically a website with links to other great websites to expand opportunities on seeing other lesson planning ideas and set ups. And it is all very free :)

"Recently, I wrote a blog about 5 ways that we can learn through writing lesson plans. I also shared a resource collection of lesson and unit planning with 10 templates. We know that we can learn about lesson planning by writing out our plans and using templates, but we can also learn by reading the plans of other educators." Lily Jones. Just a teacher, helping other teachers, Lily Jones provides various templates for units, and also daily and weekly lesson planning.

Free, printable lesson plan templates for teachers and parents - daily, weekly templates.

Tools allowing users to search for over 120,000 original lesson plans found on hundreds of different sites throughout the Internet. This site has so many free lesson plan templates for all age levels. Very useful.

This link will take you to an abstract, but on the upper right there is a link to the full text. This pdf file talks about strategies for professional development that are REALLY effective, and not just a waste of time.

This article is a bit differnent from the others I have discovered, because this article talks about many professional development opportunitiies that teachers view as useless. It gives examples of good professional development versus bad professional development, and gives reasons for these examples.

This article states what exactly professional development is, why it is helpful and necessary, and how it can benefit you as an educator. It also lists nine specific strategies to help you with your personal professional development.

This link can provide you with advice on how to be successful in professional development, and lets you know that you are not alone as a new educator! So just take a deep breath and read this helpful information.

This website provides many differnt ways that professional development can be accomplished, and gives some statistics of what common strategies are used for professional development by teachers. It also gives some tips for how to improve your professional development.