Tips For Teachers: Finding good lesson plans

Looking for lesson plan ideas to spice up your classroom? Check out these free online resources. All are recommended by fellow teachers. Enjoy!

A to Z Teacher Stuff

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/

A site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Includes: lesson plans, thematic units, discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials (including eBooks), worksheets, and more.

Free Ed


http://www.free.ed.gov/

There are over 1,500 free resources, ranging from primary historical documents, lesson plans, science visualizations, math simulations, and online challenges, paintings, photos, mapping tools, and more.

Hot Chalk’s Lesson Plan Page

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

Over 3,500 free lesson plans

OER Commons

http://www.oercommons.org/

OER Commons is a teaching and learning network, from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware, from algebra to zoology, open to everyone to use and add to.¬

Teacher Created

http://www.teachercreated.com/

Find over 400 free lesson plans on all subjects for all grades. Teacher Created also publishes and sells resource books at the elementary and middle school levels as well as stickers, awards, notepads, postcards, name tags, and incentive charts.

Thinkfinity

http://www.thinkfinity.org/EducatorHome.aspx

Thinkfinity contains more than 55,000 authoritative educational and literacy resources for teachers, students, and community programs including standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and web sites.