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HotChalk's LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter - Volume 10, Number 4b

April 15, 2007

This Issue Contains:

--More Lesson Plans--
--ChalkTalk Goes Live!--
--Highlighted Special Feature--
--Sites For Teachers--
--Earth Day and Arbor Day Lessons--
--Featured Lesson Plan--
--Featured Educational Link--
--Coming Soon--

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--More Lesson Plans--

This month we have added a good collection of lesson plans that cover all subjects; 32 lessons in all. These lessons are all listed on our Most Recent Additions page:
http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/MRA.htm

Here are some of this month's highlights:

Math: Smarties and Skittles graphing, AM and PM activities, teaching time with The Grouchy Ladybug, and single digit addition

Science: Magnets experiment, cohesion/adhesion, and the life cycle of a flowering plant

Art: Negative and positive space and from still life to abstract

Computers & Internet: Creating Excel charts of the solar system and Internet research scavenger hunts

Language Arts: Collaborative sentence writing to tell a musical story, foreign language lessons, and adjectives ideas

Social Studies: Henry Ford and the assembly line, good and bad bacteria (washing hands), and state alphabet books

Other: The values of getting along with others

Music: Musical phrases (form) and a music theory webquest

Physical Education / Health: Tripods and headstands and personal hygiene

--ChalkTalk Goes Live!--

Last week marked the launch of the flagship blog ChalkTalk. According to the author, Scott Spampinato, HotChalk's Director of Community Leadership, ChalkTalk will be a "centralized meeting point for all HotChalkers to hear what's new both up front and behind the scenes." Users can expect to find important announcements, program updates, helpful education-related content, and an assortment of surprises at ChalkTalk. Stay in touch with what's new in the educational world with ChalkTalk!

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/to/07-04b-HC-Blog

--Highlighted Special Feature--

We're currently running an article written by StepWare about helping your students read more efficiently. It includes tips on helping your students read more efficiently by reading faster and with improved comprehension:

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/to/07-04b-StepWare

Their new version includes an improved interface, a course mode that can automate your students' training activities, and is Windows Vista certified. They also received an award from Technology & Learning magazine as the top educational program of 2006 as well as the top winner among other award winners including Microsoft, Apple, Plato, and Scholastic! Read the article and learn how you can help your students read more efficiently!

--Sites For Teachers--

Visit other great sites for teachers and spread the word about HotChalk and LessonPlansPage.com at the same time simply by clicking the link below:

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/cgi-bin/in.cgi?id=EdScope

You can find another collection of great teacher sites here:

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/bestof/topsites.cgi?lessonplansp

Please consider visiting these sites each day you visit our site. Voting for us helps other teachers to find out about our websites! The more you vote, the more likely other teachers are to find out about HotChalk and LessonPlansPage.com!

--Earth Day and Arbor Day Lessons--

Just as a quick reminder for the upcoming holidays, we have a collection of Earth Day lesson plans here:

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/EarthDay.htm

and more ideas and lessons for Arbor Day here:

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/ArborDay.htm

--Featured Lesson Plan--

The lesson we're featuring this month is on Bacteria: Friend or Foe? This is a well-planned lesson for grades 4-5 that covers what bacteria are, how they can be helpful, how they can be harmful, and the necessary steps in washing hands:

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/to/07-04b-bacteria

--Featured Educational Link--

This month's featured educational link is exclusively a math resource for teachers, parents, and students. Cut-The-Knot.org has over 800 instructional and interactive math puzzles, illustrations, too many other math resources to list! Take a look:

http://www.Cut-The-Knot.org

--Coming Soon--

In early May our newsletter will feature some helpful resources for Mother's Day, Memorial Day, and the end of the school year (can you believe we're almost there?).

--That's All For Now!--

Thanks for being a part of HotChalk and LessonPlansPage.com! You will receive another message next time we make a major update or have other news to share.

Take care,--

Kyle Yamnitz Vice President, HotChalk Network
http://www.HotChalk.com
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