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Teaching with Electronic Technology http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html
This website is basically just a list of other websites that contain educational materials regarding technology. The sites listed do not necessarily contain lesson plans, but include theories, discussions, papers, and developments in educational technology, which were fairly insightful once you actually found them.

The Texas Education Network http://www.tenet.edu/
TENET has links to support and service, news and announcements, partners and programs, schools on the webs, classroom resources and curricula, and professional development and opportunities. It is a site geared to administrators, elementary teachers, secondary teachers, parents, and even students.

Study Web - Teaching Resources http://www.studyweb.com/
This site is full of valuable information for educators, parents, students, etc. It has links to information on Standards of Learning, Special Education, Clubs, Distance Education, Educational Journals, Lesson Plans, and Volunteering. Most of the links are useful sites, but some of them are not as helpful as they may appear.

Teachers.Net http://www.teachers.net/
Teachers will have access to a variety of education related information through this site. My favorite aspect of this site was the link to lesson plans. There were lesson plans of every subject submitted by real teachers. The lessons were great!

The Academy Curriculum Exchange http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/
Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Language are the subjects of the lesson plans offered on this page. The lessons were for grades K-12 and varied in types of activities and degree of difficulty.

Lesson Plans Across the Curriculumhttp://members.aol.com/Donnpages/LessonPlans.html
This site has many, many lesson plans for many subjects with creative themes. Some of the lesson plan subjects are Vo-Tech, Behavior and Self-Esteem, and Diet and Nutrition. The lesson plans were veryinteresting.

Computer Skills Lesson Plans http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/Curriculum/Computer.skills/lssnplns/CompCurr.LP.html
This website is great because it has dozens of lesson plans dealing with basic computer skills. From teaching kindergarteners how to open files from teaching seventh graders how to format disks are some of the skills taught at all grade levels. The lesson plans include fun little activities to spice up the lessons.

Teaching N' Technology http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/
Teaching N' Technology is a wonderful site full of creative lesson plan used to enhance any student's learning. There is a search engine where you can type in any keyword and find a lesson plan to match. After the search is done, a list of lesson plans with helpful descriptions are to follow. The lesson plans are presented in a standard format.

Blue Web 'N http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
The site contains wonderful Blue Ribbon lesson plans. The home page of the site has a chart with each subject and activities, tutorials, web-based projects, and unit plans. It is so organized that you will findexactly what you are looking for with no problem. Since it is Blue Ribbon, it is a sure bet that the lessons will be great.

Education Place http://www.eduplace.com/search/activity.html
This great site allows you to search for any subject listed for any grades K through 8th. A list of the matching sites appears with brief descriptions. The lesson plans are creative and cute on a wide variety of topics.

Scholastic Teachers Homepage: http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.htm
This website is a great resource for teachers. Not only does it have lesson plans, it also gives opportunity for students to learn more about things that they are interested in. For example, on this site there is a discussion forum with J. K. Rowling, the writer of the enormously popular Harry Potter books.

In and Out of the Classroom with Office 2000: http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/classroom/o2k/default.asp
This site is actually pretty bad. But, I felt that I needed to include it so I could say how much I hate Microsoft and in turn Bill Gates. This whole site is nothing but a promotion for Office 2000. All it does is show the feature of Office 2000 and doesn't how the teacher how to use it with in the classroom. This seems to be a common theme with in the Microsoft websites. They are listed in such a way that they seem like they are an actual informational site, when in reality they are nothing more than promotions! Teachers beware!

The WebQuest Page: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/
What can I say? This is the quintessential WebQuest site. This site not only shows examples of WebQuests that can be used by teachers, it also shows the teachers how they can build their own. This site is mentioned quite a bit in Teacher computer-conferences and for good reason-it's the place to go.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock is the angel of the Internet for teachers. Well, maybe that's saying a lot, but she definitely has her work cut out for her. This site is highly thorough. It is also user friendly for the teacher and student looking at this site. She breaks down everything into specific subject matters, better enabling a person to find what he or she wants.

Teachers N Technology: http://www.mccsc.edu/~wtamborr/tnt/tnt.html
This is another very good site for teachers. It offers lesson plans, different Internet projects as well as many other things that a teacher would find useful. I heard the person who made the site is pretty neat too!

Building Integrated Technology Activities:http://www.essdack.org/activities/
This site, though a bit confusing when starting, offers quite a few activities for teachers to use in the classroom.

