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The Plains Native Americans

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read The Buffalo Woman by Paul Goble and explore several aspects of Plains Indians cultures. They view historical photos of items from Plains cultures, reference maps and complete worksheets in small groups.
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Music and Emotions

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine how certain types of music can evoke emotions and mental images. They fold a piece of paper into four equal sections, and create a picture of what they are visualizing in each section while listening to four...
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Weather

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore weather. They distinguish between different types of weather and choose their favorite type of weather. Students draw a picture of their favorite type of weather. They draw a picture of what they could do in their...
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Fearlesness

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore overcoming fear. As a class, students share experiences of being afraid. After students read a story about being fearful, students compare events in their lives to the character in the story. They sing songs about not...
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Peace: Being Even Tempered

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore reasons to have a positive attitude. They read a story about attitudes and sing a song about being in a good mood. In groups, students share happy stories. They draw a cartoon about a child being bullied and discuss...
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Value: Right Conduct Politeness

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the positive aspects of being polite. They listen to a story and identify phrases that are examples of having good manners. Students sing a good manners song. Afterward, they play a ladder game and complete worksheets to...
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Minerals and You

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study how mineral are used in everything around us-- from cereal to satellites. After informing the students about minerals they will discuss the ones that are in the area of the students.
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Discernment- Choosing The Best

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners investigate the concept of truth and how it is to be used in life. The lesson includes a story that illustrates the kind of life one should live. The story has a light and dark side to it. Then students role play an interview...
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Happy Birthday or Boring Birthday?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with more expression. They observe a demonstration of wishing happy birthday with and without expression, and in pairs demonstrate reading with expression using...
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Swish, Swish, Swish

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...
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"Beary" Super Summarizing!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice the the strategy steps of summarization to assist them in remembering what they've read. They read and analyze a copy of the article "Hey, Bear' Beware" from Ranger Rick Magazine for content and important details.
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Color Poems

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners listen as the teacher reads several poems from the book "Hailstones and Halibut Bones," "My Many Colored Days," and a teacher created poem. Students choose a color and share some brainstorming ideas with the class. They write a...
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What Do We Know About Africa?

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore Africa, its geography and climate. After completing a KWL chart, 1st graders locate Africa on a globe and discuss how its location on the earth affects its climate. Using the Internet and a given fact sheet,...
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Introduction to Time

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the concept of time. Through discussion and artistic projects, they define time in their own words and tell how it is used to represent the seasons. Students draw a picture to portray time as it elapses during the...
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Dana's Flower Garden

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spring reading comprehension worksheet, students read a one page story about flowers and gardening. Students then answer 6 questions about the story.
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Larry the Leprechaun

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this holiday worksheet, learners complete a story about a leprechaun and traditions associated with St. Patrick's Day. Students are given a word bank to complete the story.
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Suffix City The eed Family

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students write the correct word with adding the suffixes to the root word in the three columns. Special attention is paid to the "ed" ending.
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Easter Egg Hunt Picture

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this coloring instructional activity, students examine a cartoon- style black line drawing of two children on an Easter egg hunt. Students color the picture.
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Mm is for Monkey

For Students K - 2nd
In this printing instructional activity, students form the upper and lowercase letters Mm. Students also color in pictures that begin with the letter.
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Mm is for Monkey

For Students K - 2nd
In this printing learning exercise, students form 11 uppercase and lowercase letter M's and write two rows of them on their own. Students also color in pictures that begin with the letter M.
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #4

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling worksheet, students write and spell the given 13 one-syllable words. All words are three to four letters. After writing the words, students look up the definition in the dictionary and identify its part of speech.
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Singing Sight Words, vol. 1 - Songs 1, 2 and 3

For Students K - 1st
For this sight word recognition worksheet, students listen to songs and fill in 14 blanks with sight words listed in the word bank. Students use each word in the word bank once.
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Make Your Own Thermometer

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars recognize the concept of temperature, including degrees, and the melting and freezing process. In this 1st - 2nd grade lesson plan, students identify the temperature of various objects, as well as create their own paper...
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Clifford's Big Idea: Be Responsible

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students become aware of how important it is to be responsible at home and school through meaningful reading and language experiences. In this Clifford Gets a Job lesson plan, students author their own booklet regarding responsibility at...

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