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Sites to look for lesson plans: www.teachersnetwork.org http://lessonopoly.org/teachersmainpage http://www.lessonplans4teachers.com/ http://teachers.net/lessons/ http://www.lessonplans.com/ http://www.lessonplanz.com/ discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/index.cfm www.atozteacherstuff.com http://www.proteacher.com/

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Teacher Tools

WEB SITE: Teacher oriented web site by Houghton Mifflin

URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss

DESCRIPTION: Gives you outlines, information on Houghton Mifflin Books

IMPLEMENTATION: Great resource for teachers

WEB SITE: The Education Place

URL: http://eduplace.com/

DESCRIPTION: Links and activities in four subject areas for grades K-8. Many choices.

IMPLEMENTATION: Content correlates to the Houghton Mifflin reading program.

All appropriate for elementary grades.

WEB SITE: Education World

URL: http://www.education-world.com/

DESCRIPTION: All subject areas. Many options and links. Grades K-8

IMPLEMENTATION: Worksheets available for copying. Brain teasers and games are especially good for math. Hints and solutions provided.

WEB SITE: DearKidInfo/Dear Teacher Tidbytes

URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/

DESCRIPTION: Easy to use. Explore many subjects from grammar to current events. Bits of information in science, history, art, music, etc.

IMPLEMENTATION: Appropriate for elementary grades. Reference and resource for teachers as well.

WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning

URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/

DESCRIPTION: Designed for children. Includes a pictionary, foreign language dictionaries, puzzles, games, activities, crafts, as well as information. Designed to develop creativity in children.

IMPLEMENTATION: Especially for children ages 5 to 10. Many puzzles and coloring sheets that can be copied.

WEB SITE:

Parents Page

URL: http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html

DESCRIPTION: Many sites recommended by librarians. Activities and lesson plans for art, music, creative writing, math, science, health, etc.

IMPLEMENTATION: Most activities and lessons seemed to be designed primarily for K-2.

WEB SITE: Teacher

URL: http://www.teachers.net/

DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for all subject areas for all grade levels

IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary ideas that can be time consuming but is worth the time. Cute poems and songs

WEB SITE: Games

URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/

DESCRIPTION: Games designed to capture imagination with ease of use for creative learning and enjoyment. Many Science, Math and Language Arts activities.

IMPLEMENTATION: Excellent for all grade levels

WEB SITE: Lesson Plans

URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html

DESCRIPTION: Many subject area lesson plans from experienced teachers. Poems, creative writing and art ideas are presented and can be easily printed out for classroom use

IMPLEMENTATION: All grade levels

WEB SITE: Education World

URL: http://www.education-world.com/index.shtml

DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding information about a variety of events and subjects in class. This is good for K –6 teachers.

IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary - all areas of the curriculum – for all the months.

The site changes to coincide with the months. This site had a good link to the

Museum with a worksheet that goes along with it.

WEB SITE:

Teacher’s Net

URL: http://www.teachers.net/lessons

DESCRIPTION: This site is good for finding some information, but in order to get lesson plans, there is a charge. I would not recommend this site. There are many other sites that can be used.

IMPLEMENTATION: For some research of area subjects this site could be used.

WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes

URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/

DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding a variety of information about different subjects. There are teacher sites and parent/student sites. You can be connected to different museums, encyclopedias, etc. There are many links to holidays, and special events, science, math, etc. There is a connection to clip art sites.

IMPLEMENTATION: An excellent site for a variety of information year round.

Good for teachers, parents and students.

WEBSITE: Kid’s Search Engine

URL: http://www.yahooligans.com/

DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for kids AND teachers. The school bell section has many suggestions for teaching ideas and learning. There is a section to look up info on authors and books. There is a list of all holidays found on the calendar and sites to go to. There is a kid’s almanac.

IMPLEMENTATION: This site can be used for research for both teachers and students. Good for all ages levels.

WEBSITE: Teacher Pathfinder

URL: http://www.teacherpathfinder.org/

Description: This is an excellent site for a variety of subject matter. There is a list of the typical subjects and links to different sites on the subjects.

IMPLEMENTATION: This site is a good reference site for teachers to find information on subjects.

WEB SITE:

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide

DESCRIPTION: This site covers just about every subject that would be covered in school.

IMPLEMENTATION: This site could be used to clarify terms and concepts that would be taught in any curriculum. Since this site contains a wealth of information, it would be advised to choose a few sites from this major web site to coordinate with your lesson.

WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes

URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/

DESCRIPTION: This site contains different sites that teachers could use for their professional purposes. A variety of topics are covered.

IMPLEMENTATION: All areas of research on practical topics are viewed. The extent of research is questionable; however, the variety of information could be useful.

WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids

URL: http://www.ajkids.com/

DESCRIPTION: Ask any question, and this site will provide you with an answer from science to social studies to any academic area.

IMPLEMENTATION: You can use this site if you are on any unit in the elementary classroom. Since the questions may elicit a complex response, the teacher may have to either clarify some points or advise the students to ignore the part of the explanation that is not understandable. For example, if you ask the program, " Why is the sky blue?" you may get more explanation than you would require. Pictures also accompany the explanations.

WEB SITE: Houghton-Mifflin Social Studies Center

URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss

DESCRIPTION: This web site compliments the social studies program in the

Houghton Mifflin series.

IMPLEMENTATION: This is a good site for the social studies curriculum. It even includes current events that are updated monthly. This is a good cross-reference site.

WEB: SITE: Yahoo Lesson Plans

URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/

DESCRIPTION: This program is a part of Yahoo that addresses educational topics in all areas of the curriculum, including science, social studies, literature and many more topics.

IMPLEMENTATION: This could be coordinated with any subject area and could provide updated material. This site could add to any topic or subject.

WEB SITE: Fun Brain

URL: http://www.funbrain.com/

DESCRIPTION: Interactive educational games categorized by age (6 and under, 7-

10, 11-15, 15 and up). Each game has a brief description and level of difficulty.

IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary – all areas of curriculum

WEB SITE: Reach Every Child

URL: http://www.reacheverychild.com/index.html

DESCRIPTION: The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National

Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz, to produce a web site full of resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom. Included in this site are over 5,000 resources.

IMPLEMENTATION: Web-site with resources for teachers and students. Updates often.

WEB SITE: Google (Search Engine)

URL: http://www.google.com

DESCRIPTION: a no-frills search engine, Google uses sophisticated nextgeneration technology to produce the right results fast with every query. Google returns relevant results because it responds to your query using an automated method that ranks relevant websites based on the link structure of the Internet itself. Google stores many web pages in its cache to retrieve for you as a back-up in case the page's server temporarily fails.

IMPLEMENTATION: Search engine

WEB SITE:

Teachers Net

URL: http://www.teachers.net/

DESCRIPTION: A teachers’ resource, including living chats, and grade/subject specific mail-rings.

IMPLEMENTATION: A good resource for finding out what teachers across the nation and abroad are teaching.

WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves

URL: http://www.ajkids.com/

DESCRIPTION: This web site will provide an answer to any questions a student may have. For example, why is the sky blue? It provides interesting text, information and great pictures. It also provided several alternate questions and provided information rather quickly.

IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary – all areas of the curriculum, strong with science questions. A great tool for answering big questions quickly.

WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning

URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/

Description: A web site that provides many different topics for children to explore. It even includes Spanish. If you are researching butterflies, it provides excellent illustrations, information – even an illustrated dictionary. It also provides information about products that you can purchase to complete a lesson. Classroom activities are suggested as well. Ease of use is one of the greatest strengths.

IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary level. Mainly science areas.

WEB SITE: The Idea Box

URL: http://www.theideabox.com/

DESCRIPTION: This site is great for finding quick ideas and projects for the classroom. It mainly focuses on crafts, recipes, songs and seasonal projects. It does list an idea of the day or for the week. One other benefit is that it links to great sites like The Busy Teacher.

IMPLEMENTATION: Early elementary.

WEB SITE:

Teacher Tidbytes

URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/

DESCRIPTION: This web site is packed with information on all topics. There are many links to other sites. It can be somewhat time consuming to navigate. There

are so many topics that it should be fairly easy to locate information.

Implementation: All levels

WEB SITE: Education Index

URL: http://www.educationindex.com/

DESCRIPTION: This site helps you locate the best education sites for all subject areas and ages. An interesting aspect to this site is that it includes a "Virtual

Refrigerator Door" for parents to scan their child’s artwork onto the Internet.

Their name and the picture they’ve drawn appear on the site.

IMPLEMENTATION: All levels, depending upon the search you are conducting.

WEB SITE: The Puzzle Maker

URL: http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create customized puzzles to use in the classroom. Although some of the puzzles worked fine and were great, a few did not work properly. This was a bit disappointing! There were some great puzzles and it’s wonderful to be able to just print out the work, rather than creating the puzzle by hand. All you do is plug in the information.

