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Mr. Lincoln's Hat
Bring out the inner artist with this Abraham Lincoln lesson plan. Elementary students work on a home project creating a hat similar to Abraham Lincoln's hat. They will use geometry and measurement to create the scale of the hat, then...
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Who Took the Cookies
Students find the missing cookies. In this language arts lesson plan, students solve the mystery of who is taking the cookies from the cookie jar. Students are read several books with the same mystery of cookies being taken from the jar.
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Around the World With Geometry
Students identify shapes, create shapes, and make a pyramid, a drum, and a sail using their shapes. In this shapes lesson plan, students also identify plane and space shapes.
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Hamburger Collage
Students review shapes and their cutting skills by making a hamburger collage. In this shapes lesson plan, students identify shapes that make up the food in a hamburger, cut out the food from construction paper, and create a collage out...
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Snowman
Learners read books, learn about the letter s, and eat snow all to learn about snowmen. In this snowman lesson plan, students also view ice melting and sing songs.
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How Does It Feel?
Young scholars identify the textures of materials in their environments in order to expand their language, math, sensory, and observational skills. In this sensory activity lesson, students first write a list of different words to...
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How The Brahman Bull Got Its Hump
Pupils examine ancestors of Brahaman cattle. After reading a story, "How The Camel Got His Hump," students discuss the differences between a camel and a Brahman bull. Upon completing a discussion of how the Brahman got its hump, pupils...
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Buckets of Bucks for World Hunger
Learners participate in a nonprofit organization activity for hunger outreach problems. In this service project lesson, students practice counting coins, complete a service project for a hunger outreach, discuss nutrition and healthy...
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Clowns
Students read books, learn about the letter c, and eat with clown noses on to learn about clowns. For this clowns lesson plan, students also have a parade where they dress like clowns.
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Vegetable Creatures
Students use different foods to enhance academic skills in all area contents. In this food activity lesson, students use food, such as "bugs on a log" (raisins on peanut butter celery) to estimate and practice multiplication. ...
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Go Away, Big Green Monster! Activities
Students participate in art, math, writing, and science activities to realize they have nothing to fear from monsters. They make masks, shape monsters, toast monsters and monster cookies. They complete monster math problems and make...
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Rabbits
Students read books, learn about the letter r, and eat carrots all to learn about rabbits. In this rabbits lesson plan, students also do the bunny hop and make rabbits out of play dough.
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Explore Three-Dimensional Shapes
Students are assigned to shape groups and explore three-dimensional shapes. They review math skills and two-dimensional shapes.
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Stories of Our Lives!
Students write their own books based on a life experience that they have had. For this life experiences lesson plan, students practice the writing process along with illustrating their book.
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Hamsters
Young scholars read books, learn about the letter h, and eat apples all to learn about hamsters. In this hamsters lesson plan, students also use play dough to make hamsters.
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Frogs
Learners read books, learn about the letter f, play with plastic toys, and more to do with frogs. In this frogs lesson plan, students also play a game of leap frog.
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Summer Safety Activity: Time to Tidy Up
Students find that cleaning up can be easy. In this early childhood lesson, students practice fine motor skills while making their classroom more safe. Students create large storage boxes.
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Let's Learn About Jobs
Students evaluate the jobs that their parents do. In this literature-based social studies instructional activity, the teacher introduces the concept of work both at home and on the job and leads the children in the creation of a Venn...
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All Kinds of Books
Pupils engage in a variety of book making activities to foster creativity, literacy, and fine-motor skills. In this book-making lesson plan, students author a book about the days of the week, illustrating the activities that they...
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Clowning Around: Drawing
Kids create a clown out of shapes. They work to show emotions while practicing their drawing skills. Pupils use circles, triangles, squares, oil pastels, and their imagination to draw, color, and decorate a sad or happy clown. Tip: Have...
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Geometric Shapes at the OK Corral
Students explore geometric shapes. In this math lesson, students identify geometric and non-geometric shapes using the computer. Students research geometric shapes in art and architecture.
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Graphing Conversation Hearts
Students collect data and create a graph. In this mathematics activity, students separate paper hearts by color and create a graph showing the number of hearts of each color present. Students receive a handful of candy hearts that...
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Symmetry in Butterflies
Students design butterflies. In this symmetry activity, students examine butterfly pictures, discuss the symmetry of their wings, and create their own symmetry patterns.
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Measuring Using Leaves
Learners explore geometry by using non-standard measuring methods. In this length estimation lesson, students complete a worksheet in which different objects in their classroom are measured by three different sized leaves. Learners draw...