Resources for Educators

Lesson Strategies

Practical tools and ideas for planning lessons, finding classroom materials, using educational technology, and strengthening language skills.

Start With What You Need

These resources are organized here by the job a teacher is trying to accomplish—not simply as a list of links.

Lesson Plans

Browse planning approaches and lesson-plan resources for different classroom situations.

Free Worksheets

Find printable materials, practice activities, and worksheet ideas for classroom use.

Educational Technology

Go directly to the Educational Technology Clearinghouse for technology resources.

Spelling Ticklers

Use short, classroom-ready spelling games, word-study activities, and review strategies.

Plan a Lesson

The existing lesson-plan collection is broader than a single teaching method. The current SchoolMission material specifically points teachers toward several planning approaches.

Multiple Intelligences

Review sample plans, then adapt the approach to a theme, objective, or standard. Existing material also includes early-childhood planning resources.

Cross-Age Tutoring

Use lesson structures designed for older and younger students working together, with assessment for both groups.

Cooperative Learning

Look at plans built around cooperative activities, then develop a classroom plan around your own objective or standard.

Thematic Literature

Use lesson-plan examples to connect literature and classroom themes into a coherent instructional unit.

A useful planning sequence is: identify the learning objective first, choose the activity or strategy that supports it, then decide how you will know students learned it.

Find Classroom Materials

The Free Worksheets resource area brings together external sites for language arts, classroom handouts, math practice, puzzles, sentence writing, and other printable classroom materials.

Language & Writing

English basics, grammar activities, sentence writing, and other language-arts practice resources.

Math & Puzzles

Math work problems, math stories, puzzle makers, and other activity-based materials.

General Classroom Resources

Collections of worksheets, school-subject materials, and teacher resource sites organized for quick browsing.

Use Them Purposefully

Choose materials that support a clear learning objective rather than using a worksheet simply because it is available.

Explore the Free Worksheets resource library →

Use Educational Technology

Explore current educational technology resources that can help you integrate technology into instruction, support student learning, and make effective use of digital tools.

Explore Educational Technology Resources →

Start with the learning goal. Technology works best as a teaching tool—not as the lesson itself. Choose technology when it makes instruction, practice, creation, investigation, or assessment more effective.

Build Language Skills with Spelling Ticklers

The current SchoolMission Spelling Ticklers page contains 41 activities, with search, grade filtering, and a jump-to-activity directory.

Quick Practice

Examples include Alphabetical Speed Test, Speed Writing, and Spelling Scoreboard for short review periods.

Word Study

Activities include Homonyms, Shifting Vowels, Words in Words, and other exercises that focus attention on how words work.

Games & Teams

Bingo, Team Spelling, Team Learning Centers, Team Picture Charades, and other activities add structured practice.

Writing & Vocabulary

Comic Strips, Make Your Own Sentence, Tongue Twisters, Word Hospital, and related activities connect spelling to meaningful language use.

Open the full Spelling Ticklers activity directory →