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Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
What does it mean to grow? To germinate? For the plan detailed here, class members investigate the growth process of an oak tree while focusing on the beginning stages of planting and germination. They plant seeds and record observations...
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Writing Numbers With Song

For Teachers K
Students study the numerals from one through five. In this number sense lesson, students sing a number song and practice drawing the numerals on the chalkboard. Students use their bodies to make the shapes of the numbers.
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Measuring and Comparing Length

For Teachers 1st
First graders use rulers to measure in both standard notation and centimeters. In this measuring lesson, 1st graders discuss the importance of a measuring standard. Students measure in inches and centimeters. Students compare inches to...
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Citrus Fruit Counting and Problem Solving

For Teachers K - 2nd
In these two counting citrus fruits worksheets, learners add and subtract by coloring the fruits and solving the problems and problem solving consumer math word problems.  Students solve 12 problems. 
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Creating Groups and Sorting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students practice classifying. In this classifying and oral language lesson, students listen to the story My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy and identify similarities between the trucks described. Students sort the children in their class...
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Literacy Activity: The Perfect Pet

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners develop their listening skills as they listen to the book The Perfect Pet. In this reading lesson plan, students listen to the book, and then talk about the pets they have. Then they make a graph as a class of all their pets.
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Squares

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify shapes that are squares. In this square lesson, students identify the square items and then sing songs about squares.
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Shapes Sally Snake Can Make Story Book

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students listen to the book Shapes Sally Snake Can Make while they hold their own snake made out of a pipe cleaner. In this shapes lesson plan, students develop their listening skills while the book is read to them, and then they...
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Egg Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the physical properties of eggs. In this scientific observation instructional activity, students define characteristics of eggs, measure eggs vertically and horizontally, and use the scientific method to perform simple...
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Agriculture Counts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students understand the importance of counting in their lives.In this counting lesson plan, students participate in a counting agricultural goods activity. Students complete worksheets and understand why counting is important in...
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Valentine's Day Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Learners choose various shapes and colors to create a Valentine's 'person'.  In this Valentine's Day instructional activity, students design collages, make prints and mosaic pictures.  More advanced learners create a...
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WIPPEA Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice their counting skills. In this counting lesson, students identify groups of numbers as they count and sort counting tiles.
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Pairs That Make Ten

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
A very basic presentation on numbers that add up to ten. Learners are shown a number on a slide, and they must come up with the addend that will make a sum of 10 when they are added together. Not the greatest presentation in the world,...
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Using a Hundreds Chart

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Youngsters participate in three activities using the hundreds chart. They will choose numbers to add up to one hundred. Whoever gets the most combinations wins. Two variations of the game are supplied.
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Pattern Puzzles

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
A short video introduces place value in addition and subtraction. As a class, your students identify all even numbers up to one hundred and explain the pattern. They use addition strategies to fill in the missing numbers on the number grid.
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Four Fundamentals of Addition First Graders Should Know By June

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Send your first graders on to second grade confident in their basic addition skills!
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Pattern Power

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young elementary students will discover there are patterns all around them in their daily lives. In groups, they sort pattern blocks by size and color. Using the internet, they create their own type of patterns and share them with the...
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Mummies in the Morning Egyptian pyramids, hieroglyphics

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Visit the Magic Treehouse and take your class on a trip through time with a reading of the children's book Mummies in the Morning. Using the story to spark an investigation into Egyptian culture, this literature unit engages...
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Numbers 11-19

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Develop the concept that numbers from 11 to 19 are essentially a 10, plus more! The first two of the six story problems on this sheet are scaffolded with pictures. Learners compose and decompose numbers to answer how many 10s and how...
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The Human Body

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Explore the human body through hands-on activities. Young learners will trace their bodies and place cut out body organs in the proper place, print patterns using cut fruit, sing songs about good nutrition, and use their five senses...
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Potato Exploration: Projects All About Potatoes!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
How many potatoes tall are you? Unearth this rich resource! A reading of John Coy’s Two Old Potatoes begins a cross-curricular exploration of potatoes. Class members read, write, weigh, measure, and experiment with potatoes. Additional...
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Women's Contributions to the United States

For Students K - 12th
Betsy Ross, Toni Morrison, Sacajawea, Amelia Earhart, Maya Lin, Sally Ride, Judy Baca. No matter the subject area or the grade level you teach you will find much to value in a manual that focuses on the contributions U.S. women have...
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How Many?

For Students Pre-K - K
Do this as a whole-class activity by projecting this simple counting worksheet. Learners count a set of 14 leaves, recording the total number.  Then, they examine four sets of bees and indicate which one shows 11. This can be done...
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An Extra Day!

For Students 1st - 4th
Leap year is an important concept to understand- give learners some practice with this complete-the-calendar worksheet. The calendar month of February during a leap year is pictured, however it is incomplete. Scholars complete the month...

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