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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Writing an Autobiography Using Pictures
This is a 4-day lesson 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: Free Trip, but Where to Go?
In 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 students 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: A Lesson on Comparing & Contrasting Using Cinderella
In this lesson, students 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: A Thousand Paper Cranes
This historical fiction lesson plan is for students 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: 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 students 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 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 young scholars 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: 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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Consonant Digraphs
What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that young scholars will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Majestic Peaks
In this lesson, students 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: 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 young scholars 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 young scholars 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 young scholars 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: 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: 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.