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Sponge Painting Flowers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore the shapes and colors of spring with a flower themed painting project. Included here are a list of materials and the instructions needed to execute an art activity on sponge painting flowers. Tip: Use in conjunction with a flower...
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Following Directions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Turn the act of following directions into a fun and engaging game! Especially designed for students with cognitive or intellectual disabilities, this lesson uses a game format as a natural reinforcer. Write a set of directions onto a set...
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. For this word wall lesson, students...
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4 Steps to Road Safety

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify the "4 Steps for Kids" and how they can stay safer. In this important rules lesson plan, students take measurements and refer to a chart to identify their Safety Seat Number.  Students also...
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Teachers.Net Lesson Exchange: Classroom Objects (other, other

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners study the names of classroom objects, then examine their cards and read the information silently and very carefully.
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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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Changing Cicada

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss inherited traits and relate to the inherited traits in a cicada.  In this cicada lesson, students follow the life cycle of the cicada and observe the changes as it grows. Students discuss the characteristics of the...
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Where are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students construct their own diorama based on the life of a dinosaur. In this dinosaur lesson, students create models of dinosaurs and dinosaurs' eggs to explore the life cycle of this extinct species.
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Sandwich Feast

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Creative! Youngsters listen to the reading of "Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich" by Shel Silverstein as a warm up activity for a lesson in punctuation. They use bread-shaped pages, one for each type of punctuation, to identify which...
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Teeshirt Printing

For Teachers K - 12th
Students become responsible and involved citizens. In this t-shirt printing lesson students design and create a teeshirt with a message about citizenship and responsibility. Natural objects are used as stamps.
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Gingerbread Baby v. Gingerbread Boy #7

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars read two stories. In this comparison lesson plan, students read "The Gingerbread Baby," by Jan Brett and the original "Gingerbread Boy." Young scholars use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two stories.
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Marshmallow Challenge

For Teachers K - 12th
Here is a lesson in collaboration cleverly disguised as an engineering design activity. There is no background material for you to teach here,  just instructions about materials and rules for participating groups. Use this as...
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Holi-Days

For Teachers K - 4th
Students research an event, celebration, or observance from a culture with which they are not familiar and present their information to the class in this cross-curricular look at festivals and celebrations. The lesson includes an option...
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Poem in Your Pocket Day: Ideas for Celebrating

For Students K - 12th
First instituted in New York City in 2002 and recognized nationwide in 2009, "Poem in Your Pocket Day" is part of National Poetry Month (April) and celebrates poetry in everyday life. A brief news story includes 9 ideas about how to...
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Critical Thinking Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Teach your readers to be critical thinkers. A strategy is outlined that can be used to compare and contrast entities. An example lists four states. The learner removes one state that "does not belong" in the list for some reason, and...
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Comparing and Contrasting Heroes

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Here is a language arts lesson that can be used with virtually any grade level. The only thing that changes is the reading level of the books. Learners compare and contrast different heroes and the characteristics they hold. They use a...
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Basic Mathematical Operations Using Math Tiles

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using tiles as manipulatives. In this math operations lesson, young learners choose the appropriate sized tiles, arrange them according to directions given by the teacher, and...
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Graphing Water Temperature

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students graph water temperature using probe software and a Palm on a class field trip to a lake or pond. Emphasis is placed on collaboration with high school science students and the use of ImagiProbe software.
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Lesson Plan: Final Phoneme ll, ff, ss

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students apply word level skills through shared and guided reading.
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Sky 3: Modeling Shadows

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students will construct models to demonstrate their understanding of shadows. Many questions and suggestions for variants on the activities are presented to allow you to tailor this lesson plan to your particular needs. It is best to...
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Who Are Our Greatest Presidents?

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create criteria to evaluate U.S. Presidents. In this presidential legacy lesson, students determine criteria to rank presidents. Students research the presidents, then evaluate the current president and assess how they will be...
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Hand-Painted Paper Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 1st
First graders create hand painted fruits and vegetables to hang in the Sukkah, a temporary shelter used during the Jewish Holiday, Sukkot. They are excited about the creation of the works of art and the lesson engagement is high being...
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Go Fish

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a good art instructional activity on creating colorful versions of fish. After studying images of a variety of fish, young artists choose one that they want to create an image of. Using some high-quality materials, they create...
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When Disaster Strikes: Flooding in Pakistan

For Teachers K - 12th
Students complete various activities after reading about flooding in Pakistan. In this lesson on humanitarian efforts, students read about flooding that occurred in Pakistan, discuss what they have read, and synthesize the information...

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