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=The Best=
 * **Website** || **Description** ||
 * [|EducationWorld] || Like Awesome Library, I have linked to the technology section, but the Website include mad lesson plans, PD, and other resources. Another perennial favorite of teachers. Caters mostly to younger students. ||
 * [|Gateway to 21st Century Skills] || The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) 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. Includes [|The Educator's Reference Desk], a compendium of 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States, and a collection of over 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education. ||
 * [|teAchnology] || 28,000 lesson plans, 6,600 worksheets, ... all free to download. 'Nuff sed. ||
 * [|Marco Polo Thinkfinity] || Search engine includes ArtsEdge, EconEdLink, EDSITEment, Illuminations, Science Netlinks, Xpeditions, ReadWriteThink, National Museum of Natural History ||

=Art=
 * **Website** || **Description** ||
 * [|KidsArt] || This web site is mainly for pre-school through junior high. The graphics make you want to explore the lesson plans. Excellent tips to create interesting watercolor effects. ||
 * [|KinderArt] || On this website the graphics are child like friendly. It also has many art lesson for creative ideas in the classroom. ||
 * [|Artswork] || This web site gives you lesson plans on Dance, Music, Drama, Visual Arts and Integrated Art, if you want to combine lessons. Most lessons have links to other sites. ||
 * [|Princeton Online] || This web site has teacher’s resources and many creative art projects for different grade levels. ||
 * [|Xpeditions' Geographic Perspective] || Lesson Plans for K-2 ||
 * [|ArtsEdge] || Focusing on the structure of the earth's atmosphere, this lesson relates the science concepts of layering, air density, and particles directly to dance concepts such as level and shape. ||
 * [|Ballet Hispanico] || Students will: learn and explore the concept of a movement sentence, brainstorm nouns, verbs, and descriptive words (adjectives and adverbs) based on the observation of a Diego Rivera painting, create their own movement sentence and perform it ||
 * [|Ballet Hispanico] || The Ballet Hispanico curriculum model is designed to support the academic achievement of learning standards in the Language Arts or Social Studies curriculum through a program of dance education that draws on the widest range of Ballet Hispanico's artistic resources. ||
 * [|CanTeach] || As the students review the different shapes they are asked to observe the shape around them. From this lesson the students will be able to identify the parts of their house and the geometric shapes that it is present in each building. ||
 * [|LessonPlanPage] || This lesson is broken into different phases annd is to take about 2 weeks to complete. While working in groups the students will be asked to explore the process of making mapes. they will be asked to create maps of their classroom and home community. the use of geometric shapes is part of this lesson. ||
 * [|Princeston Online] || During this lesson the students will discuss what is a "**square**". They will find squares all around them and create a robot using this geometric shape. ||
 * [|"My House"] || In this architecture lesson, students will observe their own home and then draw a picture depicting their place of dwelling. ||
 * [|Smithsonian] || By doing the //Geometric Shape Collage// lesson the students will observe differnent geometric shapes. Using geometric stencils and templates the students will be asked to design a collage. ||
 * [|ProTeacher Collection] || In this geometry lesson literature will be linked to the lesson. Following a reading, students will go for a //Geometry Walk// around their building.During the walk and upon returning to class the teacher will create a bar graph demonstrating the shapes seen on the walk. The teacher may also take digital pictures of what students observe. ||

