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Doll Making

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss folktales and read Tiger and The Big Wind, listening for animal characters for later discussion. In this language arts lesson, students complete a T chart on characters and make a doll for one either chosen or assigned....
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Beginning Sounds of Letters

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Big B little b what begins with B? That's a great question! Children read a string of words and circle the ones that have the same beginning letter sound. The page contains 15 word strings for learners to assess. 
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Trust

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students define trust. In this social skills lesson, students read The Other Side and interact with their classmates to define what trust is.
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Lonely Fish

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read the book The Rainbow Fish. In this citizenship instructional activity, students discuss how the characters in the story resolved conflicts. Students create a rainbow fish from foil and cotton.
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Gingerbread Map

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the book Gingerbread Baby, identify local features and cardinal directions on a map, and then construct their own map. In this mapping lesson plan, 2nd graders construct their own map in groups based on where the baby...
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Transportation

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the different types of transportation. They practice reading a bus schedule and identifying which direction the bus is traveling. They also calculate cost of the ride and how long the ride is.
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The Cat Came Back

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students are read the story "The Cat Came Back". Using Spanish, they communicate the context of the story with each other. They practice using new vocabulary, identifying main characters and putting the events into order. They use the...
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Discovering Plants

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students construct a small greenhouse and plant lima beans. They read books about plants, tend the lima bean seedlings, observe and record plant growth, taste a variety of plants and maintain plant journals.
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Hop Scotch

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assess the letter sound of o=/o/. They encounter Elkonin Boxes to assist them with their task as well as the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave...
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Rocks, Rocks, Rocks

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are introduced to how the different types of rocks formed. As a class, they are read a book about rocks and create a list of what they already know about them. Using examples of rocks they find around the school, they discover...
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Puck Meets Leonardo

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a puppet of Puck from the story read aloud. Then they identify how they can use the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci to help Puck complete his task. Students also observe the inventions of Leonardo from books and online...
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Will the Real Pocahontas Please Stand Up?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners explore the life of Pocahontas and Powhatan Indians. After studying information on a given website, students compare and contrast what they read about Pocahontas and what they previously thought of her. They explore life in a...
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Appeal for the Meal

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils investigate advertising. In this advertising lesson, students read the book Good Lemonade by Frank Asch and identify the advertising practices from the story. Pupils create ads for snacks using advertising techniques.
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Spelling With Double Letters

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice spelling words with double letters. In this spelling lesson, students read a rhyme chorally and identify the words with double letters. Students complete a instant activity worksheet to practice spelling their words...
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Water

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners complete activities to examine the properties of water. In this water science lesson, students read a book about water's forms and study a map or globe of the Earth to investigate water. Learners discuss living things that need...
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Retelling The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students retell the story The Three Little Pigs.  In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students listen to the story of The Three Little Pigs and discuss the main events of the story. Students prepare a skit of one...
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Alliteration Fun with Spiders

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars practice using vocabulary words to write alliterations.  In this language arts lesson, students collaborate with classmates to create ideas for fun alliterations as they create their own using a children's word...
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Ways We Use Trees

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use the Internet to find the ways we use trees. In this tree lesson, students make a list of the uses of trees and find magazine pictures that show these uses to make a collage. They read The Giving Tree  by Shel...
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Animal Games

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Learners explore a variety of games on the Internet that will teach them about animals; they focus on the Florida panther. Students choose the activity that is of interest to them, and then rotate between the games online and the...
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The Mitten

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners read the book, The Mitten and make a list of animals that moved into the mitten. In this literature lesson, students discuss why we like to have nice, warm places to live, and what happens when there isn't enough space for...
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Let's Make Cornbread

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read and discuss the book Annie and the Wild Animals by Jan Brett. In this author study lesson, students read the text and discuss the events in the story. Students make a connection to the text by baking cornbread, using the...
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From A Bill To A Law

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students read about and discuss how a bill becomes a law and then propose a law themselves. In this law lesson plan, students learn legislative vocabulary and then brainstorm a law a write a letter proposing that law.
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The Money of Great Britain

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete a KWL chart about money including what they would like to learn about the currency of Great Britain. In this British currency lesson, students read a text about this topic and view both American and British pictures of...
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Everyone Is Special

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss tolerance. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students read the book A Very Special Critter by Gina Mayer and discuss the character's disability. Students role play how to be tolerant of a new student with a...

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