Lesson Plans Online

The following website was created by Erik Heinemann, a chemistry teacher and a graduate student. The site was created to help teachers (especially chemistry teachers) find Internet resources in the way of lesson plans by using some of the sites that I have already identified for my own use. It simply is an annotated list of some of the sites that I have used in finding usable lesson plans.

1. Lesson plans page - The site is a composite of thousands of lesson plans that were created by faculty and students at the University of Missouri as well as teachers who have found the site useful and have begun adding their own lessons. It is a great site for lessons as it breaks the lessons down into grade level and subject and you will find the index on the left side of the page particularly useful as well and the fact that it is all free of charge is also a bonus. The home page (not for science) can be found here

2. SMILE – SMILE stands for science and math institute for learning enhancement. I think that sums it up. This site is a composite of over 900 lesson plans for science and math teachers. It is the composite work of over 400 teachers and 19 years of work. The link I have provided here is specific to chemistry, but at the bottom of the page you can link to the SMILE homepage and look at the other lessons they have compiled for our use.

3. teAchnology – this site is a fantastic site in that it provides lesson plans for chemistry teachers, but in addition to the lesson plans there are games, teacher reviews and many other things that you can get lost in. This is a neat site that is easy to navigate and has an abundant number of plans for teachers to use. The home site includes other plans for teachers not teaching chemistry.

4. Chemistry lesson plans – this is a fairly simple layout and basic site. There are no great indexes and no fancy menus or other things. It simple is a list of lesson plans for chemistry teachers. The site appears to have been started in 1995 and each year there are a few more plans added. Sorry content teachers who teach things other than chemistry, there is no link here that may help you.

5. LessonPlanet – this site is huge lesson plan bank. There are over 30,000 plans listed for just about any subject you teach. The problem with this many plans is that the site is more difficult to navigate than some of the other sites, but it still provides a tremendous amount of useful information and things that we teachers may find to be of benefit (if we can find the time to search through them). Click for the home page.

Summary: When I typed in “lesson plans” into some of the major search engines, I got 39 million hits. Just typing “chemistry lesson plans” I still ended up with over a million sites. In short there are many more out there than what I have provided here, but these are some of the more useful that I have found. Use them as you will.

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