Special Education Lesson Plans

• Teacher Submitted Lesson Plans

1. Abuse It, Lose It- Logical Consequences for Teaching Self-Control to Mischievous Children.
2. American Revolution- The objective for this lesson is to engage the students in a role-playing experience in which they will be debating various points of views from the people of the American Revolution.
3. Art for All- The teacher found that the photogram was an excellent medium of expression for his students because the photogram (or shadowgram) lends itself to an almost endless array of creative Arrangements while not requiring the fine motor control of regular photography.
4. Bits of Braille - Lesson plan for fourth through sixth grades utilizing the braille alphabet and information on Helen Keller.
5. Collaborative Lesson Archive- A colloborative area for exchange lesson ideas.
6. Cultural Awareness- The children involved in this project were provided with individual plans of physical and occupational therapy to help them deal with developmental delays, physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy or spina bifida, or injuries and surgeries. Working together, Hill, a physical education teacher, and Phillips, a special education teacher, designed individual activity sheets for each child in consultation with physical and occupational therapists.
7. Community Involvement for the Handicapped- "Sharilynn Russo, a speech pathologist, uses photographs of foods from restaurant menus, grocery items, and other objects from the community environment of her severely mentally and/or physically handicapped students to help them learn to communicate their needs and behave appropriately in public places."
8. Developing a Community Skills Slide Show Library for Trainable Mentally Retarded Students- "James Engle and the 10 developmentally disabled young adults participating in this project have produced the core of slides designed to help handicapped youngsters and adults. They will, more easily, move about and participate in their community."
9. Early Childhood Thematic Units- Teaching through themes.
10. Erasing Handicapism: A Slide Show for Developing Positive Attitudes Toward Disabled Pupils- "The major strength is the impact that the slides have on us. It seems as if they are all things we've seen, but never really understood all the implications."
11. Fort Morgan, Colorado: 100 Years of Progress and Promise- "The group of 10 eighth and ninth graders who completed this project spent one to three hours a day in the school's Resource Room program for students with learning disabilities or significant identifiable emotional or behavior disorders."
12. Functional, Community-Based Reading with Photos- "Jean Resor used photographs of words as they actually appear in the community to help her 11 mentally handicapped students (below 55 IQ) improve their reading skills to function more independently in community and school environments."
13. Gentle Teaching- This is the home page of a non-violent approach for helping children and adults with special needs.
14. Hole Punch Names- Each student will be able to recognize their own name.
15. IEP: Individualized Education Program- An overview of the IEP process.
16. Knowing Survival Skills- Because safety is a priority in the classroom, this project was designed to increase the handicapped students' knowledge of safety procedures they would need to follow at school and in their daily lives.
17. KODAK: Education: Special Education- A series of photography lessons.
18. The Letter "C"- Students will be able to identify the letter C from a field of two and will identify sight words that start with the letter C.
19. Looking at Our Courses- "Working as a group on the project, Deborah Dudzak's classified, perceptually impaired students created a booklet using text and photographs to describe the courses offered at their high school."
20. Multi-disciplinary Instructional Photography- "Marianne Tierney, a teacher with the Multi-disciplinary Instruction Program (MIP) for underachieving students in nonpublic schools in the Allegheny area, developed creative ways to use photography to help students with learning difficulties gain academic and photographic skills."
21. National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media and Materials- Ideas and resources for improving your Special Education classroom.
22. Photo Books for Parent Home Training- "The teachers photographed each child to demonstrate the child's current positioning, exercise, and communication objectives and also the direction and handling skills needed by parents to help the children attain these objectives."
23. Photography for Language Use and Awareness- "In the process, the students gained self-confidence and pride in their accomplishments; increased their communications skills; came to better understand connections between visual, written, and spoken components of language; and developed more positive attitudes toward academic assignments as a result of their successes."
24. Photography in the Language Development of Deaf Children- "Language and reading lessons were intended to become more exciting and relevant as photos of the students in action were used to introduce new vocabulary words and to serve as inspiration for creating simple descriptive sentences."
25. Same and Different- The student will be able to choose the two items that are the same and the item that is different will remain on the table.
26. Slide into Achievement- Yvonne Hansen combined weekly photography lessons, demonstrations, guest speakers, and a field trip with a "hands-on" learning experience using cameras and photography.
27. Special Education- A series of lessons.
28. Special Education Lesson Plans- For Math Resource teachers.
29. Teachers Helping Teachers- A series of great lessons.
30. Teaching Math to Visually Impaired Students- A full resource for teaching math to the visually impaired.
31. The Home-School Photo-Essay Link- "Each photo essay required about three to five days to plan and complete. And, it is recommended that each essay be revised and updated as soon as any significant changes occur."
32. The Me Book- "The "Me Book" is an individualized photographic album that Moira Fallon uses to help very young or functionally impaired children begin to understand and communicate basic concepts through symbols."
33. Using Photography- "Cathy Davis' students photographed things, people, places, and actions to help them learn to identify nouns and verbs and then used the photographs in learning activities involving how to categorize nouns and verbs, compose sentences, and diagram simple sentences."
34. Visualarticulation- Teacher and students then used the sets of photos-of both model and children -- to study how the tongue, teeth, lips, jaw, and facial features (articulators) looked as the different sounds were made correctly and incorrectly.