High School/ Middle School

1. Apple Learning Interchange - high school lessons and activities
2. Applications of Culture in Mathematics - seven complete lesson plans and materials in .pdf format
3. Discovery School Lesson plan library for grades 9-12 and grades 6-8
4. Educator Resources - Lesson Plans and Activities
5. National Geographic Xpeditions lesson plans - The lesson plans on this site were written by educators and have been tested in the classroom. Together, they address all of the U.S. National Geography Standards, the five geography skills, and the main geographic perspectives.
6. The New York Times Learning Network offers lesson plans, education news and much more. Grades 5-12

Subject Specific Lesson Plan Sites

1. 27 Ideas for Teaching With Topographic Maps - from the USGS
2. Biz/Ed - a service for students and educators on business and economics related subjects
3. Business Education lesson plans
4. Churchill House School of English Language - ready-to-use classroom materials for English language classrooms.
5. Columbia Education Center - lesson plans
6. EconEdLink - economics lessons and resources
   1. Economic Lessons K-12 - online interactive lessons. Browse EconEdlink online lessons by Title, Grade, Standard, or Lesson Plan Type
7. EdHelper - lesson plans, worksheets, WebQuests and more
8. EduWeb Adventures - Explore the world of art, science and history
9. Egypt - The Achievements and Challenges of Egypt
10. Everything ESL - Content based ESL lesson plans for beginning through intermediate students
11. Fun and Sun Rent-A-Car - a Java based lesson
12. Growing With Technology - Interactive lessons for K-5
13. Health Teacher - lesson guide page
14. History
    1. America Responds - PBS resources to help educators teach students about peace, tolerance, war, patriotism, geography, and other related issues
    2. Ancient Egypt Lesson Plans
    3. Awesome Library - K-12 History lesson plans
    4. Best of History - links to help you find the best history lesson plans
    5. Crossroads - K-16 American History curriculum
    6. Discovery School: U S History Lesson Plan Library
    7. EdHelper - Social Studies theme units
    8. EdSitement Lesson Plans - a Thinkfinity partner site
    9. Educator's Reference Desk: History lesson plans
    10. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - lesson plans integrating music and history
    11. History Lesson Plans and Resources
    12. Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies
    13. Lesson Plans for Social Studies - categorized by grade levels; Pre K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, secondary
    14. Lesson Plans For A Variety Of Social Studies Topics
    15. Lesson Planz - social studies
    16. Mr. Donn's Pages - lesson plans, resources, and activities
    17. Mrs. G's American History lesson plans for 8th graders
    18. Smithsonian History & Culture lesson plans - 3-8 with one exception (6-12)
    19. Social Studies - lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful
    20. Social Studies Lesson Plans - Lesson plans and teaching strategies
    21. Teaching American History: History Teacher Toolbox - scroll past the lectures to find lesson plans
    22. Teaching with Historic Places - more than ninety classroom-ready lesson plans that together cover major themes of American history
    23. Tennessee History
        1. Creating America: Beginnings through World War I - resources, activities, and quizzes
    24. Text only Social Studies Lesson Plans - categorized by grade levels; K-5, 6-8, and 9-12
15. Improve Students' Self-Concepts - Ten activities from Education World
16. KinderArt Lesson Plans - in Alphabetical Order
17. Kodak Lesson Plan database - lessons involve photography
18. Literacy Assistance Center lesson plans
19. Middle School Math Lessons and Materials - from MathForum
20. MysteryNet lessons for using mysteries in the classroom
21. National Geographic lesson plans
    1. K-4
    2. 5-8
    3. 9-12
22. NWREL has compiled this vast array of lesson plans that any teacher for any grade level will find useful.
23. Physical Education Lesson Ideas
24. Physical Education Lesson Plan Page - The page is stored on a free server and if it is over viewed, Tripod (the free server people), will turn the page off for about two hours.
25. Scholastic Content Index - Lesson Plans, Thematic Units, Reproducibles, and Activities
26. Science
    1. Air Quality Lesson Plans and Data from the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
    2. Awesome Library - science lesson plans
    3. Changing World Lessons from USGS: Exploring Caves K-3 | Global Change - 4-6 | Map Adventures - K-3 | What Do Maps Show? - 5-8 |
    4. Classroom-Ready Astronomy Lesson Plans - scroll one-third of the way down the page to Sky Paths
    5. Discovery School Lesson Plans - Earth science only, but look in the topical index on the left for more
    6. EdHelper - science theme units
    7. Educator's Reference Desk - science lesson plans
    8. The Fragile Fringe: A Guide for Teaching about Coastal Wetlands (from the USGS National Wetlands Research Center)
    9. Genetic Lesson Plan Ideas from the Genetics Education Center, University of Kansas
    10. Global Warming - Unit Plan with activities for Middle/High school.
    11. Lesson Plan page - categorized by grade levels; Pre K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, secondary
    12. Lesson Planz - science
    13. Life Cycle of a Mineral Deposit - teacher’s guide for hands-on mineral education activities from USGS
    14. McREL Resources: Lesson Plan Library
    15. Middle School Science lesson plans
    16. NatureScapes - a web project that provides multilevel, informational readings, resources, and activities related to nature including plants, animals, and habitats.
    17. New York Times Daily - science lesson plans
    18. Physical Science (Succeed in Physical Science) from the School for Champions - The purpose of these free online lessons is to give you a start at improving your scientific knowledge. The material combines physics and chemistry fundamentals in a way that will allow you to excel in future science studies and even become a scientific champion.
    19. Renewable Energy lesson plans - created by a team of professional educators and renewable energy experts
    20. Science Activities, Labs And Lesson Plans
    21. Science lesson plans and resources
    22. Science NetLinks - index
    23. Smithsonian Science and Technology lesson plans - grades 3-8
    24. Stellarium - free open source planetarium for your computer | Lesson Plans to accompany Stellarium
    25. Teacher-Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons
    26. Text Only Science lesson plans - categorized by grade levels; K-5 (most), 6-8, and 9-12 (fewest)
27. Spelling Worksheets from Spelling it Right - Learn to spell confidently with help, exercises and advice from an experienced teacher.
28. Teaching with Historic Places - a series of classroom-ready lesson plans created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators, using historic sites to explore American history
29. TRIP for Teachers- Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning, Mobile County Public Schools. Social Studies - Science - Math - Language Arts - Within this site you will find over 5,000 links to lesson plans and educational resources that support national, state, and local standards for Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Math in the K-12 curriculum.

