Accommodations Lesson Plans

This is not just a lesson, it's a life saver! Here are 10 separate documents intended to assist a new Special Ed teacher. There are 4 different games, instructional tips, ways to handle documentation, behavioral modification suggestions, and tips on how to modify school curriculum to meet your student's special needs. A must have cheat sheet. 

Kindergartenrs examine ways to communicate about each other when they are grouped as verbal and non-verbal, multi-handicapped pairs. They design a slideshow showing what they have learned about their non-verbal friends, and make a communication book for the special needs students.

Parents and children work together in a community circle to discuss caring for people with special needs. In separate groups, the children sing and listen to a story. They discuss ways people are alike, and ways they are different. Parents take on a physical limitation, and explore the site to determine accessibility.

Learners explore a range of disabilities. For this religion and ethics lesson, students research physical and mental disabilities through assorted media. They design an awareness advertisement as a culminating activity.

Young mathematicians explore adding one digit numbers. For this primary special needs math lesson, children count and add beads with a partner. They interact with a screen cast as they combine beads, then check themselves by viewing the screen cast.

Students explore human behavior by exploring mental and physical disabilities. In this learning disability lesson, students identify the different disabilities students have which prevent them from working at the same pace as the rest of the class. Students discuss ways they can treat learning disabled classmates better in order to boost their self-esteem.

Learners consider a fictional situation in which literacy could spell the difference between life and death. They apply their knowledge of how reading empowers people by creating a literacy program that addresses the special needs of a specific community.

Fifth graders use teacher-bookmarked Web sites to research four documents that have been instrumental in the development of our nation's freedom. They teams create Microsoft PowerPoint presentations on one of the documents as assigned by the teacher.

Students participate in songs and activities to recognize the differences between metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks. In this rock lesson, students investigate how sandstone is formed. Students discuss moss covered rocks.

Students who are learning the English language play a review game modeled after tic-tac-toe. In order to receive either and X or an O, they must first say a given word in English. This game could also be used with special needs children in reviewing vocabulary words.