Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Consonant Digraphs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that students will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Majestic Peaks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, learners research plant and animal life on mountains, as well as different weather regions. They then work in groups to present their information to the class.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Themed Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson Plans Page provides a teacher exchange of ideas tied to the season, time of year, or holiday.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Rights vs. Responsibilities Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Directions for a dominos game. The teacher, before class or with students' help, creates dominos depicting various occasions. Students identify the responsibilities they would have for each occasion. Then students can use the pieces to...
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hotchalk: Lesson Plans Page: What Is a Community?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Lesson that helps students understand what a community is and identify different types of communities. Students fill out a KWL chart and then writing their ideas in journals.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Following Directions

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
Through this lesson plan, students demonstrate their understanding of the importance of following directions.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Parts of a Spider

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This simple lesson plan is designed to introduce students to the structure of a spider and to classify spiders according to observable attributes and habitats.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Kick Off Seed Explorations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to have young students become more familiar with fruit seeds by identifying fruit that contains seeds/no seeds, gathering seeds from fruit, explaining the importance of seeds, explaining that seeds...
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Planting a Rainbow

For Teachers K - 1st
A simple lesson plan on rainbows. Objectives are to learn the colors of a rainbow, to reinforce shapes and colors, and to become aware of how flowers are planted and how they bloom.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: My Life as a Tree

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan introduces learners to three parts of a tree and how they function. Extensions can be easily added such as studying the tree rings for evidence of disease, fire, and other detrimental effects on a tree.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Plants and Animals

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, young students will be able to identify a plant's parts, explain their functions, diagram a plant, and create a mobile to demonstrate their understanding.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Planting Seeds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to help young students be aware of how seeds sprout, and that seeds grow into plants.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Glitter Germs

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan is designed to give young students a concrete demonstration as to why they should wash their hands with soap and warm water so they will understand that germs are smaller than the eye can see.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Layers of the Rainforest

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children the four layers of the rainforest.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Earth Day Song

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan page is a song that can be used to help young learners celebrate Earth Day.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Science Is a Volcanic Eruption!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about volcanoes by making a model volcano and having it erupt.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

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.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

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.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Building Your Own Greenhouse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site provides directions to building your very own greenhouse. Monitor your pea plant by measuring and recording the results daily.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

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.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

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.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Significant Individuals of the u.s. Civil War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This complete lesson plan identifies important individuals of the Civil War. Middle schoolers work together to compile their research into a final project.
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

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.