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Around the World With Geometry
Students identify shapes, create shapes, and make a pyramid, a drum, and a sail using their shapes. In this shapes lesson plan, students also identify plane and space shapes.
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Hug O' War
Students discuss philanthropic behavior. In this philanthropy lesson, students read Shel Silverstein's Hug O' War and brainstorm ways of working together.
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Harvesting the Produce
Students investigate vegetables. In this multi-subject lesson, students learn about vegetables and participate in several activities using vegetables. A list of 7 materials is included.
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Who's In The Fact Family?
Learners study related addition and subtraction facts. In this math lesson, students use related addition and subtraction to solve problems. Learners use manipulatives to explore fact families.
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Finding Sums to 6
Students explore the additive identity property where they add multiple numbers to get to the number 6. For this number 6 lesson plan, students also work on their addition charts.
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My Community
Young scholars engage in a lesson about the community in order to find out what different things go on within it on a daily basis. They conduct field research and look up information in order to answer some key questions addressed.
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Shape Sort
In this shapes worksheet, students match the shapes on the page to the correct descriptions. They then solve the 2 shape riddles at the bottom of the worksheet.
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Classification
Learners explore classification. In this science lesson plan, students observe various apples, contrasting them, and classifying the apples based on structure and color.
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Be Prepared With Emergency Supplies
Students identify what needs to be in a Family Emergency Supplies Kit. For this safety lesson, students discuss items that are necessary to have in emergencies. Students use pictures of items and order them according to importance.
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The Joy of a Garden-Earth Day
Learners explore the purpose of a garden. In this Earth Day lesson, students read the story The Gardener and complete a Venn diagram comparing life in a city to farm life. Learners discuss Earth Day and plant flowers in a garden .
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Building Sets of Nine
Students match quantities to their number. For this building to nine lesson, students put groups of objects together to make a group of nine.
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How Many More?
Students complete subtraction problems where they use goldfish crackers as their manipulatives in the problem. In this subtraction lesson plan, students use words and pictures to also show their problems.
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Geoboards
Students describe shapes to their classmates using specific properties and practice making triangles on geoboards. In this geoboards lesson plan, students use string on the geoboards.
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Family Life Around the Globe
First graders examine customs of other nations and compare countries using Venn diagrams. They also write pen pal letters and e-mails to students in other countries.
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Learning About Writers
Students explore how authors write stories. In this careers lesson plan, students invite an author into the classroom and ask him/her questions about writing as a career.
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The Nature of Mathematics
Students work in groups to describe plants using numbers. In this number lesson plan, students use numbers to define plants and then use numbers to write descriptions of themselves.
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Off to Work We Go
First graders distinguish between jobs that provide goods and those that provide services. They role-play jobs and analyze whether their job provides services or produces goods. They draw pictures and write a description of a job in each...
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Past and Present Verb Tenses
Students investigate past and present verb tenses. In this grammar lesson, students identify past and present verbs in sentences written on the board. Students complete a worksheet to reinforce the concepts learned.
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All About Plants
Students identify plant needs. In this biology instructional activity, students watch All About Plants and then write a paragraph describing the various details about plants.
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Dinosaurs-Eoraptor
Learners explore the Eoraptor. In this dinosaurs lesson, students read facts about the habitat and eating habits of the Eoraptor and illustrate a picture of the dinosaur.
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How Does a Pumpkin Grow and Glow?
Students write sequence of events needed to produce a carved jack-o-lantern.
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Email Around the World
Young scholars send and receive e-mail messages and find the location of each of the messages on a map. Students then write a description and trivia facts about their school to send to others.
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Missing Vowels
Students fill in the blanks with the missing vowels and write sentences using the words. They then examine how to identify words, spell them correctly, and write sentences using them.
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Resolving Situations
Students listen to the problem situation included in the lesson and discuss how they would resolve this situation. They then complete the "Resolving Problems" worksheet independently.