Welcome to November! Our HotChalk Experts look at leadership and the current technology leaders, while our bloggers explore grass roots ways to connect kids with healthy eating information and the concept of international minded-ness. There’s so much to discuss! Also, be sure to check our latest resources at LessonsPlansPage.com – we have thousands of free lesson plans to keep you re-energized!

What are the Experts Writing About?

In “Remembering Our Essence,” Tere Barbella looks at leadership, purpose and school reform, and suggests a classic parable about a stream as a lyrical reminder regarding control, priorities and what is essential to educators and artists.

Meanwhile, Diane Main embarks on her most ambitious series yet: standards for administrators. In “ISTE NETS*A Part 1: Visionary Leadership,” Diane discusses her many years of working with different users of technology and leaders in technology implementation.

HotChalk Blog Updates

• Diane Main explores “Your Father's Famous Four Questions (Part 4),” inviting an examination of the classic questions that parents typically ask their children before letting them out the door.
• “Brown Bag Science” by Shannon C'de Baca found a deceptively simple way to help kids to adopt healthier eating habits: brown bag lunches with a local dietitian.
• Art Blogger Tere Barbella’s “International Mindedness” wonders: Who in the world, historical figure or living person, best personifies your idea of international mindedness? This question, proposed at the International Baccalaureate World Schools Program Conference, encourages students to think about themselves, the world and their place in it.

Featured Educational Sites

There are about 500 active volcanoes worldwide impacting the health of the half a billion people living around them. The eruptions' effects depends on how far the person lives from the volcano, the concentration of gas and the type of eruption and lava flow. Although this is a serious subject, live volcano-cams and interactive games make learning about volcanoes fun. 

Curious Sites

Learn why leaves change color and fall off the trees with these great autumn leaf science projects from Science Made Simple.

LessonPlansPage.com Updates

• Art: a pinecone air freshener gift craft
• Computers & Internet: two introductory Excel lessons, an Excel budget activity, a photo editing project, a research paper, an Inspiration presentation and a few photo stories
• Language Arts: a top-down method for teaching irregular plural nouns
• Math: surface and lateral areas of prisms, plus a bee counting activity
• Music: Jazz Musician Jeopardy
• Science: making informative zoo animal T-shirts and mixed media human body organ system presentations
• Social Studies: "How a Bill Becomes Law," the pros and cons of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny, and a Vietnam War research paper
• Other: an inspirational teaching message of particular interest to Auburn and Alabama fans
• Check out all of our most recent additions here.

Share your lesson plans for autumn days, holidays, or any day at LessonPlansPage.com -- we would especially appreciate your help in increasing our Hanukkah and Kwanzaa lesson plan collections!

November Resources

November presents educators with an opportunity to discuss a myriad of issues surrounding our country’s native peoples, including their rich heritage, the lingering lack of cultural understanding many have and more, for American Indian Heritage Month.

Featured American Indian Heritage Month Lessons

• This lesson on Thanksgiving and Native Americans considers the rights, ideas, and feelings of others to better develop an understanding of different cultures through the exploration of holidays, customs, and traditions.
• “Tribes and Colonists” enhances Internet research skills, note-taking, expository writing, oral and written expression and more.
• This country was formed on the premise that all men are created equal. However, one of the most brutal stories in history took place in this country. It is known as the Trail of Tears.

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