Lesson Plans and More 

See also 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.
• Bernie Poole's EdIndex of Resources for Teachers and Students
  Lots of links, mainly for teachers, organized by subject. Incudes lesson plans, courseware, electronic field trip, online workships, reference tools, and more. With free online tutorials in MS Office.
• 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."
• 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."
• 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.
• 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 and Students
  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.
• NY Times Learning Network
  Blogs, lesson plans, links, and other resources from the NY Times. See also NY Times - College  for uppper-level courses and general interest.
• 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. ... OER content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know."
• 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."
• Prezi Edu
  Presentation shared on the online slideshow service Prezi by students and teachers.
• Project Looksharp
  "Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College to provide materials, training and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels." Topics include US History, Global Studies, Health, Environment, Psychology, General Media Literacy.
• 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.
• Teacher Resource Exchange
  From the U.K., "a moderated database of resources and activities created by teachers. All resources on the TRE are checked by subject specialists to ensure they are of the highest possible quality."
• 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."
• 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.
• 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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