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

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:

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

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