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Lesson Plans - 3rd Grade

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Concepts Taught: Racial equality; Rejecting violence as a tactic

Conversation Heart Mailbox

Need a creative way to collect your Valentine’s Day cards this year?

Valentines Day Acrostic Poem Lesson

Are you in need of a quick Valentines Day poetry lesson plan to share with your students tomorrow?

Graphing Valentine Candies

The student will learn to organize and display information in bar graph form using Valentine’s Day candies.

How Big Are Martin?s Big Words? Thinking Big about the Future.

Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Caldecott Honor book, Coretta Scott King Honor book, and an Orbis Pictus Award winner, tells of King’s childhood determination to use “big words” through biographical information and quotations. Using this book as well as other resources on Dr. King, students explore information on King’s “big” words then choose one of two options: (1) they write about their own “big” words and dreams in stapled or stitched books, or (2) they construct found poems using an excerpt from one of King’s speeches.