All Grades

1. Core Knowledge Lesson Plans - Pre-K - 8th. The units are organized by grade level, and within grade level by subject area; click on the links on the left-hand side of this page to begin browsing.
2. Chicago Public Schools had instituted a structured science curriculum with daily lesson plans for every grade K - 12. Look at your grade level to see if there are suggested activities you wish to adapt for your own classroom. Adobe Acrobat is needed to view these lesson plans.
3. Curriculum Tracking Templates - Created by Brent Phillips, these links for grades k-8 will take you to specific tracking templates for each strand in each subject area. The easiest way to utilize these templates is to print a copy of each template from all of the strands you teach and then use them for planning your activities and curricular goals. The whole strand on one sheet! No more awkward and poorly organized curricular documents! These templates can also be used to provide the teacher with an overall picture of which expectations specific students have achieved, and at what level of performance. Excellent for tracking progress throughout the year for each student.
4. CyberGuides are Web-based activities and units centered around particular pieces of literature. CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. If written correctly they could be effective and engaging in terms of motivating students to read and think more deeply about what they are reading. Note: many of these do not require higher level thinking. Use them as a model, but make improvements
5. edHelper has over 6000 lesson plans organized by subject, and over 1000 WebQuests.
6. Gifted - A Different Place - online resources and lesson plans for the gifted student
7. Teachersfirst.com -Very user friendly site divided by subject and grade level that has a classroom resource finder which you can use to search for Internet. resources or lesson plans. And if you can not find what you are looking for there, a keyword search is provided.
8. Teachers' Guide to the Professional Cartoonists Index -Lesson plans for K-12 teachers in Social Studies, English and Art based around a collection of newspaper editorial cartoons
9. Teachers.net contains a Lesson Bank that stores teaching ideas and lesson plans ,divided by subject and grade areas, submitted by teachers around the country. You can also find teacher chat and other support features. An interesting Homepage Maker is also provided.