IMPLEMENTATION: All levels

WEB SITE: School Discovery

URL: http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide

DESCRIPTION: This is a great web site for educators. It links to many different subject areas across all grade levels. If you are looking for a lesson, you will probably be able to locate it through here.

IMPLEMENTATION: All grade levels

WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning

URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

DESCRIPTION: Links to different activities for primary grades

IMPLEMENTATION: K-3 great for studying animals

WEB SITE: Teacher Resources

URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide

DESCRIPTION: Information and resources in school areas from a-z

IMPLEMENTATION: all grades

WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning

URL: http://www.EnchantedLearning.com

DESCRIPTION: lesson ideas for Spanish-English

IMPLEMENTATION: information for the new Spanish elementary program teachers and middle school

WEB SITE: Teachers

URL: http://www.teachers.net/

DESCRIPTION: teachers chat rooms, resources, lessons, etc.

IMPLEMENTATION: opportunity for teachers to see ideas from other teachers; section for substitute teachers

WEB SITE: For teachers: lessons

URL: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/

DESCRIPTION: lesson plans

IMPLEMENTATION: added ideas for lesson plans

WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids

URL: http://www.ajkids.com/

DESCRIPTION: Search engine for children to use (The adult version is http://AskJeeves.com

). Children type in their question, and Jeeves directs them to the answer.

IMPLEMENTATION: Search engine for kids

WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Teachers

URL: http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp

DESCRIPTION: Listing of links for teachers addressing a variety of topics. A question can be typed in directly and "Jeeves" will answer it.

IMPLEMENTATION: Good search for Links.

WEB SITE:

Ask Eric Lesson Plans

URL: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Physical/index.html

DESCRIPTION: This web site has great science lesson plans for grades K-12. The experiments are arranged alphabetically.

IMPLEMENTATION: Primary-Intermediate-different types of science.

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Holidays

WEB SITE:

Halloween

URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween

DESCRIPTION: Various activities, crafts, ghoulish sounds, games, recipes and information with regards to Halloween.

IMPLEMENTATION: This is a great site for all ages!

WEB SITE: Thanksgiving

URL: http://kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/

DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving resource

IMPLEMENTATION: Excellent site for teachers as a resource for Thanksgiving: coloring pictures, mazes, word searches, books to read

WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving

URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/

DESCRIPTION: Great activities for Thanksgiving

IMPLEMENTATION: Appropriate for grades 3-6. Correlates with Social Studies curriculum in grade three.

WEB SITE: Ben and Jerry’s

URL: http://www.benjerry.com/

DESCRIPTION: Fun Stuff. Games, riddles, mazes, and puzzles for holidays.

IMPLEMENTATION: Good for elementary. Easy, medium and hard levels for games and puzzles.

WEB SITE:

Sports Illustrated Kids

URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html

DESCRIPTION: All sports related activities for fun such as a haunted house, horrors, and trick -or-treating.

IMPLEMENTATION: These are high interest activities for those interested in sports, sports trivia, and sports history.

WEB SITE: Holidays

URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween

DESCRIPTION: Excellent site for holiday ideas with a wide variety of activities for all holidays. Site includes sound with songs to correlate with holidays. It also has clip art ideas

IMPLEMENTATION: Excellent for all grade levels

WEB SITE: Holidays

URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/word

DESCRIPTION: Four crossword puzzles and word finds for Thanksgiving. Answer sheets provided. Good site but limited activities.

IMPLEMENTATION: useful for elementary activities

WEB SITE: Holidays

URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html

DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for educators. It has many colorful graphics and stories that can be printed for classroom use. Many other links for other teaching activities are available.

IMPLEMENTATION: All grade levels

WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving

URL: http://www.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/

DESCRIPTION: This site has a list of different ideas for Thanksgiving. There are recipes, info on Indians, coloring pages

IMPLEMENTATION: This is a seasonal site for Thanksgiving.

WEB SITE:

Magic Rainbow

URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html

DESCRIPTION: This was an excellent web site with lots of fun activities and graphics. There was even virtual trick-or-treating for kids! You can also find general information if you’re not looking for holiday information.

IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary level

WEB SITE: Kids Domain

URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/

DESCRIPTION: This was another excellent site. There was plenty of information for children, parents and educators. There were crafts, recipes and activities.

IMPLEMENTATION: Primary grades

WEB SITE: Halloween/Holidays Site

URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween

DESCRIPTION: Large number of Halloween activities at various levels. Books, history of, recipes, puzzle and lot more!