=Math=
 * **Website** || **Description** ||
 * [|Home School Math] || HomeschoolMath.net is a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers: find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials & quizzes, curriculum guide, and teaching tips articles. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules. ||
 * [|Illuminations] || A compendium of 524 lesson plans and 91 online activities for math studies. Although not as many modules to search through compared to Awesome Library and Education World, each lesson is solid, and if you're in a jam for a math lesson (and who isn't?), you won't have to do much modification to make it work in your classroom. The Web Links don't appear to be maintained. ||
 * [|Teacher's Place (Math Forum @ Drexel)] || An excellent source of math lesson plans. The Website also contains reference materials, PD information, and even help for the graduate professor! ||
 * [|A to Z Teacher's Stuff] || This lesson plan consists of a class sorting Halloween Candy wrappers in various ways. By doing so students will be able to classify different groups according to size, color and so on. ||
 * [|Marc Sheehan's Candy Math] || This lesson is extremely similar to the one my group has posted. The only difference is that instead of graphing their findings, the students will perform addition and subtraction problems using a bag of M&M's or Skittles ||
 * [|Crayola Class Color Count] || Students will conduct a survey of students favorite color. By doing this they will learn how to group there findings and illustrate those findings by creating a pictograph which each child will construct. ||
 * * ===Fact Families=== ||
 * [|Mrs. McGowan's Fact Families] || This website consists of a lesson plan about fact families based on a compiliation of teachers that added several ways and activities to teach fact families. ||
 * [|HomeSchool Math Fact Families] || HomeschoolMath.net is a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers: find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials & quizzes, curriculum guide, and teaching tips articles. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules. ||
 * [|Illumination's Fact Families] || In this lesson, the relation of addition to subtraction is explored with fish-shaped crackers. The students search for related addition and subtraction facts for a given number and also investigate fact families when one addend or the difference is 0. ||
 * [|City Teacher Fact Family] || City Teacher is based on a blog an urban elementary school teacher developed to vent and toot her own horn unashamedly. Like some teachers, she does not enjoy her work environment and does not speak out; therefore, she uses this blog to speak out and get feedback from others. She also has lesson plans on this webpage. ||
 * * ===Pizza/Fractions Lesson=== ||
 * [|Teachers.net] || In this lesson plan children will be working with non edible pizza cut outs. They will be able to use addition and subtract skills when trying to figure out what fraction of the pie is remaining when you consume one to two slices. The teacher can also assist the students with more in depth task such as making inferences and higher order thinking. ||
 * [|Learn NC] || During this lesson, students will explore and investigate the relationships among fractions. Students will use paper pizzas divided into fractional parts to compare equivalent fractions. They will see part-whole fractions as fair shares and begin to understand that the parts must be equal. ||
 * [|A to Z Teacher Stuff] || The students will be able to identify concepts of fractions by using M & M's and pizza shapes to create their own fraction. Group skills and cognitive skills will be used when allowing the students time to work together to devise a fraction combination. ||
 * [|LessonPlansPage] || By performing this activity, students will become familiar with fractions, and have a meaningful experience to relate them to. It is hoped that students will become more comfortable with using fractions and have a better understanding of them. ||
 * [|Math Lesson Plan] || The main purpose of this lesson is to introduce fractions. I want students to be able to see that fractions are part of a whole. Students will need to understand and recognize the meaning of numerator and denominator in the symbolic form of a fraction. Students will also be able to start to recognize some common fractions such as 1/2, 1/4, 1/3. ||
 * [|ALEX Lesson Plan: Delicious Fractions] || This lesson will be implemented during a study of fractions. Manipulatives and the Internet will be used to explore fractions. Students will be able to identify fractional values. Students will be able to identify fractional parts using manipulatives. ||