Databases of Lessons

1. 4Teachers database allows you to select a subject, then a theme and finally a specific topic.
2. ABC Teach database of thematic units
3. About.com database of lesson plans; middle and high school
4. Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin
5. Alabama Learning Exchange - Lessons categorized by subject and grade levels.
6. Alfy Database of lessons
7. Alfy's Library of Thematic units - Thematic lesson plans about literature activities
8. Apple Learning Interchange - You will need to register before using this free database of teaching ideas. Then you may search for lessons organized by subject area and grade level. You may also submit your ideas to the Interchange.
9. Awesome Library database of lesson plans
10. Best Lessons from WNET, the great PBS station in New York (the first page is social studies only, but there is an index at the top of the page to other subjects)
11. Blue Web'n - an online library of over 1800 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools)
12. Columbia Education Center - text only lesson plans
13. Commonwealth of Knowledge - lesson plan database from Virginia
14. Curriki - open source educational materials - their focus is on K-12 curricula materials in the areas of literacy mathematics, science, technology, language arts, and foreign languages on 3/7/09
15. Discovery School lesson plan library
16. Education World's Lesson Planning Center
17. Education World's Teacher Submitted Lesson Plans Collection
18. Educator's Reference Desk - lesson plan database
19. ForLessonPlans - an online directory of free lesson plans for K-12 teachers
20. Frank Potter's Science Gems: lists of links to all science areas
21. The Gateway to Educational Materials database offers the key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet.!
22. Gigglepotz - Curriculum and Lesson Plans
23. Illuminations Lesson Plan database from the NCTM sponsored Marco Polo site
24. Internet. Field Trips from Scholastic - provides quick suggestions for using targeted web sites to teach a specific topic
25. Learning Page - This is a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials for you to download and print. To get all worksheets you must be a member, but registration is free. (elementary grades)
26. Lesson Plan Search - over 2000 lessons in their database
27. Lesson Planet directory of lesson plans
28. Lesson Plans Page - over 2,000 free lessons
29. LessonPlanz.com - a searchable directory of free online lesson plans
30. Library of Congress Learning Place
31. McREL Lesson Database
32. Math Archives K-12 Teaching Materials
33. Math Forum lesson plans - organized by topic or grade level
34. Microsoft lesson plan library
35. Monthly Themes from Houghton Mifflin
36. PBS Teacher Source database
37. Preschool Lesson Plans
38. Preschool Themes - ideas from A to F | ideas from G to L | ideas from M to R | ideas from S to Z
39. Primary Resources - Lesson plans, activity ideas and resources for Primary teachers
40. The Rice Model Science Laboratory has a great Science Links Page which includes several categories in each of the five major science topics
41. Quia Index - Quia users have created activities in the following topics. These activities have been created by Quia's subscribers and are of varying quality.
42. Schoolhouse: Science
43. Science Activities Manual: K-5 Curricular Emphasis by Grade Level and Content Topic
44. Science Activities Manual: K-8 Curricular Emphasis by Grade Level and Theme
45. Smithsonian lesson plans - emphasizing inquiry-based learning using primary sources and museum collections.
46. The Teacher's Corner - primary and intermediate resources
47. Teachers.net lesson plan database
48. Teaching Online database of lessons
49. TeachNet.com database of lessons
50. Terrorism - KidsClick! Lesson Plans and Resources About Terrorism
51. Thematic Units from ALFY
52. Trackstar - Find lessons by themes and standards for a variety of age groups.
53. Utah Education Network lesson plan database, organized by subject or grade level
54. WNET Database of lessons
55. Xpeditions Lesson Plans from the National Geographic sponsored Thinkfinity site
56. Yahoo directory of lesson plans

Miscellaneous

1. "Are We There Yet?" - report of a problem based lesson plan, use her idea to design your own lesson
2. Brain Games - Many lessons can be created collecting this data on the various ways our brains work. From games to learn about our brain and nervous system to games that show how the brain sends mixed messages to reaction time games to precognition challenges, this site is full of fun learning activities for your classroom!
3. Growing With Technology - Interactive lessons for K-5
4. Internet. Field Trips are guided tours to the best of classroom-appropriate Web sites. Each field trip provides quick suggestions for using targeted Web sites to teach a specific topic. Within each area you'll find field trips in an alphabetical list of the following topics:Children's Literature, Language Arts, K-2, Math , Science, and Social Studies.
5. Spelling it Right - Learn to Spell Confidently - free worksheets and advice from an experienced English teacher
6. Switcheroo Zoo! - Switch the animals' heads, legs and tails to make new creatures. Then use the new animal image as a writing prompt.
   at this surrealistic virtual zoo. Teachers say it is great for imaginative language work where students name the new animals they create, describe the habitats in which they live, describe how they move and what they eat - the possibilities are endless.
7. Teddy Bear Magic Cards - A math magic trick that includes a lesson and worksheet on how to use math logic to discover how the "trick" works.
8. Thematic Units - Browse free unit studies. Each unit study contains 6-8 lessons, plus worksheets, answer sheets, and book resources. These are from the Home School Learning Network.
9. Thematic Units For Primary Grades from the University of South Carolina

Help with Rubrics

RubiStar - a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch

1. Creating Rubrics: Tools You Can Use - an article from Education World
2. Examples of Rubrics created by classroom teachers - posted by the University of Wisconsin-Stout
3. Guidelines for Rubric Development from San Diego State University.
4. Kathy Scrock's Assessment and Rubric Information - multiple links on this subject.
5. Project Based Learning Checklists from 4Teachers.org
6. Rubric Generators from Teach-nology - (scroll past the membership information) The generators will allow you to make several types of grading rubrics by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer.
7. Rubric for Evaluating a WebQuest
8. Need to see some sample rubrics before you start writing them? The Staff Room for Ontario's Teachers has a ton of them! 
9. The Rubric Bank - from Chicago Public Schools
10. Using Rubrics In Evaluation for Science Classes
11. Rubric Construction Sets
    1. 3 objective rubric
    2. 4 objective rubric
    3. 5 objective rubric
    4. 6 objective rubric
12. Specific rubrics
    1. Book Report Rubric
       1. Web page format
       2. Acrobat Reader format
       3. MS Excel format (zip file)
    2. Collaboration Rubric
    3. Report Rubric
    4. Scientific Report Rubric
    5. Student PowerPoint Rubric
    6. Web Page Design
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