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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Writing an Autobiography Using Pictures
This is a 4-day lesson plan on how to write an autobiography. Students also learn to take digital pictures of themselves and use them in their writing.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Trail of Tears
This detailed site has students recreating what the Native Americans went through during the Trail of Tears. This lesson plan allows for critical thinking, collaboration, acting/role-playing, and writing.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Birdseye View, Mapping
Lesson that helps students understand that maps show a "birds-eye view" of a place. Students stand above a teacher-made model and discuss how the objects in the model looked from above. Then students draw objects from a birds-eye view,...
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Edible Geography
Lesson that helps young scholars understand geography of states by creating an edible map of the state, using real food to indicate parts of the state.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Free Trip, but Where to Go?
For this lesson plan, students research information on 2 countries, estimate mileage over long distances, and present their information to the class.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Probing Into Plant Parts
In this lesson plan learners will obtain a better understanding of a plant's needs, and how the various parts of the organism help it to meet its needs. Students will understand how some plants are alike and different.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Word Problems and Technology
This activity gives students hands-on experience creating and illustrating word problems.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Lesson on Comparing & Contrasting Using Cinderella
In this lesson, young scholars will learn to compare and contrast 2 different versions of "Cinderella." Students will use a Venn diagram and make predictions.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Experiencing Tiananmen Square
This thorough lesson plan has students learning about the events related to Tiananmen Square. The students have options for how their research can be completed.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Thousand Paper Cranes
This historical fiction lesson plan is for learners reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, in which they can discuss the tragedy of Hiroshima and its impact as well as other themes.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Physical Education & Health
This resource provides a collection of physical education and health-based lesson plans organized by grade level.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Native American Legends
A lesson plan for teaching Native American Legends. Well-designed, and applicable to any legend which you might choose to read.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Civil War Battlefields Virtual Field Trip
This detailed lesson plan has learners analyzing battles of the Civil War through the Internet and creating a presentation using the information learned. Note: Some links may no longer work but these battlefield sites can be easily found...
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Power Pointing Your Way Through the Civil War
This impressive lesson plan has students working together and creating a PowerPoint presentation about a specific Civil War topic.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Exploration of Rocks
This lesson plan is designed to allow young children to explore rocks by engaging in a rock-collecting hunt, and then recording information about their favorite rocks on a worksheet.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: The Nature of the Antagonist
This lesson plan teaches students to understand the differences between protagonists and antagonists, to recognize a "villain" in storytelling, and to understand conflict as used in literature.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Businesses in Your Neighborhood
Lesson to help students understand how a local grocery store works and why it is important to the local community. Students categorize grocery items, practice terms related to grocery stores, and then role-play a trip to the store.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Service in Our Community Bingo
Lesson in which students play a community-themed bingo game to help them understand roles people play in the local community.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Members of a Community
Lesson helps learners learn about members of a community. Students list people who help in the community and create representations of community members out of paper.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: "The Great Gatsby" 1920s Project
This is a lesson plan resource in which young scholars create a classroom magazine straight from the 1920s to enhance and expand understanding of The Great Gatsby.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Edible Geography
Students learn directional geography and the physical geography of a state by making an edible map using different objects to display the different geographical landmarks.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Wants and Needs
Lesson plans for teaching the fundamental economic concept of needs and wants for grades 1 and 2 using the book The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills. Students work in groups to discuss and classify various images to illustrate the difference...
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Aquatic Wildlife and Pollution
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about healthy and hazardous marine and freshwater environments and be able to describe the effects of the pollution of plastics on wildlife.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Causes of Pollution
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children identify the types of pollution, the sources of the pollution, and how they can protect the environment from further pollutants.