The Alabama Learning Exchange is an excellent resource for locating all courses of study for each grade level, plus provides ample lesson plan ideas and source information directly correlated to state standards. All the PDF files I saved can be located on my website at under the ALEX Resources tab in the navigation pane. They are also provided below with a brief description of each item.
By creating a Personal Workspace account in ALEX, users are able to bookmark lesson plans, submit lesson plans which conform to specific guidelines, and even create a teacher web pages with district level approval. Click here to see my Personal Workspace account showing lesson plans I have bookmarked.
Because I am in an elementary school Grades K-5, I chose one course of study from kindergarten and one from 5th grade. Click here for the PDF showing the objectives for Kindergarten Science, and click here to view the objectives for 5th grade English Language Arts. I also chose to upload the Technology Standards for grades K-2. You can view the PDF by clicking here.
When searching for lesson plans, I noticed some had "College and Career Ready showcase lesson plan" in the descriptor. I selected two which included this phrase in hopes I would find them to be excellent lessons for later use. The first lesson I chose is entitled "Find the Fat" which falls into three subject areas: Health (K), Technology Education (K-2, and English Language Arts (K-2). The following is the exact description of the lesson plan from the ALEX website.
Students will experiment with and evaluate healthy and unhealthy foods. Students will take digital pictures and view during a class discussion about fat content in foods. Students will watch a video about healthy eating and exercise and respond to the experience through writing and drawing. This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.
The second lesson plan I selected is entitled "Who's Talking" for 5th grade Engligh Language Arts based on the Newberry Award winning book, Belle Prater's Boy, which is a story of a girl named Gypsy from Virginia in the early 1950's whose mother disappears one early fall morning without a trace. The following is the exact description of the lesson plan from the ALEX website.
Use literary elements to show students similarities and differences of today's society to the past. This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.
Are you a frequent user of ALEX? How often is it used in your school?
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I use ALEX at least weekly to search for lesson plan ideas, and I feel certain the other teachers use it as often especially for science and social studies. It's an excellent source, and the Alabama Insignt Tool is linked to it by standard as well.
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