LESSON PLANS & PROJECTS

• The Gateway to Educational Materials
  One-stop access to high quality lesson plans,curriculum unit and other educational resources on the Internet.

• TeAch-nology
  This site offers access to lesson plans, printable worksheets, over 150,000 reviewed web sites, rubrics, teaching technology tips and much more.

• Evaluation of Resources on the Internet
  This site discuses techniques and strategies for evaluating information on the Internet.

• Evaluation Rubrics for Websites
  Help your students begin to critically evaluate the content, design, and credibility of websites that they visit.

• The Lesson Plans Page
  Home to over 1,000 free lesson plans simply begin by selecting a subject and grade level.

• PBS TeacherSource
  Search the PBS TeacherSource database of more than 1,400 lesson plans and activities correlated to more than 230 sets of state and national curriculum standards.

• SprocketWorks
  An interactive site for kids and adults to learn.

• WWW4Teachers
  A site which was designed or chosen for utilizing tools, tutorials, lessons and articles for educators taking the lead with technology

• Insect Lesson Plans
  Various K-12 Lesson plans on insects.

• K-12 Lesson Plans
  This site is designed to provide teachers with lesson plans and additional classroom related materials.

• Lesson Plans and other Resources
  List of URL's out together by the Spartanburg District 3 County Schools.

• Teacher Resources
  List of valuable links for teacher resources.

• Write-On Rhode Island
  This site is dedicated to promoting and highlighting Rhode Island.

• TheGateway.org
  The key to one-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other educational resources.

• Developing WWW Research Lessons
  The research lesson goal is to develop and post a WWW integrated lesson that creates opportunities for students to solve problems and create new answers and gives teachers ways to use the WWW as a tool in their classrooms.

• CyberSchoolBus
  The United Nations CyberSchoolBus provides information on current global issues and also offers lesson plans, teaching modules, classroom activities and more.

• math.com
  Lessons and resources for math teachers of all ages. The references are very useful, such as English-Spanish Math Translations and the Glossary of Math Terms. You can generate Algebra Worksheets online, as are test prep for the SAT, ACT and more. Some links on this site are for registered (often paying) users, but there is much a math teacher to use with his/her classes.

• Dive and Discover
  An interactive distance learning Web site designed to immerse you in the excitement of discovery and exploration of the deep seafloor. Dive and Discover brings you right on board a series of research cruises to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and gives you access to the latest oceanographic and deep submergence research as it happens!

• Interactive Classroom Resources
  This site has a lot of interactive activities designed for elementary grade students. Includes Mad Math Minutes, Compare It, Word Search Puzzles and more.

• The Continental Sloop Providence: Classroom Under Sail
  The Classroom Under Sail program has served over 10,000 participants from schools across Rhode Island. The trip is 3 hours long and allows students to participate in the real life hands-on activity of sailing a tall ship. Along with a lesson in teamwork, discipline and trust, students learn about the use of applied mathematics (through the navigational techniques) and physical sciences (movement of air and water).

• Parlo
  "Language, Culture, Life" is the motto for Parlo, a language web site that currently features English, Spanish, and French language resources. Register (right now it's free) and Parlo gives you access to vocabulary and lessons, as well as articles and discussion boards. Your locker tells you lessons you've already covered, articles you've read and music you've heard.

• Explorer
  The ExplorerTM is a collection of educational resources for K-12 mathematics and science education. You may browse through mathematics and science education curricula or conduct searches that focus on specific interests.

• the Virtual Field Trips Site
  Take your students on nature field trips through the Web. Each field trip covers a single topic such as salt marshes or volcanoes. Sites are arranged in sequential order to build a story and include a series of "trail markers" or stops, that describe each site on the field trip to guide students' learning. If logs or journals are required, every field trip has a set of prepared documents that you can print out for each person on the trip. Also included are short teacher's guides and selected other Web sites that provide background or curriculum guidance.

• Puzzlemaker
  Teachers, parents and students can create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print our specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.

• CEC Lesson Plans
  Lesson plans and units for language arts, math, science, and social studies, subdivided by grades.

• The Gateway to Educational Materials
  Teachers, parents, and administrators can search or browse The Gateway and find high quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects from GEM Consortium member sites.