=Science= This will be fun for a more relaxed understanding of the use of rain ||
 * **Website** || **Description** ||
 * [|Discovery Lesson Plans] || DiscoverySchool.com is primarily a K-12 science and technology site, but it does have lessons for all content areas. Don't forget to download the Teacher's Guide once you have a lesson you want to do in class. The site also attained the rare coup of getting exclusive control of [|Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators], a website that's been out there for over a decade. ||
 * [|junior engineering] || A handful of solid, well-crafted K-6 science lessons. I found that when teaching science it better to create and experiment in order for the children to get a good picture of whats being. You can "keep a weather eye" by watching clouds and paying attention to changes in the wind and the seas. This site shows you a more or less understanding of how cloud are structured. ||
 * [|SMILE] || A bare-bones (which to me are the best) website chock-full of science and math lesson plans. This site is one of those rare examples of an educational workshop (at the Illinois Institute of Technology) that not only benefited the participants, but the entire educator workforce. Unfortunately, 2006 was the last year of the program -- maybe when the state sells off its lottery program, money will be available to start it up again. ;-[ ||
 * [|USAToday Education Online] || Not a lot, but very colorful lesson plans, primarily math and science. ||
 * [|SEGway] || Astronomy lesson plans. Not many, but each is well produced. ||
 * [|SENSI] || Evolution lesson plans. Pretty standard writings, but a good place to start if you want to make a lesson in this subarea. ||
 * * ===Butterfly=== ||
 * [|TeacherVision] || This lesson is aimed for 4 and 5th grades. In this lesson the students will have to recognize stages in a butterfly's life cycle. This lesson is fun for the students. ||
 * [|Butterfly Website] || This site can help you understand the four stages of the butterfly. This lesson uses role play. Its for pre-k to 1st grades. ||
 * [|Technology Integrated] || This site is for k to 2nd grades. This lesson the students will listen a book, the Very Hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle. Then color/create the four stages of the butterfly. ||
 * [|Teacher's Net] || This site is on the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly and a specific author when using literature. This lesson is on observing a real Monarch caterpillar as it grows and changes. This lesson is for k to 1st grade. This lesson is done in 8 sessions. ||
 * [|Virtual Museum] || This is is for 1st and 2nd grades. This lesson is on butterflies found in their school. The students will observe the butterflies in their school environment. Then the students will compare them. ||
 * * ===Water Cycle=== ||
 * [|WeatherWizKids] || Other then teaching a lesson i have found a web site, with very coloful pictures and descriptive detail information based just for the kids. ||
 * [|web weatherforkids] || Learn what makes weather wet and wild, do cool activities, and become hot at forecasting the weather on Web Weather for Kids! ||
 * [|Discovery] || Students will identify and describe three states of water; and observe and predict how water will change states. ||
 * [|Washington U] || students will understand that water on earth moves in a continuous cycle, and be able to name and explain the stages of the water cycle. ||
 * [|Science for Ohio] || a week's worth of lessons on the water cycle ||
 * [|Scholastic] || This site gives the definition of key terms about the water cycle. It also gives four activities that teachers can do with the students on an everyday basis in order for them to understand the terms. ||
 * [|Scholastic]|| This site gives a description of the objections for the plan as well as the materials. It gives background information on water and its importance. At the end it gives two different worksheets that can be handed out to the students.||
 * [|Pro Teacher Directory] || With this lesson plan the children will use a two-liter bottle half soil, seeds and some water. They will then place the terrariums in front of alight source to show the process of condensation/evaporation cycle. ||
 * [|CoCoRaHS] || Students will collect predicted rainfall data from their area from News Papers, The Internet and the Radio from the past weeks. They will then compare that data to actual rainfall fall information from the past week to what actually occurred in their surrounding areas. ||
 * [|ProTeacher Collection] || The students will collected some rain in a jar and rain from the sink and place it in two and compare the two jars of water by running the water thru a coffee filter to see what is left behind. This will show how important the process of nature and man-made water structure is to creating cleaner water. ||
 * [|First School] || Precipitation,collection. After that use a cotton ball and a small amount of water, and have the children use the cotton ball pretending it is a cloud. With the cotton ball full of water have the children talk about the weight and temperature and, then have them squeeze it out to show in a way the cycle of rainfall. After that project is done have the children write about the process in greater detail. ||
 * [|NewsHour Extra] || Understanding your water from source to tap and back again. This lesson plan is for older grades but can be changed slightly by the removal of some of the more advanced parts of lesson plan. Most of the lesson plan can be done with access to the Internet. Have the children search for each step along the route of water from source to tap and back again, and write a summary on what they find. ||
 * [|Crayola] || This lesson plan will be drawing out the process of rain, from the clouds to the rain to the plants, ground and so on.

=Language Arts=
 * [|Read*Write*Think] || A superior literacy lesson plan site that is organized by every possible way a child learns language (read alouds, writer's journals, shared reading, etc.). Make sure you use the drop down boxes to narrow your search. ||
 * [|Sites for Teachers] || A "Popularity" index of Educational Sites. Who knows what you'll get when you click on the links, but if you're feeling lucky, try it out. ||
 * [|Making Connections] || This link gave us an idea of how student use prior knowledge to understand what a text is. ||
 * [|Read*Write*Think] || This lesson is designed to help first- and second-grade students learn new vocabulary by taking them on virtual adventures that replicate field trips. ||
 * [|Core Knowledge] || A lot of lesson plans for Grade 2 and others. ||
 * [|Learn NC] || This web page provides strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts. ||
 * [|2nd Grade Lesson Plan] || The following is a full length literacy **lesson plan** for a second **grade** class. ||
 * [|LessonPlans Page] || Where the Wild Things Are ||

