Lesson Plan Checklist
This criteria will provide a framework for creating a balanced and complete lesson plan.

Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner
The Planner provides templates for writing curriculum and allows access to resources to assist in writing units, including software, teacher reference companions, a rubric maker, analysis tools, and…

UOIT Lesson Plan Templates
Lesson Plans help Teacher Candidates, as well as teachers, organize their lessons.


VIC Unit Planning Resources
These templates can be used by teachers, individually or in a team, to plan programs/topics for a particular student cohort, incorporating the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, Principles of Lea..

Lesson Plan Format
Simple lesson plan format.

Lesson Plan Proforma Sheets
Please find below a number of pro forma sheets that may assist you in your planning and preparation for your supply assignments.

Lesson Plan Template
This lesson plan template was designed to make lesson plan writing easier to do while ensuring that all lesson plan components are met.

A Lesson Plan Checklist
This is a suggested list of headings and rationale for a lesson plan.

Bundaberg Curriculum Exchange Unit Planning Templates
Steve Smith has produced a guide for planning units of work with an outcomes approach.

Complete Lesson Plan Proforma
A lesson plan proforma that covers virtually everything possible for a lesson plan.

Curriculum Planning Framework
The curriculum planning framework and programming support on this site will assist schools in managing the curriculum program for the six key learning areas across the stages of primary schooling in

Integrated Unit Planning
Five unit plans are presented here as good examples of computer use, outcomes based education and constructivist learning.

Lesson Plan Templates
Every teacher has a unique way of completing lesson plans. Some are based on strict district guidelines, while others come out of years of experience and successful practices. Find several lesson plan..

NCRTEC Lesson Planner
This Web site is intended to help teachers write focused lesson plans. The Planner addresses essential questions that are often overlooked when planning curriculum units.

Planner Help Kits and Guides
Curriculum Unit Planner to design instructional units and profiles.

Six Common Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans
Planning lessons is a fundamental skill all teachers must develop and hone, although implementation of this skill in actual teaching can, and usually does, take some time.

Standards Lesson Plan Checklist
Useful checklist to assist in lesson planning.

Trainer’s Toolbox Lesson Plan Format
This template is intended to be the ultimate lesson plan. If you only use a quarter of the learning techniques within the template, you will still have a great lesson plan.

Eduweb Proformas
Teachers use many different planning tools and strategies when preparing units and class learning activities.

Elementary School Templates
Great ideas for lesson, journal and electronic portfolio plans.

Excel Lesson Plan Template
Plan your lesson using a spreadsheet.

Integrated Unit Planning
This self-paced and fully interactive tutorial takes you through the unit planning process, culminating in a print-out of your finished unit of work.

Teaching Tools
Create and store lesson plans and worksheets in an online account.

GEM
Gateway to Educational materials found on various non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

Lesson Plan Templates
Templates for daily and weekly lesson plans.

MarcoPolo Education
Access lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Web sites and other MarcoPolo resources.

MarcoPolo Education
Access lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Web sites and other MarcoPolo resources.

MI and Bloom Units
Multiple Intelligence and Blooms Taxonomy Learning Grids created by practising classroom teachers in our CAP Schools across NSW.

Hot Potatoes
Create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web. Free for educators.

Test Maker
This free test making service for educators that requires registration (name, school, school address, and email). choice, fill in the blank, short answer, and true and false questions.

The Teacher Toolkit
Create and present your lessons online with this tool. Subscription required.

Trackstar
Collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track.

Multiple Intelligences
Ideas for integrating curricula using Multiple Intelligences.

Six Thinking Hats
Six Thinking Hats is an important and powerful technique. It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives.

Assign-A-Day
This free tool is designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an on-line teacher-managed calendar.

Calendars Net
Free interactive web calendar hosting service, where you can post information for students such as homework reminders and computer use timetables.

Classroom Set Up Tool
Use this online tool to design the set up of your classroom then print out the results.

Cool Tool Quiz Creator
Online creator for basic javascript quizzes which can be added to your website and customised.

Quizstar
Create and assign quizzes online with this free tool.

