Lesson Plans

The US Postal Service is armed with a wealth of stamp imagery to support traditional instruction, offering eye-catching visual cues to engage student interest and reinforce lesson retention. The School Days & American Ways curriculum-connected calendar and companion Teacher’s Guide capitalizes on these resources, incorporating them into entertaining and engaging Lesson Plans. New and different Lesson Plans can be found every month right here at USPSConnection.com. We hope you will find these Lesson Plans useful, engaging and entertaining for you and your students. Please allow a few moments for each lesson plan to load.

May 2012: Souvenirs for Smithson
Celebrate International Museum Day (May 18th!) by remembering and analyzing one of your favorite museum artifacts. Then, in a show-and-tell type activity, select one item from your life that you’d like to immortalize through James Smithson’s legacy, the Smithsonian! It’s the perfect companion piece to this month’s School Days & American Ways curriculum-connected calendar page and Teacher’s Guide!

Click here to download the Community Connection Stamp Template Worksheet. or the Hornbook Template Worksheet (necessary for the October 2011 School Days & American Ways activity).

PREVIOUS LESSON PLANS
April 2012: ‘Danny’s Promise’
March 2012: American Treasures
February 2012: ‘If I Were a Negro’
January 2012: Interplanetary In Memorium
December 2011: Sentimental Ornamental!
November 2011: Carving our Kinship
October 2011: The Liberty to Learn
September 2011: To Form a More Perfect Union: A Great Debate
August 2011: Young Adventurers
July 2011: Safe Travels, Owney!
June 2011: Dive into a Book!
May 2011: In Memoriam
April 2011: Earth Day Haiku
March 2011: A Balanced Beginning
February 2011: Coming Together through Collage … Also available in low resolution.
January 2011: Out with the Old, In with the New! … to be used with the supplement Calendar Page Template
December 2010: Polynational Postage
November 2010: Thoughts of Thanks
October 2010: Current Events
September 2010: Hello, My Heritage Is
June 2010: To the Class of 2011
May 2010: The Chinese Zodiac
April 2010: National Volunteer Month
February 2010: African American Cinema
January 2010: International Year of Biodiversity … to be used with supplements Sonoran Desert , Pacific Coast Rain Forest , Great Plains Prairie , Longleaf Pine Forest , Arctic Tundra , Pacific Coral Reef , Northeast Deciduous Forest , Southern Florida Wetland , Apline Tundra , Great Lakes Dunes , Kelp Forest , Hawaii Rain Forest
December 2009: Aughts Collage
November 2009: Ellis Island