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What Bees Eat
Students consider the concept that plants and animals are dependent on one another and role-play the interaction between bees and flowers. They identify crops that are dependent on pollination by bees.
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The Old Lady and Probability
First graders practice probability by playing various games associated with song There Was an Old Lady.
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Let's Find Out About Money
First graders identify coins (pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters), and their attributes, including physical characteristics and value.
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How Big is a Foot?
First graders practice nonstandard measurement and estimating and measuring lengths of objects.
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Maori Stick Game
Students explore Maori culture in the New Zealand area and play the Maori Stick Game.
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Doing Our Jobs
First graders identify traits of good listeners and speakers and role-play these traits in pairs. They brainstorm acceptable and unacceptable behaviors for the classroom and identify what jobs are appropriate for first-graders to perform...
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Electoral Versus Popular Vote
Students gain an understanding of how the winner of the popular vote might not be the winner of the electoral vote by voting on a snack. They be divided into groups with a representative.
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"Hello's" Heard Around the World
Students demonstrate how to say hello in five different languages. They discover the many differences in the way students speak across the world.
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Forming Relationships Using Music & Rhythm
Students make connections to other cultures and traditions through music, dance, art, and poetry.
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Our Community Helpers
Students explore community helpers in order to explain how they fit into their community and the world.
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"Orientation to Dance" Dance Lesson Plan
Students learn their rights and responsibilities within the context of the dance class.
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"Movement Qualities" Dance Lesson Plan
Students examine how dance steps can be done with different qualities. students perform their dance movement pattern with their choice of movement qualities.
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"Creating Movement through Literature" Dance Lesson Plan
Students listen to a story and then use the words from the book to generate dance movements.
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"What Insecit Am I"
Young scholars play the game "What Insect Am I" to explore the parts of an insect and their habitats.
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COLORS
Students practice the vocabulary for the basic colors in English, recognize these words, and then use them appropriately to describe the colors of an object.
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Pop-A-Top Math Game
Students play pop-a-top math game to practice solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
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Halloween 2
Students listen carefully to songs and identify specific things. They demonstrate knowledge of songs by sing- along with class.
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Feeling Flashbacks
Students share and express feelings in order to build a sense of class community. They participate in an activity entitled Mill and Mingle.
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Getting To Know You
Students call each other by name and mention something important about each person. They develop a sense of class bonding and find a partner with similar interests.
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Find the Frog
Students, the advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level, use English in a science activity.
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Who's Inside the Mitten?
Students read "The Mitten", by Jan Brett. They discuss vocabulary presented in the story and sequence significant plot events. They make masks to represent several of the characters and act out the story.