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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Consonant Digraphs
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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
In this K-2 lesson, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her students.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Majestic Peaks
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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Themed Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans Page provides a teacher exchange of ideas tied to the season, time of year, or holiday.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Rights vs. Responsibilities Game
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...
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Hotchalk: Lesson Plans Page: What Is a Community?
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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Following Directions
Through this lesson plan, students demonstrate their understanding of the importance of following directions.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Parts of a Spider
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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Kick Off Seed Explorations
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...
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Planting a Rainbow
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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: My Life as a Tree
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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Plants and Animals
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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Planting Seeds
This simple lesson plan is designed to help young students be aware of how seeds sprout, and that seeds grow into plants.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Glitter Germs
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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Layers of the Rainforest
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children the four layers of the rainforest.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Earth Day Song
This lesson plan page is a song that can be used to help young learners celebrate Earth Day.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Science Is a Volcanic Eruption!
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about volcanoes by making a model volcano and having it erupt.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Spooky Sound Frizzle Style
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?
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: Building Your Own Greenhouse
This site provides directions to building your very own greenhouse. Monitor your pea plant by measuring and recording the results daily.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: American Revolutionary War Power Point Presentation
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
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: Significant Individuals of the u.s. Civil War
This complete lesson plan identifies important individuals of the Civil War. Middle schoolers work together to compile their research into a final project.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: The Civil Rights Movement (A Web Project)
This comprehensive lesson plan has students thoroughly researching and creating a Civil Rights Movement project.