IMPLEMENTATION: All ages!

WEB SITE: Holiday Activities

URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html

DESCRIPTION: Various Halloween activities including Trick or Treating!

IMPLEMENTATION: Gr. Pre-K -K

WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving

URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/

DESCRIPTION: Terrific varied activities

IMPLEMENTATION: Appropriate for Grades 3-6. Correlates with Social Studies curriculum in Grade 3.

Web Site: Pumpkin Patch

URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html

DESCRIPTION: A collection of pumpkin poetry in varied styles

IMPLEMENTATION: Useful in teaching types of poetry. Helps to inspire students’ writing.

WEB SITE:

Holidays

URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween

DESCRIPTION: nice Halloween activities, fun to do, ages 7-12

IMPLEMENTATION: curriculum and October activities

WEB SITE: Halloween (Sports Illustrated)

URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html

DESCRIPTION: varied fun, writing and reading activities correlating sports and

Halloween

IMPLEMENTATION: reports, adlibs

WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving

URL: http://www2.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/index.html

DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving poems, songs, ideas and word finds

IMPLEMENTATION: November activities

WEB SITE: Chantessy’s Place of Frightful Fun

URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html

DESCRIPTION: Interactive Halloween activities for children

IMPLEMENTATION: Games, coloring pages (on-line), memory games, links

WEB SITE: Pumpkin Patch

URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html

DESCRIPTION: Poems written by second graders, includes resources, pumpkin facts

IMPLEMENTATION: Good examples of different types of poetry for young children

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Language Arts/Books

WEB SITE:

Harry Potter

URL: http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/

DESCRIPTION: Harry Potter book reviews, and related games, and activities

IMPLEMENTATION: Independent reading for grades 3-5

WEB SITE: Harry Potter

URL: http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/

DESCRIPTION: Reviews of the 3 Harry Potter books, excerpts of each book, biography of the author, and games and activities based on the books.

IMPLEMENTATION: This is an excellent site for readers who enjoy the Harry

Potter books as well as a good introduction for prospective readers.

WEB SITE: Eric Carle

URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/

DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for kdg-2 nd grade. Lesson plans included. Email to author available

IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary-Kdg-2 nd grade Reading, math and Science

WEB SITE: Awesome Authors

URL: http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm#D

DESCRIPTION: Excellent description of books by famous authors. Biography, pictures of authors are also given. Many selected activities using the bookspuzzles, games, word finds can be printed for classroom use.

IMPLEMENTATION: Excellent for all grade levels Kindergarten-high school

WEBSITE: Jan Brett

URL: http://www.janbrett.com/

DESCRIPTION: This is a site that lets you learn everything you wanted to know about Jan Brett and were afraid to ask. Well, ask no more! There are activities that refer to each of the Jan Brett books. Excellent site.

IMPLEMENTATION: Very good for primary teachers when using the stories of

Jan Brett.

WEB SITE: Mrs. Jackson’s Morris Farm Alphabet Book Site

URL: http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm

DESCRIPTION: This site teaches the alphabet by using the Morris Farm.

IMPLEMENTATION: A first grade teacher could use this to teach the alphabet.

Pictures of the farm could be used to show the pictures of beginning sounds.

WEB SITE:

Eric Carle

URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/

DESCRIPTION: This site refers to the author, Eric Carle, who writes children literature on the primary level. His site covers his books, comments that he has made to his correspondents, etc.

IMPLEMENTATION: Primary teachers who are studying about authors could use this. This colorful site could add interest and activities from this author.

WEB SITE: Harry Potter

URL: http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/

DESCRIPTION: Harry Potter books reviews; related games and activities

IMPLEMENTATION: Independent reading for Grades 3 – 5

WEB SITE: Carol Hurst

URL: http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/birdwatch.html

DESCRIPTION: children’s book reviews

IMPLEMENTATION: teacher information on children’s books

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Social Studies

WEB SITE: Native American index

URL: http://www.hanksville.org/

DESCRIPTION: Links to different Native American Nations

IMPLEMENTATION: Links didn’t work, so it’s not a good site.

WEB SITE: Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum

URL: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson038.shtml-sites

DESCRIPTION: Information on the different native American Nations

IMPLEMENTATION: Good resource for teachers to find information about Native

Americans!

WEB SITE:

Flags

URL: http://www.flags.net/

DESCRIPTION: This site provides statistics for each country, its location, and all of the flags of that country.

IMPLEMENTATION: Good site for finding pictures of national flags and/or any other flag of the country.

