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Season Tiles: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers K - 3rd
Each color holds its own feeling and these feelings are used to describe the four seasons. Youngsters create a color palate based on the four seasons, assigning various colors to each season. They each create four clay tiles, painting...
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A Hidden Beauty

For Teachers K - 2nd
Expose the beautiful mystery of bulbs as young botanists learn all about these fascinating plants. They glean information from a short text before observing actual bulbs (consider an onion), and comparing their findings with predictions....
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Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students examine knightly virtues and will measure Gawain's strength in the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In this poetry analysis lesson, students identify the bob-and-wheel poetic form and analyze symmetry in the poem. Students...
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Color My World

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write poems using color to describe their feelings and environment. After viewing a sample student poem imbedded in this plan, 4th graders utilize The Student Writing Center educational software program to type their poem.
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Where Does the Green Go?

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils investigate why green leaves change colors in the fall. They press leaves and write a poem, create a chlorophyll leaf print, take a nature walk, and create a leaf shape poster.
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Rain

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning  comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading lesson, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by Robert...
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Rabbits Rhymes and Finger Plays

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sing songs about bunnies and pick out the rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson, students develop an understanding of rhyming words at the end of each verse of a song or poem.
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The Purple Cow

For Teachers K - 2nd
  Students read and discuss the poem, The Purple Cow.  In this poetry lesson plan, students discuss the rhyming words in the poem and why this piece of literature is silly or unusual.     
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Measurement

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners explore the concept of measurement. In this measurement activity, students discuss what specific measurement tools such as an odometer measure. Learners recite a measurement poem. Students make a foldable with conversion units...
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Five Fat Turkeys

For Teachers K - 1st
Students make a tree trunk and branches using brown construction paper. They make thumbprint turkeys using a choice of ink color. Students make the eyes from wiggle eyes and of black ink. They make the beak out of any color foamie triangle.
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Japanese-American Internment/Relocation Camps

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners create poetry and verse, using all 5 senses to paint a visual image of life in a Japanese-American internment camp.
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A Box Of Crayons

For Teachers K - 6th
Students draw self-portraits on die-cut crayon patterns after hearing the poem "A Box of Crayons" in this Art activity for the elementary classroom. The activity is ideal for celebrating Martin Luther King Day and includes extra...
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Patterns

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate patterns and sequences.  In this patterns and sequences lesson, 4th graders use a hundreds chart to build recurring patterns.  Students skip count by threes and fives on a hundreds chart by coloring multiples...
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Lesson Plan for "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students find rhyming words in poem, get information from the pictures, explain the elements of a poem, and extend the poem.
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Forming Relationships Using Music & Rhythm

For Teachers K
Students make connections to other cultures and traditions through music, dance, art, and poetry.
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Apples

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete many cross categorical activities about apples. In this apples lesson plan, 2nd graders cook with apples, make a mobile, finger-paint, write a story about apples, and more. Students read poetry and complete math...
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Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Learners will recognize the problem of prejudice and racism in the history of America especially during the time of Martin Luther King Jr. They will also recognize that feelings can be expressed through the written medium of poetry.
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AM Radio Ionosphere Station

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Tune in! Young scientists use an AM radio at home to monitor solar output. The long-term project would be ideal in a flipped classroom or as an out-of-class project. 
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Our Friendship Chain Links Us Together

For Teachers K
Students explore what makes a good friend. They listen to songs, list qualities of a good friend, draw a picture of their friends on a paper link, and create a class paper chain.
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Pass the Painting

For Teachers K - 2nd
After reading a story or informational text describing an animal, your class gets creative and collaborative with paint. In groups, they brainstorm all the parts of an animal, they then take turns painting those parts. One child starts...
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Hidden Objects

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders feel objects hidden in paper bag, and describe how they feel, smell, sound and/or taste.
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Polite Listeners and Traffic Rules

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students consider the necessity of rules. For this citizenship lesson, students consider the reasons for rules and they complete traffic light activities.
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Cherokee Leaf Printing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate their local creeks and forests and practice identifying trees.  For this ecology identification lesson plan, students utilize a pad and pencil while on a field trip near their school and describe their trip...
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On a Hunt for Simple Machines

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify six simple machines. They brainstorm types of machines and complete a KWL chart. Students observe and explain six simple machines found in the classroom and in their home. They share their list with the class.