Lesson Plans
Start with the kind of lesson you are trying to build, then choose the planning approach that fits your classroom.
How to use this section
These lesson collections are organized by teaching approach rather than by a long alphabetical list. Choose a collection, identify the kind of activity you need, and then move into the individual lesson materials.
Browse the lesson collections
Choose the approach that best matches what you want students to do.
Multiple Intelligences
Lesson planning that deliberately varies how students can engage with a learning objective, including word, number, picture, music, people, self, body, and nature approaches.
Cooperative Learning
Plans built around students working together, with attention to participation, shared tasks, and activities that can be adapted to a classroom objective.
Cross-Age Tutoring
Lesson ideas designed for older and younger students to work together, with built-in opportunities for practice, explanation, and assessment.
Thematic & Integrated Lessons
Lessons that connect more than one subject or use a common theme to organize reading, writing, social studies, science, mathematics, or other classroom work.
Early Childhood
A dedicated set of early-childhood planning materials, including activities connected with multiple-intelligences approaches.
21st Century Schoolhouse Resources
Supporting materials that connect lesson planning with the broader 21st Century Schoolhouse program, including classroom activities and resource-building work.
From collection to classroom
The next layer of this modernization is the individual lesson library: searchable lesson titles, descriptions, and a clean lesson-reading experience. That will let a teacher go from “I need a cooperative lesson” to an actual classroom-ready lesson without going back through the old Web Forms index.