Access the Projects Database: http://www.essdack.org/projects/
This doesn't have too many resources, but what they do have is good. Almost all of it is projects. I would also suggest that they change the color scheme on the page. It was almost painful to look at.

Classroom Connect: http://www.classroom.net/home.asp
This site is just cute. Everything about it is cute. It has a lot of resources for students, but unlike many of the other pages, the design of the page is wonderful. It seems to have more elementary school basedprojects, but that doesn't make them any less valuable.

http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/lessons/lessons.html
This site has a huge list of topics to choose from. Each topic has lessons that include technology in them. Some of the topics include: Endangered Species, Countries, and Geography. The list of lessons includes the use of software and the use of websites in them.

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/educationforum/lessonplans.html
This site had a list of subjects that you can choose from to find lessons. The amount of technology in each lesson varies. Each lesson connected to Internet sites in order to help students solve problems. Some lessons even used programs to help students. For example, some of the math lessons used Math in My World to help them.

http://www.uno.edu/%7Eedci/techless.htm
This site had a ton of lessons for getting to know the computer and also for school subjects. The used programs like Infofinder to help the students to solve the problems posed in the lesson. It had a lot of integration of computers in all aspects.

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids/planning/index.html
This site is just one lesson for students. It is how to teach children to make their own websites. It is called Webmonkey for kids. It gives teachers all of the information that they should know on how to do this lesson effectively in their class.

http://www.essdack.org/tips/page1.htm
This was great website for teachers. It tells teachers how to use computers as tools for making classroom management tasks easier. Then it gives a list of student projects. There are projects using spreadsheets, the Internet, multimedia, word processing, and database.

http://www.eduniverse.com/edu/lessonp.asp
This site had more specific lesson plans using technology. There were lessons listed under several states. Some of the topics were: What causes weather change? and Where do you want to go this year? These lessons are from teachers that participate in the 1999 Intel Applying Computers in Education Program.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4610/lessons.html
These are lessons on the actual computer. There are lessons like secret e-mail pals, and parts and keyboard game. This site is actually a technology lesson plan that was used at South Smithfield Primary School.It gets students familiar with using the computer and they can learn all of the parts of it.

http://www.sjsd.k12.mo.us/tmc/sara/CreativeConnections/techlessons.html
This site had technology lesson plans for each grade. They were basically only for learning computer skills and getting to know computers. However, they were still good lesson.

Manduca.net http://manduca.entomology.wisc.edu/teacher/index.html
This page contains a full lesson of the Manduca or Tobacco Hornworm. It is designed for grades k-12 Science and is meant for a situation where every child has a computer, although this is rarely the case, they provide alternatives as well. The lessons are broken down and easy to follow with exact step by step guides. The technology is as simple as keeping charts, graphs and data on the computer to write a scientific journal, and writeup of the experiment.

Ask Eric http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Ed_Tech/index.html
AskEric offers a searchable database for lesson plans, the above is the location of the Educational Technology listings. The lessons are listed with their subject and grade intention level. The lessons give you their author, approximate time allocation, goals, objectives and materials, as well as proceedure and assessment. The lessons range from a variety of topics and cover all sorts of uses for technology, one is on graphs, another on networking and database.

NIH image design http://www.mcs.net/~highland/plans/nih.lesson.html
This site offers a three part lesson using NIH imaging. It is designed for children to learn how to measure and equate while also learning and practicing using NIH imaging and available software for MACs.

IBM Lesson plans http://www2.clearlake.ibm.com/edu/k12/teacher/lp_text.html
IBM has put out a series of lessons involving computer technology. Each lesson stresses the use of the internet. All lessons are broken down in to goals and objectives and listed according to grade level. Lessons are also ready to download ASCII or POSTScript for easy printing.

Dr. Cheryl A Wissick's Course Projectshttp://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/lessons/lessons.html
These lessons were designed by students at the University of South Carolina in the same position as us, technology endorsement students. Dr. Wissick posted these lessons in hopes that they would be helpful and idea inspiring to inservice and preservice students. A sample lesson involves a pair of students working at a computer to research aquatic life and to put together a presentation.

Teacher.net http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Computer
This site is a list of lessons surrounding the computer. One lesson involves cut and paste using Claris Works and Kid Pix in the discipline of Language Arts. The lessons are clear and laid out, you could easily print them out and hand them to the children as guidelines.