Rubistar
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

Rubrics for Web Lessons
The Rubric is an authentic assessment tool which is particularly useful in assessing criteria which are complex and subjective.

Online Maths Worksheet Maker
Free worksheet maker.

Project-Based Learning Framework
Framework for designing project-based learning activities.

Adopt, Adapt, Share
All Adopt, Adapt, Share units assist teachers to plan and program their students learning using the Curriculum Statements and profiles.

Beyond Bloom
This site considers how Bloom’s Taxonomy applies to the planning of lessons.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Construction Wheel
Use this wheel to help plan your lessons and units of work.

Blue Web’N
Database of lesson plans.

CAP Lesson Plans
Lesson plans, units of work and resources to assist teachers in their classrooms.

Softweb Idea Bank
Searchable database of lesson plans.

The Educator’s Reference Desk
2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Guru Planner
Digital planner solution for primary school teachers. It includes a work program, student records, various assessment modules, notes, calendar, PD attended, timetables, term planner.

Time-Fillers
Ideas for lesson breaks and short classroom activities.

Create A Web Page
Registered teachers can create a personalized Basic or Deluxe web page in just a few steps.

Module Maker
Show you how to build your own Online Research Modules that will challenge your students to make up their own minds.

Crayola
Lessons that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time.

EdNA Online
Search theme pages to find related lesson plans.

Formulating Questions for Higher-Level Thinking
Tool for developing questions using Bloom’s taxonomy.

Icebreakers, Warmups, Energizers, Transitions
Descriptions of short activities to get groups going.

Warm Up Games and Activities
An essential part of every PE lesson is a warm-up. Here are some ideas for fun ways to get the class moving.

Warm Up Activities and Stretching Exercises
These warm up activities are a crucial part of any exercise regime or sports training.

Ice Breakers
With these activities you can introduce each other in a fun and unique way.

Icebreakers and Energisers
These activities can be used for beginning of the year activities, energizers for breaks during standardized tests, team building activities, etc.

ABC of Yoga
Although these Asanas may just seem to be merely physical exercises, you will later realize that it is more than exercising your body.

Connect Energisers
Energizers are activities that can be used by teachers and facilitators to build enthusiasm for a classes, workshops, or presentations.

Educational Icebreakers
Icebreakers to facilitate introductions and warm-ups to a topic.

ESL Icebreakers
Collection of links to icebreakers and drama activities.

Online Library of Pilates Exercises
Pilates exercises build core strength and require little or no equipment and space.

Icebreakers and Group Process Activities
Collection of icebreakers and warm up exercises.

Yoga Basics: Yoga Posture Index
Collection of images demonstrating basic Yoga positions.

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Instructional Grouping in the Classroom
Types of instructional grouping that contribute to more positive academic and affective outcomes for students.

Multiage Program
Information about how one Multiage class is organised.

Teaching Strategies for Students with Diverse Learning Needs
This article discusses strategies for dealing with students with special needs.

World Centre for New Thinking
New Thinking includes creative, constructive, and the thinking that concerns the future.

IQ, EQ and SQ
A new approach to intelligence.

Learning Styles
Information relating to different learning styles for infants teachers.

Productive Pedagogy
A new approach to teaching is reassembling familiar classroom techniques into a workable model that focuses on high quality student learning and improved outcomes.

Project Based Learning Strategies
Collection of media activities that will enable teachers to teach their students how to use the Internet responsibly, how to think critically, as well as how to recognize different writing styles.

Teaching in Mixed Ability Classrooms
Teachers guide students down many paths to a common destination.

Bloom’s Taxonomy and Critical Thinking
Bloom’s Taxonomy divides the way people learn into three domains. This site expands on this idea.

Constructivism and the Five Es
The philosophy about learning, that proposes learners need to build their own understanding of new ideas, has been labeled constructivism. This site explains Constructivism and offers some examples of…

Edward de Bono
Some references to Edward de Bono’s work on the net are erroneous. When this happens an attempt is made to put them right here.

Emotional Intelligence: At a Glance
Episodes of school violence have focused attention on “quick fix” solutions, but the answer doesn’t lie in equipping schools with metal detectors.

MI E-Learning Lesson Planner
Matrix for Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.

