Lesson Plans for Teachers
| Book Adventure – http://www.bookadventure.com is an online reading program with interactive features and games. Students can create booklists, choose books, and take quizzes on books they’ve read. There are also contests and prizes. |
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| Essay Map – http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/essaymap is an interactive graphic organizer that gives students several ways to outline and structure their writing – introduction, main idea, supporting details, and conclusion. |
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| Fun English Games – http://www.funenglishgames.com includes word scrambles, caption-writing, reviews of movie trailers, and tongue-twister games on parts of speech and vocabulary |
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| Reading comprehension – http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm is geared to helping upper elementary and middle-school students break down reading passages and focus on vocabulary, context, and main idea. |
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| Science lesson plans – Education Planet-Science has more than 45,000 lesson plans in all areas of science and more than 1,000 Web links for additional science exploration: http://www.educationplanet.com/directory/science |
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| Multimedia math lesson plans – PBS: Teachers Math offers lesson plans that promote a multimedia approach: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/math |
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| Telling fact from opinion – The EduHound website has several lessons on this vital skill: http://www.eduhound.com/site_sets/Fact_or_Opinion.cfm |
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| FREE middle school lesson plans in Chemistry from ACS: http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/ |
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| Insights on third-world countries – At this website sponsored by the Peace Corps – http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/lessonplans/section.cfm?sid=9 – educators can access more than 50 interactive K-12 lessons. |
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| Wild Animal Camera Traps - A Smithsonian Institution website offers links to images of some of the world's rarest animals, captured by researchers' so-called "camera traps." The Smithsonian Wild site also includes information about research projects associated with the pictures. http://siwild.si.edu/ |
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| Hermitage Museum online – The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia now offers seven free online courses for students through its Virtual Academy, covering Commemorative Medals, Rembrandt, Ancient Rome, Biblical Subjects, the Winter Palace, Knights, and Ancient Egypt. See http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/06/hm6_2.html |
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| Summer science websites – Two science websites have abundant resources for teachers and students this summer: • The Jason Project – http://www.jason.org • National Science Foundation Special Reports – http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports |