The Collaboration of three Minnesota Intermediate School Districts has lesson plans specific to special ed curriculum, but may be worth others looking at - especially social studies.
Click Here to see Integrating Standards Curriculum
Sorry for the length…
If you would like a pdf of this, email thetardyteacher (at) earthlink (dot) net
(I’ve lost the citation, I am looking for it and will add it when found.)
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Site with MANY sunrise/sunset times already on the front page, but also has the capacity to be programmed for specific places.
Click Here for Sunrise/Sunset Calendar
Ah, organizing students (or ourselves). One of the greater challenges in our profession.
This site lets you make a personal organizer with a cover and 6 pages inside.
You can choose from the following options to put inside the organizer:
Cover, Blank, Writing lines, sizes of grids, table, story board, music staff, music tab, calendar (daily, weekly, monthly, [...]
You can set it to inches or centimeters; choose your paper size, line gauge, size of boxes and number of rows and columns. If you have access to a color printer you can select colors.
www.incompetech.com is a free site, but they do have ads and can make money if you click the ads to check [...]
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation currently has 21 books being read online in the style of the old school “Reading Rainbow”. Geared for younger ages or DCD, I used it for free time activity in a DCD classroom. Each story comes with related activities and discussion questions.
Click Here to see Storyline Online
Times Online - a UK source put together a list of … Top Books for Boys. It’s been received with mixed reviews, but here’s a link for you to decide if it’s helpful to you:
Click Here to See the Times Online Top Books for Boys
Word searches can be good for initial exposure to vocabulary - and any other reason you can think of
Or even to use Madeline Hunter: An Anticipatory Set.
Click Here to see the Puzzlemaker Word Search Maker
This was forwarded on by an awesome Media Specialist:
Gliffy allows users to create diagrams that can be posted on the Internet and shared between users and groups….
Math teachers…can use Gliffy to create diagrams for algebra or geometry
Social studies teachers….can create timelines and historical flow charts
Science teachers…can create flow charts for experiments.
FACS teachers….can create floor plans [...]
Saskatchewan Canada Schools have pages of a variety of food photographs. We used these when needing to provide photos for assessments but these could be used for nutrition units as well.
Click Here for food photographs
