Category: lesson-plans

Most Popular Titles (Jan. 1 to Aug. 27)

By , August 28, 2011

Here’s an updated list of the most frequently-viewed pages at LessonIndex.com since January 1, 2011:

  1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (3,739)
  2. Fudge, Double Fudge, Fudge-A-Mania, Superfudge by Judy Blume (1,735)
  3. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (1,172)
  4. The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (1,151)
  5. The Metamorphoses by Ovid (1,146)
  6. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1,117)
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1,079)
  8. Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar (1,061)
  9. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell (1,043)
  10. Beowulf by Anonymous – Beowulf (1,038) Read more »

Most Popular Titles (August 1-25)

By , August 26, 2011

Here’s a list of the most frequently-viewed lesson-plan pages at LessonIndex.com during the first 25 days of August. (The number of unique pageviews is shown in parentheses.)

  1. The Hunger Games (390) Suzanne Collins
  2. The Most Dangerous Game (366) Richard Connell
  3. Sideways Stories From Wayside School (147) Louis Sachar
  4. The Best School Year Ever (136) Barbara Robinson
  5. The Lemonade War (134) Jacqueline Davies Read more »

Testing Some New Directory Pages (Experimental/Beta-Test)

By , August 2, 2011

I’ve generated a set of about 350 new directory pages under the /beta/ subdirectory at LessonIndex.com, to experiment with “theme” pages for a variety of content areas. http://www.LessonIndex.com/beta/

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Massive Update to LessonIndex.com This Weekend

By , July 16, 2011

Over the weekend, LessonIndex.com added more than 40,000 new links to teaching guides and lesson plans for literature.  For many literature titles, the number of links has more than doubled.

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Update: Most Popular Titles

By , June 11, 2011

Here’s an update showing the 1,000 most frequently-viewed lesson-plan and teaching-guide pages at LessonIndex.com (from January 1 through June 10, 2011):

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Learning Resources Framework Initiative

By , June 10, 2011

I’m intrigued by this week’s announcement of the Learning Resources Framework Initiative, promoted as a joint effort of the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) and Creative Commons, with support from several major educational publishers.

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Who’s Searching for Lesson Plans? (Countries)

By , February 21, 2011

Of the teachers who visit this web site, more than 25% are outside North America. Most of these teachers won’t buy print or CD-ROM products from US merchants, because of shipping costs, customs paperwork, and delivery delays — but they will often purchase PDF or other digital-download versions.

  1. United States (us) 68.9%
  2. Canada (ca) 5.6%
  3. Great Britain (gb) 3.4%
  4. Australia (au) 2%
  5. Japan (jp) 1.9%  …  Read more »

Update: 943 new teaching resources

By , February 20, 2011

This weekend, I’ve added 943 more links to new teaching resources.

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Which Titles Are Teachers Searching?

By , February 15, 2011

Here’s a quick list of the 500 “most-frequently-viewed” web pages at LessonIndex.com:

  1. Fudge, Double Fudge, Fudge-A-Mania, Superfudge [275]
  2. The Hunger Games [264]
  3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [239]
  4. The Devil’s Arithmetic [225]
  5. The Giver [195]
  6. 1984 [189]
  7. Beowulf [184]
  8. Flowers For Algernon [169]
  9. Animal Farm [167]
  10. Tuck Everlasting [165] …   Read more »

Updates this week

By , January 5, 2011

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