Jody Jankoski
SLM 521
Elective 6
Lesson Plans
Educators
have a lot of responsibilities, both at home and at school. It is nice to be
able to find teaching ideas online to use in the classroom. However, there are many
lesson plan sites out there. I have created a short bibliography of quality
lesson plans sites to help elementary teachers and librarians find lesson ideas
online fast and easy.
The Educators
Reference Desk: Lesson Plans This is my favorite lesson plan site that I
have always used. There are more than 2000 lesson plans that are searchable by
grade and topic. Lessons on this site must be submitted for selection according
to eight major criteria. I have found these plans to be very high quality and
extremely useful. Date visited 3/13/2006
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml#Search
The Lesson Plans Page This site
has over 2,500 free lesson plans that you can find using a search tool or
browse by grade and subject. I saw lots of good plans on this site; however,
this site was a little heavier on quantity than quality. It did not seem like
the plans were screened in any way and pretty much anyone could submit a new
plan, so read over what you find and make sure it is quality. Date visited
3/13/2006 http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
A to Z Teacher Stuff This site
has free searchable lesson plans for preschool through high school. What I
especially liked about this site is that in addition to individual lesson
plans; it also includes thematic units as well. This site does claim to do some
type of reviewing, but it does not mention selection criteria or anything like
that, so keep that in mind when searching. Date visited 3/13/2006 http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
Lesson Planz This site provides a wide
variety of lesson planning resources. You can search for individual plans in
all grades and subject areas, thematic units, and learning centers. I was not
able to find any information about how they obtain these resources. There was
not an open submission link. However, the plans that I looked at were very good
and covered a wide range of topics. Date visited 3/13/2006
http://www.lessonplanz.com/
Teachers.Net Lesson Plans
This site offers great free lesson plans that you can search by topic or
general grade level. One thing I liked about this site is that if you do not
find what you are looking for, there is a request page where you can ask for a
topic to be added in the future. This site does accept submissions and did not
state any lesson criteria. Date visited 3/16/2006
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/posts.html
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