TEACHERS.NET LESSON BANK TOPS 1500 MARK - The Teachers.Net Lessons Bank (http://teachers.net/lessons ) topped the 15300 marks recently with entries that include everything from early childhood chants and songs to involved scientific demonstrations for high school and higher education. Since 1996, the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank has been collecting teacher submitted lesson plans, presentations, songs, procedures, and ideas for in the classroom. Over 1500 "donations" later, the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is the largest Internet lesson resource available free of charge.

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TEACHERS.NET LESSON BANK TOPS 1500 MARK

SAN DIEGO, CA -- The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank (http://teachers.net/lessons/ ) topped the 1500 mark recently with entries that include everything from early childhood chants and songs to involved classroom demonstrations for high school and higher education. Since 1996, the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank has been collecting teacher submitted lesson plans, presentations, songs, procedures, and ideas for in the classroom. Over 1000 "donations" later, the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is the largest Internet lesson resource available free of charge.
Teachers.Net is the most active Internet resource for teachers, serving over 3 Million pages in over a quarter million user sessions every month. Teachers.Net features a variety of focused teacher networking and information resources, including the most active teacher community on-line, over 45 focused teacher forums, and the 100% teacher-supported Lesson Bank. The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank assembles teacher-submitted lesson plans in a searchable collection for use with students in preschool through secondary school and beyond. Sorted by grade level and curriculum categories, the collection allows educators to easily access information about lessons and activities on topics as diverse as "Politically Correct Fairy Tales," "Finding the Surface Area of a Sphere" or "Herman the Worm Chant" and "Beethoven's Symphony Number 9." For example, typing in a search on the topic "conflict" returns listings for lessons on "Conflict & Cooperation" and "Themes In Romeo and Juliet."
Should browsing or searching fail to produce the lessons the teacher needs, the teacher can click over to the Lesson Request Board. The Lesson Request Board allows teachers the opportunity to add their topics to an international list that currently includes requets for lessons about rain forests, bats, "The Great Gatsby," using the Internet, and dozens more. Like all resources at Teachers.Net, this feature is available free of charge to all who visit the site.
And visit the site they do, around the clock - at the rate of more than 8,500 users each day. The heavy "traffic" that flows through 24 hours a day is due to the global reach of Teachers.Net. In addition to all of North America, users log on from time zones in New Zealand, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Ireland, United Kingdom, South Africa, Russia, Japan, Malaysia and many more. The diverse population of users fosters a sharing and comparing of a variety of information. Recently a U.S. visitor in one of the chatrooms asked a teacher posting from the Netherlands, "Does anyone there really wear wooden shoes?" Another lesson about to be shared via Teachers.Net!

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