“Doing What Works is a project of the US Department of Education, West Ed, and Little Planet Learning. The purpose of Doing What Works is to share the best research-based education practices. Doing What Works presents those best practices with videos of real teachers using them, interviews with educators, visual planning diagrams, and information for further research.

Applications for Education

A lot of websites share ideas for implementing new education practices, but few sites share videos featuring real teachers talking about their practices. Doing What Works does a good job of presenting both ideas and examples. ”

(Via FreeTech4Teachers.com.)

A Lifetime of Color – Lesson Plans Incorporating Art:

“A Lifetime of Color is one of the resources that was listed today in a blog post on Curious Works. The Curious Works post is full of art education resources. A Lifetime of Color offers lesson plans incorporating art activities into Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, Music, and Social Studies. The lesson plans are designed for use with K-8 students. You can search for lesson plans by subject area or you can search for lesson plans by grade level.

In addition to lesson plans, A Lifetime of Color offers a collection of games and interactive activities for learning about artists and learning to create art.

Applications for Education
A Lifetime of Color’s lesson plans could be useful for finding new ways to combine content areas through the creation of art projects. “

(Via FreeTech4Teachers.)

“I recently came across two large collections of lesson plans for ESL teachers, ESL Holiday Lessons and Breaking News English. ESL Holiday Lessons is a comprehensive collection of lesson plans for every major holiday in the United States. The collection also includes many lesson plans for minor holidays.

Breaking News English is written by and hosted by the creator of ESL Holiday Lessons. Breaking News English uses current events articles as the basis for ESL lesson plans.”

• Breaking News English – ESL Lessons for Current Events
• ESL Holiday Lessons

(Via FreeTech4Teachers.)

“Teachers’ Domain – 100′s of PBS-Based Lessons
NOVA, Frontline, and American Experience are three of PBS’ hallmark series. Quite a bit of the content from those three programs is available online on the PBS website as well as on Snag Films. Teachers’ Domain is another place to find great video content from PBS. But the real purpose of Teachers’ Domain is to provide lesson plans and activities to match the media content from PBS and their content partners.

Teachers’ Domain offers lesson plans and activities for K-12 divided into five content categories. To help you narrow your search for lessons, the five categories, arts, language arts, science, mathematics, and social studies are divided into subcategories.”

(Via. Free Tech 4 Teachers)