• The Great Plant Escape
  Led by the sleuthing of Detective LePlant, students in grades 4 and 5 can go on a fun interdisciplinary adventure in botany.

• Microsoft Instructional Resources
  Are you looking for some great ideas on how to integrate technology into your curriculum? Check out these classroom-tested resources.

• Teacher Connections
  Each school day, access a lesson plan based on the day's news. Print it out for classroom use, share a plan of your own, or visit the lesson archive.

• WONKA
  Meet Willie Wonka and the Oompa Loompas in this exciting and colorful site. The interactive games are both fun and educational with varied levels, and can be played online with Shockwave or downloaded. Topics include science, technology and animals. Visit the 'Teacher's Office' in the 'Wonka School' for lesson plans.

• Experience Entomology
  Budding entomologists will enjoy these projects, searching for insects indoors and outdoors, creating a butterfly garden, or building an ant habitat. Teachers will appreciate the seasonal lesson plans and activities (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

• Mathematics Lesson Plans
  This site provides a collection of lesson plans and ideas for mathematics teachers. It is possible to save or print them out fairly easily as they are simply text files. A good secondary teacher's resource.

• The Principles of Aeronautics
  This is an introduction to a course on the principles of aeronautics. As you learn more about the mechanics of airplanes, their dynamics and structures, you can move onto more advanced lessons on flying theory and aeronautics.

• BodyQuest
  BodyQuest is an exploration of anatomy for pupils aged 11 to 16. The tour is particularly good and the site is generally easy to navigate. Visit the experiments and quiz sections.

• Just Say No!
  This site consists of a short description of 12 different projects that students can work on to promote alcohol awareness. At the end of the list of projects is a set of research links for students to use in putting their projects together.

• National Institute on Drug Abuse
  This site is designed to inform health care professionals and the general public about the effects of drug abuse. The 'Mind Over Matter' series will educate the young and not so young about the effects of drugs on the brain and on behavior.

• KidsBank.Com
  This is a great way for students to learn about banking. A cast of colorful characters takes them through the workings of ATM machines, compound interest, checks, and savings accounts. Students can test their acquired knowledge with a quiz at the end of each section.

• Quia! create your own learning activities!
  Quia allows users to create Java-enabled matching, concentration, and flashcard learning games. You can also play games that other Quia users have made or make your own. There are games for a variety of subjects including foreign languages, mathematics, science, history, and geography.

• Especially for Kids
  Learn about the effects of oil spills or hazardous chemical accidents. Join a guided tour to see how the experts deal with such environmental disasters. Conduct simple experiments to investigate oil pollution and its effect on birds and animals.

• Librarians Information Online Network
  LION (Librarians Information Online Network) provides lesson plans, activities, standards, information literacy projects, and more.

• The Digital Classroom
  The Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources. This site encourages teachers to use archival documents in the classroom.

• UselessKnowledge.com
  An on-line index of more than 6,000 trivia tidbits, quotations, tests, and useless, but interesting, facts.

• The Food Timeline
  This site features culinary history and social evolution. Also view historic recipe collections and the food timeline. Visit the teacher resources and lesson plans link.

• Acid Rain: A Collaborative Project, Fall 1999
  The smoke and fumes released from burning fossil fuels combine with moisture to produce acid rain. Join schools from around the globe to determine if the pH level of rainwater is affected by proximity to a fossil fueled power plant.

• The Wacky World of Words!
  Lots of different word games can be found here which will be very useful for fun word level work.

• The Incredible Art Department
  This site provides a forum where teachers can post ideas for art lessons. Many of the ideas are worth looking at and adapting for your own use in the elementary and secondary classrooms or undergraduate classes.

• Teachers Helping Teachers
  This site offers tips and ideas in teaching methodologies, lesson plans, and a forum for teachers to share their expertise.

• The Teacher's Desk
  A collection of over 250 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading, and Vocabulary activities, with a few extras thrown-in, currently being used in a fifth or sixth grade classroom.

• Teaching with Historic Places
  Using listings in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, this site offers lessons and resources that support history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects.

• Discovery Channel School
  A list of lesson plans for whatever subject and grade you teach can be found here.