=Social Studies= =Content Based=
 * [|PBS Kids] || This "Democracy Project" has a number of social studies lesson plans and provides interactive play on computers. The graphics will definitely catch the eye of elementary school students. ||
 * [|CTAP] || This website is exclusively for history but it has a number of lessons according to grade level and units of study so that one can have a week's worth of lessons. ||
 * [|Mr. Donn's Pages] || Pretty much all subareas are covered with descriptive lesson plans and PowerPoint slides. ||
 * [|Library of Congress Learning Page] || About 100 history lesson plans that are well writing, rich with graphics. ||
 * [|Time's Time for Kids] || Time Magazine for Kids is full of educational and fun resources for children grades K-6, as well facilitating teachers with excellent lesson plans. ||
 * [|Explorers A-Z] || Treasure Hunt WebQuests with timed activities for your lesson plans. Excellent information on explorers and other figures dealing with Social Studies. ||
 * {{http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/2013.html|Teachers.net Columbus Lesson]] || A great way to find word puzzles and other activities pertaining to your curriculum. ||
 * [|InstructorWeb] || This site has lesson plans, printables and other useful information for educators. ||
 * [|Reading A-Z] || This is a wonderful collection of famous childhood stories of the first U.S. president, George Washington. Each story includes examples of how George Washington was an honest person, even as a child. ||
 * [|Apples 4 The Teacher] || However if you are into integrating technology apples for the teacher is the place for you. I found that this site has a number of interactive games for students to have fun while learning. ||
 * [|PBS Kids] || The Democracy Project ||
 * [|Taino Indians of Puerto Rico] || This lesson provides children with information for them to learn more about the origins of Puerto Rican culture and folklore. ||
 * [|Indigenous Peoples In Caribbean PreHistory] || In this lesson, children are introduced to the Indigenous people of the Caribbean and the important aspects of the lives of the Indigenous people. ||
 * [|Columbus Day (Native American Perspective)] || Students have a clearer understanding of how Christopher Columbus' discoveries affected the Native Americans. ||
 * [|Taino Indians of Puerto Rico] || Children become familiar with customs and traditions, religious beliefs, form of government of the Taino Indians. ||
 * [|I Will Fly Away] || Through storytelling in the Haitian culture, children learn about history in terms of time and change, of the Caribs and the Tainos. ||
 * [|Building Bridges of Learning and Understanding, A Collection of Classroom Activities on Puerto Rican Culture.] || This lesson looks at Puerto Rican symbols and traditions, including holidays and celebrations, important to Puerto Rican culture. ||
 * [|Teachers.Net] || Map reading: With this lesson the children will obtain skills on how to read a map and locate their home on a city map and participate in related activities. They must practice map reading skills, locate their homes, schools, and other familiar landmarks on a city map. They must identify who lives in similar neighborhoods and where the students live in comparison to school, and define the map symbols. ||
 * [|Xpeditions] || Comparing the Continents: This lesson will help the students explore a map or a globe to compare the physical features of the earth's continents. The students will also compare the continents climate. ||
 * [|EduRef] || The Continent Game: With this lesson, the students will be able to compare the earth's continents, their area, population, annual growth, and other geographic terms. ||
 * [|The Continents] || This lesson will help the students review the continents, compare the continents in different ways, and be able to name them and their locations. ||
 * [|Xpeditions] || Mission Geography U.S.A.: This lesson plan shows children how to find different geographic locations around the United States. It also shows the students the topography of the land. ||
 * **Website** || **Description** ||
 * [|Busy Teachers Cafe] || This website provides Teacher resources, worksheets, as well as online activities for K-6 subject matter. Not so much about lesson plans, but an excellent resource for elementary school teachers. ||
 * [|EducationOasis] || Although there aren't that many lesson plans on this site, the lists of content resources are encyclopediac. It will take me a long time to go through all of them, but the list appears to be well culled. Check out [|Federal Resources for Educational Excellence], for example. ||
 * [|Homeworkspot] || This "metasite" contains no intrinsic content, instead it links to many different educational websites, mostly content specific, not lesson plans. ||
 * [|Best of History Web Sites] || Very comprehensive world history resource. Some lesson plan links. ||
 * [|History Matters] || You can access an almost infinite amount of American primary sources. ||
 * [|BBC History] || Good world historical material for WebQuests. ||
 * [|Digital History] || Good United States material for WebQuests. ||

