Sites With Lesson Plans

Please visit the School Room for dozens of pages of links to lesson plans, educational websites, and other resources organized by subject. The links below take you to websites that also offer lesson plans and worksheets but you will have to do your own searching from their homepages for specific topics.

Lesson Pathways - Launched as a paid service, Lesson Pathways is now a free subscription. A Pathway is a unique learning unit that contains a prescreened selection of Internet resources, which together cover a particular topic. Each Pathway provides a multisensory learning experience, enabling children to learn from a variety of reading materials, hands-on projects, games, online activities, and videos. Many Pathways also include audio resources, e-books, and reference pages for those who want to delve even deeper into a topic. Pathway resources are prescreened to ensure that they are age-appropriate and informative, and each one is developed to appeal to various learning styles. LessonPathways.com provides unique Pathways in each of the core subjects: history, language arts, math, and science. Reading and phonics Pathways are provided for Years K through 2. You'll also find a Guided Jo urney for each core subject in Years K through 5. Each core Guided Journey lists 36 Pathways--one for each week of learning. To understand how this works, consider a textbook that has 36 chapters. Each Pathway of a Guided Journey is like a chapter in a book. ()

Core Knowledge® Resources - Lesson plans - This collection contains units developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools and presented at recent Core Knowledge National Conferences. The units are organized by grade level, and within grade level by subject area. (Y, M)

MontanaPBS.org Lesson Plans - NTTI Lesson Plans With Montana Standards (Y, M, O, T)

Time for kids - Discover the world with Time for kids. Offers news for Kids, games, special offer, printable worksheets and more. (Grades K-7) (Y,M,T)

42eXplore - Why start with a search engine, when you can find a pathfinder to fit your needs at 42eXplore? When learning something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore. This web project provides "four to eXplore" for each topic. On each page you'll find definitions, activities, the 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic. Go to the About Site page for more information about the website. (Y, M, O, T)

Read Write Think Student Materials - The Student Materials are part of a larger project from NCTE, Marco Polo, and and International Reading Association. The larger site includes many lesson plans, easily sorted by topic and grade. The Student Materials include online tools that teach students concepts like acrostics, bio-cubes (for biographies), comic creators, drama maps, essay maps, and much more. Kids who don't like the physical aspect of handwriting will enjoy using the tools on Read Write Think to show off their writing skills. (Y, M, O, T)

Textbook Revolution - "Textbook Revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value... At Textbook Revolution, you’ll find links to textbooks and select educational resources of all kinds. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable only online as e-books. Most books are aimed at undergraduates, but there are at least a few resources at every level, from kindergarten to post-doc. All of the books are offered for free by their respective copyright holders for online viewing." (Y, M, O, T)

PBS TeacherSource - The site offers free lesson plans and activities (indexed by grade level and topic) that tie into PBS educational programming. You can subscribe to an email newsletter and get tips on upcoming PBS programs that might be of interest for your family. Check (T)

National Geographic EDNET Resource Library - This National Geographic community page provides a wide variety of teaching materials and resources, including grade specific lesson plans, news articles, classroom companions, photos, videos, and more. (Y, M, O, T)

RHL School - "Your place to get free ready to use quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Worksheets that are truly unique! Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons." (T)

Lesson Plans Page - over 2,500 free lessons arranged by subject (T)

LessonPlanz.com - LessonPlanz.com is searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grades and subjects. (T)

A to Z Teacher Stuff - "A to Z Teacher Stuff is teacher-created, and designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. We offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, teacher discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable work (T)

Easy Fun School - "EasyFunSchool.com has over 1,500 pages of articles, resource links, a newsletter, and many other features to make homeschooling more enjoyable for both child and parent!" (T)

DiscoverySchool.com - Huge site from the Discovery Channel (Y, M, O, T)

Surfing the Net with Kids - Huge site with links to almost every conceivable topic (Y, M, O, T)

Dositey.com - "Fun games...exciting excercises...involving interactive lessons to boost a child's success in school. Just 15 minutes a day with Dositey programs or worksheets makes children eager to learn." (Y, M, O, T)

Awesome Library - Huge site with links arranged by subject (T)

Scholastic Teachers - free tools and resources (T)

IDEAS - This collection of teaching resources from the University of Wisconsin is one of the best organized I have encountered. The vast collection of resources are rated and can easily be searched and the results narrowed by grade level, resource type, subject, (Y, M, O, T)