Tests of Life, Not a Life of Tests
Author Maurice Elias argues that by placing emphasis on testing and standards, we are missing out on teaching important behavioral traits to foster civic responsibility.

The Differentiated Classroom
Ideas for managing students with diverse needs.

The Socratic Method
Transcript of a teaching experiment, using the Socratic method, with a regular third grade class in a suburban elementary school.

TIP Learning Theory Database
The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

VARK: Discover Your Learning Style
This questionnaire aims to find out something about your preferences for the way you work with information and your preferred learning style.

Play Games, Be Better Students?
Article considers how some game designers, educators and government officials think that games can be used as a tool to teach critical thinking.

MI: Seven Ways to Approach Curriculum
Multiple Intelligences approaches to curriculum.

Multiage Education
Information for teachers interested or involved in multiage class groupings.

Multiage-Education.Com
The nuts and bolts of a multiage classroom.

Multiple Intelligences
Dr. Gardner’s Theory on Multiple Intelligences.

Productive Pedagogies: New Basics
The New Basics are futures-oriented categories for organising curriculum.

Brainstorming
Instructions on how to run a brainstorming session.

Hot Potato and Graffiti Walls
Hot Potato is a fast-paced group activity where each group is given a sheet of paper with a topic to brainstorm and a graffiti wall is a variation on the hot potato strategy.

How to Mind Map
Instructions for mind mapping.

ACER Library
Australia’s gateway to educational research. Several large catalogues, databases and directories.

ACER: EdResearch Online
Browse this extensive database for new articles.

21st Century Literacies
21st Century Literacies refer to the skills needed in today’s society. These include information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies.

ACER: EdResearch Online
Comprehensive and up to date collection of educational research documents in Australia and hosts access to this collection and a range of similar databases and collections from around the world.

Allison’s Multiage Education Page
Learn about multiage classes from someone with 25 years experience.

Bloom’s Taxonomy - Categories
Categories in the Cognitive Domain and links to related sites.

Group Work and Study Teams
Study teams are long-term groups with stable membership who provide members with support, encouragement, and assistance in completing course requirements and assignments.

How Technology Enhances Howard Gardner’s Eight Intelligences
Explains how technology can help teachers and students understand the individual learning strengths of each student across the full spectrum of learning.

Enhancing Learning Through Multiage Grouping
Ideas for making the multiage classroom work.

Group Work
Article examines benefits of group work in the classroom.

Multiage Classroom Mailring
This forum is dedicated to discussions of educational environments featuring a multiage classroom.

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PEEL Web
Ideas for using PEEL in the classroom.

Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme
This UK initiative has close links to PEEL.

The PEEL Project
This approach focuses on what has been learnt over 20 years by PEEL teachers in stimulating and sustaining high quality learning.

Presenting PEEL
PEEL began as a program for secondary schools but has since spread to primary schools around the world.

Effective Student Learning in the Mathematics Classroom
Teaching Maths using the PEEL model of operation, whereby teachers from a number of learning areas meet and share strategies to enhance the learning in their classrooms.

Framework for effective learning: a middle years initiative
This paper outlines the outcomes of this project, and how schools have gone about implementing them in their own settings since that time.

Goals, Outcomes and Features of PEEL
Extracted from About PEEL, a booklet intended to provide an overview of the project.

Hastings PEEL
Principles of PEEL. PEEL Learning Behaviours PEEL Templates Primary PEEL Conference Notes PEEL Units.

A Challenge For Teachers And Students In The 21st Century
This paper provides an outline to consider and discuss a conceptualisation of quality in teaching and learning. The conceptualisation builds upon findings from collaborative, school-based research bet

About PEEL
PEEL operates as a network of autonomous groups of teachers who take on a role of interdependent innovators.

Action Research in Science Education
This introduction to action research in science education includes examples of how action research has been used to improve teaching and learning, as well as suggested resources for those seeking to…

Bridging the Gulf between Research and Practice
In this paper, Mitchell set out to explore the issue of why the findings of educational research are not fully utilised to influence teaching practice.

Packaging Constructivist Science Teaching in a Curriculum Re
This paper reports the trial implementation in secondary schools of a science curriculum package in an Australian State, New South Wales (NSW).

