Shakespeare to Search Strategies

Internet Resources/ Lesson Plans for Teaching Shakespeare

Online Quizzes

http://www.quia.com (You can sign up for 30 day trial.)

http://www.quia.com/dir/literature/

Lesson Plans on the Web

Taskstream.com for creating your own digital lesson plans. (you can sign up for 2 weeks trial)

http://www.taskstream.com

Ideas for web-based lessons from the Public Broadcasting System web site
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/teachtech/ideaswebbased.shtm

Art education activities from the Kennedy Center
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cs.html

Lesson plans available from the Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Learning Exchange
http://ali.apple.com/

A searchable database of lesson plans submitted by teachers to the Encarta web site
http://encarta.msn.com/

Astronomy lesson plans from the NASA Goddard Space Center
http://education.nasa.gov/educators.html

Lesson plans, activities, and resources from the national Park Service to support education in geology, paleontology, prairie resources, and wildlife
http://www1.nature.nps.gov/edures/

Free bank of lesson activities and other resources from the U. S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/free/subject.html

Teaching modules, classroom activities, and on-going events from the United Nations to help teach global issues: Human Rights, Health, Land Mines, Environment, Women, Poverty.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/

Lesson plans and other teaching resources on a variety of topics from the Smithsonian Museum
http://educate.si.edu

Lesson ideas and opportunities available from the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

Consortium to point the way to materials from federal, state, university, and other sites
http://www.thegateway.org/index.html

Lesson plans and other resources for the middle school level
http://www.middleschool.net/

Examples from the University of Illinois of real Internet projects of teachers and students, and the findings of researchers who study them
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/

The Busy Teachers' WebSite K-12
Arranged by subject categories, this site provides links to selected Internet sites as well as suggestions for lesson plans and classroom activities.
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/

Classroom Connect Lesson Plans
A web site for K-12 teachers and students, including Connected Teacher Lesson Plans and A+ Web Links by subject.
http://www.connectedteacher.com/lessonplans/lessonplans.asp

Discovery Channel School
Including the award-winning subject guide by Kathy Schrock, with lots of links to subject and administrative topics of interest to teachers and librarians.
http://school.discovery.com/

EDSITEment
From the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site contains not only great lesson plans for a variety of subjects in the humanities, but suggestions for important humanities websites and educational news.
http://edsitement.neh.gov

The Gateway to Educational Materials
This search engine for lesson plans allows you to select a grade level and search the full text of lessons for that age group. A "search by subject" and a "browse" feature is also available on this site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology.
http://www.thegateway.org/

Lesson Plans and Teaching Activities
A webliography of ideas for K-12 activities in many subjects, from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
http://libweb.uncc.edu/cimc/ebsscmc/lessonplans.htm

Microsoft ENCARTA Lesson Collection
Choose a subject area from the list and view links to lessons on various topics for grades K-12. Each lesson includes objectives, procedure, and motivation, along with a list of suggested resources. Also useful for its "topics of the month."
http://www.encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp

William Paterson University- Lesson Planning
http://www.wpunj.edu/library/currmats/unitplan.htm

http://www.edhelper.com/

http://www.lessonplanspage.com

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index.html

http://www.ciconline.com/default.htm

Online Learning Projects and Sites to Help with Collaboration Among Schools

The ThinkQuest Internet Challenge
http://www.thinkquest.org

The Kidlink Network to support e-mail exchanges among students
http://www.kidlink.org/

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections, a free service to help teachers link with partners in other countries and
cultures for e-mail project exchanges
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/

The Global SchoolNet Foundation, a site of examples of past collaborative projects and information on how to join
current ones
http://www.gsn.org

Live interactive expeditions to real places around the world that students may "join" online
http://www.globalearn.org/

Site to help K12 educators learn how to set up their own Internet servers, link K12 educators and students at various
sites, and help them find and use K12 web resources
http://web66.umn.edu/

Blue Web'N Library of Learning Sites
This popular site includes a content table listing web-based tutorials, activities and projects, along with lesson plans and suggested Internet resources for each subject area.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

http://www.westga.edu/~kidreach/macbethlesson.html

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LACIArtIntegrateShakespeareAndNet9.htm

http://www.viterbo.edu/academic/ug/education/edu250/ajdepaolo.htm

http://www.geocities.com/trichard_ca/

http://www.mrparent.com/Study%20Guides/julius_caesar_studyguide.htm

WebQuest

WebQuest Matrix of Examples
The famous list of inquiry-oriented Internet activities on many subjects, pioneered by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University. WebQuests are listed by grade level, skills taught, and subject.
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webevilinra.html

http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/webquest/high/LanguageArts/RomeoandJuliet/mainframe.html

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webshakespera.html

ThinkQuest

http://library.thinkquest.org/11964/contents.htm

Globe Theater

http://shakespeares-globe.org/

AskERIC Lesson Plans
Browse plans by subject, search the ERIC lesson plan database, or view their list of other lesson plan sources on the Internet, created by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)and the National Library of Education.

http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Literature/LIT0207.html

Hamlet Web Site

http://www.classroom.com/edsoasis/TGuild/Lessons/Hamlet.html

Shakespeare : For Teachers and Students
Resources for the study and teaching of Shakespeare for teachers and students including ... Shakespeare For Teachers and Students Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) Shakespeare ...

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm

K-12 Lesson Plans
... Science Language Arts The Arts Multi-Subject Lesson Plans Mathematics Appetizers and Lessons for Math ... for a grade 12 study of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Internet Integration into the Classroom ...
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html

http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/hamlet_parallel.html

http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp

Lesson Plan Archive
Back to Main Daily Lesson Plan Lesson Plan Archive News Snapshot Issues in Depth On This ... Job Opportunities Archive The archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12.
www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html

World Shakespeare Bibliography: Links
... Edition Shakespeare Web ... Congress Shakespeare Organizations and Institutes General Shakespeare Sites Web Editions of Shakespeare Studies of Individual Plays Pedagogy Journals Shakespeare Festivals ...
www-english.tamu.edu/wsb/links.html

The Shakespeare Web
The Shakespeare Web A more traditional And even more Images of the MAN. As a Young Man? MIT Absolute Shakespeare not the vodka. Activities and Resources All Shakespeare This site to access online ...
http://www.tnellen.com/school/shakes.html

http://members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/3Literature.html#Shakespeare

The Plays of Shakespeare - A TeachersFirst Web Resource
A collection of web resources dealing with Shakespeare’s plays. ... The Plays of William Shakespeare The amount of material available on Shakespeare is endless.

http://www.teachersfirst.com

Lesson Plans Page

www.lessonplanspage.com/LAJH.htm

Title - Sewing for Romeo and Juliet
By - Lisa Allen
Primary Subject - Language Arts
Secondary Subjects - Language Arts
Grade Level - 5-9
After teaching Shakespeare, the Renaissance era and "Romeo and Juliet", students form groups of four and choose a scene from the play. Subsequently, students
hand sew period style costumes onto Barbie dolls within their chosen scene. Once all costumes are designed, students work on designing a stage and present their chosen scene using their wonderfully costumed dolls! For an extension, you could use a digital video camera to tape the presentations and upload them sequentially into a class designed website on Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet! This is REALLY fun and has many educational benefits!