In addition to participating in our special projects, there are lots of ways to integrate "Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand" and the idea of kids helping kids into your curriculum. Here are some suggestions for how to use this project as a catalyst in various content areas:

Career Education and Work

• Understanding Entrepreurship All Grades
  Have students look at their lemonade stand as a business concept and develop the "business." Students in younger grades could concentrate on how lemonade stands are entrepreneurial opportunities (PA Standard 13.4.3.C). Middle-grades students could examine their lemonade stands as business and investigate various components of the business, including: marketing, production, research and development and selection of goods and services (PA Standard 13.4.5.C). Older students can develop business models/plans and execute them (PA Standards 13.4.8.C and 13.4.11.C).

Community Involvement

• Make it a Community Affair! All Grade Levels
  Reach out to members of the community to help you with this project. Get the community involved! This lesson plan was designed by faculty at Penn Wynne Elementary School. Click here for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

Language Arts

• Blogging All Grade Levels
  Have your students visit our project blog daily to recount their experiences, reflect on discussion topics and read what other students are doing! This lesson plan was designed by faculty at Penn Wynne Elementary School. Click here for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

• Create a Digital Collage!
  
• Classroom Books about Community Service All Grade Levels
  This lesson can be tied into any writing lesson you have your class working on. You can take the final copies of each student’s work & bind it together as a book or you can assign each student a part of the book to be in charge of writing & then put it all together. This lesson plan was designed by faculty at Penn Wynne Elementary School. Click here for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

• Lemonade Recipe Grades 1-5
  Students will read (reading can take the form of paired reading, teacher reading, or possibly volunteer high school students reading to the children) Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand, by Liz and Jay Scott. After reading students will be able to understand the metaphor/saying: Making lemons into lemonade, and they will create a recipe for lemonade, linking a personal experience of how they were handed lemons and made lemonade. Click for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

• Journaling About Community Service All Grade Levels
  During this activity, students create journals for pediatric patients in local hospitals. This lesson plan was designed by faculty at Penn Wynne Elementary School. Click here for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

• Research Reports Grades 6-8
  Students will read Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand, by Liz and Jay Scott. Students will then be broken into cooperating learning groups of 3 students/group to research one of three topics: (1) neuroblastoma, (2) Alex Scott, or (3) The Alex’s Lemonade Foundation. The cooperating learning groups will work together to create posters and brief research reports regarding this topic. Click for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

• Friendly Letter Grades 1-5
  Students will be able to recognize and identify the components to a friendly letter (i.e. heading, greeting, body, signature) by writing a letter to Alex. The students’ letters will be based on their feelings and thoughts that were evoked as a result of reading Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand, by Liz and Jay Scott. Click here for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

• Persuasive Letter Grades 6-8
  Students will listen to the story Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand and write a persuasive letter to their principal containing the reasons why he or she should allow them to host an Alex’s Lemonade Stand in their school. Click here for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

Math

• Ronald McDonald House - Counting Tabs Grades K-5
  Expanding on the idea of kids helping kids, students collect pop tabs and donate them to the local Ronald McDonald House. This lesson plan was designed by faculty at Penn Wynne Elementary School. Click here for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).

Social Studies

• 'The Roving LEMON’ Grades 3-6
  Using the book “Flat Stanley” the children will be involved with a Social Studies Project sending a lemon to students in the United States participating in the Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand Project. This lesson plan was designed by faculty at Penn Wynne Elementary School. Click here for the Lesson Plan (in Word Format).