[LPP] June Newsletter - More Lesson Plans, Inspirational Teacher Story

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HotChalk's LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter - Volume 10, Number 6b June 18, 2007

This Issue Contains:
--More Lesson Plans--
--HotChalk Professional Development--
--Independence Day Lesson Plans--
--Inspirational Teacher Stories--
--Sites For Teachers--
--Featured Lesson Plans--
--Featured Educational Link--
--Coming Soon--


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--More Lesson Plans--

This month's update includes another 29 lesson plans with an emphasis on math and life skills (under "other"). You can see all the most recently added lessons and ideas right here:

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

Some of the highlights this month include:

Math: A multiplication game, prime number charts, counting and graphing gummy bears, sequencing with The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, patterns in Caps for Sale, probability with spinners, and a pre calculus introduction to limits

Music: An introduction to the study of musicals

Other: Career guidance with EXPLORE test results, 10 steps to better grades, the 10 things anger steals from you

Science: Studying changes in matter and teaching the rock cycle with chewing gum and pop rocks

Physical Education: Spanish castanets and Flamenco finger taps

Art: Observational drawing with pencils, Expressionism with crayons, and creating a community mural

Language Arts: Personal narratives, summarizing, and teaching adjectives with Go Away Big, Green Monster

Social Studies: The importance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and economics and the importance of jobs to the community



--HotChalk Professional Development--

Did you know that HotChalk is an IACET accredited provider of Continuing Education Units (CEUs)? Every class taken through HotChalk University will earn you one CEU. Select from an assortment of focused classes to support core subjects such as Math, Science, and Social Studies. Just for signing up with HotChalk, you are entitled to one free professional development module! Sign up today to take advantage of this offer and make the most of your summer break.
http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/to/07-06b-HC-PD



--Independence Day Lesson Plans--

We have 20+ lesson plans and ideas that may be helpful for the 4th of July. You can take a look at all of them right here:

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/4thOfJuly.htm



--Inspirational Teacher Stories--

We have a new inspirational teacher story about a teacher who was helped through a difficult time by an inspirational student who had been there himself. Read more:

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/inspiration/IInspiredByAStudent.htm

Our full collection of about 80 inspirational teacher stories can be found here:

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



--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!



--Featured Lesson Plans--

Here's a fun and creative lesson plan on the rock cycle for grades 3-8. It uses chewing gum and pop rocks to represent different types of rocks and for demonstrating the rock cycle.

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/to/07-06b-rocks

We also have a good multidisciplinary lesson with art as the focus. The topics are Expressionism, creating a still life with crayons, art history, giving thanks (for Thanksgiving, but this could be used at any time), etc. It was written for third grade:

http://www.LessonPlansPage.com/to/07-06b-expression



--Featured Educational Link--

Building Rainbows is a student book review site where readers can submit their own reviews of books and read tips for how to write a good review. The site also has a curriculum archive that has a good number of lesson plans and activities for you to browse. Take a look:

http://www.BuildingRainbows.com/



--Coming Soon--

We don't have a newsletter planned for July 1st, but we will have an update for you again in mid-July with more lesson plans.



--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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