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A to Z Teacher A to Z Teacher Stuff Lesson Plans - the new & improved lesson plans directory from A to Z Teacher Stuff! Search or browse lesson plans and teaching resources to find what youneed for themes and thematic units, literature & book activities, math, science, learning centers, social studies, computers, reading, writing, P.E./health, cooperative learning, and more!
Academy Curriculum Exchange Offers more than 50 math lesson plans for elementary, intermediate, and high school levels.
Activities for Elementary Students Curriculum database where K-8 teachers can search for lesson plans/activities, a monthly theme, and other subject areas by grade level. Activities can also be borrowed by theme.
ALFY'S Lesson Plans Searchable database of teacher created lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area for the elementary school. It includes dozens of math plans as well as Internet-based classroom activities and thematic units.
CEC Lesson Plans The Columbia Education Center in Portland, Oregon features a wide variety of language arts lesson plans created by teachers for use in Elementary (K-5), Intermediate (6 - 8), and High School (9-12) classrooms.
Laura Candler's File Cabinet - Various resources
Primary Resources Free lesson plans, activity ideas and resources for primary teachers.
SBC Knowledge Network - Tons of lesson plans
Unit Plan Index Provides a searchable database of hundreds of units and original lesson plans for a wide variety of subject areas developed by teachers for use in grades K-12. It includes more than 1,500 language arts classroom activities and materials.
Zoom School School is an online elementary school classroom with activities in geography, biology, language arts, and early childhood activities. It also has illustrated dictionaries including the Little Explorers picture dictionary available in many languages.
Art/Crafts
All About Coloring. Loads of educational coloring pages.
Art of Site Resources for grades 6-12 Art Teachers. There are lessons and links to informative sites.
Bulletin Board Ideas and ArtWork
Crafts in the classroom. Find craft Projects to create in your classroom according to subject and grade level. Find the tools and resources you need to put the power of hands-on learning to work in your classroom!
Kids are Crafty (K–6) This site offers activity sheets, coloring pages, dot-to-dots, mazes, vocabulary and worksheets.
Kidzone Fun Facts for Kids Great science experiments, lesson plans, wide variety of activities, free printable activity worksheets and much much more.
National Gallery of Art For art student and teachers.
Pre-K – 1st Grade. Preschool Activities and Crafts
School Express. Printable Worksheets for students 3-10.
Vincent Van Gogh Gallery Comprehensive site on the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh.
World Artist Directory’s Art Teacher Extensive lists of resources including art lesson plans, tutorials, art quizzes, and a link to the Web Art Museum where you can learn more about style and famous artists.
World Wide Web Virtual Library Museums Page contains museums by country and continent, as well as selected virtual museums.
Yahoo! Arts: Art History: Masters. Art History, index with links to information on the lives and works of famous artists from around the world. Grades 5-12.
Classroom Management
Classroom Discipline Resources Resources concerning classroom discipline.
Classroom Management ideas for elementary school teachers. A growing collection of tens of thousands of ideas shared on ProTeacher over the years by teachers from across the United States and around the world. GLC has compiled the best resources of the Web into an organized making it easy for educators to locate and implement in the classroom.
Dr. Mac’s Amazing Behavior Management Advice Site This site offers THOUSANDS of tips on managing student behavior, and provides step-by-step directions for implementing a great number of standard interventions. It also contains a bulletin board on which you can post your disciplinary concerns and receive suggestions from teachers around the world. (you have to scroll down the page to see all the great links.
Kim’s Korner for Teacher Talk Different areas of classroom management such as rewards, physical space, and rules. The site has ice breakers, bulletin board ideas, classroom rules and much more.
NEA—Classroom Management has some very useful information about classroom management techniques, from tips for teachers to bringing out the best in kids. From Bulletin Boards to a wide variety of classroom mangement ideas.
Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources Collection of classroom management and discipline web sites geared towards all grade levels. Topics range from preventing behavior problems to sample classroom rules.
