Lesson+Planning

[|Frameworks] for the Minnesota: Mathematics & Science Standards
 * Minnesota STEM Teacher Center

Lesson plans and activities.
 * Henry Anker Tests

We have hundreds of standards-based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices. Find the perfect one for your classroom.
 * Lesson Plans: Read-Write-Think

Wisc-Online is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called "learning objects." The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects.
 * Wisc-Online

Created by Teachers for Teachers and Parents.
 * Teacher Created Resources

Elementary lesson plans.
 * Mountain City Elementary School

School learning platforms and websites.
 * KS1 Resources

History lesson planning.
 * Spartacus Educational

A website for early childhood educators and parents.
 * Hubbard's Cupboard

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
 * Star Fall


 * Primary Resources
 * Free lesson plans, activity ideas and **
 * resources for primary teachers. **

No two learners, no matter the age, have exactly the same needs. Steck Vaughn has provided innovative and effective learning solutions that meet the needs of each individual learner in primary, secondary and adult education for 70 years.
 * **Steck Vaughn Publishing**
 * Welcome to Steck Vaughn**

Worksheets, games, lessons, etc...
 * Ed Helper


 * Dibels

Scot Foresman
 * Scott Foresman


 * Literacy Leader

Students will do the following:
 * Self-esteem Lesson Plan
 * 1) Explore the concept of self-esteem
 * 2) Analyze their personal strengths and weaknesses
 * 3) Consider the role self-esteem plays in a healthy life

Challenge is a powerful motivator when students take on tasks they find meaningful and, through their efforts and perseverance, succeed. As Mark Twain wrote, “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
 * How to Plan Instruction Using the Video Game Model

This page is dedicated to making it easier to implement a variety of teaching methods and techniques. Here you'll find scores of teaching strategies that help students take more responsibility for their own learning and enhance the process of teaching for learning.
 * Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

The mission of Mountain City Elementary School is to provide resources, a positive environment, and support for student learning that facilitates high levels of achievement for all students and excellence in instruction by teachers.
 * Mountain City Elementary Corner

// This post is cross-posted from [|my Philly Teacher blog], but I thought it fit this week's gaming theme and has a lot of applications for how we bring technology tools into our classrooms as well as for how we design tech-infused projects. //
 * Using the Video Game Model in the Classroom

So let’s get to some scaffolding strategies you may or may not have tried yet, or perhaps you’ve not used them in sometime and just need a gentle reminder on how awesome and helpful they can be when it comes to student learning:
 * Six Scaffolding Strategies to Use with Your Students

Free Classroom Guides and Educational Downloads for 2011. Get our easy-to-print guides that include useful tips for teachers, parents, and school administrators.
 * Free Classroom Guides

Learning progresses primarily from prior knowledge, and only secondarily from the materials we present to students, studies show. Think about that. We teachers spend so much time gathering materials -- important and necessary for good instruction -- but are we often enough using the greatest tools right there at our fingertips? All of those young minds, ready to go!
 * Are You Tapping into Prior Knowledge Often Enough in Your Classroom?

HotChalk is a learning environment for K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes a learning management system (LMS), a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content, and professional development for teachers in a Web-based environment. Available through any Internet browser, the HotChalk Learning Environment is an easy to use system and brings teachers, students and parents together to improve education.
 * HotChalk

Welcome to my page of lesson plans, lesson plan links and subject resources. You are more than welcome to use the lessons I designed as you see fit; all I ask is that you mention where you found the lesson(s). I hope you find what you are looking for here. Marc Sheehan's Special Education/Exceptionality PageWelcome to my special education and exceptionality page. I hope that you find this page of resources useful. Feel free to check out my [|lesson plans page] and my [|educational resources page] as well.
 * Marc's Lesson Plans Page

Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links.
 * Graphic Organizers

In 1986, Donna Ogle created KWL, a reading strategy that engages the students in the text or textbook and helps students analyze what they are reading. Students are asked to describe what they already know about the reading topic. Then they are asked to look at the title, the introduction and the pictures and determine what they want to know more of, in essence to determine why they should continue reading the literature.
 * Pretesting Students and the KWL Strategy

The National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) was established in 1990 to provide national leadership in designing and building educational assessments and accountability systems that appropriately monitor educational results for all students, including students with disabilities and English Language Learners (ELLs). Since its establishment, NCEO has been:
 * National Center on Educational Outcomes
 * 1) Working with states and federal agencies to identify important outcomes of education for students with disabilities.
 * 2) Examining the participation of students in national and state assessments, including the use of accommodations and alternate assessments.
 * 3) Evaluating national and state practices in reporting assessment information on students with disabilities.
 * 4) Bridging general education, special education, and other systems as they work to increase accountability for results of education for all students.
 * 5) Conducting directed research in the area of assessment and accountability.
 * 6) NCEO focuses its efforts in the following areas:
 * 7) **Needs Assessments and Information Gathering** on the participation and performance of students with disabilities in state and national assessments and other educational reform efforts.
 * 8) **Dissemination and Technical Assistance** through publications, presentations, technical assistance, and other networking activities.
 * 9) **State Data Collection Technical Assistance** to assist states in continuing to meet the challenges of collecting comprehensive, accurate, and consistent data on the participation and performance of students with disabilities.
 * 10) **Collaboration and Leadership** to build on the expertise of others and to develop leaders who can conduct needed research and provide additional technical assistance

Intervention Central provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention.
 * Intervention Central

SCOE is a strategic partner to the county’s 40 districts and their 177 schools, providing service and support to help them meet legal mandates, operate cost-effectively, and raise student achievement. SCOE provides fiscal oversight to districts and operates schools for special education and alternative education students not enrolled at district sites. SCOE’s career technical education programs, known as ROP, are offered as elective classes at every comprehensive high school as part of the county’s commitment to graduate college- and career-ready students.
 * Sonoma County Office of Education
 * The mission of the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) is to foster student success through service to students, schools, and the community.**