=All Subject Areas=
 * **Website** || **Description** ||
 * [|abcteach] || Worksheets, worksheets, worksheets. ||
 * [|Apples 4 The Teacher] || However if you are into integrating technology apples for the teacher is the place for you. I found that this site has a number of interactive games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools for students to have fun while learning. ||
 * [|Awesome Library] || Although this is one of the longest running websites for lesson plans of any kind, I have linked to the technology page, because it's an excellent start point for learning about HTML tagging (see number 5, "HTML Tutorial.") Many dead links have grown over the years. For those of you with braver hearts, the de facto standard for [|HTML structure] is found on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. ||
 * [|ForLessonPlans.com] || This website includes free lesson plans on all subjects for teachers and educators. ||
 * [|Instructor Web] || This site has lesson plans, printables and other useful information for educators. Mostly worksheet based, you have to register to get most of the information. ||
 * [|LessonPlanz.com] || A good generic index of lesson plans organized by subject matter and grouped by grade level. ||
 * [|McREL] || A commercial site that offers some free lessons. They're standards based. ||
 * [|Teacher's College Lesson Plans] || This Columbia University website contains hundreds of K-12 lessons, all in text file format. Nothing pretty about these lesson plans, but if you're a first year teacher, you're probably intimately familiar with the layout. ||
 * [|teachnet.com] || A good hodgepodge of all subject matter, usually a handful in each discipline. ||
 * [|Teachers Corner] || Teachers corner has a number of very brief lesson plans and links to other sources that are helpful. ||
 * [|Teacher's Net] || Teachers submit their lessons on this site, over 4,000 and counting. Most are pretty dry, but a good place to search for any specific topic. ||

=Pay Sites=
 * **Website** || **Description** ||
 * [|A to Z Teachers store] || I found this website very helpful when having to create lesson plans because it has a variety of grade levels plus some items are free downloads like the demos in which you can make some crossword puzzles. I downloaded the demo and printed out a crossword puzzle that I made up myself. You can't beat that plus items for sale are reasonably priced. ||
 * [|Dover Publications][|* Reading a-z] || This website is good for teachers because if you register they e-mail you free printable rexo sheets on various subjects on a weekly basis,something that a teacher can use indeed,and, they also have a number of items for sale.Not to mention they give you brief descriptions on the items that may be of interest to an educator. ||
 * [|Hotchalk’s Lesson Plans Page] || The Lesson Plans Page is a collection of over 3,000 lesson plans from Preschool through High School and beyond, that were developed by Kyle Yamnitz, students and faculty at The University of Missouri, and more recently by the users of this website. Launched in October of 1996, The Lesson Plans Page was developed to assist educators of all types. Now, you have to register (and next year probably pay) for access. This website has a number of lesson plans by grade level and you can connect to other sites that contain other lesson plans. Theoretically, you can access NBC News archives if you register with them, but we all know what that means... ||
 * [|Lesson Planet] || 7436 Lesson Plans and counting. That's awesome! Again, I've linked to the Educational Technology section. You can get 10 days for free, but then you have to pay $25 to get access. I hate paying for anything, if you want any of the lesson plans, create links before getting your 10 days for free, and download like crazy! ||
 * [|Teacher Vision] || A pay site, but you can log in for free for 7 days, so glomming is possible. Resources include a variety of lesson plans, free email newsletters and literature tie-ins, quizzes, and printables to help teachers easily enhance learning and incorporate technology into their classrooms. ||

=News Lessons=

PBS
[|Newshour] [|PBS Teachers] [|thirteen edonline] [|Scholastic] [|KQED] [|Point of View]

[|New York Times] [|New York Daily News] [|New York Daily News]

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