The Computer Teacher's Resource Pagehttp://nimbus.temple.edu/~jallis00/
Provides valuable links to sites containing everything a computer teacher may need to know about maintaining a lab, teaching a lesson in any discipline and troubleshooting. Subject areas are broken down so you can easily find your way to SHAREWARE (good free stuff) so your class can do a lesson they may not have had access to otherwise.

The Lesson Plans Page http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
This guide is set up to ask you 2-3 questions, topic, grade level, and lesson desired. There are several listings of lessons. A sample lesson might look like a normal lesson plan with goals, materials, assessment,and proceedure but these lessons also contain an intergration component with ideas on how to incorporate other areas into this lesson.

http://www.proteacher.com/lessonplans.html- This site has many links to different lesson plans and activity ideas for primary and intermediate grades K-6 including math, social studies and science lessons.  This site also has a lesson plan search where you type in what kind of lesson you are looking for and they take you to possible matches.

http://www.proteacher.com/020010.shtml
This site contains many links to useful sites containing information on
possible themes and units.  One would find more than 400 classroom activities
and lesson plans for grades K-8 here.

http://members.aol.com/MGoudie/index.html
This site was made by a teacher for those days when you have a sub and you
don't know what to have them do.  This site contains many lesson plans and
even a one-day Bat unit.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/#anchor581196
This site contains links to some more lesson plans based on subject area such
as language arts, math or science.

http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/lessons.html
A collection of over 250 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English,
Reading, and Vocabulary activities for grades 5th and 6th.

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/Curriculum/Computer.skills/lssnplns/CompCurr.LP.html
This site contains lesson plans based on the use of computer skills.

http://www.col-ed.org/smcnws/msres/curriculum.html
This site contains links to internet based lesson plans.

http://members.aol.com/Donnpages/LessonPlans.html
This site contains lesson plans from across the curriculum.

Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp
This site has a variety of lesson plans for different topics and ages.  There are also many online resources used and included in the lesson plans.  Many of the lesson plans call for Encarta encyclopedia software, but I am pretty sure you could do them without it.  This site has a good use of technology and has some very good links.

CEC lessonplans http://www.col-ed.org/smcnws/msres/curriculum.html
This was a very simple site.  It was a list of other lists of math and science lesson plans separated by topic and age level.  I chose secondary mathematics and got a new list of options.

One site that I chose from the list above was called Curriculum materials, under secondary mathematics http://www.wilpaterson.edu/wpcpages/icip/itm/Lessonpl/lessplan.html .
It was interesting because it separated the lesson plans into different technologies.  For example, there were lessons for using graphing calculators, maple software etc.

Online Math Applications  http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4116
This site has different activities for students that connect math with “real life.”  There are lessons and activities that cover topics such as investing, music, history, trips and science.  I went into the investing segment and it was really interesting, it provided a lot of information, was very complete, and did a good job explaining terms.

Academy Curriculum Exchange (Science) http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/high.html
This is a very simple site.  It is geared for teachers only and consists of lists of different labs.  It’s not going to win any creativity awards, but if you’re looking for a lab, you have a good chance of finding it here.

Teachweb http://www.teachweb.com
This site was huge.  There were many lesson plans that are separated into subject and there was also a search engine to help you find what you’re looking for.  I thought this site was almost too big, and it was easy to spend a lot of time searching around.  One cool thing that the site has is an online Intro to computers and the internet course consisting of powerpoint lectures and labs.

SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Resources http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/science.html
This site is boring to look at, but it has many links to other science related topics-including current events article, and on-line ethics discussions on science related topics.  Another cool link the site has to offer is to a page of experts or organizations that you can send science questions to.  (Unfortunately only about 2/3 of the experts’ links worked!)

WebElements Periodic Table  http://www.webelements.com/webelements.html
This is a neat site!  On the WebElements site you can find ANYTHING you want to know about a particular element.  It would be a very good site for student to use.

Homework Central http://homeworkcentral.com
This site has a lot of teacher information and lesson plans.  If you hit the teen link you can find “notes” on pretty much any topic.  I checked into some of the math notes.  They seemed to be a great resource for both students and teachers and even included possible assignments for different technologies (such as a graphing calculator, different math software, etc.) for each topic.