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Back to School with Paper Quilts and Partnerships

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Make a commitment to collaboration, and build classroom community by integrating art and classroom objectives to create a paper quilt.
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Fairy Tale Lessons Can Spice Up Language Arts Activities

For Teachers K - 4th
Fairy tales can be a motivating way to introduce students to a variety of topics, including literary analysis.
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Bugs and Buttons 2

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Playing with bugs and buttons has never been so much fun! Offering a variety of different activities, this is a great resource for developing basic skills in preschool and kindergarten-aged children.
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Big Clown Face

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use complementary media to fill up the art space with repeated shapes. They use a water and wax technique to manipulate the surface of the artwork.
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Alphabet Book

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create their own alphabet book using clip art in a publishing program. They are read Dr. Seuss's ABC by Dr. Seuss as an "attention grabber."
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Guided Reading: Main Idea

For Teachers K - 4th
Readers are presented with a list of three questions and asked to actively listen to a story or article to answer them. They verbally answer the questions to learn the strategy. Next, read a story to them or have them silently read a...
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Techno Hero

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore digital communication by creating a slide-show presentation. For this PowerPoint presentation lesson, 1st graders research a famous hero using search engines and other Internet tools. Students create a PowerPoint...
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Flip and Flop: An Adaptation Through Dancing Echoes with Shapes and Locomotor Movement

For Teachers K - 2nd
Dancers practice echoing through dance. They listen to a story "Flip and Flop" and then are put into pairs. One partner is Flip, while the other is Flop. Flip creates a shape by dancing, and Flop, the other student, echoes that shape by...
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Predictable Chart/Sentence Building with "Goodnight Moon"

For Teachers 1st
First graders work on a series of modeled reading and writing lessons based on "Goodnight Moon." students work on pages of a predictable class book.
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Moira's Birthday by Robert Munsch

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use their listening skills to hold up signs every time they hear specific words in the story Moira's Birthday. In this listening skills lesson plan, students have to pay close attention to listen for key words.
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Enhancing Literacy with Podcasting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students write stories, print hard copies, and use the GarageBand program to add music and record the narrations. A handout to download, of instructions is included in this early-elementary lesson.
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Creating Animal Prints

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Learners investigate the habits of animals by studying their prints.  For this animal life lesson, students investigate the different types of tracks left from animals by researching the Internet.  Learners utilize clay or...
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Proud to Be Me Mobile

For Teachers K - 2nd
Student create mobiles to promote self-awareness and discovery. In this creative hands-on mobile lesson, students use large star patterns to create a mobile that reflects a theme they've chosen, representing something about themselves....
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Portrait of a Hero

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete a series of interactive activities to explore their beliefs about heroes and heroism. For this hero analysis lesson, students define the meaning of the words hero and heroic. Students research U.S. heroes and everyday...
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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type: Vocabulary Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students read the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type and put the vocabulary words into abc order and into sentences. Students do this for 8 words.
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Alphabetizing Words Beginning with G and H

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice alphabetical order. In this language lesson, students use the provided worksheet to put 20 words that begin with "g" and "h" into alphabetical order.
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Daily Edit- Lori's New Puppy

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students practice their editing skills. In this editing lesson, the teacher writes a daily edit on the board and students copy it into their notebook where they edit it. Students come to the board and write their corrections.
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Elements of Fiction

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners identify key story elements in a fiction text. In this literacy lesson, students are introduced to the various elements of fiction such as the setting, plot, and theme. Learners read a short story of their choice and identify...
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Jeremy Rabbit's Honesty Pie

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students, through the reading of the book: "Jeremy Rabbit's Honesty Pie", study the value of honesty and what it means. This lesson is a fun, interactive way to examine what honesty means and how it should be used in life. Previous to...
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Alternative Snowflakes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover how snowflakes in nature are really formed, and recreate this process with paper and glue. This art instructional activity gets some scientific learning in as well.
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Predicting Pumpkins

For Teachers K - 8th
If you want more pumpkin seeds, you should get a bigger pumpkin—right? Young harvesters use estimation skills to make a hypothesis about how many seeds they will find in a pumpkin before examining the real number inside.
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Take a Trip on the Chandelier

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars discuss the lines, shapes, and patterns used to decorate a 19th-century chandelier that was made to look like a hot-air balloon. In this art lesson students discuss the chandelier and then create a papier-mâché sculpture...
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Marshmallow Bunny

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "marshmallow bunnies" using marshmallows, toothpicks, pink construction paper, and cloves in this quick and easy early-elementary level Art lesson plan. The 30-minute lesson plan is ideal for holiday ideas around Easter...
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Toilet Paper Tube Turkey

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "toilet paper tube" turkeys in this Thanksgiving Day art lesson for the early elementary classroom. The lesson suggests using toilet paper tubes, construction paper, googly eyes, scissors, and glue to create each turkey.

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