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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Native American Legends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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

For Teachers K - 1st
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

For Teachers K - 1st
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 Teachers K - 1st
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

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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

For Teachers K - 1st
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

For Teachers K - 1st
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

For Teachers K - 1st
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!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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

For Teachers K - 1st
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?

For Teachers K - 1st
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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has students researching and presenting a cultural dance.