Lesson Plans

WISE (Web-based Inquiry Science) is a learning environment where students, grades 3-12, examine real world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies. The curriculum projects are designed to meet standards and complement your current science curriculum, and your students will find…

The UEN Core Lesson Plan Library has lessons for every basic K-12 discipline except math.  You can search the library by subject and grade level.

ALEX has a library of lesson plans for all subjects and grade levels.  Alabama teachers can log in to their account to access a personal space to create and adapt lesson plans.  However, teachers everywhere can access the lesson plan…

PBS Newshour offers educators of students in grades 7-12 with lesson plans tied to current events in the news. The lessons cover all subject areas, as well as media literacy. Each video story is supported by a plan with content-based…

LessonPlansPage.com offers over 4,00 free lesson plans across all subject and grade levels. Database of lesson is searchable by grade level and subject. There are also groups of lessons on a variety of themes. Other resources on the site include…

Teachers Network has thousands of classroom-tested, readily-available lesson plans and full curriculum units developed for teachers, by teachers. The lessons are searchable by grade level – elementary, middle, or high school – and subject area. LearningReviews note: Many links to…

Since 1996, San Diego State University has maintained a database of example WebQuests for K-12 students in all subjects. A WebQuest is an online lesson for self-directed learning that follows a format that generally includes: Introduction, Task, Process, Evaluation, Conclusions,…

From site:  The Virtual Courseware Project offers interactive, online simulations for inquiry-based science, the life science laboratory, geology labs, and biology labs. The biology labs are designed for advanced high school and college students. The other interactive virtual labs can…

The Smithsonian Learning Lab offers innovative digital resources for K-12 teachers and students for non-traditional lessons. Access one of the existing collections on a topic, such as “Civil War lesson”, and you will find collections accompanied by lesson plans or…

The site offer K-12 history teachers resources include detailed lesson plain reviews by teachers, content, and multimedia. Also available to teachers are best practices, issues and research, professional development and the latest news.

From site:  Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. We…

The Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal with annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes,…

TeachEngineering.org has a searchable, digital library collection of standards-based engineering resources for use by K-12 teachers to help make STEM come alive. The resources include a broad range of curricula, multi-week units, lessons plans, activities and living labs. A unique…

Scholastic.com provides thousands of grab-and-go lesson plans for K-8 teachers across all subject areas. Other resources include unit plans, discussion guides, activities, and daily starters. Free registration is required to access many of the resources, including the lesson plans.

The Electronic Bookshelf consists of units that contain lesson plans, text, and interactives on cross-curricular math topics.  Some of the topics include engineering, math and art, math and music, business and economics, history and geography, and more. This work was…