Links for Teachers

Classroom Resources

  • Classroom Discipline Resources - Effective Classroom Discipline techniques and resources to Aid Teachers.
  • Center for Instructional Development and Research - University of Washington
  • Tips for a Peaceful Classroom - Indiana University
  • Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems - A Classroom Management Handbook.
  • Computer Rules Prevent Problems - Student computer use often involves situations not covered by regular classroom rules and the rules those situations require might not occur to you ahead of time.
  • Teachers First - a web resource for K-12 classroom teachers who want useful resources and lesson plans to use with their students. Teachers First is a division of Network for Instructional TV, Inc., a not-for-profit learning technologies corporation which works with several hundred schools throughout the United States.
  • Teachers Helping Teachers - This is a free, non-profit service. It costs nothing to access the information, and no money is made from teachers who contribute. Material on this service is updated weekly during the school year.
  • Free Federal Education Resources - Site provided by the U. S. Department of Education.
  • Public Education Network - The Public Education Network's Web site.
  • Access Excellence - The site for Health and Bioscience Teachers and Learners.
  • Education World - Many resources for classroom teachers.
  • Brain Pop - a fun interactive site that teaches about health and science through on-line movies, quizzes, and other activities.
  • Family Village - is an exceptional directory of resources covering disability issues on the Internet. The breadth of the subject and content listings available sets this site apart from all the rest.
  • ThinkQuest - Over 7000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest competition.
  • Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt - Photographs and interactive projects about the pyramids, temples and pharaohs. Learn to write your name in hieroglyphics and solve math problems with ancient numbers.
  • Daily Life in Egypt - Part of the eMuseum of the MNSU. Great resource.
  • eMuseum MNSU - Covers topics such as Anthropology, Archaelogy, Biology and discusses Cultures and History.
  • Teachers.Net - Site contains curriculum resources, online chat with other teachers, reference desk, the Teachers.Net Gazette - an online magazine for teachers and much more!
  • ESL - Toolkit for teachers in Pre - K through 6th grade.
  • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - A great source for Standards and Focal Points, Conferences, Professional Development, Journals and Books, Lessons and Resources, Research and News.
  • National Science Teachers Association - Source for Leadership and Governance, Professional Collaboration, Professional Development, Conferences and Institutes, Publications and Products, Exhibits and more.
  • National Council of Teachers of English - The NCTE Homepage provides the latest information on upcoming events and opportunities with NCTE, as well as resources for educators
  • National Association of Biology Teachers - The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) is the “leader in life science education.” Since its inception in 1938, thousands of educators have joined NABT to share experiences and expertise with colleagues from around the world, keep up with trends and developments in the field, and grow professionally.

ESL & Migrant Education

  • iClasses.org is OVEC's online courses for middle and high school students. This site offers 38 courses for middle and high school students. Site is available on a subscription basis.
  • Teach Spanish.com - This site is devoted to teachers of Spanish and ESL students contains lesson plans and other resources, some commercial, for teachers.
  • ESL Lesson Plans and Resources
  • ESL Website - Free ESL lesson materials and ESL lesson plans. Printable worksheets for ESL classroom teaching. English grammar, pronunciation, board games, esl books, flashcards, board games, song lyrics and more.
  • EFL/ESL Lesson Plans

