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Lesson Plans

For every performance and workshop, and most of my CDs,
I have developed pre-view or follow-up lesson plans!

Feel free to print and use with your students or with your peers in teacher training workshops.
All I ask is this: if you are reprinting that you credit the source and encourage folks to visit my web page.

They are organized by subject matter. Some may be listed more than once because they readily fall into multiple categories. Click on the title to view the pdf files.

For more information on booking a performance or workshop follow this link, Contact Fox.
To view some of the books these lessons are drawn from follow this link, Books.
There are additional lesson plans found in many of the Articles I have published.

LESSONS FOR CDs

Fun With Fables
Adventures in Nature
Walter the Water Molecule
River Stories
Prairie Fire!
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln Tales Tall and True
Please note there are two options for the back page on this lesson plan, the first is for younger students.

SCIENCE & ECOLOGY

Adventures in Nature
Adventures with Audubon: Bird Tales
Bird is the Word
Arbor Day Tall Tree Tales
Bioregional Quiz: Developing a Sense of Place
Prairie Fire!
Rusty the Red Blood Cell: Internal Anatomy
Stories Stones Can Tell: Geology and Creative Non-fiction
Be a Voice for the River! - Ecology in Action!

HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES

River Stories
Canoe Song: The Early French Explorers
Adventures with Lewis and CLark
Prairie Fire!
Speaking Truth to Power: Non-Violence and Conflict Resolution
Turtle Island Tales: Stories of the Native Americans
Myth Into Reality: Turning Classic Myths into Realistic Fiction
Lincoln Tales Tall and True
Please note there are two options for the back page on this lesson plan, the first for younger students.

FAMILY STORIES, ORAL HISTORY, AND GENEOLOGY

On Beyond Geneology
Our Family Roots Are Deep
Family Photos Tell Family Stories
The Oral History Interview; Turning Notes Into A Story
Hosting A Family Literacy Night

LANGUAGE ARTS

How to Tell A Story; How to Learn A Story
Telling Personal Stories: Tips for Personal Narratives
Fun With Fables
A Recipe For A Story
Porque Stories: Why and How Tales
Comparative Folklore: Three Bear Stories
Telling Classic Tales of Terror
Telling Tales Tall and True
Myth Into Reality: Turning Classic Myths into Realistic Fiction

POETRY!

HAIKU: Capturing the Haiku Moment
There are many more poems and lesson plans on the Poetry page.

EARLY CHILDHOOD and ADULT LITERACY LESSON PLANS

Several years ago I was part of state wide effort to impliment intergenerational storytelling programs for both EARLY CHILDHOOD and ADULT LITERACY. Based on the premise that kids at risk come from families at risk our mission was to train the trainer. We trained both early childhood educators and adult literacy, A.B.E. and ESL educators. I asked each teacher to contribute a lesson plan and here are their classroom tested lessons.