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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: 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 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
For 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: Planting Seeds
This simple lesson plan is designed to help young young scholars 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 students 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. Students 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.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Us Foreign Policy in 1970s and at Turn of Millennium
This thorough lesson plan has young scholars brainstorming, working together, and using the Internet to learn about U.S. foreign policy of the 70s and in 2000.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Civil Rights Movement
This lesson plan has students experiencing discrimination and discussing their experience.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Cattle Ranching and Barbed Wire
This lesson plan has students creating fences to identify with the cattle ranching era.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: History of Dance
This lesson plan has students researching and presenting a cultural dance.