Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Special Needs
Ten customizable financial lessons designed for special needs students.
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Building a Community of Practice for Learners With Special Needs
Research and ideas about developing literacy communities for special needs students to practice literacy skills.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Interactive Lessons Collection
Interactive lessons on a range of subjects and grade levels. Each presents content from a public media production, specially tailored to the curricular needs of the classroom. All of these lessons can be used to teach English Language...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: How to Modify Teaching for Students With Low Organizational Skills
Classrooms today have students with many special needs, and teachers are often directed to "modify as necessary." The following article takes the mystery out of modifying your teaching strategies with concrete examples that focus on...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do You Need to Get a Flu Shot Every Year?
Why do we need a new flu shot every year? Vaccines for diseases like mumps and rubella offer a lifetime of protection with two shots early in life; what's so special about the flu?
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The Five Senses
An activity where young scholars try to identify objects using only their senses, with and without a blindfold. The instructional activity is also appropriate for special needs or ELL students in higher grades.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Inclusive Classrooms: A Primer for Teachers
An inclusive classroom is a general education classroom where students with and without learning differences learn together. Inclusive classrooms are welcoming and support the diverse academic, social, emotional, and communication needs...
Reading Is Fundamental
Rif: Booklists: The Pirate of Kindergarten
This site features a description of George Ella Lyon's children's book entitled The Pirate of Kindergarten. A lesson plan and related activities are included for this book about a little girl who faces vision problems and must overcome...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Overcoming Obstacles
When faced with a bump in the road, sometimes we forget we have a choice: overcome the obstacle or let it overcome you. Steven Claunch, who was born without fingers on his right hand and with one leg shorter than the other and has...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?
This thematic language arts instructional activity uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary young scholars learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Right Job for the Tortoise and the Hare
This entertaining lesson teaches your primary students about the value of specialized labor within a community, via The Tortoise and The Hare. This classic story also reinforces character education values of respect and friendship....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Passive Transport
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The cell membrane is semi-permeable. Sometimes molecules need the help of special transport proteins or an input of energy to help them move across it. When an input...