Elective #4 – Lesson Plans

Here is a list of the websites that I found to be the most beneficial. I teach 6^th and 7^th grade Language Arts. The websites are listed in order from best to worst.

1. Lesson Plans Page – This website is very easy to navigate. You can search lesson plans by subject and grade level. Lesson plans were clearly organized by sub-content areas of Language Arts. After reviewing a lesson plans, you are able to email the teacher who wrote it through a contact link on the lesson plan page.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com Date visited 5/22/05

2. Teachers – This website allows you to search for lesson plans only by subject or age, not both. When you search by subject, you can see the age level in parenthesis after the title of each lesson plan. This website contains hundreds of lesson plans and you can submit plans that you have written.

http://www.teachers.net Date visited 5/22/05

3. Edhelper – This website provides lesson plans for literary units, seasonal themes, and daily lesson plans. You can also find links to make your own visual aids and print already make worksheets to go with the lessons. This site is very easy to use. If you become a member, you can print stories and tests for comprehension along with any other available worksheets.

http://www.edhelper.com/ Date visited 5/23/05

4. The Teachers Corner – This website uses categories and then sub-categories to organize its lesson plans. For example, I went to reading and then to the sub-category parts of speech to find lesson plans. This site also provides us with links to other sites for further resources.

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/ Date visited 5/23/05

5. A to Z Teacher Stuff – When searching for lesson plans on this website, you are able to specify subject and grade level to narrow your search. Some of the lessons seem good but there is a very small selection on this website.

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/ Date visited 5/23/05

6. Lesson Plan Search – This website is more like a search engine for lesson plans. It links to other site to provide you with lessons. I did see some lessons that I had found on the websites listed above.

http://www.lessonplansearch.com/ Date visited 5/23/05

7. Teach-nology - This is another web portal for teachers. It works like a search engine to lesson plans.

http://www.teach-nology.com/ Date visited 5/23/05

THE WORST SITE =

Col-Ed - This website is the worst b/c it is a short list of lesson plans and is not very attractive. Some of the lessons plan pages are very wide so you have to scroll right and left continuously to read the lesson plan.

http://www.col-ed.org/ Date visited 5/23/05