Where to Find Lesson Plans
Helpful databases, websites, and lessons from district librarians
Access mini-lessons, strategy ideas, and graphic organizers to use with Britannica School articles and media!
Lesson content is included for grades K-12.
* Teach Britannica is found by clicking the thistle logo 
on your Britannica School landing page.
Access Code.org's courses in computer science, coding, and generative AI.
Common Sense Education produces K-12 units for digital citizenship. A free account is needed to access lesson content and handouts.
Use Consider the Source New York to access lessons and activities to teach with NYS archives primary source documents.
Click the link for lessons and activities. These can also be found under the Teaching Activities link at the bottom of the CultureGrams landing page.
The National Archives education division created DocsTeach to provide access to lessons plans and activities to use with National Archives documents.
Access activities and lesson ideas for FactCite 123 and Lingo.
Links are located within the 
tab at the bottom of the landing page.
Visit Gale's Support Center for lesson plans and activities.
Visit the LOC's lesson plan page to access teacher created lessons using Library of Congress primary source documents.
Visit the Lesson Plan archive to view lessons linked to NewsBanks's current events articles.
Access over 900 media literacy lesson plans for use with students in grades K-12 and beyond. Project Look Sharp is an outreach program of Ithaca College.
* Free account sign up is needed to access the lesson plan repository.
Access language arts and media literacy lesson plans from the NCTE's ReadWriteThink.
Access lesson plans and graphic organizers for each book within the collection!
Teachers can use lesson plans to support their programs on health, science, physical education, and language arts. Lesson plans are located within the Librarian/Educator Resources link at the bottom of the landing page.
There are updated teaching ideas for timely topics, early childhood instructional support, and ready-to-use ideas under the For Educators section located on the landing page. Additional lesson plans may be accessible by searching books by title. Phonics and phonological awareness printables can be found by searching early childhood into the search bar at the top of the landing page.
Lesson Plans can be found within the 
link at the top of the landing page.