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Noyce Foundation

Tri-Triangles

For Students K - 12th Standards
Develop an understanding of algebraic sequences through an exploration of patterns. Five leveled problems target grade levels from elementary through high school. Each problem asks young mathematicians to recognize a geometric pattern....
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"Rapper" Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Turn your recycled wrappers in "Rapper" Art with this creative lesson plan! Your class will create a collage using wrappers. They will also create a print plate of words or phrases to go along with their project. What a great way to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Shake and Spill

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Entertaining as well as educational, this math activity about decomposing numbers is bound to capture the engagement of young learners. Given a cup and five two-color counters, young mathematicians simply shake and spill the cup,...
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General Notebooking Pages

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Spice up the note-taking process with a variety of different note pages. Learners can choose from 19 different designs. Many of the pages include space for writing and drawing.
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Reading Adventure Pack: Environment

For Parents 1st Standards
A fiction and nonfiction text, The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry and I See a Kookaburra! Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page begins a learning experience in...
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Reading Adventure Pack: Folktales

For Parents 1st Standards
Following a reading and thorough discussion of books—Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott and The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons—scholars complete three activities. First, they use playdough or cookie dough to create...
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How Does it End?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students listen to the first part of a story, use drawing software, such as Paint or AppleWorks, to draw, or write and draw, their own imaginary endings to the story. They practice their mouse and computer navigation skills. They share...
Writing
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Writing: Soup

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing worksheet, students write a story about each picture of soup that they see. Students write about 2 different pictures of soup.
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Our Monster Travels...

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students write emails to their parents and locate specific places on a map. In this email lesson, students email their parents from the teacher's account and map locations of their parents.
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Trustworthy Images

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate metaphors. In this writing lesson plan, students brainstorm traits of a trustworthy person and create a metaphor for a trustworthy person.
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Mighty Earth Movers

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Note that although the publisher lists almost all of the Common Core standards for both math and language arts, you will most likely want to take the general topic and choose which area to focus on. Regarding math, pupils measure worms...
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Dog Drawing

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this animal coloring worksheet, learners color a large picture of an adult dog with a collar. No directions are given. This could be used for a story starter in a creative writing setting.
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Dr. Seuss Author Study

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to a story, then use the same format to write a class book.
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Germination

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners observe the growth of a seed into a plant. They plant their own seeds and record the growth of the plants and write about what they observe. They describe the germination of the seed and create a time line of the growth process...
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Fish Tales

For Teachers 1st
Have your class learn about marine life. Learners write a story about a fish, create an art project, and share their work with the class. This experience could be enhanced by having them conduct Internet research to discover some of the...
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Gingerbread Baby's Point of View #8

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Read the story Gingerbread Baby and use these various activities to connect to grammar, art, and point of view. In one activity, learners create character masks. They practice writing verbs on the back of the masks to tell what each...
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Imagination

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in a computer game which helps them develop their hand-eye coordination and imagination. They can use this activity before doing writing activities or show and tell.
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Art About Me- The Skin You Live In

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read the text The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler. In this literacy lesson, students discuss the characters in the text and the various shades of skin they observed on each page. Students read the beautiful descriptions of the...
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Mother's Day Poems and Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Mother's Day poems and other types of activities can get students' creative juices flowing.
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Lesson: Wish You Were Here...

For Teachers 1st - 6th
The painting Arcadia features a lovely landscape depicting aspects of ancient Greek life. Little ones use their imagination to put themselves in the painting. After analyzing the details and artistic elements of the painting, they write...
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SEN Teacher

Numeracy Fans

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Numbers are infinite and so are the possibilities with this custom template to create your own number fans. This resource allows you to choose your start number and the increments between each fan. Each blade holds up to three numbers so...
Organizer
PBS

Concept Map

For Students K - 12th
Make the thought process visible with a handy concept map organizer. As learners develop their main ideas in research, writing, or creative development, they can add details and like ideas to the worksheet as needed.
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Reading Adventure Pack: Dinosaurs

For Parents 1st Standards
Two books—Dinosaurs by Gail Gibbons and Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hof—begin a learning experience in which scholars complete three creative, imaginative, and real-world activities. First, pupils create a puzzle featuring their...
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Lesson Plan: How Coyote Came to Shuffle Off to Buffalo

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Creative kids read, discuss, play-act, and sketch to examine the cultural significance of Old Man Coyote. They listen to several stories involving Coyote, analyze the Harry Fonseca painting Shuffle Off to Buffalo, and write Coyote...

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