Lesson Planner
http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/lp/
"This Web site is intended to help teachers write focused lesson plans. The Planner addresses essential questions that are often overlooked when planning curriculum units. Teachers bring their own content and are guided through each section by answering specific questions."

Lesson Plan Sites   [top]

All Subjects

New York State Virtual Learning Space
Links to seven NYS education groups that offer curriculum and instructional content, tools, tests resources and resources tied to learning standards, performance indicators and core curriculum statements. 

• NYSED Virtual Learning System (NYSED VLS)
  http://eservices.nysed.gov/vls/
   "The purpose of the New York State Education Department's Virtual Learning System is to encourage the use of the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning and to assist classroom teachers in locating Internet resources for instruction.  VLS offers the full text of New York State's learning standards with their key ideas and performance indicators, as well as alternate performance indicators for students with severe disabilities.   It provides resources that classroom teachers can use to support preK-12 standards-based instruction, such as sample tasks, learning experiences and lesson plans."   (Content from NYSATL's Learning Experiences has been added to this site)
   

• New York Net Resources for Teachers
  http://www.schenectady.k12.ny.us/users/title3/crc/crcindex.html
  Projects developed by NY teachers for NYWired, Project View and more [Part of the NYSVLS]

    Gateway to the Internet, 1200 k-12 lessons based on Internet resources plus 5,000 Internet web links all based on the National Standards.  In Sept. there will be a NYS page that will be based on the NYS Standards and expectations.

MarcoPolo New York    http://www.nyiteez.org/MarcoPoloNY

Here you will find over two thousand MarcoPolo lessons  matched to New York State Learning Standards performance indicators and competencies where applicable. Alignments reflect the revisions of the New York State Learning Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics.

AskERIC Lesson Plans
http://askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/
There are more than 2000 lesson plans for all subject areas--searchable site.

The Learning Page-Lessons for Teachers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/theme.html
This page contains a list of lessons developed using the Library of Congress's American Memory Collection.  The lessons are arranged by themes, topics, disciplines or eras and then by grade levels.

The Gateway
http://www.thegateway.org/
Created by the United States Department of Education, The Gateway to Educational Materials is a free, meta-search engine that lets educators (and parents) search for lesson plans from over 24,480 different Internet resources.

Teachers Network.org
http://www.teachnet.org/
Based in New York, the Teachers Network is an alliance of education professionals dedicated to disseminating best-practices throughout the world of public school education. On the homepage, visitors can click through a selection of lesson plans, essays by current teachers on their own experiences, and also read a list of grants available to those working in a number of disciplines, including social studies, language arts, and the sciences. The How To area is one that will be most helpful to new teachers, as it provides resources on managing a classroom, working with students families, and teaching literacy.

SciCentr.org   
http://www.scicentr.org/
Cornell Theory Center's gateway to k-12 educational sites: Arts and Social Science Gateway, Gateway for Educators, and Math and Science Gateway.

New York Times Lesson Plan Archive  
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html
The archive of lesson plans from the New York Times Learning Network contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson, browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view the most recently published lessons.

The Lesson Plan Library from DiscoverySchool.com
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
The Discovery School site has a lesson plan library organized by topics  and grade levels. An excellent site.

EduScapes
http://eduscapes.com/
A huge site build for teachers with more than 200 topics covered (42eXplore) and indexed by subject, time, and topic.

WebQuests Collection

EDSITEment Lesson Plans
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson_index.asp
Lesson plans for literature and language arts, foreign language, art and culture, and history and social studies broken into grade levels k-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.

PBS TeacherSource
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
3,000+ lesson plans and activities for arts and literature, health and fitness, math, science and technology, social studies, early childhood and library media.

PBS Interactive Sites
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience/
Find interactive content such as games, clickable maps, QuickTime VRs, and more grouped according to interest: space, nature, health, chemistry, biology, history, physics & math and more.

