Below are some of the best Internet web sites offering lesson plans for K-12 classroom teachers. Many of the sites provide links to other Internet resources you can explore. The first listing includes two sites for ESL and Migrant Education. This is followed by a listing of general sites contain links to many if not all subject/grade level areas. Next, we have a few sites that are grade level specific. Further down the list we have divided the sites by subject specific areas.

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ESL & Migrant Education Sites

• iClasses.org is OVEC's online courses for middle and high school students. This site offers 38 courses for middle and high school students. Site is available on a subscription basis.
• Teach Spanish.com - This site is devoted to teachers of Spanish and ESL students contains lesson plans and other resources, some commercial, for teachers.
• ESL Lesson Plans and Resources
• ESL Website - Free ESL lesson materials and ESL lesson plans. Printable worksheets for ESL classroom teaching. English grammar, pronunciation, board games, esl books, flashcards, board games, song lyrics and more
• EFL/ESL Lesson Plans
• Everything ESL - Offers lesson plans on a variety of topics.

General or Multi-Subject Sites

• Astronomy Picture of the Day - This site is educational resource in classrooms from elementary school to graduate school.
• Discovery.com - Site provides lesson plans for K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 in all content areas. This site also provides tools for teaching including a Quiz Builder, Puzzle Maker, Worksheet Generator and a Glossary Builder.
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - a categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best new sites to support teaching and learning.
• Blue WEB'N - Excellent source of lessons, projects, etc. for all subjects and grade levels.
• Busy Teachers' Web Site - This site is designed to provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.
• Cyber Guides - CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards.
• TeachersFirst - TeachersFirst is a web resource for K-12 classroom teachers who want useful resources and lesson plans to use with their students.
• Cornell's Links to Internet Field Trips & Museums - Links to many quality Internet sites for use by teachers and students.
• Teacher Talk - collection of electronic lesson plans covers a variety of topic areas. It is organized by topic area.
• Awesome Library - many quality units and lesson plans for all grades and subjects.
• The Teachers Corner - The site for Primary & Intermediate Teachers -- including lesson plans and other resources.
• Cartoonist Web Site - Lesson plans for all levels on using professional cartoonists index web site for the classroom.
• Collaborative Lesson Archive - This site is intended to be a forum for the creation, distribution, and archival of education curricula for all grade levels and subject areas.
• The Gateway to Educational Materials - The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet! (Recommended by the US Department of Education!)
• Ask ERIC Lesson Plans - a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
• edHelpher.com - This Canadian web site contains a wide variety of lesson plans.
• TeacherVision.com - This site offers a database of lesson plans by grade and subject as well as lesson themes.
• Teachers.Net - This site offers lesson plans submitted by teachers from across the curriculum.
• Lesson Plan Page - Offers 1,000 lesson plans in 10 subject areas plus holiday lesson plans!
• Success Link - This site has a database of well designed lesson plans. Search by grade level & curriculum area. This collection is growing, and already has many high quality lessons. Lesson plans follows Missouri State Standards.
• Teachers Helping Teachers - Lots of info - including lesson plans by subject area. Updated weekly.
• PBS Teacher Source - PBS TeacherSource materials are developed by trained and practicing educators.
• Teachers' Guild Lesson Plan Library - Provides lesson plans for all grade levels in language arts, social studies, and math and science.<>/LI>
• A to Z Teacher Stuff And Lesson Plans -- Site contains lessons plans and many more resources for classroom teachers.
• Lesson Plan Search Site - Provides a search engine to find lesson plans on the Internet.
• Teachers at Nickelodeon - Lesson Plans for pre-school, elementary, and middle school teachers that complement Nickelodeon's Cable in the Classroom programming.
• The Lesson Plans Page - Over 500 lesson plans on a variety of subject and grade levels.
• The Learning Network - The daily lesson plan and lesson plan archive. Site operated by the New York Times.
• Global Schoolhouse - More than 700 online collaborative projects from around the world!

Grade Level Sites

• Primary School Lesson Plans - Resource for the primary school teacher provides over 2000 lesson plans, worksheets, articles and teaching strategies to view and download.
• K-3 Teacher Lesson Plans - offers a variety of lesson plans. Site also contains other resources for teachers.
• Education Place is a site from Houghton Mifflin - Search the database of 400+ original K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers and parents.

