Free lesson plans and teaching resources can be a lifeline to teachers suffering from overwork and recently there has been a huge increase of online lesson plans that teachers can print or download for free. However with the emergence of ever-increasing numbers of websites offering free lesson plans, worksheets, resource packs and project ideas it can take just as long for teachers to find relevant lesson plans suitable for the classroom let alone work out if the lesson is any good or not.
Free-teaching-resources.co.uk can help teachers find teaching resources and sort out which lesson plans would be of use to them by reviewing each one individually. Free-teaching-resources.co.uk contains hundreds of reviewed free lesson plans and other teaching resources such as resource packs, worksheets, assembly ideas, school visits, project ideas, videos and images.
Using Free-teaching-resources.co.uk as a tool to help teachers find appropriate free lessons means more time could be spent linking up ideas to each other. For example, Free-teaching-resources.co.uk contains multiple free lesson plans on various subject areas including Art, Business, Careers, Citizenship, Design and Technology, English, Work-related Learning and Enterprise, Geography, History, ICT, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, PE, PSHE, RE and Science. From lesson plans on Lord of the Flies for English through to teaching resources on the tsunami for Geography and Citizenship lessons; many worksheets on bullying for PSHE through to energy resource packs for Science, Free-teaching-resources.co.uk has it all.
Free-teaching-resources.co.uk researches and reviews many online lesson plans. Some websites are better designed than others. However many great lesson plans have been written and designed by teachers, where the content is good and comprehensive but the web design may not be. Well thought out sites and teaching resources should be linked to the national curriculum to help teachers plan their timetable effectively. Websites should also be easy to navigate and understand. Lesson plans should be detailed enough to understand and carry out yet not overloaded to create yet more work for teachers. Many free lesson plans will have accompanying tools such as interactive media and games, videos and images or printable worksheets for students to complete. Some websites have additional guidance notes for teachers, particularly larger resource packs or project ideas, or lesson plans that run over a longer period of time.
Some organisations have dedicated teaching resources and education pages including blue chip companies, charities and government bodies. Examples of organisations that produce good quality free lesson plans and teaching resources include the Tate gallery for free Art teaching resources, Orange for free Business teaching resources, Skills Active for free Careers teaching resources, Christian Aid for free Citizenship teaching resources, Dyson for free Design and Technology teaching resources, the British Film Industry for free English teaching resources, pfeg for free Enterprise resources, Countryside Access for free Geography resources, the Museum of London for free History teaching resources, Teach ICT for free ICT teaching resources, the RAF for free Mathematics teaching resources, the BBC for free Modern Foreign Language teaching resources, Dbass for free Music teaching resources, Sport Relief for free PE teaching resources, BT for free PSHE teaching resources, Unicef for free RE teaching resources and BP for free Science teaching resources.
If searching for online lesson plans independently and not through Free-teaching-resources.co.uk, it may be worth spending time looking at who wrote the lesson plans. Many larger organisations have dedicated educational specialists creating new and exciting online lesson plans and teaching resources, other lesson plans are written by teachers themselves. However with ever-increasing numbers of online lesson plans, there are some online resources that are not so well constructed.
Teachers shouldn’t feel afraid to adapt free online lesson plans and worksheets to meet their own requirements. Online lesson plans should be seen as a help and not a hindrance. Using free lesson plans written by somebody else can also help spark new ideas and ways of working into the classroom and to other teachers in the school.
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