Teacher Resource Center. This site offers resources for busy teachers.
Teacher Talk The site features a wealth of information on classroom management for pre-service and secondary education teachers.
Teachers Helping Teachers A large collection of lesson plans for all grade levels. Click on the classroom management link to see a variety of classroom management lesson plans.
Teachnet: How to Topics. Teachnet has a power tools section consisting of ideas and services that simplify the teacher’s job. Click on classroom management link to learn about management strategies that range from behavior to grading tasks.
You Can Handle Them All Is a reference for handling more than 117 misbehaviors at school and at home. The misbehaviors are described with a suggested action, and a write up of common mistakes in handling the behavior.
Drama—One Act
Drama Teacher’s Resource Room features creative and challenging experiences for students in the drama classroom. It offers lesson plans, articles on costume, props, set design, lighting and scenic painting, and links to other resources.
Dramania fun, free, drama activities for elementary and middle school students. Activities for one person, two people or entire class. Grades 1—8.
Dramatists Play Service Teachers will find a listing of plays by title, author, and number of characters, as well as information on obtaining nonprofessional performance rights.
Pro Teacher--Drama Provides links to lesson plans, activities, and resources for teachers of theatre. Suitable for K-6.
Samuel French the world’s oldest play publisher and caters to film and theatre professionals and students. It provides the largest selection of plays in the world. Teachers can browse an alphabetical list of book titles.
USA Plays for Kids is specifically for k—12 audiences. You can search for information about playwrights and plays by state or alphabetically. There are also resources on children’s theatre and plays.
WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and Drama site contains numerous resources for all ages and cultures. The site, updated daily, has theatre image collections, journals online, newsgroups, theatre studies, articles, and resources, a theatre syllabus bank, and much more.
Language Arts/Reading
Ages 3 -- 11 Year Olds Worksheets
Handwriting Worksheets: Handwriting Modern, Large Size Letters & Numbers, Handwriting Traditional, Large Size Letters & Numbers, Miscellaneous
Language Translator Babel Fish Translation
School Express Worksheets: Abbreviations, Adjectives, Adverbs, Alphabetizing, Antonyms, Synonyms, Homophones, Classifying, Compound Words, Contractions, Direct and Indirect Objects, Nouns, Plurals, Prefixes and Suffixes, Pronouns, Punctuation, Verbs
Writing: Creative Writing, Journal Writing, Sentences, Writing Activities
Writing: Reading and Word Activities, Rhyming, Sight Words, Storytime
About.com's K-6 Lesson Plan Headquarters Provides a wide assortment of K-6 lesson plans and worksheets for language arts and other subject areas. To find more lesson plans, click on language arts or literature in the left panel.
About.com's Secondary School Language Arts Lesson Plans Hundreds of secondary school lesson plans for teaching grammar, novels, and other English language arts topics.
About.com's Teacher Guides to Shakespeare Lesson plans for teaching Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and non-dramatic poetry in the secondary schools. Click on Articles & Resources in the left panel for more resources.
AOL@SCHOOL Teachers: Language Arts Lesson Plans Hundreds of lesson plans covering a wide variety of language arts topics from reading to composition for grades K-12. You can enter keywords, such as folk tales, to search for specific lesson plans.
Arthur: Parents and Teachers The ARTHUR Web site serves as a companion t the PBS "ARTHUR" television series. It is a great resource full of links to activities and lesson plans that build communication, reading, and math skills for children between the ages of 3 and 7.
A to Z Teacher Stuff's Online Collection A to Z Teacher stuff provides hundreds of language arts, teacher-created lesson plans arranged by grade level for preschool and K--12. To find these plans, visit the language arts, the literature, or the thematic units section.
Awesome Library: Language Arts Lesson Plans The awesome library contains a collection of hundreds of language arts lesson plans for grades K-12.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site The site contains a collection of lessons and activities to accompany more than 40 children's books. Make sure and click the Expanded Table of Contents at the top of the page to see what's all available.
