SPE 550:  Teaching Culturally Diverse Students
Dr. Diane E. Newby

Lesson Plans Online Activities
Sexual Orientation
Special Needs
Engish As a Second Language


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  • Cooperative Learning
  • Elementary Cooperative Learning Lessons
  • Middle Level Cooperative Learning Lessons
  • Secondary Cooperative Learning Lessons
  • Lesson Plans from National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) Back to Top
  • History of the Americas is part of the CyberSchool program. It offers students the opportunity to study the history of the Western Hemisphere entirely over the Internet. In English and Spanish
  • Adult Education ESL Teachers Guide (lessons) lesson plans and teacher training modules for beginning and intermediate ESL, with a section on teaching non-literate adults.
  • Bilingual Women of NASA A resource to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science, and technology. Students can read profiles of NASA scientists in English and Spanish and engage in scheduled online chats.
  • Dave's ESL Idea Page educators worldwide share ideas about learning and teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language.
  • ESL Teacher Connection teachers can use or submit ESL lesson plans and activities on this site.
  • Grammar Safari provides suggestions for hunting and collecting examples of specific words as they are used in English language documents on the web, giving students exposure English grammar as it is used in authentic communication.
  • Joanne's Page for ESL Teachers. Includes tips for new and experienced teachers on accent reduction, vocabulary building, and more.
  • Language Academy Lesson Plan Database at the San Francisco Unified School District. Search this database of bilingual and ESL lesson plans by language or grade level. Languages include: English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Filipino, French and German.
  • Lessons, Lesson Plans & Handouts for the ESL Classroom The Internet TESL Journal keeps a listing of all the lessons ideas and lesson plans from their monthly web magazine.
  • OTAN Forum: ESL Lesson Plans These practical ESL lessons are designed primarily for adults, but can be adapted for middle and secondary students. From the California's Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN).
  • Paso Partners: Integrating Mathematics, Science and Language  K-3 bilingual (Spanish/English) curriculum guide. Includes a curriculum plan, instructional strategies and activities, suggested teacher and student materials, and assessment procedures.
  • PIZZAZZ!creative writing resources for ESL teachers (intermediate level).
  • Thematic Units for ESL Content area units for K-12 ESL students
  • Academy Curriculum Exchange over 700 lesson plans in the areas of language, math, science, social studies and 'miscellaneous' compiled by a consortium of teachers from 14 states
  • AskERIC Lesson Plans a vast array of lesson plans for all grade levels and content areas. This site includes subject listings as well as a searchable database.
  • CNN Newsroom is a free instructional program for teachers featuring  in-depth news stories and coverage of world & regional events designed exclusively for students.
  • Core Knowledge Lesson Plans collection contains units and lesson plans in a variety of subject areas developed by K-6 teachers in Core Knowledge schools.
  • Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students (LETSNET) offers links to lesson plans and curricular ideas for language arts, foreign language, social studies, science, math, art, and music.
  • The Long Island Educator - Subject Areas links to lesson plans and other resources in content areas.
  • North Carolina Curriculum Matrix from the NC Department of Public Instruction, this site provides detailed frameworks to help K-12 teachers reach specific goals and objectives based on discipline and grade level.
  • Teachers Helping Teachers lesson plans and tips for teachers on classroom management, language arts, math, science, social studies, the arts, and special education.
  • Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Exchange miscellaneous lesson plans submitted by teachers to the Teachers.Net site.
  • Teachnet.Com: Lesson Ideas includes lesson ideas for art, music, language arts, math, science, social studies, the Internet, health & physical education, and parents.
  • Enlaces en español para la matemática a collection of Spanish language math resources from websites thoughout the Spanish-speaking world.
  • Collaborative Lesson Archive includes collaborative science and math units for Grades 2-12. Teachers are invited to submit lesson plans. Sponsored by UI Urbana-Champaign.
  • Science Activities Manual: K-8 written to aid in the adaptation of the Tennessee K-8 Science Curriculum Framework: for the elementary school classroom. Activities manuals address content with a hands-on approach while incorporating the skills necessary to raise the activity to a higher cognition level.
  • Science & Math Initiatives Teacher Help Service (SAMI) Lesson Plans & Projects. Includes links to dozens of sites with math & science lesson plans & activities . From the The Annenberg/CPB Project.
  • History of the Americas is part of the CyberSchool program, and it offers students the opportunity to study the history of the Western Hemisphere entirely over the Internet. In English and Spanish
  • Celebrating Our Nation's Diversity lesson plans for primary and middle/secondary students from the U.S. Census Bureau. The plans reinforce concepts about diversity with statistical information from the 1990 Census. Alternate link 
  • Political Database of the Americas/Base de Datos Políticos de las Américas this multilingual site (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese) contains primary resource material for the governments of the Western Hemisphere: Constitutions, Electoral Systems, Civil Society, Political Parties, Executive Institutions, Legislative Institutions, and Judicial Institutions.
  • K-12 Curriculum & Lesson Plans from the History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers.
  • Museums in Education: Lesson Plans site includes a compilation of lesson plans and other resources written and compiled by teachers and students in the "Museums and Education" at the UVA Curry School of Education.
  • Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources an extensive list of lesson plans, online activities, and teaching strategies from the CSUN School of Education.
  • Lesson Plans: Language Arts links to reading, writing, spelling, grammar, creative writing, and literature lesson plans for all grade levels. From the Library-in-the-Sky 
  • Language Arts Lesson Plans from the Columbia Education Center includes many lesson plans created by teachers for elementary through high school. other subjects.
  • Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) includes over 130 instructional handouts for writing, as well as resources for teachers.
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