Early Childhood Education: Lesson Plans and Rubrics

A free tool to help teachers design project-based rubrics.

"You will find our site to one of the most extensive teacher resources for rubrics on the Internet. You will find tools that help guide you through the process of creating these assessment tools for evaluating student performance. You will also find over five hundred printable rubrics on our web site."

The soup to nuts guide to and listing of assessment rubrics.

Pre-K through 8th Grade

"In 2000, abcteach entered the Internet world as a free educational website for teachers. Our site is the brainchild of Sandy Kemsley, a Michigan elementary school teacher who was retiring after 26 years in the class. abcteach seemed the perfect way for Sandy to continue communicating her love of teaching and wealth of educational knowledge. Little did she know that her "little website" would evolve into the global educational resource that abcteach has become."

"Curriki originated from the idea that technology can play a crucial role in breaking down the barriers of the Education Divide – the gap between those who have access to high-quality education and those who do not. Curriki helps bridge this divide by providing free and open resources to teachers who need them most.

A non-profit organization, Curriki is the leading K-12 global community for teachers, students and parents to create, share, and find open learning resources that improve teacher effectiveness and student outcomes."

"Discovery Education offers a portfolio of opportunities for districts to meet students where they want to learn in the digital age. With award- winning digital content, interactive lessons, real time assessment, virtual experiences with some of Discovery's greatest talent, classroom contest & challenges, professional development and more - Discovery is leading the way in transforming classrooms and inspiring learning."

"Hubbard's Cupboard is a website designed to be a resource for early childhood educators and parents." Created by a homeschooler - contains resources for religious education.

"KIZCLUB provides lots of educational activities in language arts for preschool and elementary age children.
This website provides...1. ABC'S, 2. PHONICS, 3. TOPICS, 4. CRAFTS, 5. STORY PATTERNS, 6. NURSERY RHYMES,
7. FLASHCARDS, 8. TEACHING EXTRAS

"MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services."

A creation of a partnership between the International Reading Association, NCTE and Verizon Thinkfinity, "our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials."

"After beta testing for almost two months, TeacherTube officially launched on March 6, 2007. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill."

"In support of the calling, Teachers.Net was founded on four principles:
1.To allow our teacher-users to contribute the content and direct site development
2.To utilize the Internet to harness the collective intellect and wisdom of the worldwide teaching community
3.To minimize costs to the greatest extent possible through automation, and
4.To never charge teachers for using our resources."

"For over a decade, TeAchnology has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. We feature 46,000+ lesson plans, 10,200 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources."