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Practical Sites for Teachers-Lesson Plans and Teaching Activities
General SitesBulletin Boards
Free Stuff
Games
Publisher Sites
Virtual Explorations
Worksheets
Other Quality Lesson Plan Sites
General Sites-Start here!
The Gateway to 21st Century SkillsWhile not strictly a lesson plan site, this site is a keyword searchable database to more than 12,000 lesson plans, activities, and projects.
EdHelperLesson plans, web quests, worksheets and worksheet generators, and daily education news.
Education WorldA great place to start browsing for lesson plans. Don't miss the interdisciplinary, thematic, and group-learning lesson plans.
Grolier Online
A comprehensive resource for students with links to The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, Amazing Animals of the World, American the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and the New Book of Popular Science and well as a variety of links for educators to lesson plans and teaching activities. The password for this site changes monthly.
Kathy Schrock's Discovery School IndexA categorized list of web sites, lesson plans and other curriculum resources for teachers
NEA Lesson PlansLesson plans from the NEA as well as a custom search for lesson plans from across the Web.
LessonPlanz.comSearch or browse thousands of PreK-12 lesson plans and resources in all subjects.
Bulletin Boards
Teacher Helpers Bulletin Board IdeasIncludes links to many bulletin board idea websites.
Classroom Decor IdeasGeneral classroom decor as well as bulletin and white board ideas. Don't miss the "Bulletin Boards Library"!
Ideas for Bulletin BoardsA selection of bulletin board topics as well as a large variety of backgrounds and borders.
Free Stuff
Fabulous FreebiesComprehensive reviews of free educational materials with contact information.
Games
Discovery Education's PuzzlemakerA fun and easy puzzle-generation tool for all ages.
FunBrain.comIntegrate games and assessment quizzes into daily lesson plans. Over 50 online games to reinforce classroom skills
Learning PlanetLots of fun games and activities for kids
Publisher Sites
Go to these sites for material related to specific textbook series.Education Place
Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt's site for students and teachers.
Kids from HarperCollinsHarperCollins Children's Books resource center for early childhood and K-8 educators. Includes teacher's guides to children's books.
Virtual Explorations
MuseumStuff.comOne of the world's largest gateways to museum related information
Virtual Field TripsThese web tours take students to some of the top web resources. Visit a volcano, a hurricane, the Iditarod, or Wonders of the World.
Worksheets
abcteach5000+ printables and worksheets in areas including reports, flashcards, word walls, and most school subject areas.
Discovery Education's Worksheets to GoMake your own worksheets or choose from 300 already created by teachers.
Free WorksheetsReproduce and distribute at will.
RHL Free WorksheetsQuality worksheets by subject.
Teach-nologyOver 6600 free worksheets. Also includes worksheet generators and other free tools.
Other Quality Lesson Plan Sites
Curricular ResourcesDeveloped by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, this site provides access to many curriculum units created from 1978-present. There is an extensive subject index, but the list is not searchable by grade level.
EdSitementThis site, partially sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a constantly growing collection of online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages.
Educational Resources & Lesson PlansAn extensive list of resources organized by subject area and by user group need.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)The Department of Education's grouping of educational websites created by many different federal agencies, from Agriculture to NASA.
Hotchalk Lesson Plans PageIncludes lesson plan links by subject and features special topics.
Learn NC-Lesson PlansPart of the North Caroline Teacher's Network, this is a searchable database of lesson plans developed by North Carolina teachers. Organized by subject and grade level.
Lesson Plan SearchA lesson plan search engine, with thematic units and activities.
Lesson Plans and Teaching ActivitiesLinks to additional lesson plan archives available online provided by the Curriculum Materials Committee of the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Learners OnlineSearch the weekly online lesson plan archive for lessons related to current news topics, in all curricular areas and levels.
PBS TeachersA gathering of all of the educational resources related to PBS programming.
The Solution SiteDeveloped through a US Department of Education Challenge Grant, this site contains approximately 1200 K-12 teacher-generated units in a variety of subject categories.
Teachnet.comTips, techniques, lesson ideas, and micro activities
TEAMS Educational ResourcesA collection from the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
