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Conserve Activity
Conserving energy is an important part of helping the environment. After coloring a picture of a hand turning off a light switch, kids copy the word onto a handwriting line.
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Animals and Humans
Young scholars identify the functions of various body parts. They participate in the "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" song, draw a picture of themselves and other mammals, and create a traced outline of their body that they add...
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Favorite School Activities
In this school activities worksheet, students complete the sentence using one of the phrases from the word bank related to their favorite school activities. Students then draw a picture of the activity.
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Earth in the Solar System
A three-week unit designed to be completed in an elementary level, dual-language immersion classroom, this resource includes several lessons intended to introduce young learners to the solar system, the Earth and how the Earth compares...
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Science Experiments with Eggs
ESL students experiment with eggs to learn the science concepts and science process language.
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Guided Reading: Cold and Hot
Explore the text, Cold and Hot, with comprehension strategies for young readers. First, give them a purpose for reading: find out what the boy wore outside in the snow! Then have them use one-to-one matching and picture clues to...
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Writing Activity: School Activities
In this writing instructional activity, students draw a picture of something they like to do at school, then complete a sentence describing it. A word box is given to help students make a choice.
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Favorite School Activities
In this language arts worksheet, students examine the choices of favorite school activities and write a choice in the lines provided.
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Big Snowball Fight
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Big Snowball Fight. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...
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Find the Frog
Students, the advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level, use English in a science activity.
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Meat Pies: Teacher's Guide
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Amelia's Road. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.
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Guided Reading Lesson: Here Comes the Bus
Learners discover basic concepts of print. In this early literacy lesson, students discover basic high frequency words. Learners make predictions as they read. Cross-curricular activities provided.
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Animal Babies
In this animals worksheet, students play a matching game much like the game memory where they match the animals to their babies. Students match as many cards as they put out.
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Maggie's Earth Adventures Unit
Students practice math, science, Spanish, and grammar skills using computer based activities in this unit of lessons. They experience lessons at different levels while tracking their progress using the attached progress chart.
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The Gift of Community
Young scholars explore the diversity offered in communities. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson plan, students read The Gift and then interview people within their school community regarding the gifts they receive in their community.
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Newspaper in the Classroom
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...
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Ocean Animals
Very young learners identify ocean animal pictures by their correct name and create a book of ocean animals. They read books and lean ocean animal vocabulary using the SMART Board. A well-designed lesson!
SEDL
Sedl:paso Partners Integrating Math, Science & Language
Contains a plethora of elementary bilingual education lessons and activities! Includes a curriculum plan, instructional strategies, activities, suggested teacher and student materials, and more. Each unit includes a Spanish translation!
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Signs of Spring
This site has a high-level thinking activity for your ESL students. Use a Venn Diagram to compare Spring and Winter. It features downloads and resources.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Growing Flowers
A lesson plan for young ELL learners on how to grow flowers. Teachers will meet the ESL TESOL standards. Lots of resources included in this activity.
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Animal House Hunt
Cleverly animated matching game asks players to match animals to their homes. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for young children and English language learners who need practice in...