Special Education Lesson Plans
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Special Education
Lesson plans from the Awesome Library.   

Mark Sheehan's Lesson Plans Page
Site contains fourteen lesson plans for the elementary grades with "modifications for special needs."

Art for Children and Adults with Special Needs
More than 20 lesson ideas.

Kodak Special Education Lesson Plans
Lesson plans using photography. 

Teachnology Special Education Lesson Plans
Links to many special education lesson plans. See also Great Ideas for Special Artists.

Special Education Lesson Plans
Several short lesson plans and activities. You'll have to scroll down the page to find them all.

TeachNet Special Education
Twenty-two lesson plans, activities, projects, and resources.

Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) in Writing: Story and Opinion Writing for Students with Disabilities
This site from the University of Maryland provides information about SRSD as well as lesson plans for implementing it.
 

Learning Abilities Books
Lesson plans, resources, and books for pre-k through grade 5 regular and special education.

Mrs Donn's ADD/ADHD & Special Needs
Lesson plans and units.

Intervention Techniques
Many ideas and techniques appropriate for teaching students with special needs from the University of Virginia.

Celebrations Around the World
A multicultural, thematic unit for students with severe disabilities.

Vocabulary and Language Development
A lesson plan for 3 to 5-year-old children receiving special education.

Monster Fun: Learning the Five Senses
Though this K-3 lesson is not necessarily designed for special education students, it could be easily adapted to meet their needs.
 

Guided Reading/Decoding
A lesson plan for grade 2 special education.
 

Centigrade and Fahrenheit: What's the Difference?
A multi-level, cooperative learning lesson plan for fifth-grade science/math. It is designed to accommodate the needs of learners with varying abilities.

Water, Weather, and the World
A unit developed for students with severe mental retardation and limited language abilities.
Ocean Animals
A lesson plan for grades K-2 that would also be appropeiate for special education students.

Bits of Braille
A Braille study lesson plan for fourth through sixth grades.

Friendship and Stories
This excellent site from LD Online provides information and a sample lesson plan for using children's literature to teach friendship skills to children with learning disabilities.

Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
A primer from LD Online on the use of this strategy for teaching reading to students with learning disabilities.

Sign the Alphabet
An on-line activity from Funbrain.com.  

Real Estate Project
A unit for special education students in grades 6-8.

Kennedy Years Unit
An eighth-grade unit adapted for inclusion of special education students.

Speaking Out: Self-Advocacy for Students with Learning Disabilities
A unit in which students with learning disabilities explore the importance of becoming self-advocates through a technology-based project .
 

Teaching Volleyball to Students with Diverse Physical Abilities
A high school PE lesson plan.

The Constitution, Juvenile Justice, and You
A lesson plan developed for Special Education Students in grades 9-12.

Motivation
A lesson plan designed to improve the motivation of high school students with learning disabilities