November Lessons-Theme Units-Events-Activities

Teaching Tip: Lesson Plan Ideas For November Thinking of Lessons for November? Here are a number of November events / themes you will want to include in your classroom.
1. November 1st is National Author's Day.

2. November 1st is National Family Literacy Day.

3. November 6th is Election Day.

4. November 8th is Young Reader's Day.

5. November 11th is Kurt Vonnegut's birthday.

6. November 11th through 17th is American Education Week.

7. November 12th is Veteran's Day.

8. On November 24th Darwin published 'The Origin of Species'.

9. November 22nd is Thanksgiving Day.

10. November 23rd is Black Friday.

11. November 29th is Louisa May Alcott's birthday.

12. November 30th is Mark Twain's birthday.

November Events and Celebrations For Teachers

November is: National American Indian Heritage Month,

Scientist Appreciation Month,

American Diabetes Month,National Novel Writing Month
 
Source: Weekly Tips for Teachers Issue 643: November 5, 2012
This newsletter is from teach-nology.com .

November Activities-Theme Units-Lessons-Crafts-Resources:
http://mrscjacksonsclass.com/novemberfunthemes.htm
http://www.mrscjacksonsclass.com/novembercalendarthemes.htm
http://www.mrscjacksonsclass.com/nativeamericans.htm
http://www.mrscjacksonsclass.com/veteransday.htm
http://www.mrscjacksonsclass.com/thanksgiving.htm

Daylight Savings Ends-November 3

Daylight Savings Ends-Saturday Night or Sunday Morning at 2:00 on November 4, 2012

Clocks and Daylight Savings Time Activities-Info-Lessons-Theme Unit-More Ideas;

http://mrscjacksonsclass.com/timeclocks.htm

Happy Halloween Greetings-Cards-Images

 

Happy Halloween Activities-Ideas-Guide

http://www.mrscjacksonsclass.com/halloween.htm

Election Projects, Books and Activities

Election Project and Activities

The My Voice National Student Mock Election is a historic and ever-evolving project that brings school communities – students, teachers, and parents – closer to the 2012 Election. While millions of students take part each election, the real key is you and the project you organize in your school, classroom or in the community. The resources here, including communications assets, digital activities, interactive polls, lesson plans and other tools, are designed to help you create a broad-reaching My Election campaign project at your school.  See the following links for more resources. 

Source:

http://www.nationalmockelection.org/ National Student Mock Election-Oct. 25-Nov. 1

http://www.nationalmockelection.org/curriculum/ Curriculum Toolkit Project-All Levels

http://www.nationalmockelection.org/curriculum/elementary-school/introduction/ Elementary Level

http://www.nationalmockelection.org/curriculum/elementary-school/government/ Government

http://www.nationalmockelection.org/curriculum/elementary-school/principles/ American Principles

http://www.nationalmockelection.org/curriculum/elementary-school/electoral-process/ Electoral Process

http://www.nationalmockelection.org/curriculum/resources/educational/ Resources

OLE Freebie: Election 2012 Activity Pack | OLE Election Series

http://olecommunity.com/election/free-election-2012-activity-pack/ 

Free classroom activities, lesson plans, videos and more for teaching the election from Pearson  

More Election Resources-Activities-Ideas-Lessons-Crafts-Teacher Resources-History 

http://mrscjacksonsclass.com/elections.htm

Halloween Recipes

Halloween Recipes

http://katherinemariephotography.com/blog/archives/7242

http://www.freefunhalloween.com/halloween-recipes/

http://www.365halloween.com/halloween-recipes/

http://www.brittablvd.com/Halloween/recipes.html

http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/halloween-recipes/

http://www.foodnetwork.com/halloween/package/index.html

 

Halloween Teaching Activities-Ideas-Lessons-Crafts-Books-Theme Units

http://mrscjacksonsclass.com/halloween.htm

Chocolate Day-October 28th Lessons-Activities-Units

Holiday Name: National Chocolate Day
Celebration: October 28


There are a couple of chocolate days celebrated within the year. Chocolate Day, National Chocolate Day and International Chocolate Day.  This day is a good day to eat everything chocolate like cakes, ice cream, cookies, pies, and candies so go ahead and indulge yourself with chocolate!

Chocolate Lessons:

Give each child a packet of M&Ms and let them sort and graph by color.
They have to make a prediction of how many candies they think are in the bag and then they open and count. Then, read the M&M Counting Book and use their candies as I read the book to them.

Let them do a taste test of milk, dark and white chocolate and let the class vote or tally which they like best and graph the results.

You could make chocolate pudding using instant pudding and milk. This would be a measurement lesson or activity.

Take chocolate sauce and let them paint with it like finger paint and lick their fingers clean.

Hershey's Kiss hunt game for the class to play.

If you can, watch Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory for some fun!

Chocolate Resources-Lessons-Activities-Math-Science-Books-Theme Unit-Ideas:
http://mrscjacksonsclass.com/chocolate.htm 

Thomas Edison Demonstrated Electric Light-Oct. 19

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/edison/lightbulb.shtml

Thomas Edison Lesson Plan, Electricity, Electronics Invention, History Facts, Science Teaching Activity

http://www.instructorweb.com/les/thomasedison.asp Thomas Edison Lesson Plan

http://www.slideshare.net/bright9977/the-power-of-determination-thomas-edison Slideshow

http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/inventorsandinventions.cfm Inventors and Inventions

http://midgefrazel.net/edison.html Web Resources-Edison

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/edison/procedure.html Electricity-Lesson

http://mrscjacksonsclass.com/inventors.htm Inventors