As one of these sites advises: Don't reinvent the wheel! The process of designing good lessons and projects which make use of the Internet has been expertly refined, and there are plenty of sites offering advice, lesson plans and ideas, resources and other kinds of teacher support. Time spent studying examples and discovering ways to produce lessons and materials of high quality is time very well spent. (As you browse you will also come upon examples of what to avoid--but not, I hope, on the sites below.)

• Big Six
  A well-tried and recommended problem-solving approach in six steps guiding students to find and use information efficiently and effectively.
  http://www.big6.com/
  
  
  
• Big6: Nuts and Bolts
  Organised links to valuable information. Sections include: In Search of Information Literacy, Resources and Activities, Problem-based learning, Investigating PBL, Using the Big6.
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/big6/
  
  
  
• Cool Teaching Lessons and Units
  Click on Cool Teaching Lessons and Units for quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or help with developing your own. Emphasizes learning models such as WebQuests, Research Models and Problem-Based Learning but includes links to much more.
  http://www.coollessons.org/
  
  
  
• Designing a Lesson
  Don't miss this site of ideas, activities and promising practices...  There are sections on getting started,  lesson plans and resources,  'making it happen' (design tips from experts)  and other useful information
  http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/index.htm
  
  
  
• Education World
  Lesson planning help for teaching about curriculum topics. You can do a search or browse by topic. Example: clicking on Technology leads to a collection on Using the Internet to Help you Teach. This site claims to provide 500,000 web resources.
  http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/
  
  

• Edsitement
  Tips and tools for integrating the Internet as a standard resource. Other sections of this site provide lesson plans, a reference shelf, a subject catalogue…
  http://edsitement.neh.gov/reference.html
  
  
  
• EdWeb
  The site offers a step-by-step guide to designing worthwhile learning tasks which make use of the Internet. The ‘Rubric for Evaluating Web Quests’ page is as useful for setting goals as for final evaluation. There is also a ‘Roadmap’ presentation in 23 slides.
  http://webquest.sdsu.edu
  
  

• Filamentality
  An interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internt sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities in a choice of formats.
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
  
  
  
• Filling the Toolbox: Classroom Strategies to Engender Student Questioning
  The strategies are of general relevance but can be applied particularly effectively to lessons involving the Internet. The emphasis is on training students to think more critically and creatively. Click on Prior issues. The article is listed under Libraries of the Future.
  http://fno.org/
  
  

• Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Students
  An excellent article by James McKenzie which appeared in From Now On, the educational technology journal. Its aim is to show how schools may take advantage of the Internet to raise a generation of 'free range students', that is 'young people capable of navigating through a complex, often disorganized information landscape while making up their own minds about the important issues of their lives and their times'. Scroll down the home page to the article title and click.
  http://fno.org/
  
  
  
• How to Make a Successful ESL/EFL Teacher’s Web  Page
  An Internet TESL Journal article with samples and links to take the trauma out of this task.
  http://iteslj.org/Articles/Kelly-MakePage/
  
  
  
• ICT in Education
  help in planning lessons which use computers--as well as ICT activities which do not require a computer. Terry Freedman also offers 5 minute tips and a free newsletter Computers in Classrooms--besides a book to purchase.
  http://terry-freedman.org.uk/artman/publish/index.php   
  
  
  
• Lesson Plans Page
  There are over 2500 lesson plans. Choose a subject (e.g. Language Arts) or a specific topic (e.g. Science Projects or Maths Worksheets) or any of the special features (e.g. Efficient Reading). The quality is mixed--but the collection can be used as a source of ideas for adapting to your own students.
  http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
  
  

• Newspapers in Education:The Star
  News lessons, activities, contects, Internet tutorials, links to NIE sties around the world. Potential for lesson material.
  http://thestar.com.my/education/
  
  
  
• Project-based Learning
  Collaborative learning with quality control via checklists. Teachers can create custom checklists to suit their own and students' needs by choosing from options provided--then print out the lists for class use. Very useful for setting criteria and evaluating various kinds of oral and written products (oral presentations, class newspaper, reports, puppet show...)
  http://4teachers.org/projectbased/
  
  
  
• Teachers’ Internet Use Guide
  Learn how to design, develop, implement, and evaluate an Internet-based lesson using a four-step instructional design process. Sample lessons illustrate this process. Free sharable online bank of teacher-created lessons.
  http://rmcdenver.com/useguide/
  
  
  
• Teaching Tips
  This will give you a very great deal more than help with lesson design. There is a vast assortment of topics including: preparing a lesson plan, course design, teaching techniques, assessment technigues, using questions effectively, how people learn, core abilities, motivating students, coping with stress, difficult behaviours and even 'the first day'.
  http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
  
  
  
• ThinkQuest
  Creating, exploring, promoting learning on the Web. Students research in teams, using appropriate skills, tools and procedures and then publish the results online.
  http://www.thinkquest.org/
  
  
  
• Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technololgy
  Two modules from the University of Maryland/Verizon on using the web to design and deliver online courses. Many examples of the use of technology across the curriculum for groupwork, projects, presentations and research, mostly at tertiary level.
  http://www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching/
  
  
  
• Web Worksheet Wizard
  A utility allowing the teacher to create a lesson, worksheet or class page on the Web. The counterpart students-only page is Project Poster (where teachers' work will be deleted!)
  http://wizard.hprtec.org/
  
  

• WebQuests
  A WebQuest is 'an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web'. The activities are carefully structured and many examples are available. This is possibly the most used model world-wide for designing web-based lessons. Full guidance is available.
  http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
  
  
  
• WWW4Teachers
  Project-based learning site which includes help in designing multimedia materials. Customisable checklists and rubrics (choose from pulldown suggestions).
  http://www.4teachers.org/
  
  
  
  TIP:  You'll find more help with lesson plans on other pages of this site such as TESL/TEFL and Young Learners

  
  

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• Updated 9 June 2008 Created by Jean Floyd for English Language Teaching Centre Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia @ 2001-2007