Social Sciences

• The Educator's Desk Reference - American History. Organized by grade level and topic.
• Resources & Lessons by Grade Level - Lesson plans by grade level developed by California teachers to meet state standards.
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - site has lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school.
• National Council for History Education - Internet links to historical and museums - not lesson plans but resources teachers can incorporate into lesson plans.
• Social Studies Lesson Plans - elementary, middle and high school
• Awesome Lesson Plans for History - American, World, Ancient History
• Global Connections: The Middle East - A resource on understanding the middle east in today's world from the recent history of the region.
• Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History - In addition to the guide, links to oral history sites are provided.
• Lewis & Clark Expedition - This site at the University of Virginia begins with President's Jefferson's orders to "bring back your party safe."
• Smithsonian's Classroom Ready Lessons & Activities - You'll find topics ranging from presidential elections to ocean ecology to landscape painting, in lesson plans designed for upper elementary and middle school students.
• Mr. Donn's Ancient History - Lesson Plans and Study Units on Ancient History.
• Beginnings - This site is making major changes over the next several months adding Dynamic Foreign Language Instruction in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The cultural section remains and will continue to make updates and improvements.
• Lesson Plans for Social Studies - lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.
• National Geographic Society - Geography lessons and activities for all grade levels.
• Lesson Plans on Africa - assist K-12 teachers, librarians, and students in locating on-line resources on Africa that can be used in the classroom, for research and studies.
• American Memory Fellows Program - The lessons are based on primary sources from American Memory collections, but include other World Wide Web and print resources as well.
• Cornell Arts & Social Sciences Gateway - provides links to resources in social sciences and the arts for K-12 educators and students.
• Education World - This site is sponsored by American Fidelity Education Services. The site provides lesson plans and current issues in education today.
• Civil War & Reconstruction - contains links to many primary and secondary sources on this period of American History.
• The Quest for Immortality - this online exhibit from the National Gallery of Art, students can explore ancient Egyptian culture and join the pharaohs in their spiritual search for everlasting life. "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt" is an interactive exhibition divided into six themes: Journey to the Afterworld, The New Kingdom, The Royal Tomb, Tombs of Nobles, The Realm of the Gods, and The Tomb of Thutmose III. Students can take interactive tours of famous tombs, watch streaming-video slide shows narrated by expert historians and anthropologists, pore over many of the artifacts that were on display during the gallery's live exhibit last fall, watch a video on the quest for immortality, and examine a map of ancient Egypt.

English & Literature

• Awesome Library - Lesson Plans for Language Arts
• EdSITEment Lesson Plans - Well-developed and high-quality lessons for English and Social Studies. Some may require classroom computers with Internet questions.
• Teaching Ideas - Site of the National Council of Teachers of English.
• Lesson Plans For English Teachers - Site developed by Kodak with contributions from teachers across the nation.
• Library In the Sky: Literature Lessons - a variety of links to literature and writing lessons and resources.
• Read/Write/Think - ReadWriteThink.org, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
• Ask ERIC - Site provides a variety of lesson plans on topics ranging from Alphabet to Writing.
• CEC - Columbia Education Center provides lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school.

Science

• The Educators' Desk Reference - Lesson Plans on Physics organized by grade level and topic.
• The Educators' Desk Reference - Lesson Plans on Biology organized by grade level and topic.
• Awesome Library - Science Lesson Plans
• Physics and Science Lesson Plans - Developed by Rutgers University and organized by grade level and topic.
• Earth Science Web Site - Georgia State University
• Earth Science Lessons - for grades 5-8
• Air Quality Lesson Plans - Elementary through High School
• Oil & Gas Exploration
• Geographical Society of America
• Science for Elementary Grades - Site operated by the Department of Teacher Education and Administration, University of North Texas.
• Science Education Gateway - The Science Education Gateway (formerly SII) is a collaborative NASA project which brings together the expertise of NASA scientists, science museums, and K-12 educators.
• Science in the Real World: Microbes in Action - provides scientific information and hands-on activities in microbiology to K-12 teachers via curriculum units, workshops, a newsletter, and this web site.
• Knowledge Integration Environment - KIE can be used by science classes or for personal projects. When used in a classroom, KIE can complement other curricula such as laboratories.
• Exploring the Environment - this site is deigned to engage high school students in collaborative scientific inquiry and analysis.
• Science Teachers Resource Center - Designed for high school teachers of chemistry, physics, life sciences, biology, AP chemistry, and many other resources.
• Space Science Curriculum Standards Quit - This NASA site is interactive and easy-to-use web site provides age-appropriate activities and lesson plans for teaching about the solar system in K-12 classrooms. Each lesson included on the Space Science Curriculum Standards Quilt meets National Science Education Standards. To use the site, you simply choose an appropriate grade level, then choose from any of the illuminated squares on the interactive patchwork quilt. There are 16 subject areas arranged in vertical columns, including the sky, planetary objects, apparent motion, patterns, size and scale properties, stars, and more.
• Natural Library of Virtual Manipulatives
• NCTM Interactive Site
• Graphing Activities
• Graphing Activities 2

Arts

• ArtsEdge - focuses on the national art education standards plus foreign language, science, social studies, ESL, mathematics, and physical education. The site provides K-12 teachers with curriculum materials, programs, strategies, and other information for integrating arts into the classroom.