Special Education Links and Resources
Lesson
Plans Across the Curriculum
Lesson plans and units.
Kodak
Special Education Lesson Plans
Lesson plans using photography.
Teachnology Special Education Lesson Plans
Links to many special education lesson plans.
Teachers Network Special Education Lesson Plans
Four elementary-level lesson plans.
Intervention
Techniques
Many ideas and techniques appropriate for teaching students with special needs
from the
Celebrations Around the
World
A multicultural, thematic unit for students with severe disabilities.
Vocabulary
and Language Development
A lesson plan for 3 to 5-year-old children receiving special education.
Monster
Fun: Learning the Five Senses
Though this K-3 lesson is not necessarily designed for
special education students, it could be easily adapted to meet their needs.
Centigrade
and Fahrenheit: What's the Difference?
A multi-level, cooperative learning lesson plan for fifth-grade science/math.
It is designed to accommodate the needs of learners with varying abilities.
Water,
Weather, and the World
A unit developed for students with severe mental retardation and limited
language abilities.
Ocean
Animals
A lesson plan for grades K-2 that would also be appropeiate
for special education students.
Bits of Braille
A Braille study lesson plan for fourth through sixth grades.
Friendship
and Stories
This excellent site from LD Online
provides information and a sample lesson plan for using children's literature
to teach friendship skills to children with learning disabilities.
Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
A primer from LD Online on the use of
this strategy for teaching reading to students with learning disabilities.
Sign the
Alphabet
An on-line activity from Funbrain.com.
Teaching
Volleyball to Students with Diverse Physical Abilities
A high school PE lesson plan.
Speaking and
Writing About People with Disabilities
Ideas and a worksheet I use for teaching about appropriate language (including
people-first language) for speaking and writing about individuals with
disabilities.
Teaching about
Mental Retardation: Ideas for Classroom Activities
Two activities, complete with handouts, that I use in
my Exceptional Learners class (Education 105) to teach college students (mostly
first-year) about mental retardation. I believe the activities would also be
appropriate for use at the high school level, perhaps in a psychology class.
Children With Special Needs
This site offers summaries and lesson ideas for five books about students with
disabilities.
Getting
to Know Your Classmates with Special Needs
Though this lesson was developed in 1992 and does not use people-first language, it includes many good ideas for teaching
elementary students about disabilities.
Be
Good to Eddie Lee
This lesson plan for 1st or 2nd grade titled "Dealing with
Differences" uses Virginia Fleming's Be Good to Eddie Lee to help teach tolerance of students with
disabilities. It is part of a unit titled "
Differences: Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature."
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The First Day
A grades 2-4 lesson plan on trust and openness meant for the first day of
class.
Lesson
Plans for Gifted and Talented Students
Seven leson plans in which gifted and talented
students create educational materials for younger students.
Hometown
Children and the Depression
A lesson plan from the New
Deal Network Classroom that is suitable for gifted or advanced-placement
students at middle school or high school level. see
also A Comparison with
Children in Modern Times.
To Be or
Not to Be
A high school lesson plan from the Holocaust Teacher Resource
Center in which students read, analyze, discuss, and write about the poem
"To the Little Polish Boy Standing with His Arms Up."
Picture This in
Youir Community
An interview project for grades 3-4 gifted.
Internet
Investigations: Unsolved Mysteries
A lesson plan for gifted students in grades 4-5 in which students become Internet Sleuths
as they uncover the facts and fiction about a variety of unsolved mysteries.
Similarities and
Differences Between the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War
A lesson plan for 5th-graders or 4th-grade students who are high achievers.
A
Walk Through the Sonoran Desert Then and Now
A lesson plan for grades 5-6.
Worth
a Thousand Words: The Photography Essay
A project for grades 7-8 gifted students.
Gifted Education: A WebQuest on
Instruction and Resources
A webquest designed to help teachers understand the
characteristics and needs of gifted students as well as learn where to find
resources for working with the gifted child and his or her family.
Hoagie's Gifted
Education Page
An excellent resource for teachers, parents, and students.
Underachieving
Gifted Students
An excellent article with strategies to reverse patterns of underachievement
and resources for students.
Education
Program for Gifted Youth
E-learning courses from
Resources
for Parents, Teachers, and Gifted, Talented, Creative, and Promising
Mathematics Students
From Northern
Keys to Sussessful Inclusion
From Teacher Vision.
SERI Inclusion
Resources
An annotated list of links.
Special Education Inclusion
An article from the Wisconsin Educatioon Association.Council.
Internet Resources for Special Children
Diagnosis ADDADHD: Now What?
"Strategies that work" for parents teachers and para-professionals.
Helping Children with ADD Focus in the Classroom
An article from Lesson Tutor.
Bits of Braille
A Braille study lesson plan for fourth through sixth grades.
American Foundation for the Blind
Association
for the Blind and Visually Impaired
National Association of the Deaf
Excellent source of information.
A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
A dictionary with both animated and text definitions.
ASL Fingerspelling
Dictionary, converter, and quiz.
Sign Language Dictionaries Online
Links to many online dictionaries.
Sign the Alphabet
An on-line activity from Funbrain.com.
American Sign Language Teachers Association
American
Sign Language Fonts
Download sign language fonts.
Council
for Children with Behavior Disorders
Learning Disabilities Association
LD Online
A terrific resource packed with information.
National
Center for Learning Disabilities
Teaching about Mental Retardation: Ideas for Classroom
Activities
Two activities, complete with handouts, that I use in my Exceptional Learners
class (Education 105) to teach college students (mostly first-year) about
mental retardation. I believe the activities would also be appropriate for use
at the high school level, perhaps in a psychology class.
Mental Retardation: A Symptom and a Syndrome
Another well-written book chapter.
Genetic Causes of Mental Retardation
A concise and highly-readable article.
Down Syndrome: Health Issues
An excellent resource.