TEACHER RESOURCES

K-12 LESSON PLAN SITES
Finding lesson plans on the Internet is extremely easy to do. The key is sorting through the thousands available and finding the ones that are suitable to your classroom, curriculum and students. There are three types of lesson plans that are available on the net.

Basic Lesson Plans
These are lesson plans that are written for teachers. They are intended for teachers to use with their students. They do not depend on a live Internet connection to do the lesson. They are a great way to generate ideas for your next lesson.
http://www.geocities.com/sseagraves/ancientegyptlessonplans.htm

Interactive Lesson Plans
These are lesson plans that are written for teachers to use with their students. Each lesson includes the information to do a lesson and the links to further the lesson using additional Internet sites.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j1.html

SAMPLE LESSON PLAN SITES
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lesson.htm
Index of lesson plans (K-12) in most subject areas
http://members.aol.com/donnandlee/
Best history site
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/matrix.html
Index of lesson plans available.
http://www.iupui.edu/~geni/
Index of lesson plans available..
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html
Los Angeles County Office of Education: K-12 Lesson Plans
mathematics and logic lessons provided by Alan Selby, Ph.D
http://www.school.discovery.com
Great lesson plans for math, science, social studies and language arts.
http://dir.yahoo.com/education/k_12/teaching/lesson_plans/
Lists 45 sources for k-12 lesson plans
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
Great Resource for maps, diagrams, craft projects, etc.


K-12 WEBQUESTS
These are lesson plans that are written for teachers to use with their students. Each is an activity-oriented lesson in which some or all of the information that the
students use comes from links to sites on the Internet.
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/brooklyn/whales/index.htm


SAMPLE WEBQUEST SITES
http://sesd.sk.ca/teacherresource/webquest/webquest.htm
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
http://www.bestwebquests.com/
http://www.techtrekers.com/webquests/
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webquest.htm
http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/dhs/staff/hewitt/hewitt14.htm
http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/
http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/webqindx.htm
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/teacherlinks/webquests_links.htm


GRAPHIC ORGANIZER SITES
http://www.graphic.org/
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/notes/graphicorganizers/graphic/


VENN DIAGRAM MAKE SITE
http://www.venndiagram.com/
Create your own Venn diagrams


PUZZLE MAKER/ GAME MAKER SITES
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com


MAP SOURCES

www.enchantedlearning.com/label/geography.shtml
(Maps and geography graphics to be labeled with answer keys)
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
(Maps and geography graphics)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
(Over 600 printable maps)


SEARCH ENGINES
http://www.google.com
(Google Search for a topic. Such as "lesson plans" "Ancient Egypt")
This search will result in 58,500 sites
http://www.yahoo.com/
(Yahoo Search for a topic. Such as "lesson plans" "Ancient Egypt")
This search will result in 25,100 sites
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Advanced google search site


SEARCH ENGINES FOR KIDS
http://www.ajkids.com
'Ask Jeeves' for kids
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
K-12 Yahoo search by topic
http://www.factmonster.com
Online Atlas, Almanac, Dictionary and Encyclopedia

 

CERTIFICATE MAKER SITES
http://www.certificatecreator.com/default3.htm
Great site for custom certificates
http://www.senteacher.org/wk/certificates.php
Better site for custom certificates
http://www.kidbibs.com/awards/card.htm
E-mail certificates


GRAPHICS/CLIP ART SITES
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/graphics.htm
Easy sources for graphics, clip art, etc.


RUBRIC IDEAS SITES
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=CustomizeTemplate&bank_rubric_id=17&section_id=1&
Helpful tool for developing rubrics
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
Another useful tool for developing rubrics
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
Variety of sample rubrics


VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP SITES

Virtual field trips offer many of the same opportunities for inquiry as
Webquests.
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=28327&url=28327/
(A virtual Journey into the universe)
http://www.oops.bizland.com/vtours.htm
A great collection of museums, galleries, zoos and historic sites virtual field trips.
http://www.field-guides.com/trips.htm
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/2106/fieldtrip.htm
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
(K-3, Storybooks on line)
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/fieldtrips2.htm
http://www.homeworkspot.com/fieldtrip/
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
http://www.michielb.nl/sun/kaft.htm
(For history, check out the Mayan Astronomy page)

SCAVENGER HUNT SITES

There are two types of Scavenger Hunts

Treasure Hunt
This type of scavenger hunt is designed for students with computer & Internet skills. The creator develops a series of questions or requests using key words and students use a search engine to locate sites that have the answers.
(I find these to be the least useful for elementary students).
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/ces95/scavenger.html
An Internet Scavenger Hunt


Guided Tours
This type of scavenger hunt uses several Internet sites that have been researched by the creator. The creator finds web sites related to the chosen topic and creates a list of questions and the
URLs where students can find the answers.
http://olp.swlauriersb.qc.ca/webquest/senses.htm
The Five Senses Scavenger Hunt

SAMPLE SCAVENGER HUNT SITES
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/shunts.htm
http://www.aea14.k12.ia.us/technology/ScavengerHunt.html
http://www.thecoo.edu/~apeter/scavenger_hunts.htm
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/basil.html
http://pbmscpu.tripod.com/


POWERPOINT SITES
http://www.google.com
(Google Search for a PowerPoint presentation on your specific topic plus ppt. Such as "Civil War'" ppt ).
This search will result in 6,550 sites
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/map2000/2nd.html
A traditional power point presentation
http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm
A game on PowerPoint
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm
A great tutorial for creating/editing a powerpoint


SAMPLE POWER POINT SITES
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/map2000/toc.html
http://jc-schools.net/ppt.html
http://schoolweb.missouri.edu/arcadia.k12.mo.us/petsel/page21/pptconnect.html


COOPERATIVE LEARNING SITES
http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/
http://204.184.214.251/coop/ecoopmain.html
http://www.khake.com/page69.html
http://www.4j.lane.edu/tilt/tools_teacher/curriculum/cooperative_projects/cooperative.html


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