Thirteen Ed Online--Original Lesson Plans  
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/index.html
Each month, lessons plans based on PBS series and the NYS curriculum are developed by Thirteen/WNET New York and their Online Master Teachers.

NTTI's Lesson Plan Database  
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/lessons/index.html
The National Teacher Training Institute's site contains lesson plans for middle and high school students. All of the lessons take one period to complete and require the use of educational videos.

CyberBee
http://www.cyberbee.com/
The collection here includes treasure hunts, curriculum ideas and more.

Instructional Resource
http://www.title3.org
This site, developed by public and non-public schools belonging to five BOCES in Northern New York, contains Leaning Units and Learning Experiences based on the New York State Standards.

Educational Web Adventures 
http://www.eduweb.com/adventure.html
Great interactive web based adventures in art, art history, history, geography, economics, science and nature for grades K-12.

Teach With Movies
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/
This a great resources for finding movies that can be used for teaching a specific topic or area.  Take a look.

Math and Science      [top]

FunBrain.com
http://www.funbrain.com/numbers.html
Fun number games for elementary and middle school students.

CIESE Online Classroom Projects  
http://www.k12science.org/currichome.html
..."focus on projects that utilize real-time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.  Each project has a brief description and links to the National Science Standards and NCTM math standards it supports."

APSnet Education Center
http://www.apsnet.org/education/k-12plantpathways/Top.html
This site contains K-12 teachers guides to lessons and interactive laboratories in biology to teach basic principles of science and the scientific method.

Plant Seeds of Learning
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson259.shtml
Education-world offers lesson plans on plants for grades K-12 and related resources.

Language Arts    [top]

FunBrain.com
http://www.funbrain.com/words.html
Fun word games for elementary and middle school students.

Reading a-z: A Complete Online Reading Program
http://www.readinga-z.com/
Reading a-z provides educators with over 150 downloadable guided reading books to help children become more proficient readers. The site also contains over 212 lessons plans, over 500 worksheets, and over 200 flash cards to help teach alphabetic principle, phonemic awareness, and sound/symbol relationships. Although there is an annual subscription fee, viewers currently have free access to 28 sample books, along with their accompanying worksheets and lesson plans. 

Social Studies         [top]

Best of History Web Sites: Lesson Plans/Activities
http://www.besthistorysites.net/LessonPlans.shtml
An annotated listing of teacher-recommended websites for social studies lesson plans.

FunBrain.com
http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html
Identity states, countries or capitals all over the world.

Art      [top]

Arts Edge Lesson Plans
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/les.cfm
Lesson plans by art subjects, other subjects and grade level.

EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subjectArea=1
Art and culture lesson plans by subcategory and grade level.

KinderArt Lesson Plans
http://www.kinderart.com/biglist.shtml
Lessons for pre-k to grade 8. Lessons topics include textiles, sculpture, architecture, printmaking and folk art.

Education World
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/ah.shtml
Select either "art history" or "visual art" links for lesson plans.

Incredible Art Lessons
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/elemlessons.html
Lessons submitted by teachers and arranged by grade level.

ArtsEdNet
http://www.getty.edu/education/search/
Creative art lessons by grade level.

Crayola Lesson Plans
http://www.crayola.com/educators/lessons/index.cfm
Interesting visual arts lessons arranged by grade level (pre-K to 12), theme (books, crafts, holidays, etc.), medium and timeframe (e.g. 30 to 60 minutes). Free registration is required.

Arts Lesson Plans
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm
Lesssons are designed around the content of PBS shows.  Printable student and teacher materials are included with many of the lessons.

Museums    [top]

Smithsonian Education
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org
The Educators section contains lesson plans in four categories, by grade level, along with a search engine to find lesson plans, field trips, publications and productions, and professional development resources.

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Note: Please keep in mind that the Internet is a fluid medium and sites are constantly being added, moved and deleted.  If you find a dead or redirected link or you would like me to add a new resource please contact me at morsilka@shenet.org. Please give me the name of the page, the title of the link, and the url.  Thanks.