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Teachers: Email Mary D'Eliso if you have any suggestions for links to include on this site.

Important Links

Library Forms

Curriculum Standards

Online Teacher Tools

  • Internet4Classrooms - provides a rich list of subject-related links for K-12 teachers, Assessment Assistance, and tutorials for learning software like Excel, Inspiration and more!
  • MIKIDS.COM - Authors, Illustrators, Best Books, Fun & Games, Stories Online, 6+1 Traits bibliography, Simple Machines, Technology
  • 4Teachers - free tools to create rubrics, web lessons, quizzes and classroom calendars

Lesson Plan Sites

  • abcteach
    More than 5,000 free printable pages geared to PreK-8th grades.
  • American Memory: The Learning Page
    The "teacher" page giving access to the millions of items digitized by the Library of Congress - "teacher-created and class-room-tested lessons." Great primary source material.
  • ArtsEdge
    "Transform your teaching with arts integrated resources for the K-12 classroom."
  • The Big6
    Lesson plans that use the Big6 information literacy skills model created by Michael Eisenberg and Robert Berkowitz.
  • Blue Web'n
    "Blue Web'n is an online library of 2007 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects)."
  • California Learning Resource Network
    "Find the standards-aligned software, video and Internet learning resources you need. CLRN experts have identified, reviewed and organized hundreds of Electronic Learning Resources (ELRs) in a searchable database that allows you to compare key features of selected resources."
  • Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
    Great collection of lessons and ideas for incorporating children's literature into the curriculum - check out the "curriculum areas" link.
  • Community Learning Network
    "A site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you'll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources."
  • Crayola Creativity Center
    Adaptable lessons that "that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time." Don't miss the Certificate Maker.
  • discoveryschool.com
    "Hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. Use the pull-down menus to browse by subject, grade, or both."
  • Early Literacy Technology Project
    Lesson plans integrating reading and/or writing with technology.
  • EDSITEment
    "This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom."
  • Education World: Lesson Plan Center
    Take time to explore the HUGE amount of lesson ideas on this site - don't miss the holiday page with ideas for holidays and special occasions.
  • Educators' Reference Desk
    "This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world."
  • GEM: Gateway to Educational Materials
    "The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites."
  • Houghton Mifflin Education Place
    "Pre-K through 8 resources for teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Intervention, Professional Development, activities, games, and textbook support."
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
    "Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning."
  • Lesson Plans Page
    Over 2,500 free lesson plans that can be searched by subject - don't miss the "seasonal lesson plans" page.
  • McREL
    "Links to selected lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning"
  • Math Forum at Drexel
    1,460 lesson plans searchable by keyword, math topic, or level.
  • Marco Polo
    An amazing site with standards-based lesson plans, activities, and high-quality Internet sites. Information is organized from a variety of excellent sources. Click on this link to go to the search screen.
  • Microsoft: Instructional Resources: Lesson Plans
    Search lesson plans by grade level, subject, learning area, or by Microsoft product (including Encarta lesson plans).
  • National Geographic Education
    Click the tab at the top of the page that says Lesson Plans and connect to hundreds of geography-related lesson plans - look for the "most popular."
  • Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: Library in the Sky
    "The Library in the Sky is a database of interesting and useful educational Web sites for those involved in education. Find the information you want through the Search, User Tabs, by Department, or Materials."
  • PBS Teacher Source
    Over 3,000 lesson plans for arts and literature, health and fitness, math, science, social studies, preK-2, and library media.
  • Physics & Astronomy Lesson Plans
    A list of over 200 lesson plans from K-12.
  • S.C.O.R.E. Cyberguides
    "CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards."
  • Scholastic Teachers
    Click on the "Lesson Plans" tab at the top of the page for access to a great selection of lesson plans in all subjects.
  • The Science Spot
    Developed by a science teacher, this site features lesson plans, puzzles, projects, trivia and more. Don't miss the Kid Zone.
  • Smithsonian Education Lesson Plans
    "Browse lesson plans by subject area or search by grade levels and keywords. Smithsonian lesson plans emphasize inquiry-based learning using primary sources and museum collections. Each plan is print-friendly and provides you with all the materials you need: photographs, reproductions, handouts, activities, suggested strategies, standards information, and additional online resources."
  • Starfall.Com
    Primarily designed for first grade - activities, printables, and more to help students learn to read.
  • teachers.net
    Search or browse these teacher-created lessons, or submit or request your own! "The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is your opportunity to share your most precious asset - your teaching ideas and lesson plans!"
  • USGS Learning Web: Lesson Plans
    Life Science, Geography and Earth Science lessons based on national standards.
  • The WebQuest Portal: Online Inquiry-Based Activities and Projects in all subject areas!

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