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Lesson Plans

This section provides links to a variety of teaching ideas and lesson plans that can be used individually or incorporated into a curriculum. Many of these activities encourage networking between groups of students, between different schools, and between educators and engineers.

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION	700+ sites compiled by the first Children and Technology Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
ASK ERIC	A personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world.
BUGSCOPE	An educational outreach project designed to demonstrate that relatively low cost, sustainable access to a scanning electron microscope could be made available to K-12 classrooms. You can view magnified images of a Harlequin bug (Murgantia histrionica) or "A Dung Beetle, Imaged Live!"
BUSY TEACHERS' WEBSITE	Provides teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.
CLASSROOM CONNECT	This site is dedicated to learning through the Internet. It provides a set of links broken down by subject and grade level. G.R.A.D.E.S. is a handpicked selection of quality education-related Internet web-sites. To easily browse the most commonly sought topics, you can click on a category to connect to a list of top picks.
DISCOVER ENGINEERING	An interactive site for students to learn about engineering and practice designing solutions to engineering problems.
EDUCATION WORLD	Contains a database of more than 120,000 education-related sites. A great source for lesson plans for teachers and research help for students.
EXPLORATORIUM	More than 10,000 Web pages and hundreds of sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different science, art and human perception topics.
FEDERAL RESOURCES FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE (FREE)	A one stop site for finding hundreds federally supported educational resources including lesson plans.
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!
GREAT EXPLORATIONS IN MATH AND SCIENCE	Great Explorations in Math and Science originates at the University of California at Berkeley. Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) is a growing resource for the advancement of inquiry-based science and mathematics education. GEMS publishes over 60 teacher's guides and handbooks, offers specialized workshop opportunities, and maintains a national network of teacher-training sites and centers.
LEARNING NETWORK	Explore K-12 materials, professional development, lifelong learning, or reference
LIGHTSPAN.COM	A site for teachers, parents, teens, and kids, with articles on telecommunication in the classroom, contests, events, projects, an alphabetical site index, and an annotated list of all articles.
MATHCOUNTS	MATHCOUNTS is a national math coaching and competition program for 7th and 8th grade students.
NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK	The National Engineers Week site offers activities for engineers to plan with schools for this week (in February) as well as information on resources, competitions and products available for schools.
NATIONAL SCIENCE RESOURCE CENTER	The National Science Resources Center is operated by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the Smithsonian Institution to improve the teaching of science in the nation's schools. The NSRC collects and disseminates information about exemplary teaching resources, develops and disseminates curriculum materials, and sponsors outreach activities.
PBS TEACHER SOURCE	For preuniversity educators, this is the first web-site to correlate each of its classroom activities to national and state curriculum standards. It helps teachers learn effective ways to incorporate video and the internet in the classroom. Offers subject, grade level and keyword searches.
SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW TEACHERS	First-year teachers talk candidly about their successes and setbacks, with a particular emphasis on the relationships they formed with their colleagues, university professors, and their students' parents.
TEACHERS HELPING TEACHERS	This teacher-operated, free service offers lesson plans for teachers in all subject areas, a Guest Book where teachers all over the world ask questions and make requests of each other, and a set of important educational links.
TEACHERS@WORK	This site contains links to every school subject from the Arts to Technology. It also contains teacher resources and a search engine.
TECHIES DAY IN SCHOOLS	National Techies Day is an annual celebration for Technology professionals to acknowledge their contributions to our world. It's also a day to encourage students to consider technology as a potential career.
TM'S GUIDE TO EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES	A continually updated directory of web resources for educators, with special focus on science, mathematics, and technology, plus links to most educational associations.