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Organization 1: Look at What I Organized!
Students recognize that organizing things can make it easier to find things later.
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers
Learners participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. For this word wall lesson, students...
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Minnesota-China Connections: Chinese Flavors
Students discuss the foods which are typical of a Chinese diet. They find recipes and observe and sample various Chinese foods. They record their opinions about what they taste and experience in a journal entry.
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Cause and Effect Slide Show
Second graders use KidPix software to create a slide show demonstrating their understanding of cause and effect in literature.
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Coming to America
Students brainstorm motives for which people left their homeland to come to America listing all their ideas on the board. They listen to the story, "Coming to America", reflect on the story, and summarize the reason for the family...
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Communicate with a Truck Driver
Students research ways truck drivers communicate. In this critical thinking lesson plan, students explore websites for information. Students communicate with truck drivers using Twitter and listen to transportation related podcasts.
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Theme: Dinosaurs
Pupils identify at least ten different dinosaurs and name them. Students explain the difference between plant-eating dinosaurs and meat-eating dinosaurs. Pupils explain how scientists know about dinosaurs.
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Food Model Mobiles
Students create mobiles that represent a day's intake or other criterion, such as healthy snacks, Milk Group foods, breakfast foods, etc.
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Natural Dye Lesson Plan
Students investigate major pigments which occur naturally in fruits and vegetables, and to use them to dye a number of items. They study the effects of pH on anthocyanin on pigments.
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Identify Virginia Native Animals
Students practice using an online encyclopedia to research native animals to Virginia. Using the information from the encyclopedia, they identify the main and supporting ideas. They share their information with the class using the...
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The People and Places Around Us
Pupils investigate the different kinds of habitats for humans, animals, and things. They illustrate the interior and exterior views of their homes. Finally they create a map key and a block map of their school neighborhood.
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A Bridge Going Up and Down
Pupils recognize the purpose of the Michigan Avenue Bascule Trunnion Bridge. They examine photos of bridges and sing a song about Chicago's famous bascule trunnion bridge to investigate how
moveable bridges work.
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Teach Engineering: Naturally Organized
Young scholars work in teams to design a tabletop supply organizer inspired by the natural home of an insect species. Their prototype stores the group's classroom supplies (scissors, crayon boxes, pencils, and glue sticks). In addition...