Principles of Teaching for Quality Learning
The 12 principles below have been developed in the Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL) since its inception in 1985. PEEL is led by teachers working across subjects in school groups.

Teaching Self Management
Self-management plans are used to teach students to independently complete tasks and take an active role in monitoring and reinforcing their own behavior.

The Parent Coach: Coaching Video Game Self-Control Skills To
Self-control requires self-monitoring and a strategic approach. Explain to kids that much like the games require, they can use strategies to rule their emotions and behaviors towards others while in…

You Can Teach Self Control
Self-control enables students to not disrupt class, or talk when a lesson is being taught. Students accept an approach to self-control when a game is used to teach this skill.

Teaching Self-Control
These skills will increase children’s self-control and tolerance of others.

Teaching Self-Management and Self-Determination Skills
Ideas for promoting independence in the transition to adult life.

Out Of Control
Games for developing anger management.

Principles of Competition
Read about the five principles of honorable competition and learn about things to avoid.

Self Control in Peer Groups
This paper provides a psychologically grounded theory of endogenous peer effects, as well as of the importance of group morale.

Art Activities For Teaching Self-Control
Here is a list of multimedia art activities that can be used to explore the theme of self-control.

Chill Out
Game used for teaching self-control and anger management.

Games Assault Self-control
Young people who play violent video games show increased activity in areas of the brain linked to emotional arousal and decreased responses in regions that govern self-control, a new study has found.

Games to Teach Values
Sometimes you would like to introduce or reinforce a value. Why not do it in a game setting? These are games that have been contributed by Guiders and Scouters.

Self-Control Game
The game SELF CONTROL is used to teach important concepts for personal development.

Teaching Self-Control
Martin Henley has created a curriculum for teaching students the self-control skills they need to control impulses, manage group situations, and adapt to school routines.

Back To School
Short guide helps young people move past the first day jitters, make new friends, and get into the swing of the school year.

Back To School Links
Links to sites featuring back to school ideas.

First Day at School Brain Teasers
After clicking “Score and Show Answer”, click “Try another set” button at the bottom to get a new set of numbers for the puzzle.

First Day Ideas
Fun ways to welcome your students back to school.

First-Day-of-School Icebreakers
15 creative icebreakers to help teachers and students warm up.

Math: First Day of School Discussion
New and experienced teachers alike ask themselves about what to do on the first day.

ProTeacher: First Day of School Ideas
A growing collection of tens of thousands of ideas shared on ProTeacher over the years by teachers from around the world.

There Is Only One First Day of school
Ideas for the first day from Harry and Rosemary Wong.

ABC Teach: Back To School
Back to school ideas for the first day.

Classroom Icebreakers
What to look for and avoid in icebreaker activities.

First Day Activities
Links to first day of school ideas.

First Day Foundation
First Day of School is a movement that brings together schools, families, and communities in celebration of education. First Day events are a fun, practical, effective way to get parents involved in

Back To School Printables
Various worksheets and ideas for the first day back at school.

Back To School Teaching Theme
Icebreakers and ideas that work.

Beginning Of School Lessons
Collection of lesson plans for the first day of school.

Fabulous First-Day Ideas
Teachers offer suggestions for first-day-of-school lesson planning

First Day of School Activities
Give each student an empty Pringles can to decorate as a Time Capsule. Put samples of their work in it.

First Day Teacher Tested Tips
List of tried and tested ideas for the first day back at school.

Fourteen Great Activities for the First Days of School
14 activities to help you get to know your new students and to help them get to know you.

Getting To Know You
Here are some getting acquainted activities for the first week of school. Pick one to help you and your students get to know one another better.

Getting to Know Your Students
This index page of icebreakers and lessons was designed to help teachers get to know their students.

Icebreakers And Group Process Activities
Educational icebreakers for the first week.

Ideas for the First Day of School
Links to ideas for the first day of school compiled by Sue LeBeau.

Teaching Heart Ultimate Back to School Stop
This to be a place where veteran or somewhat experienced teachers can come to find fresh ideas.

Warming up the Classroom Climate
Here are a few icebreakers that you can use in your classroom.

