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Math: Mr. E Graphs
Second graders role-play as members of the "Math Graph Detective Academy" and assist in solving a mysteries. Once they have watched a "top secret" video, they sort objects according to traits into five categories. Throughout five...
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Creating Weather Journals
Students create weather journals. In this weather science lesson, students use digital cameras to record the daily weather and write a paragraph in a weather journal.
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Mrs. Baig is Missing
Students help create a story with illustrations using GarageBand, Kidspiration, Keynote, and the book Miss Nelson is Missing as a basis. This four-day project culminates with the presentation of the final product to the class.
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Haring Placemats
Students examine and discuss artwork by Keith Haring. They design and create a placemat, painting a design similar to Keith Haring's style of drawing.
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BEE a Part of Our Community
Learners reflect how to form a respectful classroom community. In this communities instructional activity, students construct a "community web" of positive comments and predict what happens to the web when negative comments are made....
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Fire Safety
Students cut out pictures and put them into sequential order including the captions that match to the pictures. In pairs, they role-play calling the Fire and Rescue Service using the Big Book and complete the "Who Said What?" worksheet....
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Trash Count
Students identify pollution around their local community. They discuss the sources of polution and categorize objects based on their properties. They discover ways to make changes to the environment and how to inform the public.
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A Picture-Perfect Place
Students make a post card of a special place in their community. They write about the place they have drawn, telling why they feel it's an important part of their hometown. They address and send to another school.
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Eagle-Eyed
Students study the eyesight of eagles. They discuss raptors and their eyesight and compare it to their own. They measure how far away they can see a small object and its distance. They calculate the eyesight to measure an eagle's...
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Symbols of Our Land
Students explore the symbols and figures significant to the American culture in the five lessons of this unit. The U.S. flag in various versions, the Statue of Liberty, and the Lincoln Momorial are all covered in short segments in this...
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Exploration
Students are engaged in a research project about the planet Saturn. The learners use research skills in books and on the internet to gather information for an imaginary trip to the planet. This activity is highly engaging because of the...
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Introducing The Manager System
Students explore the importance of classroom jobs and having a leader. After listening to a book, students discuss teamwork and responsibility as well as the jobs and responsibilities described in the story. They determine how to...
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Buzzing is BEE-lieving
Students investigate insects. In this insect lesson plan, students explore various insect models and identify the characteristics of each. Students observe insects outside and tally how many insects they observe.
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Appeal for the Meal
Students investigate advertising. In this advertising lesson plan, students read the book Good Lemonade by Frank Asch and identify the advertising practices from the story. Students create ads for snacks using advertising techniques.
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Soft Sculpture Birds
Art can mimic life, and animals are always interesting subjects. Learners create large soft sculptures (stuffed) birds using paper, paint, and other basic collage materials. They view images of birds, and discuss bird traits and shapes....
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Thanksgiving Slide Show
Second graders produce a simple piece of writing given the topic sentence: "I am thankful for..." . Students translate their piece of writing into an electronic format using the software program KidPix. Students present their completed...
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Antonyms
In this antonym activity, students underline antonym pairs in sentences. One example is completed for students; a reference website is included.
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Unraveling the Puzzle of the Human Brain
Second graders explore multiple intelligences in each lobe of the brain.
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Early America
Students explore what a leader represents. In this social science lesson, students discuss what the traits, qualities, or characteristics are of a leader. Students also understand that leaders existed in America's past and in the present...
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Infection Wars
Students explore how our bodies fight infection. Using a microscope, they observe red blood cells, white blood cells and different bacteria under a microscope.
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MY REDUCE/REUSE STORY
Students go through old magazines and select pictures of things which ultimately become a waste product. They paste these pictures into a small "recycling" book. They dictate a story about reuse and/or recycling of these materials.
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DRASING NATURE
Students take samples of local trees and identify the tree using a field guide. They keep data for the tree on the Tree ID sheet. They create leaf, seed, bark, and flower prints and paint them.
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I Spy
Second graders investigate the properties and uses of rocks. They sort magazine pictures into the categories of living and nonliving, play a game of I Spy for objects made of rock, and make rubbings of the rock items for their Rock...