Lesson+Plans

=**Lesson Plans **=

**Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies ** **The Teacher’s Guide @http://www.theteachersguide.com/Civilwarlessons.html** **Includes Civil War lesson plan for the upper elementary level and links to other lesson** **plan sites.**

**Pro Teacher! @http://www.proteacher.com/090053.shtml** **Includes Civil War lessons for grades K–6 including Harriet Tubman, Abraham** **Lincoln, and slavery.**

**Scholastic @http://www.scholastic.com ** **Teacher lesson plans and classroom activities are provided here. **

**ERIC Clearinghouse @http://www.cal.org/resources/archive/eric/index.html ** **Offers lesson plans in reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually ** **representing as well as grammar, spelling, and handwriting. **

**Web English Teacher @http://www.webenglishteacher.com ** **This site provides a variety of lesson plans and activities for teaching grammar and ** **writing, especially for middle school teachers. **

**Ohio Center for Science, Math, and Reading ** **http://ohiorc.org/adlit/InPerspective/Issue/2006-09/Article/vignette2.aspx** **Gives a description of how to develop reader’s theatre in middle school social studies. **

**“HotChalk: Social Studies Lesson Plans.” @http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SS.htm ** **• Offers a variety of social studies lesson plans, K–8. **

 **First Activities for Teaching**  **Geography’s Five Themes www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson071.shtml**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **This site contains ideas for teaching the geography themes of location, place,**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **human/environment interaction, movement, and region.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **Discovery School’s A–Z Geography**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **http://fivejs.com/geography-a-to-z-places-that-start-with%E2%80%A6/**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **Find information about regions, countries, and cities around the world. This is a good**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **source if you have a lesser known topic you want to explore.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **Geography for Fifty States @http://www.elcivics.com/state-lessons/fifty-states-civics.html**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **Photo tours of all fifty states and their major landmarks. Very helpful for new arrivals**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **to your state as well as ELLs.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **Lesson Plan Library @http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/geog.html**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **This superb site from Discovery.com contains a number of lesson plans about many**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **places around the globe.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **Helping Your Child Learn Geography www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Geography/**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;"> **This site helps teachers teach the principles of geography.**