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This site from the National Endowment for the Humanities is a rich resource for materials and lesson plans in History and Social Studies, The Arts, Civics and Government , and Literature and Language Arts.

This site has ready and useable lesson plans of limitless variety ready and avaiable for free for classroom use. Many are linked to standards and have assessment built in. Some need to be reworked to the type of lesson plans our cohort is used to creating. For sure a great website for lesson ideas. All content areas are included in this full library of lesson plans and acitivities.

This Civic Education portion of the website of the Washington State Legislature provides information about teacher training about the legislative process, information about Capitol tours, and lesson plans and activities for students to learn about the State and the legislative process.

This website is a great resource for science lesson plans, including web-based research and interactive activities.

This site contains seemingly endless lesson plans that rely on websites for research or other interactive activities.

Opportunities abound to benefit from the good works the Peace Corps does around the world. This website can connect you with real-time experiences with current Peace Corps volunteers in the field or former Peace Corps volunteers that may be able to speak in your classroom. You can also request to be connected to a class of students in a country where the Peace Corps has a presence. Lesson plans that have been developed based on Peace Corps volunteer experiences are also available on this site.

This website has rich informational resources and well as lesson plans and other resources specifically designed for teachers to use in their classrooms.

The Smithsonian site is an unbelievable treasure trove of information on history and very useful lesson plans to draw on.

This extensive document collection can be used as the take-off point for lessons in almost any discipline. The site provides great teacher resources for teaching with primary source documents, including lesson plans.

Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards-and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life. You'll enjoy the detailed maps made for printing and copying, a complete listing of geography standards, as well as lesson plans and an interactive learning museum called the Xpedition Hall.

An extensive listing of lesson plans on a myriad of topics. Sorted by year they were created for some reason, and not sortable, but a nice collection of lessons plans.

Lots of lesson ideas for language arts, including web-based activities.

This website of the Southern Poverty Law Center offers articles, lessons, and classroom activity ideas as well as teacher professional development resources to teach tolerance. It has well developed resources to address issues regarding bullying (including through technology) and teaching diverse students in our schools.

Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You'll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.

Referred to us by Tony, this site helps teachers and parents search for appropriate reading level, grade level, and interest level books. The student activities and lesson plans on this site are a bonus!

BrainPOP is one of my favorite website for engaging students and supporting educators. The authors have created animated, curriculum-based content Flash-based movies, quizzes, experiments, timelines, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All of the content is aligned with state standards. BrainPOP is accessible entirely online; there's no software to install or download. You can use BrainPOP's resources with PCs, Macs, projectors, or interactive whiteboards. Check out the BrainPOP for educators' site full of useful teachers' resources: Lesson plans, academic standards, curriculum calendar, blogging and so much more! FYI, there's also a free BrainPOP app for your iTouch or iPhone.

This website is a great interactive and visual representation of the Human Development Index. Each country can be clicked on and information about that country's life expectancy, gross domestic product, and net primary enrollment rate will be displayed. Other information will also be given such as the country's population, and size. Another neat feature of the website is the ability to compare two countries in a head to head face off. The site will graph the information provided from both countries so easy comparisons can be made. Free maps and lesson plans can be found here: http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/worldmap/cida/teachers.asp?language=EN&Resolution=1024×768

This website has links to many teacher resources. It has practical, teacher-created ideas and resources that you can use in your classroom immediately. Including lesson plans, ideas on how to hold classroom meetings, art lessons, holiday celebration ideas, and much more.

This link is taking you to the Math section, but on the left side is a complete listing of teaching ideas for other subjects. Note, these are NOT fleshed out lesson plans, these are ideas for lessons, games, and activities. Each idea is leveled for grade(s).