EdHelper

EdHelper.com is a website that was created in order to give teachers an extra resource to use to plan lessons. It includes useful information as well as practice sheets for students in reading and writing, math, social studies, science, critical thinking, foreign language and much more. There are many different activitiy worksheets featuring the upcoming holidays (for instance, now there are activities for Halloween). Not only does this website offer worksheets and puzzles for the lower levels of education, it also offers writing prompts and SAT prep for the higher level students. It also caters to diversity in classrooms by offering similar assignments in a variety of languages such as Spanish, German, and Italian. With such a broad range of activities there is sure to be something to help teachers of any level or subject. EdHelper offers membership to those who are interested. Membership costs $19.99 per year for a basic membership and $39.99 per year for an "everything subscription". However, you do not have to be a member to use some of it's resources. I invite you to go and look at the EdHelper website at [|http://www.edhelper.com] and check out what this website has to offer. Though it might not be useful to you now, I found it helpful last summer when I was tutoring, and you also may find it handy when you start to plan lessons and go off teaching.

Beside the core curriculum, edHelper also includes activities for monthly or seasonal themed units, ideas to help students create their own itineraty when traveling, aids in perceptual skills as well as daily skills, handwriting, and art projects. Students of all ages can benefit from this website. edHelper applies to children as young as Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten, as well as students in special education.

There are also many websites that are very similar to this, but most of them focus on specific subjects. For example, http://www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/ is a website that gives different lesson plans on how to teach children about money. There are many of these kinds of websites and they could be very helpful in shaping lesson plans for teachers.