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Color Mix Up

For Students K - 1st
In this art worksheet, students use the template of shapes and paint the colors as directed with water colors. Students allow the paints to dry before applying the second overlapping color. This worksheet is geared to the adults who will...
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Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother's Dress and Other Clues to the Life and Times of Annie Steel

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students draw conclusions about an mystery person based on documents and artifacts provided. In this drawing conclusions instructional activity, students become detectives by reading and analyzing evidence provided. This instructional...
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Color My World

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify colors created by mixing primary colors and describe the process. They then design a book using the colors of a given season entitled "Colors of the Season".
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Buh Bee and Duh Dee

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners differentiate between /b/ and /d/ in both written and spoken words. They listen to the /buh/ and /duh/ sounds in words, a tongue twister, and in Audrey Wood's, Silly Sally. They recite the tongue twister before writing /b/ and...
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Connecting Families through Folk Stories and Fairy Tales

For Teachers K - 5th
Students engage their families to write down a folk story from their primary language. In this family literacy activity, students rewrite the story or fairy tales in English. Parents and students are invited to present the stories in...
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Pop, Pop, Popcorn

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners examine the sound of the letter "P,p" and how to write it using a tongue twister. They examine how their mouths move when the make the letter sound before writing it on primary paper. While listening to a read aloud of William...
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Our Global Community

For Teachers 1st
First graders experience literature which shows how communities live around the world. In this global community lesson, 1st graders read books such as Whoever You Are, by Mem Fox and create a work of art based on their feelings about the...
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Number Tick Tack Toe

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in activities that apply Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences in order to improve literacy skills. The lesson is ideal for diverse learners because of the application of the theory.
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Baga Drum

For Teachers K - 12th
Students draw and design a musical instrument that incorporates a human figure or animal. In this musical lesson plan, students will discover the differences between African drums. This lesson plan is designed for elementary, middle,...
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Technicolors

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students use a variety of computer games and programs to reinforce colors. For this colors lesson plan, students create scenes, view degrees of colors, see colors dance to music, and more.
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M&M Mountain

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing the capital and lowercase M when practice writing with M&M's. They listen to and view the book, "Are You My Mother?," by P.D. Eastman with Random House, Inc. Each student interacts with a tongue twister...
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FUN-damental movement!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students move within the gymnasium area while working on color/shape recognition, change of speed and directional movements, and cooperation/teamwork. For this FUN-damental movement lesson, students work in partners on a treasure chest...
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Spelling Takes a Hit!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students actively practice spelling words. In this spelling instructional activity, students use a flyswatter to swat at letters that spell each of their spelling words.
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A Day in the Life of Me

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students respond to the text, A Day in the Life of Me. In this literature activity, students discuss the sequence of events in the story and write simple sentences with a sketch of each important event.
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Protest Signs

For Teachers K - 4th
Students make their own chalk art or poster that represents a protest sign. In this protest sign lesson plan, students look at signs from the Civil Rights movement and then make their own.
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Chinese Dragons

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the world of the Chinese dragon by creating their own festive dragon using texture, line, shape, pattern, and color. This lesson is ideal for the early-elementary classroom and includes a recommened reading list.
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Sh! Sh! We're in the Library

For Teachers K - 1st
Students focus on the diagraph of sh. They recognize this in both the written and spoken word. To introduce this lesson, the teacher asks if anyone's mom or dad has told them shhhh, when they were trying to get them to quiet down. ...
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Mixing Colors With Beams

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Student learn about color changes through the use of light beams. In this color mixing lesson, students discover the difference between mixing colors with light and mixing colors with paint. Students gain understanding of how the eye works.
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We Can Win Too

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore world history by illustrating an image. In this Mexican culture lesson plan, students identify the history of the holiday Cinco De Mayo and discuss the challenges the Mexican army faced. Students illustrate a picture...
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Make A Pinata

For Teachers K - 6th
Students work cooperatively to create pinatas using balloons, old newspapers, flour, water, tempera paints, string, scissors, and candy in this excellent lesson for the Elementary classroom. This can be ties into a unit of study on...
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Season Board

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars help create a classroom display for use throughout the year in this Art-based cooperative-learning lesson. The display can then be modified for different seasons and activities. Ideas for season modifications are given.
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Imagine It

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students become skillful readers by assessing phonemic awareness and deciphering the words and syllables that follow challenging sounds. This activity emphasizes the correspondence dealing with the i=/i/ in written and spoken words.
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Visualizing While Listening

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice visualization. In this reading and listening comprehension strategy visualization lesson, 1st graders close their eyes and listen to the teacher describe a familiar place, then draw what they visualized in their...
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Paper Bag Easter Bunny

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create paper bag versions of the Easter Bunny in this spring time lesson for the Kindergarten to 6th grade classroom. Included with the lesson are step-by-step instructions for successful implementation and a short list of...

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