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Phonics Instruction: Long Vowel Sound, Silent E

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by participating in a class word identification game. In this phonics lesson, students read several words in class and identify the different sounds between short and long vowel words. Students complete a...
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Lesson Plan: Final Phoneme ll, ff, ss

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students apply word level skills through shared and guided reading.
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Word Family Nuts

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the English language by participating in a word match activity. In this word family lesson, students write a specific word family on a paper squirrel and write words that belong to the family on a paper acorn. Students...
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Can You Compose?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate musical notes. In this music lesson, 4th graders compose a short song while clapping the rhythm and singing the syllables using the appropriate notes or rests.
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Animal Habitats

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore animal lifestyles by researching their characteristics. In this animal habitat lesson, students read the story Over in the Jungle and analyze the animal illustrations in the book. Students create clay animal characters...
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Art and Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine the writing process by describing a piece of art.  In this art analysis lesson, students examine a painting in a museum and write a story describing the painting to someone who has never seen it before.  Students create...
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The Art of Chess

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars discover the history of the most popular board game in the world, chess.  In this model building lesson, students create their own chess pieces using a theme they have decided on and clay modeling pieces.  Young scholars...
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The Words that Surround Us

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students investigate writing that we read daily by analyzing advertisements and articles.  In this language arts lesson, students discuss the images and writing they see daily, where it comes from, and what it represents.  Students...
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A Light in the Night

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners investigate fireflies by reading children books.  For this art lesson, students examine the images from the book The Very Lonely Firefly, and discuss the contrast of the artwork.  Learners utilize colored pens and glitter to...
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Life Sentence

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate a vocabulary word by holding a fake auction.  In this word visualization lesson, students are assigned a vocabulary word through a class auction and must illustrate its meaning and find its definition.  Students...
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All About Me Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students engage in an "All About Me," series of activities in the beginning of the year. All sorts of ideas are in this lesson plan to help students express themselves and get to know their classmates.
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What in the World..?!?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students photograph mystery images. In this observation skills lesson plan, students gather everyday objects and place them under a digital microscope. They magnify the image and take a photograph of it. The image is then displayed on...
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Words into Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the history of writing through images, and the universal themes that are still relevant.  In this communications lesson, students analyze a group of symbols on the black board and must translate them into a complete...
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Fractal Fraction Fun

For Teachers K - 8th
Students discover the interesting patterns and shapes referred to as "fractals."  For this geometry lesson, students utilize pieces of colored construction paper to create the branches of a fractal tree.  Students discuss the rules and...
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In the Loop

For Teachers K - 8th
Students practice comparing items by using a Venn diagram.  For this diagram lesson, students divide a group of similar buttons by the small details that separate them using a Venn Diagram.  Students compare and contrast shapes by their...
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Holy Gargoyles!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners create their own gargoyles. In this gargoyle lesson, students discover the history behind this mythical creature and new vocabulary words that go with it. They create a gargoyle from clay by looking at examples of real ones. 
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The Magic Words

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students investigate the truth behind several magic tricks by conducting the illusions in class.  In this slight of hand lesson, students create an illusion using a coffee can and shoe box.  Students perform their trick for friends and...
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Can You Believe Your Eyes?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate hidden messages by analyzing images.  In this art analysis lesson, students assess specific photographs by their use of light, framing, distortion and size.  Students create their own juxtapositions in images and...
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Alphabet Books

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students work with a partner from a different grade level to brainstorm, draft, edit, illustrate and publish alphabet-themed books. They take turns reading the books to each other and conference with a teacher to review their work.

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