Practical Money Skills
Practical Money Skills: Lessons: Special Needs
Ten customizable financial lessons designed for special needs students.
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Language Arts and Skills Lesson Plans for Special Needs
A list of language arts lesson plans with corresponding books for young students with special needs. Click on the links in the right-hand column to access the complete lesson plan.
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Life Skills Lesson Plans
This site provides four appropriate lesson plans for teaching life skills to young children with special needs. Topics taught include color recognition, sequence patterns, reading comprehension, and environment awareness. A good resource...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The Five Senses
An activity where young scholars try to identify objects using only their senses, with and without a blindfold. The instructional activity is also appropriate for special needs or ELL students in higher grades.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Leaves: October Leaf Collection
In this activity, students use observational skills to compare and discuss the changes in leaves from September to October. *Adaptations will also be described for special education students.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Philosophical Chairs Discussion
Philosophical Chairs discussions allow students to make meaning of texts while developing, defending, and supporting their claims. This resource walks you through how to implement this type of discussion in your classroom. Included are...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
In this instructional activity, early elementary and special education students learn about generosity by reading the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister (not provided through the lesson plan). Graphic organizers are used to aid in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Reading and Writing About Miss Moo
Lesson for early elementary and special education students utlizing the book Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo by Kelly Graves and graphic organizers to identify elements in a story (title, author, setting, characters, etc.). Students participate...
Success Link
Success Link: Are You Talking to Me?
A lesson plan to help students interact with each other. The focus is on special education, but could be used productively in any elementary classroom.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Education: Weigh Your Options
Getting and keeping a job often requires special education or training. While an employer may provide or pay for some additional education or training, workers often have to obtain it on their own. In this lesson, young scholars use a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Animal Adaptations
Students use technology tools to research and produce a multimedia product on animals and their habitats. This a collaborative project involving the library media specialist, classroom teacher, and special education teacher.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Can We Learn From Pigs?
This thematic language arts instructional activity uses a variety of beginning reading books about pigs to help special education/early elementary young scholars learn about character traits and concepts. The wide use of graphic...
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Exploring Polygons
In this lesson, young scholars explore different polygons by drawing them, measuring angles, and manipulating interactive sketches to find the angle sum for any polygon. Students also explore the angle measures in regular polygons....
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Characteristics of Parallelograms
In this lesson, students learn more about the characteristics of parallelograms by folding paper and measuring the angles in a parallelogram. Students use a ruler and protractor to draw parallelograms with given properties. Then,...
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Classifying Triangles
In this lesson, students learn to classify triangles by the size of the angles and the measures of the sides. Students will use interactives to explore equilateral, isosceles, scalene, acute, obtuse, and right triangles. Included are...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: President's Day for Early Elementary
Lesson for early elementary and special education students using graphic organizers/thinksheets to learn about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and honesty. Students finish by creating pop-up or pocket books about honesty with teacher...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Right Job for the Tortoise and the Hare
This entertaining lesson teaches your primary students about the value of specialized labor within a community, via The Tortoise and The Hare. This classic story also reinforces character education values of respect and friendship....
Reading Is Fundamental
Rif: Booklists: The Pirate of Kindergarten
This site features a description of George Ella Lyon's children's book entitled The Pirate of Kindergarten. A lesson plan and related activities are included for this book about a little girl who faces vision problems and must overcome...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Hawaiian Economics: Barter for Fish & Poi
In ancient Hawaii, chiefs managed the economy by creating a land division system, the Ahupua'a, which divided the islands into pie slice shapes. Each Ahupua'a covered the three main regions of the islands: the mountains, the valleys, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Learning to Clean Tables by Using Sign Language
This is a L.I.F.E Skills functional and reading lesson using sign language and picture symbols for a severe/profound class with little or no verbal expressive language skills.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Trouble Is Brewing in Boston: "Colonial Voices Hear Them Speak"
It's December 16, 1773 and many of the citizens of Boston are furious with King George's new tax on tea. Young Ethan, a printer's errand boy, has been given the task of conveying information concerning an upcoming protest meeting. As he...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Interactive Lessons Collection
Interactive lessons on a range of subjects and grade levels. Each presents content from a public media production, specially tailored to the curricular needs of the classroom. All of these lessons can be used to teach English Language...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: "Knot" the Whole Truth
The writer will analyze and discuss the tall tale format after reading Jerry Spinelli's tale of Cobble's Knot, told in Chapter 20 of Maniac Magee. Then writers will need to create an interesting character in a special situation which...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sound and Fury: Deaf and Diverse
Identify beliefs, values and attitudes of deaf culture. Explore the causes and special communication needs of deafness, research the role that American Sign Language plays in forging a sense of community and create your own "sign name".
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