LESSON PLANS, STUDY GUIDES & CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

ACADEMIC ARENA
http://www.penguinputnam.com/academic/resources/guides/index.htm- Sponsored by Penguin/Putnam, this website features online teaching resources for a number of novels taught at the high school level.

ANTIQUITY ONLINE
http://www.eurekanet.com/~fesmitha/h1/- "General survey of ancient history including index, maps and an emphasis on developments in religion, empire and philosophy."
Author: Frank E. Smitha (fesmitha@eurekanet.com)

AWESOME LIBRARY
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/- Organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

COURSE MATERIALS INCLUDING STUDY GUIDES TO VARIOUS WORKS
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/guides_index.html- “Grouped here are study guides prepared by Professor Paul Brians of Washington State University for the use of students in his classes. Nonprofit users are welcome to use and reproduce them for educational purposes so long as full credit is given to the author. Please feel free to make corrections and/or additions by writing Prof. Brians at brians@wsu.edu.”

EDUCATOR’S TOOLKIT
http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/- This site is a member of The Classroom Connection, a network of educators who maintain webpages of interest to other educators. A well organized site containing lesson plans, curriculum guides, etc.

EDUCATION WORLD  (“WHERE EDUCATORS GO TO LEARN”)
http://www.education-world.com/- A very useful website for educators which contains lesson plans, study guides, writing assignments, education news, organizations, updates. etc.

KATHY SCHROCK’S GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/- This is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

LESSON PLANS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
http://members.aol.com/Donnpages/LessonPlans.html- Links to lesson plans and resources in a number of subject areas. Well organized and user friendly.

LESSON PLANS, ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES
http://members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/Literature.html- Extensive list of online teaching resources for hundreds of literary works. One of the better such websites I have seen.

LITERATURE LESSONS
http://www3.sympatico.ca/ray.saitz/litera1.htm - reading- This website, a.k.a.  “Outta Ray’s Head,” contains some wonderful ideas for teaching novels to high school students. Don’t be fooled by the title; this is an excellent resource for English teachers.

TEACHNET
http://www.teachnet.org/- A useful set of links for educators, containing lesson plans, curriculum materials, homework assignments, study guides, writing assignments,
homework questions, links, etc. Sorted by topics and sub-topics.

TEACHING WITH MOVIES
http://teachwithmovies.org/- Learning Guides to a number of films which describe the benefits of the movie, possible problems, and helpful background. Discussion questions,
bridges to reading, projects and links to the internet are also provided.

UTAHLINK CURRICULUM DATABASE
http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/curriculum.hts- A very extensive website with dozens of  lessons in writing and literature. Easy to search and very useful for teaching students how to write about a wide variety of topics.