How To Work Out Kindergarten Lesson Plans

Kindergarten lesson plans are just as important—to the teachers, the parents, and the learners—as higher level lesson plans. So, while as a college instructor I have done research online to find the latter, I have come across such wonderful kindergarten lesson plans that I wished I could either teach kindergarten or somehow sneak the delightful games, experiments, exercises, and activities of kindergarten lesson plans into the college curriculum. The animation, the coloring activities, and the audio/visual tools, for instance, are some of the most cutting-edge materials. Persons of any age should be allowed to or required to watch cartoons, color for an hour, and, of course, have milk and cookies and nap time…regardless of age.

But I digress, and sheepishly hand over the found links for kindergarten lesson plans so those teachers of kindergarteners will benefit while I fantasize about a simpler academic experience for my harried, serious adults.

First, you can find kindergarten lesson plans in the online teacher communities. At Proteacher.net, for instance, not only are there chat forums, job boards, and more, there are many kindergarten lesson plans—as well as those emphasizing subjects like math and science/technology and those targeting a particular student demographic, the gifted and the challenged, for instance.

At Teachers.net, colleagues share kindergarten lesson plans by trading them online. This fabulous site also has live chat, job and classifieds boards, and other useful and helpful features.

With a tighter, more specific focus—on teaching tolerance—Tolerance.org offers and encourages the submission of kindergarten lesson plans by way of activities, kits, handbooks, “web exclusives,” and resources for teachers seeking grants.

Next, online teacher databases provide a wealth of kindergarten lesson plans: Tracy Osborn developed and maintains a WWII academic and informational database at Teacheroz.com. Readwritethink.org features college to kindergarten lesson plans…and offers additional resources and standards guides, as well. And while I tripped around in the college-level links and pages, here, Carla Beard’s resplendent collection of English materials might include kindergarten lesson plans, as Beard shares everything from Shakespeare to Media and Literacy to Poetry Study Guides for numerous levels and learning styles.

You might also check out such online collections as those at Awesomelibrary.org; TeachersFirst.com; and , where teachers of multiple disciplines and multiple levels have opportunities for everything from classroom and professional resources to handouts and multi-media interactivity college to kindergarten lesson plans.

If you’ll excuse me, I am off to figure out a way to sneak in some part of the many wonderful kindergarten lesson plans into my college classrooms—even if that means re-introducing cookies and crayons!