Teaching Resources, Lesson Plans, and More

Websites
Teacher Link -- an extensive gateway site for teaching ideas, plans, and resources.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) -- a government site with lots of lesson plans and other great resources for educators.

International Education and Resource Network -- a "non-profit global network that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world" -- a way for teachers to engage their students in meaningful projects with students in other parts of the world -- very cool -- check it out.

Teachable Moment -- a great resource of "timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day" -- by Educators for Social Responsibility.

Curriculum Units by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute -- good multicultural lesson plans and teaching ideas in many disciplines.

African and African-American Resources -- good links for teaching provided by the Philadelphia School District.

African American Bibliography: Books for Children -- a well organized list of good books about African American experience, people, and characters.

Teaching African and African American History and Culture in the 21st Century: Lessons for Grades K-12 -- good lesson plans by educators in the Philadelphia School District.

Teaching African and African American History and Culture in the 21st Century: Lessons for Grades 5-8 -- more good lesson plans by educators in the Philadelphia School District.

National Center for Education Statistics -- up to date information about education.

Collaborative Curriculum Builder -- lessons submitted by teachers for all grades and disciplines.

ERIC Teaching Ideas -- lesson ideas for many subject areas and learning styles.

Lesson Plan Page -- a wide range of lesson plans and ideas across subject areas and grade levels.

Lessonplanz -- more lesson plans by grade and discipline.

Teacher Vision -- a wide range of lesson plans and materials including thematic, cross-curricular ideas.

Teachers Net -- lesson ideas in a variety of subject areas, with integration of the arts into other subjects and attention to multicultural education and different learning styles.

The Discovery Channel -- an interesting array of lesson ideas and teaching resources.

Math Archive -- links to many K-12 math prgrams and lesson ideas.

Teachnet -- lesson plans, teaching resources, and more for teachers by teachers.

National Endowment of the Humanities -- great lesson plans and resources specific to the humanities.

History and Social Studies K-12 -- teaching resources on a wide range of social studies topics, with specific focus on use of the internet.

Teaching Tolerance -- a national education project and magazine dedicated to helping teachers foster equity, respect, and understanding in the classroom and beyond -- a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center -- includes classroom activities and resources and much more -- lots of free teaching materials for educators.

Public Broadcasting Resources for Teachers -- teaching ideas and resources on a wide range of topics.

The Free Child Project -- an organization "dedicated to making social change action, education, and resources more accessible for young people around the world, especially those who have been historically denied participation." -- lots of good resources and teaching ideas and materials.

Justice Learning -- radio broadcasts of debates about critical contemporary issues combined with good supporting materials to help teachers engage students in developing a more informed understanding of the issues -- materials from National Public Radio and the New York Times.

Education for Justice -- a wide variety of social justice teaching resources.

Social Justice Education -- an organization that produces curriculum and teaching tools for 7-12 educators and youth leaders who have an interest in creating experiences that will empower young people to become activists and allies in the pursuit of equity and justice --includes multi-media materials such as "MP3's for Change: Social Justice Hip Hop."

Ending Sweatshops and Promoting Fair Trade -- information and resources for teaching about and acting against sweatshops.

Social Justice Organizations -- lots of good links.

Teaching for Change -- an excellent source of materials that address critical multicultural and social issues.

Green Teacher -- good resources, including a magazine, for addressing environmental issues.

The Teachers Corner -- a good lesson plan and resource site for the primary and intermediate grades.

Teachers Helping Teachers -- lots of lesson plans and teaching resources.

M.U.S.I.C. -- Musicians United for Songs in the Classroom -- classroom strategies and resources for using music as a teaching tool in a variety of disciplines.

Rockhall -- lesson plans involving classic and contemporary rock music.

Teach Space -- offers lesson ideas for how to teach about specific subjects across all disciplines.

Education World -- promotes creative use of community resources and information on the internet.

Ed Helper -- lesson plans for every subject and grade level -- also includes current education news items.

P.E. Central -- teaching resources and valuable information for physical education.

Game Central Station -- good resources for Physical Education.

Physical and Health Education Lesson Plans -- lesson plans submitted by teachers.

Health Teacher -- over 300 lesson plans for health designed to address the National Health Standards.

Lesson Plan Search -- lots of lesson ideas and materials.

Big Chalk -- more than 9,000 lesson plans organized by subject and grade, plus other resources for educators, students, and parents.

Education Place -- K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans provided by Houghton Mifflin Publisher.

Child Fun -- lots of fun lesson activities for children