Planning Tools for Teachers

Free websites provide resources on planning tools for teachers in elementary school or k12 grade 1 to 6.

Assign-A-Day
This free tool is designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an on-line teacher-managed calendar.

Calendars Net
Free interactive web calendar hosting service, where you can post information for students such as homework reminders and computer use timetables.

Classroom Set Up Tool
Use this online tool to design the set up of your classroom then print out the results.

Cool Tool Quiz Creator
Online creator for basic javascript quizzes which can be added to your website and customised.

Quizstar
Create and assign quizzes online with this free tool.

Rubistar
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

Rubrics for Web Lessons
The Rubric is an authentic assessment tool which is particularly useful in assessing criteria which are complex and subjective.

Steps and The Lesson Architect
Learn to create standards-based lesson plans.

Teaching Tools
Create and store lesson plans and worksheets in an online account.

Test Maker
This free test making service for educators that requires registration (name, school, school address, and email). choice, fill in the blank, short answer, and true and false questions.

The Teacher Toolkit
Create and present your lessons online with this tool. Subscription required.

Trackstar
Collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track.

Multiple Intelligences
Ideas for integrating curricula using Multiple Intelligences.

Six Thinking Hats
Six Thinking Hats is an important and powerful technique. It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives.

Softweb Idea Bank
Searchable database of lesson plans.

The Educator's Reference Desk
2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Guru Planner
Digital planner solution for primary school teachers. It includes a work program, student records, various assessment modules, notes, calendar, PD attended, timetables, term planner.

Time-Fillers
Ideas for lesson breaks and short classroom activities.

Create A Web Page
Registered teachers can create a personalized Basic or Deluxe web page in just a few steps.

Module Maker
Show you how to build your own Online Research Modules that will challenge your students to make up their own minds.

Online Maths Worksheet Maker
Free worksheet maker.

Project-Based Learning Framework
Framework for designing project-based learning activities.

Adopt, Adapt, Share
All Adopt, Adapt, Share units assist teachers to plan and program their students\' learning using the Curriculum Statements and profiles.

Beyond Bloom
This site considers how Bloom's Taxonomy applies to the planning of lessons.

Bloom's Taxonomy Construction Wheel
Use this wheel to help plan your lessons and units of work.

Blue Web'N
Database of lesson plans.

CAP Lesson Plans
Lesson plans, units of work and resources to assist teachers in their classrooms.

Crayola
Lessons that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time.

EdNA Online
Search theme pages to find related lesson plans.

Formulating Questions for Higher-Level Thinking
Tool for developing questions using Bloom's taxonomy.

GEM
Gateway to Educational materials found on various non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

Lesson Plan Templates
Templates for daily and weekly lesson plans.

MarcoPolo Education
Access lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Web sites and other MarcoPolo resources.

MarcoPolo Education
Access lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Web sites and other MarcoPolo resources.

MI and Bloom Units
Multiple Intelligence and Blooms Taxonomy Learning Grids created by practising classroom teachers in our CAP Schools across NSW.

Hot Potatoes
Create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web. Free for educators.