Feb 06 2009
The Best Places To Find Free (And Good) Lesson Plans On The Internet
I’ve been less-than-impressed with a lot of lesson plans I see out there on the web. I decided to make a short “The Best…” list of sources for consistently good lesson ideas.
The lessons at these sites are not necessarily focused on English Language Learners. Good teachers, of course, can modify decent lesson ideas.
For resources on lessons plans specifically for English Language Learners, you might want to visit these two previous lists:
The Best Books For Teaching & Learning ESL/EFL
The Best Resource Sites For ESL/EFL Teachers
In addition to offering very good lesson plans free-of-charge (though some might offer a paid “premium” service, too), in order to make it on this list the sites also had to offer ones that promote higher-order thinking. Another criteria is that they did not necessarily only have plans that required technology use or showing a particular video or DVD. The final criteria is that I have actually used a lesson plan or idea in my own class that I’ve found on the site.
I decided not to give a description of each site because they all are pretty similar in how they are set-up.
Here are my picks for The Best Places To Find Free (And Good) Lesson Plans On The Internet:
The New York Times Learning Network
Again, feel free to offer feedback and additional suggestions.
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Thank you for sharing these links. I like the plans offered on New York Times, Thinkfinity and PBS Teachers. I did not know about the other sites. I bookmarked them, so I could take a closer look and perhaps find something useful for my elementary students.
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