For almost every performance and workshop, and most of my CDs, I have written a one-page pdf of pre-view or follow-up lesson plans!
Feel free to print and use with your students or with your peers in teacher training workshops. All I ask is this: if you are reprinting these lesson plans please credit the source and encourage folks to visit my web page. The lessons are organized by subject matter. Some may be listed more than once because they readily fall into multiple categories. Click on the title to view the pdf files.
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There are additional lesson plans found in many of the Articles I have published.
LESSONS FOR CDs
- Civil War Stories
- Fun With Fables
- Adventures in Nature
- Walter the Water Molecule
- River Stories
- Prairie Fire!
- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
- Lincoln Tales Tall and True
Please note that there are two options for the back page on the Lincoln Tales lesson plan, the first is for younger students.
SCIENCE & ECOLOGY
- Adventures in Nature
- Adventures with Audubon: Bird Tales
- Bird is the Word
- Rewriting Audubon
- Adventures with Lewis and Clark
- Insect Safari
- Arbor Day Tall Tree Tales
- Be A Tree
- Bioregional Quiz: Developing a Sense of Place
- Prairie Fire!
- Rusty the Red Blood Cell: Internal Anatomy
- Stories Stones Can Tell: Geology and Creative Non-fiction
- The Seed
- Be a Voice for the River! - Ecology in Action!
HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES
- Civil War Stories
- Historic Artifacts Are Doorways Into Stories of the Past
- River Stories
- Canoe Song: The Early French Explorers
- Adventures with Lewis and Clark
- Prairie Fire!
- Speaking Truth to Power: Non-Violence and Conflict Resolution
- Turtle Island Tales: Stories of the Native Americans
- Myth Into Reality: Turning Classic Myths into Realistic Fiction
- Stepping Into Character in Six Easy Steps
- The Lives of Saints
- Grimm Brothers' Stories
- Lincoln Tales Tall and True
- Springdale Cemetery Tour
Please note there are two options for the back page on the Lincoln Tales lesson plan, the first is for younger students.
FAMILY STORIES, ORAL HISTORY, AND GENEOLOGY
- On Beyond Geneology
- Our Family Roots Are Deep
- Family Photos Tell Family Stories
- The Oral History Interview; Turning Notes Into A Story
- Hosting A Family Literacy Night
LANGUAGE ARTS
- How to Tell A Story; How to Learn A Story
- Telling Personal Stories: Tips for Personal Narratives
- Take an Old Story and Make it New - It includes the stories "He Got Out" and "The Nail"
- A Recipe For A Story
- Porque Stories: Why and How Tales
- Comparative Folklore: Three Bear Stories
- Telling Classic Tales of Terror
- Myth Into Reality: Turning Classic Myths into Realistic Fiction
- Grimm Brothers' Stories
- Writing with Purpose, Writing for an Audience, A Writing Contest!
POETRY!
HAIKU: Capturing the Haiku Moment
There are many more poems and lesson plans on the Poetry page.
There are many more poems and lesson plans on the Poetry page.
EARLY CHILDHOOD and ADULT LITERACY LESSON PLANS
Several years ago, I was part of state wide effort to impliment intergenerational storytelling programs for both EARLY CHILDHOOD and ADULT LITERACY. Based on the premise that kids at risk come from families at risk our mission was to train the trainer. We trained both early childhood educators and adult literacy, A.B.E. and ESL educators. I asked each teacher to contribute a lesson plan and here are their classroom tested lessons.