Blog #9

Your ninth post should contain:
A 2-paragraph review of an interesting web-based resource that you might use when teaching. Be sure to include a link to the resource, and check out the ones that your classmates have shared as well.
A paragraph about how you think you will use Excel and similar programs as a teacher (see Chapter 13). Be specific about your subject matter area and the grade level.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

The web-based resource that I chose is posted above. I liked this website because I found that it is very easy to navigate and gives a lot of different and useful ideas for lesson plans. Every teacher needs a lesson plan every week so I think this could be a very useful resource for me in the future. I would not necessarily use the lesson plans as explicitly as they are given, but I would certainly build off of them and tweak it to my personal needs. Sometimes I find that just having a starting point is useful and this website will definitely give me that.

You can find a lesson plan for pretty much any grade level, subject, difficulty level, etc on this website. I love that it is so diverse and everything is right at your fingertips. They are also all completely free, which I think is wonderful since I really would only use them as examples for the lesson plans that I will create myself. All in all, I think this is a very reputable and useful source for lesson plan ideas.

I will use excel when I am an educator for my gradebook. I think the fact that Excel calculates data is very useful and I will certianly benefit from that. I also may use Excel for my worksheets for my students too, since I am pretty particular about straight lines and even boxes, and Excel provides that. This program will definitely prove to be useful when I am a teacher, and I am glad I am learning how to use it.