Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education

Educational Resources

Sample Lesson Plans

 

• Bal Tashhit - Do Not Destroy Needlessly

• Bible Lesson Plan: Jacob and Esau for Primary Grades K - 3

• Poetry for Purim: An Activity for Purim

• Four Children

• Hebrew Reading Readiness - Cooperative Learning Lesson for Primary Grades K - 3

• Helping a Friend Learn the Sheheheyanu - Cooperative Learning Tefillah Lesson for Intermediate Grades

• Individualized Instruction Units (I - V) on Hebrew Reading, based on Sippurim K'tanim, and Evaluation Form

• Introductory Lesson to the Study of American Jewish History:
  The Journey to America

• Jewish Symbols - Cooperative Learning Experience for Kindergarten

• Jewish Symbols - Cooperative Learning Lesson for Primary Grades K - 3

• Mitzvah of the Month: Bikkur Holim - Visiting the Sick

• Mitzvah of the Month: Hakhnasat Orhim - Welcoming Guests

• Passover Symbols

• Seder Stations

• The State of Israel is Born! A Yom Ha'Atzma'ut Lesson Plan

• Tishrei Holidays for Primary Grades K - 3

• Two American Jewish Heroes

 

Lesson Plan, Curricula and Educational Resources Sites

 

These sites offer a wealth of lesson plans, curricular materials, and additional resource links!

 

http://www.babaganewz.com/teachers/ - Lesson plans that accompany articles in their magazine, as well as other planning guides on mitzvot and middot themes are online here.

 

http://www.bjeny.org/102.asp - The Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York's educational resources include material on Holidays, Israel , Bible, Current Events, Jewish History, etc.!

 

http://www.bje.org.au &

http://www.bje.org.au/educators/index.php - The New South Wales Board of Jewish Education of Australia's web pages for educators contain teaching resources, online learning, holiday ideas and much more! The site also contains resources for kids, teens and adults.

 

http://www.caje.org - The Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (national CAJE) maintains an excellent curriculum bank.

 

http://www.e-chinuch.org - features a searchable and browseable database of thousands of copyright-free, educator-created materials in various areas of Jewish studies.

 

http://www.jafi.org.il/education/datajem/ DataJem is a database of Jewish educational materials, is a project of The Pedagogic Center of the Education Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel and is searchable by subject, material type, age group, language, keywords, title, author, and publisher.

 

www.jecc.org/index.htm - The Jewish Education Center of Cleveland site features curricula and links.

 

http://www.lookstein.org/lessonplans.htm - The Lookstein Center provides lesson plans on several topics, divided by grade levels.

 

http://www.meltonarts.org – Learning about Judaism through the Arts contains teaching units on Holidays, Bible , Israel , Prayer, Life Cycle and more.

 

http://www.morim.org – A resource center with many programs and activities for community professionals.

 

http://www.nmmc.net/Guide/jcm.html - This site contains a compendium of links to many online sites with Jewish lesson plans and curriculum materials.

 

http://secure.jesna.org/sosland/sosearch.asp - The Jewish Education Service of North America's Sosland Resource Center contains an extensive searchable curriculum database .

 

http://urj.org/learning/index.cfm – The Union for Reform Judaism's resources for educators.