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Lesson Ideas

Primary Resources- great lesson ideas for any subject!
Very easy to follow format to find lesson ideas!
Learn NC
Instructional lesson plans! You can search by grade level.
teAchnology (lesson plans and worksheets!)
Search for lesson ideas, worksheets, rubrics, tips, etc.
Kidspiration Lesson Ideas
Interactive activities sorted by grade level
Internet4Classrooms (lots of resources!)
EDSitement
lots of unit and lesson plan ideas!
Marco Polo (interactive lessons)
Very interactive activities!

Assessment

Mathematics

Math Magician Games
Great place to get students engaged! Good for speed testing!
A+ Math (Great resources!)
NLVM website
Great resource!
Illuminations- lesson ideas
Great ideas and activities to use in your lessons!

Games

Fractions

Visual Fractions
Great interactive way to help students learn fractions!
Fraction Bars
Visual way for students to see how fractions work in the decimal, percent and fractions forms.
Fraction Frenzy
Great game to get students engaged with fractions!

Science

SmartBoard

Animated Gifs
Great place to find pictures for presenations!
Lessons and Templates
Premade lessons and templates on the SMARTBoard
Education SMARTBoard Homepage
SMARTBoard Main
Download more SMARTBoard stuff here!
SMARTBoard Activities
There are lots of different activities and resources here to use with the SMARTBoard. There are a lot of links to help you with

Social Studies

Economics

Standards of Learning

SOL Interactive Quizzes
You can answer the questions to SOL tests as a computer based test for practice.
Test Manipulatives
Copies of the test manipulatives that are provided with the SOL tests are available here to practice with (ex: formula sheets, p
Standards of Learning (main site)
Jefferson Lab SOL practice tests
Great place to find practice tests!
Blueprints
Enhanced Scope and Sequence
Great to align classroom teaching with the SOLs
Released Tests

Language Arts

Writing

References

Free Dictionary
Spelling, games, and more!
Discovery Education
This site includes links to great sites for educators!
Jeopardy Games (elementary, middle and high school)
This site includes pre-made Jeopardy games for various topic areas.
WebQuest
This site is very useful to help with inquiry based learning.
Discover United Streaming
Great place to find videos to go along with the topic at hand.
School House Rock
Awesome songs and video clips to help students learn various topics (subjects include grammar, social studies, math and science)
Harvey's Website
Harvey Almarode's personal website...there are a lot of very useful ideas here for to help teach math and other subjects.
Smithsonian Education