Education Team/Lesson Plan resources

Lesson plan templates/formats

• sugar Lesson plan template
• A few different ones: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/links_grades_kindergarten_12/lesson_plans_templates.htm
• others?

Lesson plans

• http://www.nea.org/tools/LessonPlans.html
• http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Browse
• http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/lessons.html
• http://www.thegateway.org/
• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lesson.htm
• http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/
• http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ ("Lesson Plans and Worksheets" section)
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/keystage_1/topics/maths_ks1.shtml (for example)
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Hackety_Lesson_Plan
• http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Science.html

Lesson plan ideas

• New group just created at http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Group_SugaronaStick/. Looking for interested teachers to contribute lesson plans to grow this into a repository. If you need a lesson plan template this one may be used as is or is easily adapted.

• Yahoo Directory of Lesson Plans

• dmoz.org lesson plans:
  • http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Education/Language_Arts/Lesson_Plans_and_Reproducibles/
  • http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/K_through_12/Educators/Lesson_Plans/
  • meta: dmoz.org Directory of Lesson Plans

• EtoysIllinois has a great collection of Etoys projects and resources for teachers for curriculum integration
  • http://www.squeakcmi.org/library.php
  • http://www.squeakcmi.org/resources.php

• List of free teaching software (german)
  • http://wiki.skolelinux.de/LernSoftware maintained by the German team of skolelinux
  • http://www.skolelinux.de
• Skolelinux has integrated using the KDE-Education project
  • http://edu.kde.org/
• Teacher training project (german)
  • http://www.seminarix.org/files/start.html

• Collection of free teaching software with tagged OS and screenshots, more than 80 pages in PDF
  • http://www.skolelinux.de/download/education_FOSS_catalog.pdf

• How about some outreach to a group committed to produce curriculum materials for grades 4 to 12 using Python and E-toys for use in South Africa? They are funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation (Ubuntu money and major commitment to open everything—being phased out, unfortunately).
  • http://www.kusasa.org

• Try to seek aligned interests with any of the other open and collaborative efforts like Free High School Science Texts, who's goal is to develop a set of complete textbooks for Maths, Physics and Chemistry for grades 10-12 will be completed by early 2008, all under GDFL licensing.
  • http://www.fhsst.org/

• Interesting on-line high school physics course
  • http://online.cctt.org/

• http://www.free.ed.gov/

• http://computerlearning.org/

• Teachers pay Teachers - an open marketplace for educators (some free content, some paid)
  • http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Home

• Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation (AALF)
  • http://www.aalf.org/

AALF is a 501(c) 6 not for profit association whose mission is to serve as an advocacy vehicle for anytime, anywhere learning.

• http://www.nea.org/tools/SubmitYourLesson.html

Etoys shares features with other drag and drop programming environments such as Game Maker and Click & Play. The lesson plans, samples and pedagogies developed in classrooms can be easily adapted to Etoys

• http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/default.htm
• http://www.users.on.net/~billkerr/g/int.htm
• http://rupert.id.au/schoolgamemaker/

"ReadWriteThink is a partnership between NCTE, the International Reading Association (IRA), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation, established in April of 2002."

• http://www.ncte.org/profdev/online/rwt BROKEN LINK

MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching

• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

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• • Some papers by Alan Kay

• http://www.vpri.org/pdf/OLPCCountries_RN-2007-006-a.pdf
• http://www.vpri.org/pdf/etoys_n_authoring.pdf
• http://www.vpri.org/pdf/etoys_n_learning.pdf

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• Tapping Epistemological Resources for Learning Physics
  • http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a785041701~db=all

• Naive Physics Reasoning: A Commitment to Substance-Based Conceptions
  • http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a783760369~db=all

• On the Nature of Naïve Physics
  • http://www.springerlink.com/content/kl44571021758m33/

• Open source 2D physics engine Box2D
  • http://box2d.org

and the Physics activity (and the Elements/pybox2d development being done in its branch)

• • http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics_%28activity%29
  • http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/physics

Related topics

• Replacing Textbooks
• Open Education Resources
• Educational Tools - Useful educational websites to visit.