• Geography Education
  The National Geographic Society's Geography Education Program works with educators all over the country to produce lessons, units, and activities designed to bring geography into the classroom.

• Language Arts
  Mini-lesson plans covering various language arts topics at the elementary, middle school, and high school level. Curriculum resources and activities for teaching children's literature in the primary grades can be accessed.

• Rhode Island Teachers and Technology Initiative
  Rhode Island Teachers and Technology Initiative provides a searchable database of unit ideas contributed by teachers for grades K-12. To view the entire list, click on Find All.

• Ewe 2: A Case Study
  This inquiry-oriented activity "places students in the position to ask great questions, seek out the answers, develop new relationships, and take a stand on a current hot issue: cloning."

• The Drama Teacher's Resource Room
  This site includes lesson plans, production information, links, and more.

• Connections+
  Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-related content standards. Also included are other links to assist teachers.

• The United Nations
  Take an electronic field trip to the United Nations. Get background information on the UN, see the UN in action, or visit the Classroom Activities section.

• The Evergreen Project Adventures
  This site features What's It Like Where You Live? (resources on biomes and aquatic ecosystems for students in grades 4 and up), Partners For Growing (plant investigations for primary students), and WebWorkShop (online credit courses for teachers).

• Lesson Stop
  Within the 7 subject area pages, you will find almost 500 links to web sites organized by topic and grade level. These links provide access to thousands of lesson plans.

• The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
  The Aeronautics Internet Textbook includes sections on history, mythology, fundamentals, and more. Other highlights include curriculum bridges, lesson plans, activities, and an Internet guide. The text is also available in Spanish.

• The Geometry Center
  This site is updated regularly and contains useful material for teachers at almost any level. There are interactive math resources, Java applications, software to be downloaded, and more.

• The Internet TESL Journal
  A comprehensive site for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This monthly web magazine includes articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas, and more.

• Education Station
  Information about planning and integrating technology in schools and annotated links to teacher resources organized by subject.

• Kodak Lesson Plans
  Links to lesson plans by subject and also by grades.

• Internet Lesson Plans
  This site contains lesson plans which have been set up for classroom use, and are designed to teach something about the Internet, and about how to use information gained from the Internet.

• Global Scholastic Projects
  I*Learn, ThinkQuest, Electronic Schoolhouse, electronic field trips and more.

• G.E.M.
  The Gateway to Educational Materials provides access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.

• ArtsEdNet
  Online services supporting arts education from the Getty Education Institute for the Arts. Table of contents include lesson plans and curriculum ideas. Also has a guide for learning and teaching art.

• PBS TeacherSource
  PBS TeacherSource features a constantly-growing inventory of more than 1,000 free lesson plans, teacher guides and online activities, mostly designed to complement PBS television programs.

• World Wise Schools
  Global education lesson plans for grades 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12. These plans come from the World Wise Schools' "Destination" series of study guides. To assist teachers in integrating global education into daily activities they have been sorted by grade levels and curricular areas.

• Classroom E-Mail Exchange
  Email Classroom Exchange (ECE) provides students with an opportunity to meet and correspond with other students from around the World!

• Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages
  This site contains selected Internet resources from Jean Amour Polly's book, "The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages, Second Edition." The sites are arranged in sections such as "For Kids Who Love Art and Music," "For Homework Help," "For Preschoolers," and "For Teachers."

• Scholastic Central
  The World's leading publisher and distributor of children's books, classroom and professional magazines, and other educational products.

• Interactive Communications & Simulations
  The Interactive Communication & Simulation program is not only to serve information to students, but also to provide them a chance to contribute their own observations, findings, and reflections.

• Secondary Science Modeling Projects
  This site contains some high school modeling lessons and projects spanning a broad range of sophistication.

• Global SchoolNet
  Linking kids around the world. Global SchoolNet provides ongoing opportunities to support learners both in and outside of the school environment.

• Ask An Expert
  Ask an expert is a directory of links to people who have volunteered their time to answer questions and webpages that provide information.

• Kidlink Global Networking for Youth Ages 10-15
  Kidlink is aimed at getting as many youth through the age 15 as possible involved in a global dialog. Kidlinks has activties in English, Spanish, Portuguesse, Japanese, Scandinavian, German, Icelandic,Hebrew, and Turkish.