How to Write Lesson Plans
Need help to brush up on your lesson plan writing
skills? No problem! Here are some good resources to get you started.
How to Write Lesson
Plans
Resources for Developing
Lesson Plans
Find out how to write objectives, how to use Bloom's Taxonomy,
and find many graphic organizers to use in your lessons...or use
them to help you develop your lessons!
Lesson
Planning, Lesson Plan Formats and Lesson Plan Ideas
Dr. Bob Kizlik
This is the first place to look for detailed help in writing lesson
plans along with mistakes to avoid, and plenty of resources.
10
Steps To Developing A Quality Lesson Plan
A nice overview on how to write a lesson plan.
A
Guide to Writing Lesson Plans (a 4-page pdf document)
"A Guide to Writing Lesson Plans To begin, ask yourself these
basic questions: 1. Where are my students now with this subject?
... "
What
to Consider When Writing a Lesson Plan
This Teach-Nology.com site has a lesson
plan generator as well as this tutorial covering the basics.
Tapping into the Multiple Intelligences
This site includes an implementation section that includes how to make a lesson plan using MI.
Writing
Lesson Plans
This is a short overview.
Tips
for Writing Lesson Plans
These tips are for a modified Madeline Hunter Direct Instruction
lesson plan.
Lesson
Planning Center
From EducationWorld.com has lots of libraries of resources to
help you create your own lesson plans plus access to plenty of
submitted lesson plans.
Creating
Lesson Plans
From the Social
Studies Web.
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Unit and Lesson Plan Templates
Most of these templates are Word documents. Remember
that many templates do not always include important information
as listed below so you will need to add these items:
- Your name (don't forget!)
- Grade level
- Time frame
- CA Content Standards
- Materials and Resources
- Objectives (although this is often included)
- Technology, if any and
Management plan for technology, if needed (i.e., if there is
only one computer in the classroom how will you organize how students use it, etc.)
- Assessment - maybe be formal or informal
Here are some templates to use from the Curriculum & Instruction Department:
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Instructional
Strategies
Don't forget to include innovative instructional
strategies.
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Lesson Plans & Articles
History/Social
Science (SCORE)
Schools of California Online Resources for Education: Connecting
California's Classrooms to the World
All kinds of wonderful helps, lessons, and resources for history
and social science.
The Gateway
to Educational Materials
Educational
Technology Lessons & Projects
Find some projects and lessons developed by teachers like you!
Teaching
a Thematic Unit with Cooperative Learning and MultiIntelligences
(pdf file - use free Adobe
Acrobat Reader)
by Anita Oliver
This article in the April/May 1995 Journal
of Adventist Education describes a way to blend unit planning
with with two instructional strategies. Many other JAE articles
and other excellent resources can be found at CIRCLE.
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How to
Write Objectives
"An objective is a foreseen end that gives
direction to the activity."
John Dewey
How
to Write Effective Behavioral Objectives
Dr. Bob Kizlik
How
to Write Clear Objectives
Writing
Behavioral Objectives
Tips
for Writing Objectives
Writing
Performance Objectives
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