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High School Teacher Lesson Plans Go Open Source - US News and World Report

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High School Teacher Lesson Plans Go Open Source

Educators can download free teaching materials and get paid to share their lessons.

October 26, 2012 RSS Feed Print
Teachers can share lesson plans with colleagues nationwide using sites such as Share My Lesson and Teachers Pay Teachers.
Teachers can share lesson plans with colleagues nationwide using sites such as Share My Lesson.
For a high school French teacher looking for a creative approach to verb conjugation, new lesson plans are only a website away. The same is true for a biology teacher covering a unit on mammals, or a history teacher trying to spice up a lesson on the Gettysburg Address.
Educators are beginning to embrace the type of open source content championed by software programmers by sharing their expertise online: lesson plans, classroom activities, and