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Discovering and Creating Lesson Plans
1. Browse for Lesson Plan Ideas at discoveryschool.com The site seems slow but is filled with much information. It is divided into the following grade levels (Grades K-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12) and the following subjects (Astronomy/Space, Earth Science, Economics, Geography, Health, History, Ancient History, U.S. History, World History, Life Science, Animals, Ecology, Human Body, The Microscopic World, Plants, Literature, Physical Scienc, Technology, and Weather.
Select the subject and the grade and push go.
List your discoveries below:
2. Browse for Lesson Plan Ideas at Curriculum and Instruction. This excellent site has tons of links to lesson plan sites. It is designated as a Middle School site but has material appropriate for all levels. Find and book mark your favorite ones. List their names and/or url addresses below:
3. Browse for Lesson Plans at your favorite site. Name some of these:
4. Refine your search by narrowing your topic to one subject. Name your topic ____________________________________.
5. Use search engines to see what else is available. The Internet has more than 150 search engines. I have linked just a few that have proven to be helpful resources. Select and click on one search engine, type in the name of your topic and push submit.
Ask Jeeves Have a question?
Just type it in and ask.
Alta Vista searches
21 million Web page and Usenet news groups, but claims to be faster than
existing search engines.
Excite searches more than 50
million Web sites and two weeks of Usenet News.
Go2Net's Metacrawler
Browse the net's best directory.
Google Search 1,326,920,000
web pages.
HotBot, connected with Lycos,
is a good site for English teacher research.
Lycos, a comprehensive Internet
database, allows Boolean 'and' and 'or' combinations of words
in searching more than 19 million Web sites.
Magellan has
reviews and rates for 45,000 Web sites.
WebCrawler operates
by navigating the Web and either building an index for later use or by
searching in real-time. This has a lot of good English resources
under entertainment.
Yahoo has a fairly comprehensive
subject index, but its search engine is weak.
If you have any other favorite site that you would like to share,
list it here:
If you are a member or have access to http://schoolhousebooksweb.com
explore Reference Essentials
for
many more research suggestions.
List discoveries from search below:
6. To begin publishing your lesson plan, select any word processing file you are comfortable using.
paste it into your word processing file,
and use it as a guide to create your own lesson plan:
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Title of Lesson: Appropriate for What Grade Levels
Goals/Objectives:A broad view of the purpose, aim, and rationale for the lesson. Is this lesson connected to National, State, or Local Standards? What will the students be able to do after the lesson is completed? Try to design a lesson that meets the four goals listed for Designing Performance Assessments. Modify these goals to fit your lesson plan.
Prerequisites: What knowledge do students need to have as readiness for this lesson?
Materials: What weblinked resources will be used with this lesson? Select at least three links below and incorporate them into your lesson plan. When doing so, type the visible name of the link and the url address. You can find the url address by holding the mouse down on the link and pushing "copy this link." Then return to your word processing file and paste the link into the text. Here are some choices:
Book Resources
National Book Awards at amazon.com The Earth's Biggest Selection
Library of Twentieth Century Suggested Reading
Online Texts
School House Books Collection of Online Texts
Reference Works:
ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus Search Form.
Encarta Concise Free Encyclopedia.
Recommended Web Sites for Kids
KidsConnect Favorite
Web Sites.
Find something here for just about any subject.
Lesson Description:
Use Bloom's
Taxonomy to design a description of the topic focus and lesson activities.
Lesson Procedure: Provide a chronolgical list of steps needed
to complete the lesson.
Assessment: Explore what research
says about assessment at the Eric/AE
Full Text Library. Included are links to the best full-text books,
reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet
that address educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory. Search
Assessment and Evaluation on the Internet.
Incorporate some sort of Assessment
and Evaluation.
Publication: Copy the entire lesson as it appears in your word processing file. Double-click on submit an article. Paste the lesson copied from your word processor into this email message. (Please include your Name, School, City and State. We have members from all over the United States and it is nice to know where you are teaching. Also, if you include your email, people can send questions or comments as well.) Finally--Send the message. This will be published on the net at http://schoolhousebooksweb.com , usually within twenty-four hours.
