Lesson Plans | Online Learning Activities

http://www.edhelper.com
An excellent website that allows you to create lots of free worksheets. It is divided by grade level and has an excellent vocabulary builder section. This is good material that can be sent home with students who don't have a lot of in class time. It could be used for GED, ABE or ESL depending on the grade level you choose.

Marco Polo- Internet for the Classroom
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/index.aspx
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a consortium of premier national education organizations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States. Great Lesson Plans!

http://webquest.org
The Official Webquest website. Online inquiry-based projects for K-12 and adult students.

http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/index2.html
This resource for adult basic education instructors will allow you to search the Eureka! lesson database by topic or program type and discover lessons that have been used successfully by ABLE instructors with their students.

 (Here it is!) http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/
Lessons from today's headlines! Archives are available

Literacy in Cyberspace - Technology in the Adult Education Classroom
Over 50 different lesson plans covering topics from Life Insurance to the Cold War.

Ask ERIC Lesson Plans
http://www.eduref.org/
Loads of lessons!  

http://www.lemonadestandgame.com/
Lemonade Stand is a classic game that teaches the basics about how supply and demand effect business.   In this game, it is your job to run a street-corner lemonade stand and to try to make some money doing it.   Your business decisions affect supply and demand, and therefore, your profitability.

http://pw1.netcom.com/~kellerq/chembal1/default.htm
Chembalancer is an online game to teach balancing equations.  You type numbers in front of each molecule until there are the same number of atoms on both sides of the equation, then click the ‘Balanced’ button. 

http://www.essaypunch.com/
Essaypunch.com
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a short essay.   Users develop an idea and write their own short essay, consisting of an introduction, a two-to-three paragraph body and a conclusion.  Program prompts guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting and publishing.

http://www.businessletterpunch.com/
Businessletterpunch.com
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a business letter. Users go through the process of constructing a letter they would write in a business environment.  Steps to a finished letter include pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting and publishing.  Completed business letters can be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor or e-mail application. 

http://www.paragraphpunch.com/
Paragraphpunch.com
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic paragraph. Users develop an idea and write their own topic sentence, body and conclusion. Program prompts guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting and publishing.  Completed paragraphs can be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor or e-mail application. 

http://www.meritquizcenter.com/
Merit Quiz Center
The quizzes on this web site are designed to improve reading comprehension, build vocabulary and sharpen grammar skills.  The grammar, vocabulary, and writing quizzes give the user a quick assessment of eight basic skill questions.  The ESL reading quizzes have six questions.  The other reading quizzes have three texts with six questions per text.  They give the user an assessment of three basic reading skills. 

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4116/Investing/stock.htm
The Stock Game
The Stock Game is a free online stock market simulation for Grades 5–12.  Students nationwide play in individual or buddy contests year-round, and teams of two to three students participate in the Fall and Spring Stocks That Rock! competition.  The Web site contains lessons, lesson plans, a glossary, and more than 75 lesson starter activities.  These activities are correlated to NCTM, NCSS, NCEE and ISTE standards.  The site also contains research tools from REUTERS, CNN Interactive and Hoover’s Online. 

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?tname=50048&url=50048/
By the Great Horn Spoon: A Gold Rush Adventure
This is an excellent companion resource for teaching "The Great Horn Spoon" by Sid Fleishmann.  The text is available in English and Spanish.   You can take a journey with the main character following the route on an image map, visit San Francisco and join a miner in gold country.   Also available are great classroom activities.  Lesson plans on writing and links to other Gold Rush web sites.