Education Technology

Planboard is a new site I just learned about that is an online lesson planning tool for educators. You can import curriculum standards and multimedia content into the lesson plans, making it easy to organize everything. You can share your plans with others and print out PDF copies if needed. It's also very easy to rearrange plans due to missed classes or schedule issues. You can take notes and reminders in Planboard so that they are organized with your lesson and you can reuse your plans from year to year. It is also very easy to edit a lesson plan so it's easy to make updates or changes as you think of them.



You can also create custom period names and rotating schedules for weekly or daily rotations.


It's not free, however. You can register for a free 30 day trial period to see if you like it. After the trial period ends you can either upgrade to a paid account or just leave. A paid account is $29.95 per year with no limits. There is volume licensing available also.


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Building Big is a great site from PBS that has lesson plans, projects, labs, and activities for teachers to use in their classrooms. The topics are on buildings and structures, including Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams and Tunnels. It's based on the PBS television series Building Big.

There are interactive labs, educator's guides, challenges, data on the world's structures, and information about engineering and engineers.

The labs are flash-based interactive activities that let students explore forces, materials, loads, and shapes and get information about each topic.



The activities are fun and educational and the resources can be scaffolded for any level.



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STEM Resources for Educators

Project Based Learning resources for Educators

Lessonopoly is a great, free educational resource cite created to help teachers, with input from teachers. The site has lesson plans and lesson resources from around the web and from teachers, education news, a social media component where you can connect with other educators, and a classroom planner to help you organize your lessons and the materials you use from Lessonopoly. You do have to create a free account to use the planner,

I had previously featured a great resource from Lessonopoly, the Science of NFL Football, and have been going through the site more since then and found some great lesson resources.



This is a great resource to find some great lesson plans and lesson resources for your classes.



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10 Essential Educational Resources for Teachers - my listBetterLesson - free K-12 lesson plans, materials and resourcesLearnboost-online gradebook and lesson planner - announces lesson plan sharingTeacher Planet - lots of great lesson resources for teachers25 Free Resources from Discovery Education - including lots of lesson plans and lesson resources. 

ClassConnect is a new, free service that lets teachers build lessons with websites, videos, Google docs, files and more, then organize and store their lessons, and then share the lessons with students, parents, and colleagues.

It's easy to use and a great way to organize, create, and share lessons.

The really cool thing about it is that it was created by a young man, who got the idea while in high school, and instead of going to college, went out to Silicon Valley and created his own startup to create ClassConnect.

Give it a try.