WEB RESOURCES Lesson Planning / Lesson Activities

Thinkfinity.com
Offers free teacher resources, classroom resources, teacher lesson plans based on national education standards, interactive activities by subject. Thousands of Free Lesson Plans in: Math, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Music, Physical Education, Reading, Writing, Geography, Science Projects, etc.


Scholastic.com
Click on the "Teaching Resources" tab where you can access: lesson plans, teaching stratiegies and ideas and more. Click on the "Stuednt Activities"tab, then, "Computer Lab Favorites" link for quick, compelling one-session activities you need to incorporate interactive learning and technology into your curriculum. Each activity requires no prep and can be completed in 15-30 minutes.

Internet4classrooms.com
A free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials.

Integration For Computer Lab Teachers
Free Internet resources to use in computer lab instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter area, lesson planning and lesson activities.

Mrsrenz.net
A hand labored resource created by a 4th grade teacher, this site has loads of activities for students as well as ideas fro teachers.

Math Lesson Activities, Quizes


Mathgoodies.com
Math Goodies is your free math help portal featuring interactive lessons, worksheets, and homework help. A pioneer of interactive instruction offers: WebQuests. Games. Homework Assistance, Articles, Forums, Puzzles Newsletters, and Calculators.

Math2.org
This website is totally devoted to Math. Here you can find reference tables, make math questions and get answers from the community. The site also features selected links.

Themint.org 
Launched in 1997, the site provides tools to help parents as well as educators teach children to manage money wisely and develop good financial habits. The site is an interactive presentation of very good information and offers a fun way for students to learn.

math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons
Mathematics lessons for elementary, middle, and high school including geometry, fractions, and algebra.

IXL.com
IXL.com (from "I excel") is a math practice website for elementary school kids (subscription based). It has unlimited questions on hundreds of math topics and a comprehensive reporting system. This online tool adapts to a student's individual level of proficiency and includes achievement awards and progress reports.


Webmath.com
Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions and problems, as entered by a user, at any particular moment. The math answers are generated and displayed real-time, at the moment a web user types in their math problem and clicks "solve." In addition to the answers, Webmath also shows the student how to arrive at the answer.

Mathforum.org
The leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992. Explore some of their popular programs: Ask Dr. Math, Math Tools, Teacher2Teacher and the Internet Math Library.

 

Computer LIteracy Skills Lesson Activities

Learning.com
helps teachers improve student learning with curriculum and assessments web-delivered through Sky, our digital learning environment.

bbc.co.uk/schools/typing
Welcome to Dance Mat Typing, an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years. Each of the site's 4 levels are divided into 3 stages. Begin at Level 1 and build up your skills gradually through to Level 4.

Typeonline.co.uk
Typeonline was designed and implemented by a web developer based in Hampshire. Both Education Network Australia (EdNA) [edna.edu.au], and the National Grid for Learning (NGfL) [ngfl.gov.uk], have assessed Typeonline and judged this online offering to be a quality educational resource.


Online Project Resources & Publishing

Wikimedia
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.

Weebly
Create a free website or blog in minutes by using a simple drag and drop interface. No ads. One of Time's 50 best websites of the year.

Tweentribute.com
TweenTribune.com, a daily news site for tweens. Stories chosen for TweenTribune are selected by tweens working closely with professional journalists. Tweens can submit links to stories they'd like to share, submit their own stories and photos, and comment on the stories they read.

 

Cross-Curricular Teacher Resources

Internet4classrooms.com
An educational portal with free resources for teachers and their classrooms as well as students and parents.

Online-stopwatch.com
A Free flash online stopwatch, quick easy to use stopwatch! also an online countdown!

Prongo.com
Prongo.com offers fun, interactive, and educational games for kids. For teachers, Prongo.com also offers Quizstation. Quizstation allows teachers to create online quizzes for their students. Prongo.com also offers kids clip art, e-cards for kids, wallpaper, kids jokes, screensavers, and more. Prongo.com provides hours of learning fun for kids and resources teachers need to have a fun and productive classroom.

 

Sheppardsoftware.com
Offiers hundreds of free, online, educational games for kids. But anyone interested in online learning can use our site - we have so many subjects - (geography, math, animals, science) and many levels, games and acitivies for learners of any age.

School.DiscoveryEducation.com
Click on the "Classroom Resources" tab and access a plethora of resources such as: lesson plans by grade and subject , featured content, science fair central and the site's famous online "Puzzle Maker".

Google.com/educators
Here, you’ll find a teacher’s guide to Google Tools for Your Classroom. And to spark your imagination, you'll find examples of innovative ways that other educators are using these tools in the classroom. While you’re there, you can sign up for the quarterly Google for Educators newsletter, as well as check out the latest from The Infinite Thinking Machine, a Google-sponsored, WestEd-produced blog for educators, by educators.

bls.gov/k12
Describes the nature, preparation, and future of various jobs in relation to a school subject. In addition, the occupations on the site are categorized according to interests and hobbies common among students. The Bureau's Web site for kids is updated every 2 years with each new edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

 

Teachersdesk.org
A resource designed for teachers of grades five and six. Please feel free to sit down, relax, and take your time browsing through the contents, a collection of lesson plan ideas and classroom activities.

itools.com/research-it
iTools Quick access to the best Internet tools: Find anything on the Web, Language Tools, Look up words or translate them, Research Tools, Find facts and theories about any subject, Financial Tools, Convert currency, Map Tools See a map or get driving directions Internet, Use networking and web tools, and Find People Find people on the Internet.

Quia.com
Quia is pronounced key-ah, and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a wide variety of tools, including: Templates for creating 16 types of online activities using your own content. A complete online testing system with automatic grading and detailed reporting. Online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback. Access to millions of shared activities and quizzes in over 300 categories. ...and more!

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