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Foods and Languages of the World

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students review Mexico's location and language and learn to pronouns 10 new Spanish food words. Students listen as the book, Corn is Maize is read, touching and passing around an ear of Indian corn. Students discuss the contribution of...
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Gingerbread Baby

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson plan, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Young scholars also make art projects,...
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Chef for a Day

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make chocolate chip cookies. In this cooking lesson plan, students follow a recipe by doing each step in sequence.
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Build a Snowplow

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils design and build a snowplow using LEGO materials. They compete in an Engineer's Challenge to clear a path through Styrofoam peanuts.
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The Big O

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the characteristics of a community. They investigate the characteristics of the Omaha community through internet research and discussion. Students create books about their community.
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Mixing Up Magic

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the relationship between art and science through experimenting with color, design and recycled materials and creating their own art work.
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Our Daily Five

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Language Arts: Five Senses Walk

For Teachers 1st
First graders take a discovery walk around the school. They use their observations to compose a class book about their school.
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Away You Go

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils build Lego cars which have two different types of tire surfaces. They roll them down ramps that have both rough and smooth surfaces to determine how friction affects the car as it rolls.
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Daily Survival Requirements of Water

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students will use inquiry science to complete an investigation. They create hypotheses predicting the changes water undergoes in becoming ice and determine how much ice needs to be melted to create one 8 oz. glass of water.
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Mural Mania

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create a mural that displays symbols for their home state. They complete worksheets and read a book about their state. They collect images of the state flower, tree and bird for the mural. There are 5 other lesson plans included...
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A Worm World

For Teachers K - 1st
Students maintain a compost bin and build a worm observatory. They design experiments relating to worms and record observations in a worm journal.
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Months

For Teachers 1st
First graders work in pairs to create a class big book for months of the year. They work together to create a detailed version of their month that includes any special holidays and activities.
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Rainforest Deforestation and the Water Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars create terrariums (mini rainforests). They observe and discuss the life processes that occur in their terrariums and how changes in these processes affect the plants and organisms inside. They collect and graph data and...
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Rockets on a Shoestring Budgut

For Teachers K - 5th
Students work together to create rockets on a budget. They discover the limitations that real engineers face when designing and testing their products. They discuss their findings to complete the instructional activity.
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Drink It Up!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate how the human body needs water by recording their water consumption for a day. They sing a song about drinking water, make and drink Kool-Aid and eat apple slices, and conduct an experiment to determine how much...
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Better Lesson: Using Different Units to Measure Day 1

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today students will focus on the idea that measuring an object using different length units will result in different measurements.
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Better Lesson: Measuring With Student Steps

For Teachers 1st Standards
Bill Murray called it "Baby Stepping" but today we will be student stepping. The students will measure 8 different lines using their own feet!
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Better Lesson: Assessing Measurement Techniques

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today you will get an opportunity to conduct an assessment interview that will look at how well your students are measuring with inch tiles.
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Better Lesson: Winter Olympics: Non Standard Measurement

For Teachers 1st Standards
We are going for GOLD! Students will use different objects to measure the length achieved in different Olympic events.
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Better Lesson: Using Different Units to Measure Day 2

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders continue to measure floor strips with a choice of three different units.
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans Math Vocabulary 1st Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This site includes two first grade math vocabulary lesson plans: one for measurement terms and time and money, and another for geometry terms
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Better Lesson: Measurement: Comparing Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st Standards
First Graders need to use direct and indirect comparisons to measure objects. Today they will use their new knowledge of dinosaurs to find the longest of the giant lizards.
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Nearpod: Measurement: Length in Inches

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
For this lesson, students will learn how to use a ruler to measure in inches and compare objects using the words "longest" and "shortest."

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