NMAI

http://www.nmai.si.edu/

Look in Education/Teaching Materials for two lovely and rich PDF-format lesson plans. One is on the history and design of quilts, with extensive information on current practitioners and techniques. There are activities, study questions, and an extensive list of support materials and references. The other, appropriate for social studies, is a PDF lesson focusing on the first Thanksgiving from an American Indian perspective, including information on the Wampanoag trime today. [editor's note: the number of lesson plans is now four, 7/12/04]

SMILE

http://www.iit.edu/~smile/

For almost 20 years, Illinois Institute of Technology students, with contributions from classroom teachers, have been delivering lesson plans from a phenomenological viewpoint. The results are accumulated in book form, CDROM, and this crude and buried-in-smiley website. Most plans are strictly text sketches, though the site also contains interactive online lessons through it's SMART program. Perhaps the most well know initiative is the 27-year-old International Bridge Building project. Don't look for any fancy search engine or by-grade listing - strictly subject indexed.

Book Adventure

http://www.bookadventure.org/

This K-8 reading support program is a free initiative of the Sylvan Learning Center. It provides a personalized (registration is required, but is free and private) environment where young readers can select from reading lists, take short quizzes on their books, and win prizes. There's extensive support including a teacher's area.

Black History Month resources

http://www.gp.k12.mi.us/ci/ce/multi/bhmes.htm (K-5)
http://www.gp.k12.mi.us/ci/ce/multi/bhmmhs.htm (6-12)

Michigan's Grosse Point Public Schools provide these simple one-page en masse collections of online links in support of Black History Month.  Reviewed and offered on Kathy Schrock's web resource page. And don't forget The Partnership Help Desk's January 24, 2003 issue, which is also packed with resources!

Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

This web service is mostly a support site for Purdue University's writing lab. However, there are extensive handouts appropriate for high school and ESL students on an incredible range of writing topics. Use the pull-down menus at the top for quick access, though you'll have to browse some!