See also Lesson Plans for School Subject Areas for more resources.
- Annenberg Media - Learner.org
Nice selection of free educational materials in streaming format. Includes ready-to-view lessons and interactive activities.
- Catholic Educator's Resource Center
Lesson plans, articles, and links for Catholic educators.
- CosmoLearning
"An educational website committed to improve the quality of homeschooling, teaching and student excellence, helping educators and self-learners alike anywhere in the world. ... CosmoLearning provides video lectures, courses, documentaries, books, quizzes, lecture notes and much more."
- Curriki
"Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them."
- Discovery Education: Lesson Plan Library
Divided into areas by grade level and subject.
- The Educator's Reference Desk
"2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses."
- EduHound: Lesson Plans
"Explore thousands of free lesson plans that meet state and national standards." EduHound also supplies clipart, annotated links for school subjects subjects and teacher materials by topic, and a newsletter, and a Twitter feed.
- ERIC
"ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text."
- The Ethical Researcher
An excellent selection of articles by Debbie Abilock (of NoodleTools) about teaching kids to research responsibly, and strategies to use in the paper writing and assessment process to avoid cut-and-paste plagiarism.
- FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
"Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government" can be browsed by subject or searched directly. Primary documents, educator's guides, lesson plans, and more.
- Gale Schools - Lesson Plans
Some lesson plans from Gale Research, organized by topic or related Gale product.
- Game-Based Learning
- the edWeb: Game-Based Learning
"This professional learning community will explore how to integrate games into the learning process to provide higher engagement and achievement for students." Includes discussion boards and monthly webinars (archives available).
- Filament Games
Filament produces a numbner of quality educational games.
- Game-Based Learning Talk
A blog on the theory and practice of game-based learning.
- Quest Atlantis
"An international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-16, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation."
- Teaching With Games.net
"Teaching with Games is designed as a practical guide to help teachers and trainers learn how to incorporate game-based learning into their own lesson plans--and how to do it well."
- Why Serious Games Work - An Over-Simplified View
Discussion of how motivation, narration, and simulation interact to stimulate learning in a gaming environment.
- Why Your Brain Loves Video Games
A SlideShare presentation on how games reward and instruct their players to make learning engaging.
- The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education, GEM provides access to thousands of lesson plans and other materials for teachers. Searches can be defined by subjects, grades, and whether the material is free or not.
- HotChalk
"A collaborative online resource ... [with] a media-rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans and digital content, including audio, video, textbook, and assessment content, a collaborative education portal with articles and blogs, as well as online professional development for teachers.[/quot;
- Library of Congress: Teachers
Lesson plans, activities, links, workshops, and more.
- MarcoPolo
see Thinkfinity
- McRel Lesson Plans
"Links to selected lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning, including activities developed at McREL for specific benchmarks..."
- MERLOT
"MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments."
- My eCoach: eLibrary
"FREE copyright-friendly resources for teachers and students." Includes links to both activities and resource pages, with annotations and grade-level indicators. Nice!
- National Archives: Teachers Resources
This is "the National Archives' gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students." Includes activities, lesson plans, national archives links, and more.
- National Geographic Education
National Geographic is in the process of redesigning their teachers' portal. As they write: "Our redesigned beta website, NatGeoEd.org, offers an expanded and updated library of National Geographic’s popular education content, highlighting our iconic media and expert resources aligned with education standards. This beta site is just the first phase of a next-generation website with a wide range of free educational resources that bring geography, science, and social studies to life for educators, learners, and their families."
- NY Times Knowledge Network
For older students, this site "offers a wide range of distinctive adult and continuing education opportunities, including online courses, programs and Webcasts."
- New York Times Learning Network
"The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our Opinion questions, take our News Quizzes..." and more.
- New York Virtual Learning System
"Resources that classroom teachers can use to support preK-12 standards-based instruction, such as sample tasks, learning experiences and lesson plans."
- OER Commons
"OER Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college, from algebra to zoology, open to everyone." Includes everything from single lesson plans and worksheets to full courses and textbooks.
- PBS Teachers
Thousands of lesson plans and activities. Includes a search which allows you to match specific state or national standards.
- PowerPoint Palooza
"Over 200 PowerPoints! These presentations range in size from a dozen or so slides each to over 145 slides. ... To teachers--save them, modify them, use them in your classrooms as you wish ... Just keep me as the original source."
- Quia Shared Resources
Teacher-created lesson plans and activities. Other material is also available on the Quia site with payment of a yearly subscription fee.
- Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep
"Rollicking homework help, teacher resources, and online test prep. Homework help lovingly written by PhD students from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley" Literature, U.S. history, economics, pre-algebra, and biology are among the topics covered so far.
- Sites For Teachers
Annotated links to pages with lesson plans, handouts, and other resources for teachers.
- Teacher Planet
"Free access to over 10,000 theme-based resources, including lesson plans, templates, rubrics, worksheets, and more."
- TeachersFirst
"TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources..."
- Teachers Network.org
"Teachers Network is a nationwide, non-profit education organization that identifies and connects innovative teachers exemplifying professionalism and creativity within public school systems." Includes links, lesson plans, online courses, and more.
- Teachers.Net
Resources, articles, chat boards, lesson plans, links, and more for teachers. Also includes The Teacher's Net Gazette, an online magazine for teachers.
- Teachnology
"We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students." Lesson plans, worksheets, links, rubric generators, graphic organizers, more.
- Textbook Revolution
"Collection of the existing free textbooks and educational tools available online."
- Thinkfinity / Thinkfinity NY
"Thinkfinity is the merger of two highly acclaimed Verizon Foundation programs: MarcoPolo and the Verizon Literacy Network. ... Its objective is to provide the highest quality content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States." The NY site has materials specifically tied to NY State standards.
- Visuals - English: a set on Flickr
"Visuals about Learning, Teaching and Technology in Education." (posters)
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this page last updated December 21, 2011