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Identifying Missing Words
How do you figure out the meaning of a word you don't know? Young readers develop skills to identifying missing words in a story using context clues. Picture clues are used to identify covered words in the story I Can’t Get My Turtle to...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Franklin Goes to School (Bourgeois)
Join Franklin the turtle at school as youngsters learn new vocabulary in the context of Paulette Bourgeois' story (or apply this strategy to any book). Scholars are acquainted with new words before reading and raise hands when vocabulary...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Franklin Goes to the Hospital (Bourgeois)
Franklin the turtle is on another adventure in Paulette Bourgeois' book Franklin Goes to the Hospital, and there are plenty of new words for your young readers to explore as they hear this story. Although you can include more, you'll...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Franklin's New Friend (Bourgeois)
Franklin the turtle makes a new friend as youngsters learn vocabulary in context using Paulette Bourgeois' story (tip: this strategy can be applied to any book). Brief kids on the new words so they can raise their hands when they hear...
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“Duck and Cover” (Civil Defense)
Bert the Turtle models for viewers the 1950s Civil Defense Duck and Cover strategy that was supposed to protect citizens from a nuclear blast. After viewing the video, watchers are asked to consider the motivations of the producers of...
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Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Analyzing an Interview with a Rainforest Scientist Part 1
What's it like to study snakes, reptiles, and turtles in their natural habitats? Serving as the mid-unit assessment, pupils read an interview with a rainforest scientist. Next, they analyze the text and answer text-dependent questions.
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A Climate Conundrum
Learners study climate change and how it would affect our lives. In this climate lesson students view a video then divide into groups and discuss possible solutions.
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Turtles, Dogs, and Elephants
Students explore personal space at low, medium, and high levels. In this physical education activity, students participate in imaginary play imitating animals and their movement.
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How the Heightened Senses of the Sea Turtle, Elephant, and Eagle Are Evident in the Brain
Students explore the senses of different animals. For this biology lesson plan students will study the animals selected for their grades. The students will learn about the brain and how the senses of that animal have developed.
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Marine Animals: Stranded on the Coast
Students identify marine animals that could become stranded due to coastal features and currents. They plot data on worksheets for locations of sea turtles actually beached or stranded. After plotting their points, they hypothesize...
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Tracing the Numeral One
In this tracing the numeral one worksheet, young scholars trace over the dotted lines to practice writing the numeral one 13 times, then color the picture of the turtle.
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Ping Pong Vocabulary
Students estimate the size of a sea turtle nest, or clutch, that contains about 120 eggs. They decide what type of container that they are familiar with that could hold a complete nest or clutch. Finally, students calculate the volume...
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Spot the Differences
For this spot the difference worksheet, students analyze pictures of two
different easter snake-necked turtles to see if they can find five differences between the
two.
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Using and Creating a Dichotomous Key
Students assess what a dichotomous key is and how it identifies objects in a group through a process of answering yes/no-type questions about certain objects. They examine an interactive graphic key on sea turtles and then create their...
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Seashell Homes
Pupils listen to a story about seashells. They discuss shelled animals. Learners describe the function of seashell. Pupils relate the function of a seashell to their own dwelling. They differentiate between shelled animals that make...
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The First Conservationists
Students read a story. In this Native American activity, students learn about Native Americans and their responsibility to take care of a place called Turtle Island. Students learn the vocabulary words generation, befall, interdependence...
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Area of Combined Shapes - Turtle Combo
Students graph polygons using the name and number of sides. In this geometry lesson, students identify the formula to calculate the area and perimeter of polygons. They relate the formula to different polygons and shapes.
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The Color Green
In this color recognition worksheet, students color picture of things that can be green. Pictures are: pear, frog, apple, turtle and a tree.
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Ten Turtles Tapping in Time
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for T. They practice writing the letter T and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /t/. They associate the phoneme /t/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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Tim the Turtle Takes Two Turns Today
First graders examine the way their mouths move when making the /t/ sound at the beginning and middle of a word. Next, they recite a tongue twister and write the letter. They listen to "A Cat Nap," discuss the story, and write a message...
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Timmy the Turtle Goes Tick Tock
Young scholars identify the letter and phoneme /t/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /t/ sound through tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a picture...
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Toadstones, Snake Gods, and Divining Turtles
Young scholars research facts about herps--reptiles and amphibians. They choose one or more facts to illustrate and create a drawing to be displayed.
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Be a Weather Reporter!
Students make a weather turtle puppet and use it to respond to weather-related questions. They manipulate the turtle to show basic weather vocabulary such as: sunny, windy, rainy, snowy, etc.
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Freedom
Students listen to a read aloud of Dr. Suess' Yertle the Turtle while thinking about the power struggle and oppression in the group of turtles. They note their feelings on chart paper before reviewing more books. They chose a creative...
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