Submit Your Idea

Do you find lessons based on worksheets and workbooks just aren't enough? Do you often create your own lessons to motivate your students and supplement the curriculum you've been given to teach? Maybe you have wonderful lesson plans, units, or games that you've created for your class that you'd like to share with other teachers?   Or perhaps you have a tip that you'd like to share with your fellow teachers. Become part of the T.I.P.S product development team and share your creative ideas while making some extra money in the process!

T.I.P.S. is always searching for new and exciting ways to help teachers implement lessons that go beyond worksheets or workbooks. We are looking for original lesson plans, thematic units, and learning center activities that are easy for teachers to implement and exciting for students. If you feel that you've got something to share, read the guidelines below and submit your idea.

Guidelines

Whether you'd like to submit a tip, a single lesson plan, a learning center game, or a partial/ entire unit, your activity should be easy to implement and not require a tremendous amount of extra preparation time for teachers.

The necessary materials should be easily available at most schools, and books should be titles that are found in most school or public libraries. We strongly encourage the use of children's literature as part of any lesson plan. However, any books that are used as part of the lesson plan must include the title, author and publisher and cannot include any graphics, photos, or illustrations, lengthy quotations or excerpts from a book, poem, article, or any other print medium that would require copyright permission.

All final plans should be submitted in word processing document format and sent via email as an attachment, or you can fax all the information necessary to (954) 217-9807.

Answers for any question based lessons must be included. For samples of TIPS lesson plans and learning center activities, click here

We accept submissions of the following:

Tips:  We love posting tips from teachers on our website. If we can use your tip, we'll post the tip and your name on our site.

Lesson Plans: All lesson plans must be original. Lessons for all subject areas and specialty areas (including music, art, P.E., language, and special education) are acceptable. Lessons should be adaptable for a variety of teachers and schools. They should contain a writing component and/or book link whenever possible. Individual lessons should contain

• subject
• intended grade level(s)
• approximate time
• materials needed
• skills (ex: multiplication, reading comprehension)
• goal or objective
• procedure
• evaluation/ wrap-up/final presentation.

Units: Unit plans based on particular themes should contain a variety of lessons for all content areas. Partial unit plans are acceptable. Lessons for units should follow the same format as individual lesson plans.

Learning Center Games and Activities: All learning center games and activities must be original. They must contain grade level, subject, materials needed, and directions for both the teacher and the student.

How You Make Money 

If your submission is accepted, you will be paid within one month of the acceptance.

Lesson Plans:

Basic: $7.00 for one lesson plan which includes all the components listed above.

Multi-level:  $12.00 for lesson plans that include more than one activity, or an enrichment and/or remediation component.

Unit Plans:  $60.00 for small unit plans consisting of at least five different lessons (lessons should cover at least three subject areas). Partial units consisting of less than five lessons will be paid as multi-lesson lesson plans.

$120.00 for larger unit plans consisting of at least ten different lessons (lessons should cover at least four subject areas).

Learning Center Activities:

Learning center activities will be paid as a multi-level lesson plan. Games must be original and must include directions for the teacher and students, materials list, and answers to any questions contained in the game. If game boards are necessary, either include a copy of the board or an explanation of how the board should be designed.

Copyright

Once a lesson plan, unit plan, activity or game has been accepted and payment has been made, it will become the property of TIPS, Inc. and will carry the TIPS copyright. Therefore by submitting your lessons, activities, games or activities you are agreeing that they are your original idea and have not been published or sold elsewhere. TIPS may add, delete, combine with other lessons, or change the information contained in the lesson if necessary. TIPS is not obligated to included names on the material you submit, but will publish your name under contributors on the website.

Graphics

Due to copyright issues, we prefer that you do not send your lessons, activities or games with graphics. If graphics are necessary, we will add them.

Submission Form

To submit your tip, fill out the form below.  To submit your idea for a lesson, unit, or center activity provide us with a brief description in the submission form. If your idea is approved by our T.I.P.S. product development team, you will be contacted via email requesting the full submission material. Once your submission has been read in its entirety and accepted, we will notify you and (if applicable) payment will be mailed within one month of this notification. If your idea is not accepted, we will notify you via email as well. It's as easy as that!