Free Resources
AN A TO Z RESOURCE
A sortable database for free curriculum online and off. Sort by age, topic, and specific terms.
BrainPOP for Homeschoolers
AN A TO Z AFFILIATE
Homework help, interactive quizzes, comic strips, and experiments.
Discovery
School Lesson Plans
Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers
for teachers. Use the pull-down menus below to browse by subject,
grade, or both. Also lesson plans to support Assignment Discovery
and TLC Elementary School programming.
EdHelper.com
Lesson Plans - Worksheets - Teacher's Lesson Plans - WebQuests
- Primary Teacher Resources - Math Lesson Plans - Writing Lesson
Plans - Reading Lesson Plans - Science Lesson Plans - Technology
Lesson Plans - Social Studies Lesson Plans.
EdSitement
From the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lessons and units
for art and culture, literature and language arts, foreign language,
and history and social studies.
Education
World Lesson Plan Center
A resource for lesson plans and research materials.
Educational
Resources and Lesson Plans
Over 1000 links to lesson plans and other resources of potential
use to homeschoolers. It also includes lesson plans and resources
unique to this site.
Educator's
Reference Desk
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which
have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all
over the United States.
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!
Google for Educators
This website is one of the ways we're working to bolster that
support and explore how Google and educators can work together.
Grade
Level Skills Help Pages
These links are grade specific to help students practice on specific
concept areas. Caution: As a teacher, you know that if a child
doesn't understand a skill, they will still not know it if they
are put on the computer to practice it. These skill practices
are suggested to be used with adult or peer assistance until
the student has a basic skill knowledge that can be improved
with some extra practice.
Homeschool
Huskies and Ponies
Sets of workbooks and projects in different topics. Patches given
as awards for completion.
Homeschool Launch
At this point there are several hundred files (forms, unit studies, lapbook templates, worksheets, etc) created and uploaded by various members of the site - with several more being added each week.
HomeSchooler
Network: Lessons & Activities
Find innovative ideas for learning at home with our large inventory
of resources and materials. Search by subject and your child's
age.
I Love
That Teaching Idea!
Worksheets, reproducibles, newsletters, books, lesson plans,
ideas and more.
Ideas For Homeschoolers
Marty Layne, of Victoria, BC, posts her monthly newsletter in her delightful writing style that will delight and enthral you.
iLife For
the Classroom
A highly integrated software suite featuring the latest versions
of Apple's award-winning iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, and iDVD, iLife
helps you and your students get the most out of digital movies,
photos, and music for homeschool and school projects.
Kitchen Table
Classroom
Tips and tidbits on how to make learning fun! On this site, we
offer a new tidbit each day, so come back often.
Learn.com
Online courses, some are free, some require a fee, and some require
software to be purchased. Not all courses appropriate for children,
but many are. Unusual right scrolling needed to see the whole
page.
Learn NC
A program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in Kė12 education and makes them available to teachers and students.
Learners
Online
Each week there's a new online lesson that takes learners on
a thematic journey across cyberspace. Lessons are tied to current
events and help learners extend their knowledge on a wide range
of topics.
Learning Partners
A Guide to Educational Activities for Families that covers a
lot of topics: reading, math, science, geography, history, writing,
responsible behavior, and many more. For each topic, there are
activities that you can do with your children to reinforce learning.
Most are simple, everyday activities.
Lesson Bank
The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is your opportunity to share your
most precious asset - your teaching ideas and lesson plans.
Lesson
Plan Center
Let TeacherVision.com help you create innovative plans quickly
with our large inventory of ideas and materials.
Lesson
Plan Page
Far more than just a "page," this site has plans in
all typical subjects, as well as holiday units, computer science,
and even PE. Add your own plans to the project.
Lesson Tutor
Free reproducible lesson plans, unit studies and print ready
worksheets for all levels, all abilities and all subjects of
Grade School and High School. Featured articles will give you
general teaching and learning encouragement, references and support.
Life
Skills for Vocational Success
Life skills constitute a continuum of knowledge and aptitudes
that are necessary for a person to function independently and
to avoid interruptions of the employment experience.
MarcoPolo
Lessons
Check back each Monday to see the newest lessons added to the
MarcoPolo content standards aligned website, or access all MarcoPolo
lessons and resources in the MarcoPolo
Search Engine.
Native
American Authors - Teacher Resources
You'll find biography, bibliography, lesson plans, online etexts
and critical reviews of selected authors whose works are taught
in the public schools or at the university level. Literature
includes both adult and juvenile.
Newton's
Apple: Teacher's Guides
A complete collection of Teacher's Guides from season 9 through
15 is available. Mostly science lessons, though a few from other
topics as well.
NY
Times Lesson Plan Archive
The archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades
6-12. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson,
browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view
the most recently published lessons.
Open
Gateways Curriculum for Teachers
Training Guides and the Lesson Plans. Both are designed to teach
persons interested in training teachers to fully integrate the
StarOffice™
suite of productivity tools into their school curricula. Windows and Linux.
Outta Ray's Head
A collection of lesson plans with handouts for writing, literature,
poetry, and using the library, by Ray Saitz and many contributors.
PBS
Teachers Source
Updated monthly. Resources so you can integrate PBS shows with
your unit studies.
Praetor Education Technology
How to use open source software to develop free curriculum online.
Free Java lessons for educators. Good math and science resources
already developed.
Read Write Think
Access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading
and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
Scholastic
Lesson Plans & Reproducibles
Pick a grade level pre-k through 8th grade and then a topic to
locate a variety of lesson plans teaching that skill.
School Express
Free weekly units, free worksheets for online and offline study,
and software to download.
Smithsonian
Education
Arts, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies plans.
Teach-nology
Offers teachers FREE access to lesson plans, printable worksheets,
over 150,000 reviewed web sites, rubrics, educational games,
teaching/ technology tips, advice from expert teachers, and more.
Teach
With Movies
Through movies, introduce children to major events in history,
principles of science, extraordinary people, literature, drama,
dance, art, character development, and ethics. Low annual subscription
rate for hundreds of movies.
Teacher Created
Materials
Free monthly activities, lesson plans, and brain teasers. New
each month as well as archives.
TeachR
Presents a free and effective way to collect, create, organize
and teach lesson plans in a fast and efficient way. Cool calendaring
feature! Free registration for those who want to post lessons.
Today is Fun
The ideas here will keep kids happy and occupied for hours on end, without you having to spend money or buy more stuff. The tips are always entertaining, often educational and developmentally appropriate.
Web-Based
Projects
A series of web-based projects written and designed by students
preparing to become teachers.
Worksheet
Generator
Now you can create customized worksheets in less than 5 minutes!
Choose from several vocabulary and math worksheet templates.
Youth Learn
Relevant, creative materials that can help you make good use
of new technology. Look here for planning guides, teaching techniques,
activities, projects, and more.