General or Multi-Subject

  • The Educators' Desk Reference - 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. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources. Search the Lesson Plan Collection organized by subject.
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - This site let teachers share how they use APOD in the classroom from elementary school to graduate school.
  • Discovery.com - Site provides lesson plans for K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 in all content areas. This site also provides tools for teaching including a Quiz Builder, Puzzle Maker, Worksheet Generator and a Glossary Builder.
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - a categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best new sites to support teaching and learning.
  • Cyber Guides - 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.
  • TeachersFirst - TeachersFirst is a web resource for K-12 classroom teachers who want useful resources and lesson plans to use with their students.
  • Awesome Library - many quality units and lesson plans for all grades and subjects.
  • The Teachers Corner - The site for Primary & Intermediate Teachers -- including lesson plans and other resources.
  • Cartoonist Web Site - Lesson plans for all levels on using professional cartoonists index web site for the classroom.
  • The Gateway to Educational Materials - The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet! (Recommended by the US Department of Education!)
  • edHelpher.com - This Canadian web site contains a wide variety of lesson plans.
  • TeacherVision.com - This site offers a database of lesson plans by grade and subject as well as lesson themes.
  • Teachers.Net - This site offers lesson plans submitted by teachers from across the curriculum.
  • Lesson Plan Page - Offers 1,000 lesson plans in 10 subject areas plus holiday lesson plans!
  • Success Link - This site has a database of well designed lesson plans. Search by grade level & curriculum area. This collection is growing, and already has many high quality lessons. Lesson plans follows Missouri State Standards.
  • Teachers Helping Teachers - Lots of info - including lesson plans by subject area. Updated weekly.
  • PBS Teacher Source - PBS TeacherSource materials are developed by trained and practicing educators.
  • Teachers' Guild Lesson Plan Library - Provides lesson plans for all grade levels in language arts, social studies, and math and science.
  • A to Z Teacher Stuff And Lesson Plans -- Site contains lessons plans and many more resources for classroom teachers.
  • Lesson Plan Search Site - Provides a search engine to find lesson plans on the Internet.
  • Teachers at Nickelodeon - Lesson Plans for pre-school, elementary, and middle school teachers that complement Nickelodeon's Cable in the Classroom programming.
  • The Lesson Plans Page - Over 500 lesson plans on a variety of subject and grade levels.
  • The Learning Network - The daily lesson plan and lesson plan archive. Site operated by the New York Times.
  • Global Schoolhouse - More than 700 online collaborative projects from around the world!

Grade Level

  • The Educators' Desk Reference - 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. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources. Search the Lesson Plan Collection organized by subject.
  • Primary School Lesson Plans - Resource for the primary school teacher provides over 2000 lesson plans, worksheets, articles and teaching strategies to view and download.
  • Teacher Lesson Plans - K6Educators offers a variety of lesson plans. Site also contains other resources for teachers.
  • Education Place is a site from Houghton Mifflin - Search the database of 400+ original K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers and parents.

Social Sciences

English & Literature

  • The Educators' Desk Reference - 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. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources. Search the Lesson Plan Collection organized by subject.
  • Awesome Library - Lesson Plans for Language Arts
  • Teaching Ideas - Site of the National Council of Teachers of English.
  • Lesson Plans For English Teachers - Site developed by Kodak with contributions from teachers across the nation.
  • Read/Write/Think - ReadWriteThink.org, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
  • CEC - Columbia Education Center provides lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school.

Science

  • The Educators' Desk Reference - 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. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources. Search the Lesson Plan Collection organized by subject.
  • Awesome Library - Science Lesson Plans
  • Physics and Science Lesson Plans - Developed by Rutgers University and organized by grade level and topic.
  • Science Education Gateway - The Science Education Gateway (formerly SII) is a collaborative NASA project which brings together the expertise of NASA scientists, science museums, and K-12 educators.
  • Science in the Real World: Microbes in Action - provides scientific information and hands-on activities in microbiology to K-12 teachers via curriculum units, workshops, a newsletter, and this web site.
  • Exploring the Environment - this site is deigned to engage high school students in collaborative scientific inquiry and analysis.
  • Science Teachers Resource Center - Designed for high school teachers of chemistry, physics, life sciences, biology, AP chemistry, and many other resources.
  • Space Science Curriculum Standards Quit - This NASA site is interactive and easy-to-use web site provides age-appropriate activities and lesson plans for teaching about the solar system in K-12 classrooms. Each lesson included on the Space Science Curriculum Standards Quilt meets National Science Education Standards. To use the site, you simply choose an appropriate grade level, then choose from any of the illuminated squares on the interactive patchwork quilt. There are 16 subject areas arranged in vertical columns, including the sky, planetary objects, apparent motion, patterns, size and scale properties, stars, and more.
  • Interactivate - The goals of Interactiviate are the creation, collection, evaluation and disemination of interactive courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. You will find activities, tools and a dictionary for Learners and lessons, discussions and standards for Instructors.

Math

  • Natural Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Exercises in key math concepts for students grade Pre-K to grade 12. Interactive exercises cover topics such as Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis and Probability.
  • Graphing Activities - This is an interactive edutainment course where 'Cody' tells about coordinates, starting with number lines.
  • Interactivate - The goals of Interactiviate are the creation, collection, evaluation and disemination of interactive courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. You will find activities, tools and a dictionary for Learners and lessons, discussions and standards for Instructors.

Arts

  • The Educators' Desk Reference - 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. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources. Search the Lesson Plan Collection organized by subject.
  • ArtsEdge - focuses on the national art education standards plus foreign language, science, social studies, ESL, mathematics, and physical education. The site provides K-12 teachers with curriculum materials, programs, strategies, and other information for integrating arts into the classroom.