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The Little Mermaid Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden character education, english, fairy tales, science
statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen

“The Little Mermaid” is a story by Hans Christian Andersen. Since it was made into an animated film by Disney, it is well-known and popular, but there may also be confusion in younger students’ minds between the two versions. If you like the Disney version, you can make short work of… Continue reading

Tagged   elementary, high school, middle school
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Chicken Little Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden fairy tales
Chicken Little Lesson Plans

“Chicken Little” is a very good story for young students, with its high level of repetition and simple, cumulative story. But I also like it as a lead-in to disaster preparedness issues for the older ones. “Chicken Little” is also sometimes called “Chicken Licken.” It is even sometimes called “Henny… Continue reading

Tagged   centers, elementary, global warming, middle school, preschool
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Pied Piper Lesson Plans

  By hadensites fairy tales

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is unusual, in that it is both a fairy tale (a story with magical elements) and a legend (a story based on real events). The story is a simple one. The town of Hamelin (or Hameln, a real town in Germany) was overrun by rats.… Continue reading

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Master of All Masters Lesson Plans

  By hadensites english, fairy tales
Master of all Masters

“Master of all Masters” is a very simple story in its essence. A new servant is told by her master to call various things by new and special names. The cat is to be “white-faced siminy,” the fire is to be called “hot cockalorum,” and so on. The climax of the… Continue reading

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Bremen Town Musicians Lesson Plans

  By hadensites fairy tales, music, social studies
The Bremen Town Musicians

  “The Bremen Town Musicians” is one of my personal favorites among the tales of the Brothers Grimm. In this story, four old farm animals, in some versions having heard that their masters were going to have them — umm… put to sleep, decide to go to Bremen to apply for posts… Continue reading

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The Fisherman and His Wife

  By hadensites character education, fairy tales

    “The Fisherman and His Wife” is a Grimms’ fairy tale, though it is also reported in much the same form in Russia and in Central Europe. In the story, a poor fisherman catches a fish, usually a flounder, who claims to be an enchanted prince. The fisherman lets… Continue reading

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Gingerbread Boy Lesson Plans

  By RebeccaHaden books, fairy tales
The Gingerbread Boy

The Gingerbread Boy is a popular folktale, and makes a great classroom theme at this time of year. In the story, a Gingerbread Boy (or a Gingerbread Man) is baked and runs away. As he is running off, he meets various animals or people, all of whom try to catch… Continue reading

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Toads and Diamonds Lesson Plans

  By hadensites character education, fairy tales

“Toads and Diamonds” is another story from Charles Perrault. Picture books of the story are hard to find, though DK’s A First Book of Fairy Tales includes it. Read the story aloud and then have students retell the tale. For the class retelling, we like to divide the story into… Continue reading

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Twelve Dancing Princesses Lesson Plans

  By hadensites critical thinking, fairy tales
12 Dancing Princesses

“The Twelve Dancing Princesses” is a story collected by the Brothers Grimm. Andrew Lang also collected a French version of this story in his Red Fairy Book, and you can read it here. Marianna Mayer has done a beautiful picture book of The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Rachel Isadora has… Continue reading

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The Princess on the Glass Hill Lesson Plans

  By hadensites character education, critical thinking, fairy tales, science

“The Princess on the Glass Hill“ is one of the more obscure fairy tales, but the image of the suitors trying to get up the glass hill to the princess is familiar to most of us. Since our state frameworks mandate the use of of folk and fairy tales up… Continue reading

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