Other Educational Resource Sites
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Recommended
Sites
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Description
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Pluses
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Minuses
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| Discovery.Com
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A
general lesson plans site- Full of lesson plans in every subject.
Has many other additional resources |
Nice
browsing tool that allows the teacher to choose a grade level as well
as a topic in which to search for lesson plans |
Activities
are simple and only serve as an introduction to a topic |
| Elementary
School Lesson Plans |
Elementary
School Lesson Plans in science. Many activities listed for various
science topics. |
Activities
indexed by topics. Easy to find. Everything from Electricity to Properties
of Matter to Astronomy. |
An
old site so a lot of the links do not work anymore. Material not downloadable |
| AskERIC |
General site where one can find links to lesson plans of different topics, including physics, chemistry, and earth science. | Activities for all grade level from K-12. Nice organization of material. Easy to access. | Activities were submitted by teachers so some of the lesson plans are more complete than others. Quality of the lesson plans varies. |
| Lesson
Plans Page.com |
Lesson
plans in all subjects, for all grade levels. |
Activities
organized by grade level, then by topic. Has link to a printable version
of the lesson plan. |
Some lesson plans are more complete than others. Each lesson plan is also organized in a different manner. |
| Teachers
Helping Teacher's |
Science
lesson plans - many subjects for all grade levels. |
Lesson
plan itself is nice and neat, easy to read and follow. |
No organization of the different activities - everything is placed on one page. No search tools, or links. Few available lesson plans compared to other sites. |
| TeachNet.com
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Science
lesson plans for all different grade levels |
List
general project idea but does not have detailed instructions. This
could be a plus if you're looking for something that's easy to adapt
to your own lesson plans. |
Lesson
plans not too detailed. Few available activities in each topic. Few
choices of science topics. |
|
University
of Tennessee at Martin - |
Science
Activities Manual K-8 |
National Science Education Standards used to define topics for lesson plans. Activities organized by grade level then by topics. | No search tools for the topics. Listing of activities do not follow any particular layout. Hard to find a lesson plan in a topic of interest. |
| Elementary
Science Support Center - Purdue University |
Science
Activities |
Lesson
plans include worksheets and very detailed instructions. |
Very few activities available. No listing of what topic each activity covers, or what grade level the activity is geared towards. |
| The Franklin Institute Online | Science
Activities |
List
activities by topic, but also show relevant grade level. Nice, easy
to follow layout. |
Does not have activities in all important topics. No listing for Electricity and Magnetism. |
This
work was supported by the Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular
Assemblies (CPIMA)
as part of the NSF Materials Science and Engineering Center program under
Grant DMR 9808677
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