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Lesson Plans & WebQuests: the process

Teaching Tips Includes Lesson Planning for effective teaching: how to from a Faculty Development Document at the University of Hawaii
WebQuest Matrix: a resource for those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. "A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation."

Building Blocks of a WebQuest: "Putting a WebQuest together is not much different from creating any kind of lesson. It requires getting your learners oriented, giving them an interesting and doable task, giving them the resources they need and guidance to complete the task, telling them how they'll be evaluated, and then summarizing and extending the lesson."

WebQuest Lesson Plan Templates: from the Teachers Academy for Mathematics and Science.

Connections+ A large compendium of valuable lesson plans and related resources. Collaborative Lesson Archive Use a lesson (organized by grade), or add a lesson. Lesson Plans from Encarta Original lesson plans submitted by teachers in the U.S. There are some good ones here, but the collection is small right now. Lesson Plans from the Smithsonian Covers Social Studies, Arts, Language Arts and Science. Columbia Education Center's Mini Lessons This group of lesson plans came from the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshops. They were done by a consortium of teachers from 14 states dedicated to improving the quality of education in the rural, western, United States, particularly the quality of math and science education. The Lesson Plans Page Over 100 elementary school lesson plans for all subjects, from students or faculty at the University of Missouri Teacher Talk Forum: Lesson Plans Lesson plan archive of downloadable lessons.

Lesson Plans in Art

Art for Sale: From the Instructional Technology Development Consortium this lesson, like others at their website expose students to technologies that help them collaborate with others. Problem Based
The @rt Room
Ask ERIC Lesson Plans: The Arts
Early Childhood.Com Crafts

Lesson Plans in Math and Science

Teacher Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons and Classroom Activities: Besides lesson plans, this site includes a Lesson Plan Template.
Program Physics Index: Includes matter, mechanics, fluids, electricity & magnetism, waves, sound and optics and other topics.
CRPC Interdiscliplinary Lesson Plans: The Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC) and the creators of GirlTECH'95 provide lesson plans designed by teachers to take full advantage of Internet resources and teach standard concepts in mathematics and sciences in new and exciting ways.
Galileo: This is a large collection of science lesson plans for k-12 science teachers for classroom use.
Outer Orbit: Lesson Plans: Grades 5-12 lesson plans and activities brought to the web by Space News Online. Each month two new classroom activities are added -- one aimed at students in grades 5-8 and one aimed at students in grades 9-12.
Math Forum: Arithmetic Lesson Plan Sites
The Math Lesson Plan Page and the Mathematics Lessons Database
Explorer: Lesson plans and activities in Math and Science... soon to be broadened to other curriculum areas

ESL: English As a Second Language

Lesson Plans & Resources for ESL, Bilingual and Foreign Language Teachers

ESL Web Guide: Lesson Plans

The Internet TESL Journal: (Teachers of English as a Second Language) -- lessons, lesson plans and handouts for the ESL classroom.

Adult Education ESL Teachers Guide

NCBE - National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education

Social Studies Lesson Plans

Educational Enhancements: Educational Enhancements is operated by Peter K. MacLeod, a high school geography teacher at Philemon Wright High School in Hull, Quebec, Canada. He depends on the help of active classroom teachers to support the creation of classroom materials from government documents.

AskERIC Lesson Plans

AskAsia Lesson Plans: "Learn to fold an origami swan. Uncover the reason Koreans leave uneaten food on their dinner plates. Read the Chinese "Brocaded Slipper" tale, the first version of Cinderella that dates to 863 C.E. Discover how the Japanese word besu-boru was born from the American word "baseball." Suitable for K-12 Asian studies curricula, the materials and guidance available here can foster an appreciation of Asian culture. AskAsia makes teaching and learning about Asia -- from culture to politics, from history to religion -- as easy as NIKO NIKO (that's Japanese for smiling happily). Developed by The Asia Society in cooperation with several partners, AskAsia offers high-quality, carefully selected resources to steer both the novice and the veteran."
Adventure Online: This web contains teaching material which will allow educators to bring adventure into the classroom. These adventures can be used as an electronic textbook, media resource, language tutor, map cabinet, and more. All materials are copyright-free but are not intended for commercial purposes.
National Council for the Social Studies: NCSS regularly publishes lessons plans and teaching ideas in its journals Social Studies and the Young Learner and Social Education. The lesson plans stored here are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). These files reproduce the lesson plans exactly as they appeared in print with graphics and photos.

The Learning Web: Changing World, Working with Maps, and Earth Hazards: Lessons and activities from the U.S. Geologic Survey.
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers

Lesson Plans Utilizing the Internet or other Technologies

Mr. G's Applied Technology Sites - from the British Columbia Science Council
Lesson Plans using Statistics and the Internet
Sample Internet Lesson Plans and Learning Projects
WWW.4Teachers: Premier Tracks
Technology N'formation for Teachers (TNT): A database of technology-related lesson plans developed by Florida educators.
Successful Projects with Telecommunications

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