Secondary Education

This guide was created to assist the professors and students focusing on secondary education within the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning & Teaching.

Lesson Plans

A to Z Teacher Stuff
A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
ADL Curriculum Connections: Anti-Bias Lesson Plans for Educators
Curriculum Connections is a collection of original lesson plans and resources that help K-12 educators integrate multicultural, anti-bias, and social justice themes into their curricula. Each edition is organized around a particular topic or theme, and a new edition is published three to four times per school year.
Best of History Web Sites
With links to over 1200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness, the site also includes links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more.
Discovery Education Lesson Plan Library
Discovery Education combines scientifically proven, standards-based digital media and a user community in order to empower teachers to improve student achievement. Free lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Here you will find hundreds of original lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school students.
EDSITEment! Lesson Plans
EDSITEment! is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and offers a nice variety of primary and secondary resources.
Gateway to 21st Century Skills
The Gateway (formerly known as GEM) was developed with funds from the U.S. Department of Education to provide teachers with learning resources created by over 750 publicly funded organizations.

It has been archived in the WayBack Machine.
Learning Scientists
Organized according to the National Science Education Standards from the National Academy of Sciences, this site includes inquiry-based lessons, visual lessons, imaging, interactive Web lessons, and real-time data collection. All resources are free. A highly recommended portal to Web-based learning tools that have bee analyzed by scientists and science educators.
Ms. Effie's Lifesavers
This is a great collection of ideas and assignments for secondary English classes. It is especially aimed at those teaching AP English.
NEA Lesson Plan Search
The National Education Association (NEA) has gathered thousands of terrific lesson plans for all age levels.
PE Central
PE Central's mission is "to assist teachers, parents, and others who work with youngsters to guide them in the process of becoming physically active and healthy for a lifetime."
Share My Lesson
This is an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) web portal with activities, worksheets, and lesson plans.

TeachingBooks.net This link opens in a new window
Provides access to original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles, and a number of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. Search by author, title, subject, and grade. "Eye-on-the-Web" automated emails contain personally tailored reports filled with hot links that match specific interests.

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