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Activity Guides and Lesson Plans

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Enter study or teaching or activit* or guide* in the second box

Web Lesson Plans and Teaching Guides

The resources below will identify lesson plans and/or curricula. ERIC may have the full text of some resources online, but in most cases you will need to check to see if your local library has the item you want (ask your librarian! use the catalog!). If your library does not have the item you want, ask your library to get it via Interlibrary Loan.

ERIC indexes a tremendous number of lesson plans, activities, and teaching guides that are very to teachers and librarians. To limit your search to only these types of materials, use the Advanced Search and select one or more options from the Publication Type drop-down list, combined with your topic. Example: folktales and (Guides-Classroom Learner or Guides-General) (in publication type)

The Teacher Reference Center is a searchable database for abstracts and citations of education periodicals, book chapters, and other resources.

Agricola is an index that specializes in agriculture. Teachers in the areas of life sciences, agriculture, and family and consumer sciences will benefit from searching Agricola for activities because it will identify a wide variety of 4-H and other teacher's guides. To find them, search Agricola:

Use the Keyword Search in either Books or Articles. It may be beneficial to search in both sections of the database, since activities or teaching guides could be cataloged in various ways.
Enter your topic in the first box, either as subject or keyword anywhere. The ? is the truncation signal; for example, garden? will bring in records with gardening or gardener or gardens.
Enter guide? teach? in the second box and select any of these from the drop-down list; choose keyword anywhere.
As a separate search, combine your topic with 4-H and select as a phrase from the drop-down list choose keyword anywhere.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL)

The Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL) contains all types of curricula that have been produced by a variety of local, regional, and national agencies. KCDL also includes some activities and lesson plans. Use WorldCat, a combined catalog of many libraries, to identify the curricula in the Kraus collection and then ask for them via Interlibrary Loan.

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Use the Advanced Search
Enter your topic in the first box. (Remember, you are searching curricula, not activities. Don't be too specific in your topic.)
Enter kraus curriculum in the second box