Welcome to the Lesson Plans page

Oh my, lesson plans. What a pain they can be at times. Teachers and administrators have all sorts of different ways of dealing with lesson plans. Some administrators that I've had never look at them and just assume that you, as a professional, are doing your lesson plans and not just breezing into class and winging it. One administrator that I had at the beginning of my career insisted that your plans be completed before you left school on Friday afternoon - the plans had to be in her box and beware if they weren't.

The internet is full of lesson plans of various styles: some plans are created by teachers and are free; others are created by businesses and have to be paid for; and some others are created by non-profits and are free. For the immediate future, I'm going to go slow and post my social studies outline for the term so that my students can access it. I'll eventually add links to sites that have free plans for a variety of subjects. I also plan on posting some of my technology plans and math plans, but I have to work out some technical details first. If you have plans that you would like to share, let me know and I'll put a link here to your site.

Links to Sites with Lesson Plans

 Ancient History Lessons, has a collection of lessons for students who are studying ancient history. Included are lessons about Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, and other ancient cultures.

 Easy Fun School: Homeschooling Resources, has over 1,500 free lessons for you to use with your students. You don't have to be a homeschooler to use these. Some of the lessons offered are pretty basic, but that's OK because you can add your own special touches to fit your class or your child. Some of the lessons come with an impressive set of links to additional resources. Definitely check this out. Why reinvent the wheel? Take some lessons from here and make them your own. You can find History, Art. Social Studies, Language Arts and Nature Studies. The lessons are mostly for students from Pre-School through Middle School, but there are some lessons for High School students as well.

 EconEdLink|NetNewsline|Take A Risk on Investor Island (PartII), is the second part of a three part lesson for middle school students on investing. This is a very useful lesson if you are teaching economics to your students.

 Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies, has a variety of lessons covering many content areas. This is a check it out site.

 Pics4Learning - Tech4Learning, has a variety of lesson plans for science, language arts, social studies, and math.

 Ramadan - Ramadan Awareness Campaign 2008 - 1429 , is a site filled with information on Islam for the Muslim and non-Muslim alike. There are lesson plans for use in primary and secondary school.

Original Lesson Plans

 EconEdLink, is produced by the National Council on Economic Education. It has some excellent lessons on economics for elementary, middle and high school students.

Professional Development Talks

 Technology Use in Education, is the website version of the PowerPoint presentation that I gave during a seminar in Mataram, Indonesia for teachers, students and principals..