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Grouping Musical Instruments
Students study about musical instruments and group them into these categories: percussion, strings, woodwinds, and brass. After discussing these instruments, they independently complete the worksheet.
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Abe Lincoln and Me
Young scholars listen to story read by teacher, recall facts from the story, and discuss Abraham Lincoln and his birthday.
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Random Acts of Kindness for Kids
Students examine the concept of kindness to others. They define kindness, listen to various stories about random acts of kindness, and create an e-mail chain describing their own acts of kindness that is sent around the world.
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Families and Communities
Here is a week-long lesson plan on the roles of family members designed for first graders. In it, learners share stories of their families, listen to books about families read to them by their teacher, complete homework assignments and...
Achievement Strategies
CCSS Unit Design Template for Art
Art classes, like any lab class, require extensive preplanning and set-up time. Use this planning template in the quiet before the storm to identify the equipment and materials that will be needed, the procedures and processes...
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Our Solar System
Learners explain the classification of planets according to various criteria. They create charts illustrating comparative data.
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How to Deal With Class Size Increases
While class size increases make it more challenging for teachers to meet students' needs, there are ways to make things a little easier.
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Basic Word
Students create a poster of a weather-related word. In this weather lesson, students randomly choose a weather word, define it, and draw a picture of it. They also use Word Art to create the title of their poster.
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Fall Bulletin Board Ideas
Fall is a perfect time to make colorful bulletin boards that you can use to display student work.
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Dinosaurs-Eoraptor
Learners explore the Eoraptor. In this dinosaurs lesson, students read facts about the habitat and eating habits of the Eoraptor and illustrate a picture of the dinosaur.
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Sensory Descriptors
Students feel items in a bucket and describe them using descriptive words. In this sensory descriptive lesson plan, students use words such as smoothe, rough, and bumpy.
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Mother's Day
Learners construct Mother's Day cards. In this holiday lesson, students use art supplies to create Mother's Day cards. Learners may include an acrostic poem about their mother or a coupon book for their mother.
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My Community
Young scholars engage in a lesson about the community in order to find out what different things go on within it on a daily basis. They conduct field research and look up information in order to answer some key questions addressed.
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Spur of the Moment Act
Pupils perform a skit using creativity. In this role playing lesson, students are given a skit to perform in the "spur of the moment." Pupils use creativity to have the audience correctly guess the situation they are role-playing.
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Hermit Crab Races
Students predict the speeds of humans and hermit crabs and investigate their predictions using ratios and formulas. AppleWorks is used for this lesson, which includes a data worksheet.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay
This lesson is a final step towards supporting young scholars to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Grade 1 on Demand Opinion Writing Samples
This collection of opinion essays prompted first graders to write about a "best pet." From the Vermont Writing Collaborative, with Student Achievement Partners and CCSSO, these written pieces are part of the In-Common: Effective Writing...
LD Online
Ld Online: Teaching Expressive Writing to Ld Students
Author provides a research-based instructional essay on three components that consistently led to improved outcomes: adhering to a basic framework, teaching critical steps in the writing process, and providing feedback.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: 'Batty' About Bats!! (Writing)
As a part of a week-long unit about bats, the students will identify the characteristics of a bat and write an essay about bats. Student understanding will be enhanced through the use of books, poems, lectures, discussions, individual...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Curiosity for Descriptive Writing
Lesson plan which allows kindergartners to combine their experiences and curiosity into developing beginning descriptions. Students use memories and illustrations in writing.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing Fix Homepage
Have you ever needed someone to help you out with your writing? This site offers help to students and teachers. The lessons and resources are organized based on the 6 Writing Traits model. An especially interesting feature of the site is...
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Ato Zteacherstuff: Report Writing in Primary Grades
This is a fun, hands-on lesson from AtoZteacherstuff! Students go through a study of frogs while learning how to interpret and restate factual information.
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Essay tagger.com: Common Core Rubric Creation Tool
The Common Core State Standards are broken down into manageable, assessable elements in order to make it easier to create real-world Common Core-aligned rubrics that will work in the classroom. Teachers can pick which elements they want...
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