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Education Abstracts Full Text (UTSA subscription)
Selectively indexes and abstracts articles from more than 400 English-language periodicals. Books relating to education published from 1995 to the present are also indexed. Indexing coverage begins with June 1983, abstracting begins with January 1994, and full text coverage from more than 150 of the periodicals begins with January 1996. Search terms: "lesson plans" and "units of work". Full Text & Full Image
ERIC (UTSA subscription)
Provides citations and brief abstracts to a wide range of education related literature including journals, conference proceedings, books, federal and state documents, bibliographies, directories, curriculum guides, instructional resources, and audiovisual media, from 1966 to the present. Search terms: "lesson plans" and "units of study". Citations Only
PsycInfo via CSA (UTSA subscription)
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education, and linguistics, from 1967 to the present. Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 1400 journals worldwide as well as books, and book chapters in the English language. Dissertations are also included, although not abstracted. Search term: "lesson plans". Citations Only
See also: Subject Guide for General Research Resources: Periodical Articles
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Lesson Plans on the Web
There are many web sites dedicated to lesson plans. This collection highlights a few that fit into each of the subject areas above. Use a web search tool such as Yahoo! or Ask Jeeves to find more online links.
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Background Information
Apple Learning Interchange
Free Website: http://ali.apple.com/
Contains a lesson plan library for curriculum grades K-12.
Awesome Library
Free Website: http://www.neat-schoolhouse.org/science.html
This website features a variety of educational information including a section on lesson plans. Also available in Spanish.
Busy Teacher's Web Site K-12
Free Website: http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
Provides teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.
Columbia Education Center's Mini Lessons
Free Website: http://www.youth.net/cec/
Lesson plans listed by grade level for language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
Curriculum Archive
Free Website: http://www.buildingrainbows.com/CA/ca.home.php
The Curriculum Archive is intended to be a forum for the creation, distribution, and archival of education curricula for all grade levels and subject areas.
Discovery Channel School
Free Website: http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/index.html
Browsable lesson plans for various subjects and grade levels.
The Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plans
Free Website: http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml
The Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 1,000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to The Educator's Reference Desk by teachers from all over the United States.
EDSITEment: Best of the Humanities on the Web
Free Website: http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Site from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities and the Verizon Foundation lists online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities for the classroom. Lesson plans are categorized by Arts & Culture; Literature & Language Arts; Foreign Language; History & Social Studies.
Learning Page : Library of Congress
Free Website: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/
Use primary resources from the Library of Congress American Memory Project to create a class.
Lesson Plan Search.com
Free Website: http://www.lessonplansearch.com
Database and search engine organized by subject and grade level.
LessonPlanz.com
Free Website: http://www.LessonPlanz.com/
Search engine for subjects including thematic units, fine arts, language, health, science, social studies, and more.
New York Times Daily Lesson Plan Archive
Free Website: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html
The searchable archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12.
OzEdWeb
Free Website: http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/mrlaneis/default.htm
Australian web resources for educators and students with a focus on Information Technology, Society and Environment, and History. Uses frames.
PBS TeacherSource
Free Website: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Growing inventory of more than 1,300 lesson plans, teacher guides, and online student activities.
Smithsonian Institution Lesson Plans
Free Website: http://educate.si.edu/lp/lp_fs.html
Collection of classroom-ready lessons including topics such as presidential elections, ocean ecology, and landscape painting. Lesson plans are designed for upper elementary and middle school students. Smithsonian educational materials emphasize inquiry-based learning with primary sources and museum collections.
Teachers' Guide to the Professional Cartoonists Index
Free Website: http://www.cagle.com/teacher/
Lesson plans for K-12 teachers in Social Studies, English and Art based around a collection of newspaper editorial cartoons.
Teachers.net Lesson Bank
Free Website: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
Browsable / searchable site for teaching ideas and lesson plans.
TeachNet
Free Website: http://www.teachnet.com/
Searchable database of teacher-designed activities and projects.
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Art
ArtsEdNet: Lesson Plans and Curriculum Ideas : Search Lesson Plans
Free Website: http://www.getty.edu/education/search/
From the Getty Institute, this section of ArtsEdNet includes a variety of teaching and learning materials, including many art images.
Art on Air Lesson Plans (Kentucky Educational Television)
Free Website: http://www.ket.org:80/artonair/teachers/lessonplans.htm
A list of art lesson plan resources on the Web.
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Early Childhood
AtoZteacherstuff.com
Free Website: http://atozteacherstuff.com
Searchable database of thematic units and lesson plans on dozens of topic appropriate for early childhood.
Silly Billy's World
Free Website: http://www.sillybilly.com/plans88.html
Thematic units and lesson plans for Early Childhood. Many include songs, fingerplays, and activities.
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Mathematics
Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library
Free Website: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/library/resource_types/lesson_plans/
A selection of K12 math lesson plans by topic and grade level.
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Science
SEGway: The Science Education Gateway
Free Website: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segway
The Science Education Gateway is a collaborative NASA project which brings together the expertise of NASA scientists, science museums, and K-12 educators to produce NASA science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom and public use via the World Wide Web.
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Social Studies
Ancient Civilizations Lesson Plans
Free Website: http://www.archaeolink.com/ancient_civilizations_lesson_pla.htm
Lesson plans about the daily lives of people in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India, and more.
EDSITEment: Lesson Plans
Free Website: http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans.html
Note: slow-loading page. Focuses on heritage, tradition, and culture, through lesson plans and home learning activities that chart a path across academic borders to help students and their families probe the meaning of the American experience and the relationships between our experience and that of other cultures around the world.
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
Free Website: http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/index.html
Lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful. This website has won several awards.
National Archives and Records Administration "Teaching with Documents: Lesson Plans"
Free Website: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
This page contains reproducible copies of documents from the the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.
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