ClassZone: Language Arts: Novel Guide There are more than 50 thematic units for teaching major works of literature from To Kill a Mockingbird to Hamlet for grades 9-12.
Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communications: Lesson Plans Language Arts Lesson Plans
Discovery School: Literature Lesson Plans The Discovery Channel owned and operated by Discovery Communications offers literature lesson plans for grades K-12.
K-12 Literature-Based Teaching Ideas Links to Web sites containing lesson plans and teaching resources for more than 400 titles for grades K-12.
EDHELP A compilation of more than 10,000 lesson plans; 1,000 WebQuests; and 5,000 worksheets categorized by topic for grades K-12. Language arts topics include reading, literature, spelling and vocabulary.
Education World: Teacher Language Arts Lesson Plans Teacher created language arts lesson plans for grades K-12. Click on Lesson Planning Resources and Subject Center in the left panel, you'll find hundreds of other language arts lesson plans gathered from a variety of sites.
The Educator's Language Arts Lesson Plans Collection of more than 100 lesson plans covering literature, reading, spelling, and other language arts topics contributed by teachers fro grades K-12. Each lesson plan features an overview, purpose, objectives, activities, and resource materials.
English Lesson Plans Online Collection of English lesson plans and worksheets for middle and high school teachers.
English Resources Site maintained by English teachers which has hundreds of lesson plans and activities for teaching English for grades K-12.
English Room Poetry and a series of creative writing lessons for students in grades 6 - 12.
The The English Teacher English Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies.
Spelling Spelling lessons for grades 5-12.
Word Search A generator that let's K-12 teachers easily create word search puzzles suitable for printing. The site also includes hundreds of collected puzzles that your can print.
Writer's Workshop Writing tips for grades 9-12. The students resource section is filled with information on plagiarism, use of quotations, and the style for citing resources. Included in the student section is the Editor's Grammar and Mechanics page, which covers the basics of editing, including terminology, punctuation, and sentence management, as well as a self-quiz.
Writing Fix Has a large assortment of writing ideas, starters, and links, which should be of invaluable assistance to middle and high school teachers and students alike.
Math
Ages 3 -- 11 Year Olds Worksheets
Awesome Math Lesson Plans Hundreds of math lesson plans for grades K-12.
Breaking Away from the Mathbook Creative Projects for K-8 in area, perimeter, spirals, and congruent triangles.
CanTeach Math Provides a variety of math lesson plans for grades K-6. Includes numbers, patterns and relations, geometry, and probability.
Math Lessons and Math Activities Hundreds of lesson plans for teaching math in the elementary school. To find other math lesson plan sites, click on Math or enter "math lesson plans" in the search engine.
Multiplication Click on Teachers link and find numerous activities and strategies to teach times tables (encourage parents to use this site and click on the parent link).
Numbers and the Number System: Counting
Secondary School Math Lesson Plans Hundreds of lesson plans for teaching math in the 7-12 scgrades. Algebra, geometry, and other math subjects inthe middle and high school.
Word Problems for Kids - Challenging math word problems - for grades 5 and up. Great site to get students thinking.
Miscellaneous
Ages 3 -- 11 Year Olds Worksheets
Thinking Skills: Analogies, Deductive Reasoning, Famous Quotes
Science
Ages 3 -- 11 Year Olds Worksheets
School Express Worksheets: Air, Chemistry, Earth, Dinosaurs, Evaporation, Gravity, Health, Human Body, Inventions, Light, Magnets etc and more.
Social Studies/History
Ages 3 -- 11 Year Olds Worksheets
Veterans Day 2006
Spanish
Hot Internet Sites ¡en Español! (K - College) An Internet Hotlist on Spanish Resources
Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes (9 - 12th Grade) Internet activities for Spanish Classes Level 1 thru Level 4 Above.
BBC Languages The site has lessons for more than 11 languages. The site contains audio and video resources for beginners and intermediate secondary students. There are many languages covered, including France, Spanish, and German. Each language has it own page with teacher resources for that language.
