Harry Potter Lesson Plans

1. A Day in the Life of Harry Potter- A web quest with a mock interview.
2. Create a Hogwarts Floor Plan- Students will learn about the concept of scale and other mapping skills as they create a floor plan of Hogwarts School.
3. Creating Mental Models for Harry Potter- Using a laserdisc (with specific scenes already chosen), the students will write adjectives that describe the pictures that they see and how they may or may not relate to Harry Potter if The Sorcerer’s Stone could happen in real life.
4. Creative Writing- A Unit based on the Harry Potter Series.
5. Foreshadowing The Story- "Surprising things have happened to Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts. However, J. K Rowling's masterful plotting of the Harry Potter stories includes hints in each book about what is to come later in the series."
6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- Reading Strategies/ Unit plan.
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcercer's Stone Lesson Plan
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcercer's Stone Lesson Plan- To encourage students to find the voice in the novel and to allow them to find their own individual ways into the experience through various projects.
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcercer's Stone Unit Plan 1
10. Harry Potter and the Sorcercer's Stone Unit Plan 2
11. Harry Potter Brings Magic into the Classroom- "Is your class entranced by the magic of Harry Potter? The excitement can carry you into many skill-building classroom activities."
12. Harry Potter Character Posters- "Students will complete an analysis of one character from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Students will learn to support their character analysis with specific information from the text."
13. Harry Potter Haiku- "Students will learn how to write a haiku."
14. Harry Potter: Quidditch- "How to play Quidditch (from the Harry Potter series) without the brooms."
15. Harry Potter Thematic Unit- Best of the web, internet activities, lesson plans, book resources and more for Harry Potter.
16. International Cover Art for Harry Potter-"Students will enhance their reading comprehension by comparing and contrasting book covers with the text of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
17. Learning Setting with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- A Web Quest.
18. Make a Harry Potter Board Game- "Students will improve their reading comprehension through creating and playing a board game."
19. Stretching Minds with the Harry Potter Books by J. K. Rowling
20. What's All the Fuss About Harry Potter?- "Students discuss what makes the Harry Potter books popular and/or controversial, create a questionnaire to learn why Harry Potter fans find the books fascinating, practice online writing skills by sending e-mail messages to friends who are Harry Potter fans, and write a screenplay based on a selected chapter of a Harry Potter book."
21. Write a Harry Potter Script- "Students will practice their reading comprehension skills by learning how to summarize."