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Make Your Own Thermometer
Young scholars recognize the concept of temperature, including degrees, and the melting and freezing process. In this 1st - 2nd grade lesson plan, students identify the temperature of various objects, as well as create their own paper...
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Clifford's Big Idea: Be Responsible
Students become aware of how important it is to be responsible at home and school through meaningful reading and language experiences. In this Clifford Gets a Job lesson plan, students author their own booklet regarding responsibility at...
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A Day in the Life of Me
Young scholars respond to the text, A Day in the Life of Me. In this literature lesson, students discuss the sequence of events in the story and write simple sentences with a sketch of each important event.
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What Time is it?
Students participate in three centers focused on developing time-telling skills. In this time lesson, students create their own paper plate clock face, play "Time Concentration" using times on the hour and half hour, as well as, practice...
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Feathers for Lunch Lesson Plan
Students discover different types of birds and the habitats in which the dwell. In this bird lesson, students read Feathers for Lunch, discuss bird facts, and build a bird habitat.
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Aluminum Can Drive
Second graders complete a recycling project to clean-up their school. In this service project lesson, 2nd graders assess their campus for litter, set up a recycling project, clean up their campus, and recycle the trash. Students also...
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Complete the Story
In this story worksheet, students fill in the blanks to a story about Christmas with words from a word bank. Students fill in 13 blanks total.
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Environment: Valley Walk-A-Thon
Students go on a nature hike and observe the different plants along their route. Various plants are circled with hula hoops and identified with flash cards. Older students write in their journals about their hiking experience while the...
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My Memory Box
Students are read the book "Me & Mr. Mah". They discuss what the memory boxes in the story looked like and what was in each one. They create their own memory box out of a shoebox and items they brought from home.
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Tell Time With Your Feet
Students discover what the latitude and longitude of their location is. They start walking and measure their shadow. They fill in a chart to discover the approximate time.
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Think About It: Adding to a Story
In this adding to a story worksheet, students read a sentence, then choose the word from a pair that would appropriately add to the story. One example is completed for students
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Let's Go Camping!
Students view and use visual texts to gain and present information, become familiar with and use appropriate technologies eg. publish writing on computer, use photographs to record events, use video to record events.
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Environmental Education
Second graders examine how their choices affect the environment. They identify different types of pollution and its source. They ask questions to end the lesson.
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Banquet For the Bunch!
Students become familiar with the food guide pyramid, demonstrate a proper use of scissors and handling of glue materials, and explore the importance of eating healthy foods.
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Design Your Own Quilt Pattern
Students apply what they have learned, from Eight Hands Round a Patchwork Alphabet, about how quilt blocks got their names by constructing and naming a quilt block pattern of their own using pattern blocks and pattern block paper.
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Day and Night
Students discuss why day and night occur after visualizing a teacher-led demonstration.
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The State Of Wisconsin
Pupils investigate the state of Wisconsin and use sound to experience the concept differently. They listen to Native American songs of a tribe in the state. Also they listen to the frogs that live there in the classroom or out in the...
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Time Train
Students are read a short book "Time Train" by Paul Fleischman. Using the text, they identify the clues to let them know the train is traveling back in time. They make a time line of the trip and make a cutout of meat-eating and...
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Checking Account
In this withdrawing money from a checking account worksheet, students listen as the teacher reads a passage on why Mr. Nguyen is withdrawing $50 from his checking account.
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Wheat Berry Sprouts
Learners prepare a wheat berry sprouts sandwich and discuss digraphs. In this wheat berry sprouts lesson, students circle the digraphs in the recipe for the wheat berry sprouts sandwich.
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Feeling Bright, Green and Proud (words with R-Blends)
What words begin with an r-blend? Group each picture card into the correct category according to its initial consonant blend. After they complete the list, have kids write words into each box in the worksheets. Fun and educational for...