Lesson Planning Websites

Basic Lesson Plan Components
http://coe.winthrop.edu/fergusonc/ECED433/Basic%20Lesson%20Plan%20Components.htm
Great basic lesson plan outline! Asks key questions for each component

The Essay Exam
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak4.htm
Tips for Essay exams

Five Common Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans
http://www.adprima.com/mistakes.htm
Describes five common mistakes with lesson plans and explains how to avoid them. Provides the Madeline Hunter design which was the foundation of the NC 6-Point Lesson Plan

Graphic Organizer Makers
http://www.bestteachersites.com/web_tools/graphic_org/
Tools to help make and design different organizers like webs, charts, and ven diagrams

Graphic Organizers
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm
Graphic organizer templates for different organizers like spider maps, fish maps, compare/contrast matrix, and network trees

How to Implement Standards, Curriculum and Assessment
http://www.teachersnetwork.org/NTNY/nychelp/mentorship/support.htm

Increasing Student Engagement and Motivation
http://www.nwrel.org/request/oct00/textonly.html#motivate
Explains two types of student motivation and how to use them to increase student engagement. Provides examples from several classrooms describing what this motivation looks like.

Multiple choice Tests
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak3.htm
Tips for taking multiple choice tests

No pain, High Gain
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/assessment/nopain.htm
Four links for specific study strategies for preparing for Standardized Tests

Standard-Based lesson plan template
http://www.k12.hi.us/~tlcf/marcopolointegration/standardbasetemplate.htm
Provides an outline for creating a lesson plan that address Hawaii state standards. Simply substitute you state’s standards in the appropriate place.

True/False Test
http://www.studygs.net/tsttak2.htm
Tips to remember regarding true/false questions and how to identify misleading information

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