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Bah¿¿'u'll¿¿h, A Perfect Mirror
Students engage in a lesson plan that teaches about the Bahai Faith and the manifestation of God found in the religious teachers of the world. They say prayers and meditate on the teachings of Krishna. The lesson plan is focused upon an...
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Getting to Know You
Third graders explore different types of poetry and illustrate their own experiences through creating their own poem. In this getting to know you lesson, 3rd graders create and recite their poems with a self-portrait.
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Rhymes
Learners complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson plan, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Learners pick out words from the poem that rhyme and...
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"Gazunheit!"
Students study the /a/ phoneme by determining how the mouth move when it makes the sound by imitating a sneeze. They recite a tongue twister, practice writing the lowercase "a" and listen to a story while identifying the letter sound....
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Today is Monday Lesson Plan
Pupils read a book and recite the days of the week in a story. In this lesson about the days of the week, students which become familiar with the parts of the day. Pupils read Today is Monday, and situate the days of the week on 8 1/2"...
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Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing
Students see that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students explain that sound can produce patterns. They engage in a wide variety of activities that focus on the sense of hearing.
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There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly
Students complete activities with the book There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly. In this literature lesson plan, students hear the story and recognize the animals. They create fly soup and discuss healthy foods and junk foods.
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A Play Can Be a Way to Review Any Topic
Students can write plays to reinforce and review any topic.
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Pattern Detectives
Students discover patterns in language, math and science. They experience patterns by hearing stories, and becoming pattern detectives.
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Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Learners identify and use patterns in oral and written language, as well as in sounds, physical movements, and concrete objects.
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Looking North Of The Greek World: The Slavic Folk Poetry of The Balkans
Showing how folk poetry keeps alive national heritage is the stated goal of this proposal for a unit on the poetry of the Balkans.
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I am Special and You are Special Too - Project Children L.E.A.D.
Eighth graders recognize what makes them special through class participation and discussion of rap music, writing a poem about themselves, and designing their own special hat while working in groups.
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Dinosaurs
Students are introduced to the various types of dinosaurs and write in their journals about their favorite one. After listening to a story and watching a filmstrip, they color a few pages in their Dinosaur Friends Book. They also examine...
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Analyzing Word Problems Involving Multiplication
Learners sometimes have difficulty making sense of a word problem. In a guided learning activity, pupils are asked to think about how to find an answer and explain their thinking, rather than finding the answer. It allows them to...
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Poetry: The Most Compact Form of Literature
Introducing or need to review literary devices and terms for a study of poetry? Though text heavy, the explanations and examples of key poetic devices will provide learners with the vocabulary they need to discuss and craft poems.
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Beethoven's Sixth Symphony and the Expression of Feeling through the Arts
Here is an activity used originally to finish off a unit on country life and nature. It requires learners to have a basic understanding of harvest, rural life, and autumn. They'll use what they know to construct dance movements showing...
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FIVE LITTLE PUMPKINS
Students explore the rhythm instruments as part of a rhythm band to accompany the well-known poem, "Five Little Pumpkins." They study instrument names, playing techniques, and playing at the appropriate time. They study how to perform a...
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Vocal Awareness
Students explore the human voice through teacher-directed exercises and experiments in the Kindergarten or 1st grade general music classroom. Textbook references are mentioned and an assessment pattern is given.
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English--"Humpty Dumpty"--Identifying Rhyming Words
In this rhyming words worksheet, students read Humpty Dumpty and begin recognizing rhyming words. Students unmix a mixed up batch of words by putting the words in 3 word family columns and list each one underneath one of the families....
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Oceans
Students become aware of the differences between ocean water and lake water by smelling, tasting and seeing. They distinguish between land and bodies of water on a globe and gain increased awareness of oceans and life.
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Birthday Soup
Students utilize the story, "Chicken Soup With Rice, " by Maurice Sendak to compare the number of days in each month, research their birth date and navigate their way through a calendar.
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Music and Art of the Harlem Renaissance
The music of the Harlem Renaissance can provide a way for students to learn about musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong.
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Opera Seria
In this opera movie soundtrack learning exercise, students read a 1 paragraph description of opera seria and then use the dialogue from the film Speed to help them determine what music is appropriate to add to the film based on the style...
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Music in the Common Schools
Students sing songs from the common schools era and compare music from the common schools era and today. In this music lesson plan, students look at pictures, fill out Venn Diagrams, and listen to music.