CCCS: Designing Units of Study. Lesson Plans and Unit Plans: The Basis for Instruction. Browse: Rubric: Degree of Alignment. Common Core & State Standards. Lessons Aligned to the Common Core. By Cameron Pipkin This is a nice little Common Core resource I’m surprised I’ve never come across until now. It’s called LearnZillion, and it began as an experiment at a Washington DC public charter school. Essentially, if I read their website correctly, LearnZillion does what my company has been doing for a couple of decades: film teachers demonstrating best practices in the classroom and put lessons on video.
LearnZiollion has managed to collect homemade videos of lessons from teachers all over the country. What the initiative has created, essentially, is a nice little video list of topic specific lesson plans. And now, it appears, the site is turning its focus to Common Core Standards lessons. Critiques: a good number of the videos are a bit hard to follow, and their offerings are limited. Let me know what you think. Free Common Core Aligned Lessons and Web 2.0 Games to Play on your SMART Board! Attention: FREE Lessons and Interactive Resources! I am a BIG FAN of open source sharing and teacher collaboration. Blog superstar Richard Byrne was my inspiration for starting my blog... to share free and amazing resources with teachers.
As teachers, we all are tight on funding when it comes to gathering supplies and resources. I hope you enjoy the lessons the many great teachers have begun to share on ClassConnect - together we achieve more... yes, I just pulled out the good ole' T.E.A.M analogy! If you like Freebies and Printables - this is a post for you! If you like free Lessons and SMART Board games - this is a post for you! Click play below for a 2 minute introduction I Finally Organized My Files to Share on ClassConnect! ~there are hundreds of neatly organized and aligned lessons at all grade levels~ My Goal: to have one organized place for all of my content: files, presentations, lectures, websites, html code, lessons, plans, resources, etc... so that I can Save Time when Planning! Common Core Lesson Plans Reviewed by Teachers. Why Select Other Criteria? Sometimes you only have 45 minutes to review participles before Tuesday's assembly, or you need curriculum you know was reviewed after a certain date.
Duration: If curriculum authors indicate how long it takes to implement a resource, i.e. a 30-minute vocabulary exercise, a three-day science experiment, or a two-week expository writing project, we note it for you. If not, our teacher reviewers may indicate an estimated amount of time it would take. When you select a duration in this box, you'll see only resources with that stated duration.
Reviewed After: Limit the resources you see to those reviewed since the date you choose by clicking the box and making a selection. Sample Lesson Plans to Teach Common Core State Standards.