This unit lesson plan is fairly basic, but it allows you the ability to plan out your key goals for each day inside your unit. Being able to state your objectives plays a key role in keeping your unit and your students on task.
The CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Lesson Builder provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation in the general education curriculum for all students.
Use this weekly lesson plan template to plan and view a week's worth of subject lessons. Designed with elementary teachers in mind, the template includes space for materials, activities, assignments and evaluation. There's even extra space for notes!
LDC is a national-wide community of educators that are able to create and share lesson plans and innovative, literacy-rich ideas in the classroom. This is a very user friendly website; there are many samples of lesson plans that may give educators a general idea of how to go about constructing their own unique lesson plan. Even better? This can all be done at the comfort of your own home/office.
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A website which can provide several activities for a first grade social studies class based on geography. However it does have choices on the side for other grade levels too.
JumpStart's collection of fun social studies activities is free, printable, and designed for students of different ages. These activities cover topics in geography, history, civics, and many other related subjects. Parents and teachers using them can rest assured that the kids are learning as much as they're having fun.