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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Spooky Sound Frizzle Style

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about how sound is heard in a three-step process using the Magic School Bus materials.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Sink or Float?

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan is designed to have young children explore the concept of sinking vs. floating by using the skills of prediction, observation and classification.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: American Revolutionary War Power Point Presentation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This fabulous site provides a lesson plan in which the students create a PowerPoint presentation.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Let's Explore African American History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This engaging lesson plan has students exploring the Internet in search of information related to African American history.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: The Civil Rights Movement (A Web Project)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This comprehensive lesson plan has students thoroughly researching and creating a Civil Rights Movement project.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Us Foreign Policy in 1970s and at Turn of Millennium

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This thorough lesson plan has students brainstorming, working together, and using the Internet to learn about U.S. foreign policy of the 70s and in 2000.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has students experiencing discrimination and discussing their experience.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Cattle Ranching and Barbed Wire

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has students creating fences to identify with the cattle ranching era.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: History of Dance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has learners researching and presenting a cultural dance.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Afghanistan Study

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity is a study of Afghanistan, its physical geography, the politics and its people. It is designed for grade 9.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Do Something: What Is Civic Action

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This impressive lesson plan incorporates listening to music, critical thinking, collaboration and community participation for students to understand good citizenship.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Do Something: Why Do I Have to Do Jury Duty?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has students acting out and discussing the jury duty process.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Bird Houses Making a Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This lesson is designed to introduce young students to the various places birds might live and to have them visually represent them in a book form.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Billie Bird Learning About a Bird's Body

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This activity is designed to introduce young learners to the various parts of bird anatomy and to express that through creative movement, poetry, and drawings.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Guess the Animal Using Animal Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This learning game is designed to help young students distinguish the sounds that various animals make.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Keep Tooth Decay Away!

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson is designed to give young students an understanding of tooth decay and proper dental hygiene.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Insects: Observing a Cricket

For Teachers K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to introduce young students to the qualities of crickets and to discover that a cricket is made up of different body parts.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Observe a Leaf

For Teachers 1st - 5th
This simple lesson plan has pupils observing various plant leaves.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Rocks & Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan is designed to allow young children to investigate rocks using the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Science Experiment: Carrot Tops

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"Can a plant grow from just the top of a carrot?" Students will engage in this lesson plan to find out.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Animal Tic Tac Toe

For Students K - 1st
This learning game is designed to help young students distinguish between insects, reptiles, and mammals.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Penguin Theme Unit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This lesson is designed to help young students learn about penguins over a five-day unit.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Insects

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This simple lesson plan is designed to introduce students to the qualities of fireflies.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Spooky Spiders

For Teachers K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to introduce young students to the characteristics of a spider and to classify whether a spider is an insect or an arachnid by analyzing its characteristics.