FYI - Microsoft Lesson Connection

Created in collaboration with Tudor Publishing Company and Classroom Connect, Microsoft Lesson Connection provides teachers with tools to easily search through thousands of online lesson plans matching their local and state curriculum standards. If a school district has not yet published its local curriculum standards documents on the Web, teachers can search for lesson plans from state standards at www.statestandards.com. To learn more and to access Microsoft Lesson Connection, visit www.k12.msn.com/.

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