WEB SITE: Flags

URL: http://www.flags.net/

DESCRIPTION: This site is about flags of countries. This site is an excellent site for finding the origins of flags and what the different flags of the countries look like.

IMPLEMENTATION: This would be good for social studies class or if any class was making flags and needed the flag of a specific country. A good site for teachers or students.

WEB SITE: Color Landform Atlas of the United States

URL: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

DESCRITION: This site covers the fifty states of the nation.

IMPLEMENTATION: This site could be used to study the states of our nation.

There are maps, for example, of every state along with other studies and aspects of the states. This would be good for independent studies, or you could use this to show the class of an area of concern.

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Science

WEB SITE:

Endangered Animals Hotlist

URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/Web_Lesson_Plans/A_Hotlist_on_Endangered_

An.html

DESCRIPTION: Links to projects and Internet Resources

IMPLEMENTATION: To find facts and information about endangered species. To link to websites including an online coloring book.

WEB SITE:

On Line coloring book for endangered species

URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/features/kidscorner/index.html

DESCRIPTION: Coloring pages for individual endangered animals. It gives a picture and short description of many endangered animals.

IMPLEMENTATION: Use when researching endangered animals. Each picture can be colored or traced and used as a cover for a research report.

WEB SITE: The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System

URL: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

DESCRIPTION: This site lists books on the subject of the planets. An annotated bibliography is provided with the price of each book.

IMPLEMENTATION: This would be a good site if you were to teach the solar system and wanted a book display for references and information.

WEB SITE: Chemistry for Kids

URL: http://www.chem4kids.com/

DESCRIPTION: This science web site focuses on chemistry for grades 5 and up. It deals with matter, atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions.

IMPLEMENTATION: Intermediate science

Other Sites

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

http://www.flags.net/ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/ http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm#D http://www.eric-carle.com/ http://www.janbrett.com/ http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm

http://daniel.calpoly.edu/~dfrc/Robin

(math lesson plans)

http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html

(a 2

nd

grade teacher’s project)

http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html

(Sports Illustrated)

http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html

(virtual Trick or

Treating)

http://users.erols.com/ouremail/Halloween%20site/Halloween_Fun_Page.htm

http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/ http://www.yahooligans.com

(kids search engine)

http://www.bconnex.net/~mbuchana/realms/page7/index.html#thanks

(electronic coloring book)

http://www.kate.net/holidays http://www.benjerry.com

http://www.kidsdomain.com

Resources for Educators:

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html

http://teachertidbytes.com/ http://www.teachers.net/ http://www.EnchantedLearning.com

http://eduplace.com/

(Houghton-Mifflin)

http://teacherpathfinder.org/ http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html

http://www.education-world.com/ http://www.educationindex.com/

Social Studies sites

The National Council for the Social Studies - Standards, teaching resources (internet, print and videos), and links to social studies web sites.

 Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources - links to sites with lesson plans for history, geography, and current events. There is also a section on online activities

 Social Studies Lesson Plans - From the Lesson Plans Page.

 Social Science Lesson Plans - From Education World.

 Social Studies Lesson Plans - From Teachnology.

 Social Studies - Lesson plans and other materials from PBS

 Social Studies Theme Units - For history, geography, and related Social Studies topics.

 History and Social Studies Lesson Plans - From EdSitement.

 42 eXplore - Teaching ideas and related web sites for a variety of social studies topics.

 Smithsonian Education - Good web site for teachers, students, and families. It has lesson plans for all subjects.

 Lesson Plans from FactChecked.org

 Education@NationalGeographic - Online expeditions, lesson plans, free printable maps, and, of course, National Geographic products for sale.

 Xpeditions - National Geographic site with virtual field trips, lesson plans, and maps.

 National Geographic News - Current news of geography and other science and social studies topics.

 My Wonderful World - A campaign by the National Geographic to improve student knowledge of geography. There are resources here for students, teachers, and parents.

 Geography Lesson Plans - From Discovery School.

 Geography Lesson Plans - From Education World.

 Geography Home Page - From About.Com. There is quite a bit of geography information here.

 National Council for Geographic Education

 U.S. Government and Civic Lesson Plans - From Mr. Donn's Free Lesson Plans.

 Government Lesson Plans - From Teachnology.

 Elections and Voting Lesson Plans - From Teachology.

 Congress Link - This site has lesson plans for the study of the US Congress. There also links to other lesson plan sites and to web quests. By the Dirkson Congressional Center.

 USA.gov

- The US government's information portal.

 Government Agency Kids Pages

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