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Wet Chalk Drawing

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create original works of art using chalk, tempera paints, and paper in this art activity for elementary and middle level classrooms. The lesson includes ideas for displaying or mounting finished works of chalk art in the...
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Matching Coins and Amounts

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students recognize coins and understand their values. In this coins lesson, students identify sets of coins and match them with their value.
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Math Problems- Feet and Inches

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students complete basic math problems. In this measurement lesson plan, students learn about measuring in inches and feet. Students are given a worksheet where they work independently to complete addition problems with inches and feet.
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Animal Groups

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore animal groups. In this animal science lesson, students use pictures from magazines and classify the animals into five categories. Students share why they categorized the animals the way they did.
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Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study the lives of dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson plan, students create dinosaur dioramas that depict how and where the creatures lived. Students also discuss extinction with their teacher.
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study how things are stored and how information is retrieved.  In this investigative lesson students play a game that helps them to see how things are sorted in a library. 
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Plein Air Drawing and Painting

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students plein air drawing. In this drawing skills lesson, students follow the provided steps that require them select natural objects and utilize plein air skills to complete their drawings.
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Creating Animal Prints

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students investigate the habits of animals by studying their prints.  In this animal life lesson, students investigate the different types of tracks left from animals by researching the Internet.  Students utilize clay or...
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Fractions and Fact Families: Jump Kangaroo Jump!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice with fractions and fact families. In this fractions and fact families activity, 2nd graders participate in a series of activities to assist them with understanding fractions.  Activities include graphing,...
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The School Store

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students choose between the operations of addition or subtraction to solve a real life problem. In this addition and subtraction instructional activity, students make a chart of items sold in the school store. Students then work in teams...
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Intro. to Controlling a Ball With Your Chest

For Teachers K - 5th
Students stop and guide a ball with their chest. Note: This is a good lesson to use as an introduction to a soccer unit.
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Jeremy Rabbit's Honesty Pie

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students, through the reading of the book: "Jeremy Rabbit's Honesty Pie", study the value of honesty and what it means. This instructional activity is a fun, interactive way to examine what honesty means and how it should be used in...
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Earth Day - Grow A Seed Garden

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover how things grow and how they can take better care of the environment in this Earth Day lesson for the elementary classroom. The activity can be accomplished in one day and left in the sun until the "beans" begin growing.
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Log Cabin

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create log cabins out of strips of construction paper in this Art instructional activity for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on the study of how people live today versus in the distant past. A resource link...
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Sole People

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars create "sole people" using tempera paint, drawing paper, and shoe prints in this multi-level art lesson plan. The lesson plan can be combined with a brief history of the African-American inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger, who...
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Cooperation Through Puppet Shows

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students learn a story and turn it into a puppet show using puppets they make out of craft materials. In this puppet show lesson plan, students make the puppets and perform a story that is already published in small groups.
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The Edge of the Lake

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the geography of Nevada. In this map-making lesson, 2nd graders use salt dough to create a relief map of Nevada. Students label the landforms and bodies of water that are studied and specified in the lesson.
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Wild, Wild Weather: Severe Storms

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research dangerous weather and how they can stay safe. In this environment instructional activity, 2nd graders view video clips and research the Internet to identify the different types of severe weather storms. Students...
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Super Cents

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study money amounts less than a dollar. In this math instructional activity, 2nd graders practice counting coins. Students read various stories and discuss how money was used in the stories.
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The Missing Monkey Mystery

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore number values by completing number sentences. In this math functions lesson, 2nd graders identify whole numbers by using a visual aide and practice filling in the blank in number sentences. Students utilize their...
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Numbers Make Sense

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore number values by completing estimation problems in class. For this place value lesson, 2nd graders identify the use of decimals in numbers and how they relate to fractions or parts of a whole. Students utilize...
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Dinosaurs 1: Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils explore dinosaurs. In this dinosaur identification lesson, students watch video clips for different dinosaurs from the Discovery Kids website. Pupils discuss the clips with their teacher. Students may then role play the dinosaurs...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a dinosaur egg with balloons and newspaper.  In this earth science lesson plan, students explore the extinction of dinosaurs.  Students view a web clip and relate it to the extinction of animals they have never...
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Solar S'Mores

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate solar energy. In this solar energy lesson, students compare how heat is absorbed in light-colored objects and dark-colored objects by making S'mores.

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