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Crying Baby

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Pupils practice techniques and strategies with phonics, spelling and word recognition with the sounds of /a/. They read and work on this task with the book, "Cat Nap," and the tongue twister "Alice asked if Annie's active animals were...
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Curated OER

There's a Mouse in the House! Aaa!!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Curated OER

Mmm Mmm Good!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the phoneme /m/. Through matching and listening activities, students discriminate the phoneme /m/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify...
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Curated OER

Mmm Mmm Good!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the letter 'm'. Through instruction and modeling they complete a variety of fun and hands-on activities as they explore the sound the letter makes, how to make the sound with their mouths, how the letter is written, etc.
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Curated OER

Icky Sticky!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Curated OER

Rocking Chair

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the /e/ with its letter representation and identify the...
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Curated OER

Ouch! I have a booboo

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ spelled ou from the short vowel /u/ spelled u. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...
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Curated OER

The Baby is Crying

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Icky-Sticky Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Curated OER

A Doctor's Visit

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel A in spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in words and picture worksheets.
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Curated OER

Go Fish

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in a story...
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Other

California State University: Topographic Map Symbols

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Click on any of the geographical terms on this website to see examples that illustrate the symbols commonly used on maps. Includes boundaries, building symbols, caves, mines, elevation symbols, coastal features, and more.
Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Maps and Geography

For Teachers 1st
A comprehensive learning module on maps that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students learn about map symbols, cardinal directions, and...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Geography Unit: Maps

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This geography unit is designed to follow the 1st Grade geography skills required in Virginia. Students are expected to use cardinal directions, read map keys and understand map symbols, as well as identify our city and capital.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Learning to Read a Map

For Teachers 1st
Identify the map and globe symbols.
Website
Other

The Smithsonian: Lewis & Clark: Mapping the West

For Students 9th - 10th
The Smithsonian's EdGate project provides this illustrated narrative site that explores the mapping of the American West accomplished by the 1804-06 Lewis and Clark expedition.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How meteorologists create and read weather maps.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 1: Using Maps

For Teachers 1st
First graders develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they explore and create maps using map keys, and map symbols. Students engage with the sources to build their map skills.
Handout
Other

American Meteorological Society: Data Streme Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an extensive amount of weather information. Includes current information, forecasting, and historic weather related events. Weather map symbols and terminology explained.
Website
Other

Bureau of Meteorology: The Weather Map

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what a weather map is and how it is prepared. Describes what weather maps show, typical weather patterns in Australia, the use of weather charts, temperature, and wind speed.
Article
US Geological Survey

Usgs: Geologic Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a good description of what this particular type of map represents. It also explains the colors and letter symbols, faults, and strike and dips.
Graphic
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Systems: Map It

For Students K - 1st
Explore different types of maps and how different things are represented on maps in this media gallery from WGBH. Maps are used to help locate different places and different things. Map symbols are representations of larger things in the...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Places in the Park

For Teachers K - 1st
Modeling the use of maps in and out of school can help students to recognize the value of maps and gain confidence with them. Using maps of places that are familiar to students will strengthen their spatial thinking skills before...
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: A List of All Weather Symbols and Their Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a comprehensive list of weather symbols used on weather maps.

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