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Music Education for Young Children
Features music curricula, teaching ideas, songs and music games, musical development, provessional associations.

Music Kit and Mr. E's Virtual Music Classroom
This site is devoted to encouraging music literacy, reading and writing among elementary aged children. Includes lesson plans and classroom activities.

 

Other Music Resources

K-12 Resources for Music Educators
Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels.

Music Education Online
Links to numerous, helpful music resources.

 

More Lesson Plan Sites to Try

Awesome Library
A collection of links to lesson plans and lesson plan databases.

Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
This collection contains units developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools and presented at recent Core Knowledge National Conferences. The units are organized by grade level, and within grade level by subject area; click on the links on the left-hand side to begin browsing.

Discoveryschool.com
Lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Browse by subject, grade, or both.

EDSITEment
Lesson plans and websites from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.

Education Place Activity Search
Links to internet-based reading/language arts activities for specific grade levels.

Education World
Excellent directory of resources for K-12 teachers and administrators. Includes curriculum materials, educational policy, lesson ideas, articles written by education experts, employment listings, monthly site review, information on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom, and access to USA Today updates of worldwide education news.

Educational Hotlists at the Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute's Educational Hotlists are organized lists of resources on the Internet that science educators, as well as science enthusiasts, may find useful.

Educator's Reference Desk
"This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world." -from the site

The Gateway to Educational Materials
The Gateway provides access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units, and other education resources.  The Gateway user can do a customized search using subject and grade level.

IDEAS
Provides Wisconsin educators with online curricula, lesson plans, ideas, etc. Can be searched by keyword, subject, grade, and by Wisconsin Academic Standards. Excellent site.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers.  Pull-down menus enable you to browse by subject and/or grade.

Lesson Plans 4 Teachers
Extensive and well-organized.

Lesson Plans Page
Over 2,500 free lessons arranged by subject and grade.

McRel Lesson Plans
Links to selected lesson plans and other resources.

Mr Donn's Lesson Plans, Activities & Resources
Highly rated site consisting of lesson plans, activities, and resources.

NY Times Daily Lesson Plan
Hundreds of lesson plans for grades 6-12 based on articles that have appeared in the New York Times.  This is a joint endeavor with the Bank Street School of Education. Many interesting features.

PBS TeacherSource
PBS TeacherSource groups resources into six subject areas ­ Arts and Literature, Health and Fitness, Math, Science and Technology, Social Studies and Early Childhood.  You can perform searches by subject, grade level and keyword while correlating the search results with 230 sets of national and state educational standards.   Additionally, PBS TeacherSource provides special resources for library media specialists.

Teachable Moment
Timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment.

Teaching Tolerance
Free educational materials that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond.

Thinkfinity
A nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the MCI Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students.

Wisconsin's Information Network for Successful Schools (WINSS) Curriculum Resource Center
Thousands of high-quality lesson plans, classroom activities, etc. provided by leading professional education organizations and aligned to Wisconsin's model academic standards.

Yale-New Heaven Teachers Institute Curricular Resources
Very detailed curriculum units prepared by participants in the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.  Hundreds of units on a variety of topics.

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