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The Honor System
This site explains the honor system as a means of promoting positive behaviour in schools.

Primary Discipline Guidelines
Example of school discipline expectations.

School Code of Conduct
This Code of Conduct is the result of a review undertaken by the school community.


School Discipline Code
This School Discipline Code forms parts of the school’s Student Welfare Policy

Boys: Literacy and Reading Links
Links compiled by Rosemary K Horton, P.L Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity College, Western Australia.

Single Sex or Co-educational?
Links to sites related to the issue of single sex classes compiled by Rosemary K Horton, P.L Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity College, Western Australia.

Success For Boys
Success for Boys is a $19.4 million Australian Government initiative that aims to help schools improve boys’ learning outcomes and engagement nationally, by providing teachers with access to high quality

Teachers Who Yell
Boys need to be yelled at by their teachers every once in a while, teachers from across North America heard at a major education conference.

University of Newcastle: Boys In Schools Program
Provides research, support programs and resources to educators throughout Australia in order to showcase boys’ strengths and their creative talents and assist schools to harness boys’ irrepressible

Education of Boys
Links to current journal articles related to the topic of education of boys.

Gender in the Classroom: Do Boys Learn Differently?
Article about boys and learning.

Getting Boys to Read: It’s the Context!
It’s not the text type so much as the situation that determines why and how boys engage with reading.

Ideas for Getting Boys to Read
Ideas to help you get boys to read.

Yes He Can
This Ofsted (UK) report evaluates the factors contributing to the success of those schools where boys write well.

Addressing The Educational Needs of Boys
The research report aims to investigate how systemic factors affect the educational performance and outcomes of boys and how these can be addressed in the school context.

Books and Authors for Boys
List of books and authors compiled by Rosemary K Horton, P.L Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity College, Western Australia.

Boys Do Read
This site is designed to share ideas about boys and reading with teacher librarians, educators and other interested parties such as parents.

Boys’ Education: Curriculum Issues
This report focuses on current practices in teaching educationally disadvantaged/underachieving boys and their literacy development.

Boys: Gender and Schooling
Boys Gender and Schooling has been developed by Education Queensland for school communities - teachers, administrators, parents - working to address issues in boys’ education.

Boys In Schools and Society
Australian Council for Educational Research report about boys education.

Boys’ Education Links
Links compiled by Rosemary K Horton, P.L Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity College, Western Australia.

Boys’ Education Research and Websites
Links to sites related to education of boys.

Improving Educational Outcomes For Boys
Ideas for teaching boys in the classroom.

Increasing Boys’ Achievement
Research evidence suggests some practical things schools can do to engage boys and improve their educational attainment, social skills and health. Dr Peter West, at the University of Western Sydney,

Raising Boys’ Achievement Project
UK report that sought and evaluated strategies found to be particularly helpful in motivating boys.

Mrs Mac’s Library Site: COGS Webquests
COGS Webquests created by Sharon McGuinness.

NSW Department of Education: COGS Units
The units of work provide cohesive learning experiences that have been developed from the descriptions of each connected outcomes. They cover outcomes at each stage of HSIE, Science & Technology, PDHP

Our Place
Connection focus: observing and interpreting the environment, in terms of significance, planning and design.

A Shared History
This Internet site is designed to support the teaching of Aboriginal perspectives in the NSW Human Society and Its Environment K-6 syllabus.

COGS Units: Email Tasks
Collection of Technology COGS units.

COGs: A planning framework for managing the primary curricul
This presentation will provide support for teachers in understanding the Connected Outcomes Groups (COGs).

Collie Travels Back in Time
This interactive module has been designed to support the Stage 2 HSIE Board of Studies unit relating to CCS2.1 -Describes events and actions related to the British colonisation of Australia and assess

Developing Units of Work for Connected Outcomes Groups
The NSW QT model provides a framework that can guide the planning of COGs units of work. Creating units from Connected Outcomes Groups allows teachers to make natural and logical connections

Integrated Unit Planning
Five unit plans are presented here as good examples of computer use, outcomes based education and constructivist learning.

Student Portal Simulations
Simulation activities using interactive learning objects.