Resources to help teams (especially scientist volunteers) plan lessons for K-12 classrooms

SEP Lesson Planning Resources:

SEP’s Daly Ralston Resource Center – a library of thousands of hands-on materials and curricular resources, lesson plans developed by past participants, and even consultation services.

SEP’s On-line Lesson Plan Database – a growing database of SEP team's best K-12 science lessons. It is also, a convenient way for SEP teams to plan lessons collaboratively and share them with the community.

Download an Anatomy of a Lesson Plan, a tool for generating your lesson plan.

Download Strategies for Involving all Students, suggestions for giving students opportunities to talk about science, handle materials, and think for themselves.

A Selection of Online Resources:

The Educator’s Reference Desk collection of lesson plans:
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml

Detailed index of links to lesson plans:
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lesson.htm

Lesson ideas, articles, and more at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) site: http://www.nsta.org/
http://www.nsta.org/elementaryschool
http://www.nsta.org/middleschool
http://www.nsta.org/highschool
NSTA’s short position statement on scientific inquiry in the classroom:
http://www.nsta.org/positionstatement&psid=43

Examples of elementary lessons taught by scientist partners from Community Resources for Science:
http://www.crscience.org/cic_sample.htm

Advice on working with students, and more, at ReSciPE (Resources for Scientists in Partnership with Education): http://cires.colorado.edu/education/k12/rescipe/collection/students.html

Learn more about the importance of inquiry through the National Science Education Standards:
http://books.nap.edu/html/nses/

Relate lessons to real-world issues by perusing the “science behind the news:”
http://whyfiles.org