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Greetings, this newsletter is to keep you notified of news, events, and additions to HotChalk's LessonPlansPage.com.

HotChalk's LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter - Volume 11, Number 4b
April 15, 2008

This Issue Contains:
--More Lesson Plans--
--HotChalk Update--
--Arbor Day & Earth Day Lesson Links--
--Inspirational Teacher Story--
--Sites For Teachers--
--Featured Lesson Plan and Unit--
--Curious Sites--
--Got a Dynamite Holiday Lesson?--
--Coming Attractions!--
--Signing Off--

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--More Lesson Plans--
Greetings, Educators. Welcome to the mid-April edition of the LessonPlansPage.com newsletter. Featured this issue are updates on the latest offerings from HotChalk.com, plus a broad selection of top quality new lesson plans. Highlights of this edition include a broad and rich collection of lesson plans related to health, medicine and healthy living. Also, tool-based lessons focus on the popular Inspiration, Kidspiration and Geometer’s Sketchpad software. You can see all of the additions right here:
Most Recent Additions
This month's highlights include lessons on:
Computers & Internet: Many lessons using Kidspiration, Geometer's Sketchpad, and Inspiration software
Language Arts: Story elements with Edgar Allan Poe, writing stories and essays, homophone trees, and a French food unit
Math: Pi Day activities, creating and comparing shapes
Physical Education / Health: See our featured unit below!
Social Studies: Lessons on drawing maps, African animals, Native Americans and European settlers, La Quinceañera
rite of passage, an economics lesson on international trade, and one on opportunity cost, scarcity, and choices
Science: Exploring levers with Kidspiration software

--HotChalk Update--
The Global Studies Collection
Hundreds of new videos open up the world to your students in NBC’s Global Studies Collection, now featured on HotChalk.com. Compelling "real world" footage on the Chinese culture, Antarctica, today’s Baghdad, Afghan women, the Tiananmen Square events, and other current and historical highlights and geographic wonders will engage your students and help prepare them for global citizenship.

"Meeting David Wilson"
This full-length documentary traces our nation’s legacy of slavery from the author’s personal family perspective. Encourage your students to walk in the shoes of a fellow American through this moving and informative work.
Meeting David Wilson
You can watch the documentary online here.

--Arbor Day & Earth Day Lesson Links--
As a quick reminder from our previous issue, we have collections of lesson plans for both Arbor Day and Earth Day at the two locations below:
Arbor Day Lessons and Ideas
Earth Day Lessons and Ideas

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--Inspirational Teacher Story--
We also added another inspirational teacher story this month. This month's addition helps us to remember the many teachers that made us what we are today. It's the last story listed 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:
Sites For Teachers
You can find another collection of great teacher sites here:
Top Teacher Sites
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 Plan and Unit--
First we have an Internet research unit on state parks written for grades 2-3. Based on their research, students create a brochure for their selected state park:
State Parks Research and Brochure
This six week healthy lifestyle diet and exercise analysis unit was written for 10th grade. At the end of this well-developed unit, students will have acquired the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to lead a healthy, active lifestyle:
Healthy Diet Analysis

--Curious Sites--
Visit Time Capsule and type in your birthday (or other date) to find out the price of gas, a house, a loaf of bread, and other items on the day you were born. Also learn the top film and actors, hit songs, new TV shows, headlines of the day, and more. Check it out!

--Got a Dynamite Holiday Lesson?--
See your name and lesson plan description published in our Mid-May newsletter. Submit your Mother's Day (May 25th) or Memorial Day (May 26th) lesson plan at:
Contribute Your Lesson Plans

--Coming Attractions!--
Stay tuned for our early May newsletter with Mother’s Day and Memorial Day lessons and activities for your class. By the way, don’t forget to submit your own great lesson ideas to share with colleagues in the LPP community.

--Signing Off--
Thanks for being a part of HotChalk and LessonPlansPage.com. Be on the lookout for new messages with updates or other news to help you do what you do best. Meantime, don’t be shy: contribute your great lessons to the growing high quality selection on LessonPlansPage.com. We’ll be expecting them. Take care,
--Kyle Yamnitz
  Vice President, HotChalk Network
      http://www.HotChalk.com
  The Lesson Plans Page:
      http://www.LessonPlansPage.com

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