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bullet About.Com - Lesson Plans for Adults
http://adulted.about.com/od/teachers/a/coursedesign.htm

bullet Curricula & Lesson Plans
http://www.lacnyc.org/resources/curricula/

    These web-based lesson plans and curricula were created by LAC staff members and by participants in LAC professional development workshops and institutes. They reflect a variety of beliefs about teaching and learning. At the LAC, we believe that learning is best enhanced when technology is integrated into instruction by using participatory, project-based learning strategies.

bullet Education at the Getty
http://getty.edu/education/

    The Getty's art education web site.

bullet Education World
http://www.education-world.com

    Education World has news items, curriculum, lesson plans. links to other educational sites and much more.

bullet Family.Com
http://www.family.com

    Great ideas. Practical advice. Fun stuff to do.

bullet Family Learning & Resource Center Lesson Plans
http://literacy.kent.edu/GTE2/fam_cent/fam_cent_index.html

    This site has numerous lesson plans that focus on family literacy and building life skills. Some of the categories include family communications, making healthy choices and building self-esteem. These include activities that parents can do at home with their children

bullet ForLessonPlans.Com: Five Common Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans (and how to avoid them )
http://www.forlessonplans.com/lesson_teacher/index.php

bullet The Gateway to Educational Materials
http://www.thegateway.org/

    The Gateway is a comprehensive database of lesson plans that is searchable by grade as well as by the headings, "Vocational Education", Higher Education" and "Adult/Continuing Education".

bullet General Lesson Plans and Curricula
http://www.lacnyc.org/resources/curricula.htm

bullet The Internet and the Classroom Teacher Preparing an Instructional Lesson Using the Resources of the Internet
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/cni/review/tomei.html

    Take your students on a tour of the White House. Tour the Solar System without visiting the local planetarium. "Can't be done" you say? "Don't have the time or the funds?" is your response. Technology can provide the avenue for this exploration. Actually, it can provide the Information Super Highway. An adventurous spirit is the key prerequisite, along with a little help to take those first tentative steps in preparing a classroom lesson using the Internet. This article describes the step-by-step evolution of "Exploring the Holocaust on the World Wide Web," a highly successful lesson presented to students from a local high school Social Studies class.

bullet Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/schrock-guide/index.cfm?campaign=footer_teacher_schrock

    This is one of the best sites online for educators. It contains a categorized list of sites that could be used for curriculum development. Some of the topics include Mathematics, Literature/Language Arts, Science, Technology, Weather Information and Maps. This site also contains a section on assessment rubricks and lots of links.

bullet The Lesson Plan Builder
http://www.adultedlessons.org/login.cfm?fuseaction=login

    The Lesson Plan Builder makes it easier for you to develop quality lesson plans that address adult education content standards in the context of CASAS and SCANS competencies.

bullet Lesson Plan Database - GED Illinois Online
http://gedillinois.org/staffinfo/teachresources/lpd.html

    Several types of lesson plans are presented in this teacher resource database. Some of the lessons are cross-curricular, while others emphasize a particular content area of a specific skill. In addition, while many of these lessons are presented with much detail, other lessons provide only an outline or a link to a lesson plan found elsewhere.

bullet Lesson Planning, Lesson Plan Formats and Lesson Plan Ideas
http://www.adprima.com/lesson.htm

    This is among the most popular pages on the ADPRIMA web site, and for good reason. Good lesson plans do not ensure students will learn what is intended, but they certainly contribute to it. Think of a lesson plan as a way of communicating, and without doubt, effective communication skills are fundamental to all teaching. Lesson plans also help new or inexperienced teachers organize content, materials, and methods. When you are learning the craft of teaching, organizing your subject-matter content via lesson plans is fundamental. Like most skills, you'll get better at it the more you do it and think of ways of improving your planning and teaching based on feedback from your students, their parents, and other teachers. Developing your own lesson plans also helps you "own" the subject matter content you are teaching, and that is central to everything good teachers do

bullet The Lesson Plans Page - Over 1,000 Free Lesson Plans
http://lessonplanspage.com/

    The Lesson Plans Page is a collection of over 1,000 lesson plans, primarily at the elementary level, that were developed by Kyle Yamnitz, students, and faculty at The University of Missouri. More recent lesson plans were submitted by the users of this website. Launched in October of 1996, The Lesson Plans Page was developed to assist educators of all types. Elementary school teachers get lesson plans that are ready to use in their classrooms. College students get great example lesson plans or ideas to base their own lesson plans on. Home schoolers can get lesson plans to use at home and parents can get ideas for educational activities to use with their children.

bullet National Adult Literacy Database
http://www.nald.ca/index.htm

    As a digital library, the National Adult Literacy Database links the diverse players and builds a united literacy community.

bullet Recommended Trade Books: GED Matrices
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Resc/Trade/ged_matrices.html

    This matrix is intended to facilitate the use of thematic text sets in developing lesson plans appropriate for GED study. Some teaching ideas for using the books are also provided.

bullet Surfing for Substance
http://hub1.worlded.org/docs/surfing/index.htm

    Surfing for Substance is a guide for adult literacy and ESOL staff developers, teachers and program administrators who are interested in taking the plunge into the electronic surf, but need some simple, user-friendly pointers. The main goal of Surfing for Substance is to provide staff developers with a range of ideas and methods for introducing literacy teachers to the World Wide Web as an instructional resource. The title highlights one of our objectives - to help teachers learn how to construct meaningful Web-based instructional activities and projects.

bullet Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/

    Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

bullet Teaching Tips
http://www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu/facdev/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm

    The Teaching Tips Index contains information on a wide variety of topics of interest to teachers of any level of learners. A few of the many topics in this index include assessment, how people learn, preparing a lesson plan and teaching techniques.

bullet ThinkQuest Library of Entries
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/

    The ThinkQuest Library of Entries is the collection of educational web sites designed by participants in the ThinkQuest Contests. Teachers and learners can explore a multitude of topics. These sites have been organized to help you find what you need with an easy to use Index of Categories or search by keyword below.

bullet Using Email to Encourage Authentic Writing
http://library.nald.ca/learning/item/3546

    Teaching authentic reading and writing has become easier for those instructors with Internet access. When students communicate with other students using email; they are practicing reading, writing, speaking and listening (to instructions) in ways that connect them with world events and draw a link between school work and the technological world we live in.

bullet Workforce Education LAB
http://slincs.coe.utk.edu/gtelab/default.html

    The LAB collects and distributes high-quality Web-based learning activities that focus on the basic skills and knowledge adults need to be effective in the 21st Century workplace.

bullet Writing Lesson Plans - Teachers' Roles
http://www.huntington.edu/education/lessonplanning/roles.html



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