Miscellaneous Lesson Plans and Web Sites

• American Rhetoric -speech bank - text, audio, and video files of speeches
  
  
• BCTE site containing CIP coded program Career Clusters, required for Perkins federal funding. These are the program categories that are considered as "approved programs".
  
  
• Glencoe E-zine - tips for teachers on various subjects. (Business roundtable integrates PA Standard article by Donna Gavitt)

• Google for Educators - Tools for your classroom, classroom activities and posters
  
  
• Handout from a presentation at PBEA on Fun and Games in Business Education. Various information on games, keyboarding sentence starters, music, how to inexpensively create individual white boards, etc.
  
  
• Help4Teachers - lesson plans in business to help with differentiating instruction using the layered curriculum model. Click on 100 unit plans…then scroll down to business.
  

• Information Age Education, a non-profit organization and website created by Dr. David Moursund, Teacher Education, College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. The goal is to improve informal and formal education for people of all ages, throughout the world. It is patterned after Wikipedia, but aimed at supporting and improving teaching and learning. He has also completed a book called, A College Student's Guide to Computers in Education which is available online.

• Jeopardy game in PowerPoint on amendments. Replace questions and answers with your own for any subject.
  
  
• K-8 Scope and Sequence - South-Western Keyboarding and Computer Applications Standards for
  Levels K-8. This is based on the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). It indicates at what grade levels students should be aware of a skill, when the skill should be introduced, when the skill should be reinforced and by what grade it should be mastered. There are guidelines for computers, operating systems, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, other types of technology, and more.

• Metacafe - Various videos and information, check out the Did You Know video that has new and updated statistics and thought-provoking questions.
  
  
• Moodle - Moodle is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses. The software is used all over the world by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers. Moodle is open source and completely free to use.
  
  
• David Morsund - Free eBooks on Information and Communication Technology for Preservice and Inservice K-12 Teachers, and other Educators.
  
  
• Nettrekker - academic search engine. Check with your school to see if you are a member.
  
  
• Open Courseware - Free syllabi, lessons, lecture notes, assignments, etc. from MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
  Other institutions open courseware: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/index.html
  Open courseware finder: http://opencontent.org/ocwfinder/
  
  
• PodGuides - PodGuides.net gives you free access to spoken tour guides (PodGuides) for your mp3 player. They also allow you to upload your own PodGuides, and share them with the PodGuides community.
  
  
• Podcasting - The Education Podcast Network (EPN) is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
  
  
• Survey Local Businesses - This is a class assignment. We work in groups of two. Each group is assigned a couple letters of the alphabet and they pick a certain number of businesses from those letters (from the Chamber of Commerce listing). We create a cover letter in a mail merge and enclose two surveys--one for the employees and one for the company. We do this every two years. We also have the students discuss and update the survey with what they think we should ask. We send out about 300 and get back around 75. Once we have the results, the Excel class compiles the data and makes charts. You could make the charts in word, but we involve more students this way. We’ve used the data at Ed. Development meetings for the district. It is a great way to validate what we are doing.

• TeacherTube - Videos for teachers to use on various subjects. Search education, technology, etc.
  
  
• Teacherweb - allows you to develop a web site and web activities very quickly and easily
  
  
• Topics - Students can't come up with a topic for a PowerPoint slide show or web site, give them this list
  
  
• United Streaming - Discovery Education/United Streatming - online education videos. Check with your school or Intermediate Unit for access codes.
  
  
• Website of John J. Olivo, Ph.D., Bloomsburg University - Various teaching resources and unit plans
  
  
• Website of Tonya Skinner - Includes lesson plans and resources
  
  
• Zipskinny - Check out your zip code (or any zip code)…you will not believe the information you will find there about your town!