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Lesson Plans

Discovery School.com - Lesson Plan Library:  http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/

An excellent resource for lesson plans. Browse by grade level and subject. 

 

edHelper.com:  http://www.edhelper.com/lessonplans.htm

Includes lesson plans by grade level, worksheets, and Web Quests in many subject areas, including science.

 

EDSITEment: http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson_index.asp

Lesson plans from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

  

Education World: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/

Lesson plans, Web Quests, articles, and other educational resources.

 

ENC: http://www.goenc.com/

Formerly the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, this resource provides access to the best mathematics and science curriculum resources on the Internet, including links to lesson plans, virtual field trips, classroom activities, and Web Quests.   Subscription required.

 

GEM: The Gateway to 21st Century Skills: http://www.thegateway.org/

A consortium project sponsored by the National Education Association that includes a wide variety of lesson plans, curriculum units, and other education resources from many different sources.  Some resources are free, others require a fee or registration to be used.

 

Lesson Plan Central: http://lessonplancentral.com/lessons/

Lesson plans organized by topic or grade level.  Also includes worksheets and some Web Quests on various science topics.

 

The Lesson Plans Page.com: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/index.html

Started in 1996, this site has over 2,000 lesson plans (primarily elementary level) from the University of Missouri, although users of the site have submitted more recent plans.

 

Middle School.net: http://www.middleschool.net/

Scroll down to the section on Lesson Plans & Tutorials to find science lesson and Web Quests.

 

Web Quests

Dr. Alice Christie’s WebQuest Matrix:

http://alicechristie.org/edtech/wq/matrix/

Web Quests prepared by college students at Arizona State University West.

 

Teach-Nology: Web Portal for Educators: 

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/

Links to sample Web Quests on various topics in language arts, science, math, and social studies.

 

UCI Summer Science Institute: Web Quests:

 http://www.can-do.com/uci/k12-lessons.html

Examples of Web Quests created by participants in the summer science program at the University of California at Irvine.

 

The Webquest Page: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

This is the Website prepared by Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University.  Click on “Examples” to find a matrix of Web Quests organized by grade level and subject.

 

 

Fair Use

If you use materials from the Web that were created by others or modify a lesson plan or Web Quest and use it in your own class, you must obtain permission from the holder of the copyright and credit the author or creator.  The University of Texas System has an excellent site that explains copyright and fair use.  It can be found at: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/copypol2.htm

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