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Families and neighborhoods

For Teachers K
Students create their house to add to a class "neighborhood". For this lesson on family and community, students read the book Family by Todd Parr and discuss how all families and houses are different. Then, students create their own...
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Movement Adventure

For Teachers K
Students discover movement and pantomime techniques in this adventurous story telling experience for kindergarten. Assessment is done through a short question and answer session and students drawing the "adventure".
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Near and Far Snow People

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils study perspective drawing. They create depth on a flat surface by using size and placement and define horizontal line. They investigate the basic techniques of using watercolors.
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Singing as a Way of Giving

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners perform songs from previous philanthropy lessons. In this music instructional activity, students create a video of songs and give it to a local shelter. Learners are encouraged to be creative and sing songs such as "What Can I...
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Techno Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the alphabet by completing a computer activity. For this letter identification lesson, students utilize Kid Pix to create artwork based upon each letter of the alphabet. Students utilize drawings, type and...
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Adventure Into The World of Shapes

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view Elmer Holtzrichter's work Mystery Planet and discuss basic shapes and patterns. They create their own collage. and discuss the patterning they created. Students demonstrate how this pattern would sound with clapping and...
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Problems and Their Solutions in Stories and Everyday Life

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify story elements.  In this stories lesson, students read a story and identify the chracter, character traits, plot, setting and theme.  Groups of students match problem and solution cards.
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Mother Goose on the Loose: Teaching Reading and Writing in a Way That's Exciting

For Teachers K
Students become familiar with the conventions of print as they recognize Mother Goose poems. In this Mother Goose lesson, students follow the words from left to right as they read Mother Goose poems. Students recognize rhyming words and...
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x-rays - the Letter X

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate the ability to draw vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, recognize the difference between inside and outside, and create a picture of themselves.
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Depicting Motherhood in Family Stories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the roles of mothers and grandmothers by looking at black-and-white photographs of one American family and comparing that family's multi-generational story with their own. In this mothers and grandmothers lesson plan,...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Family Banner

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners create family banners. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop language, creative thinking, and social awareness by creating banners about their families.
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A Holiday Card in KidPix

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a holiday card using computer software.  In this computer card making lesson, students design an original holiday card using a variety of tools.  Students navigate the software utilizing various tools.
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Insects

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe and identify insects in their local. They record their observations by drawing a picture of the insect and writing a description.
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A Teeth Changing Experience

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students research human health by reading an educational story in class. In this oral health lesson, students identify the importance of brushing their teeth and consuming calcium. Students read the book A Teeth Changing Experience...
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Crossroads Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
The crossroads, and the decisions made and entities met there, are a common theme in literature, pushing readers to examine the choices and encounters that shape life experience. The theme has also been explored in blues music, most...
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Johnny Appleseed Theme Unit: Day 3

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.
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Quiet On The Set... Take 1...Action!!

For Teachers K
Students complete an activity with the book Step by Step by Bruce McMillan. In this verb lesson, students create a list of action verbs from this book and more to use in their own writings. They will create stick puppets to act out the...
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Word Family Jamboree

For Teachers K
Students explore rhyming words, beginning and ending sounds. For this word family lesson, students identify beginning and ending sounds. Students draw pictures of words and use phonetic spellings to write stories. Students use Dr. Seuss...
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My Favorite Things

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a body portraits to depict their favorite things. In this self-expression lesson, students use drawings, paintings, and magazine clippings to fill in their life-size body portraits with pictures representing their...
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Mr. Lincoln's Hat

For Teachers K - 5th
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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Searching For Letters, Words, and Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed for K - 1 students. They are introduced to individual letters, words, and sentences. A game is played where they try to collect one example of each. For practice, students complete a worksheet which is...
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A Chair for Mr. Bear

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars listen to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and work collaboratively to create a chair for a small stuffed animal that will allow it to sit upright and withstand a short drop out of Legos. Students write about the...
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Speech and Language Samples

For Teachers K - 12th
Students tell a story, describe a picture, share about a favorite toy from home and are recorded using an iPod with a voice recorder. They create a playlist of their voice and reading samples to illustrate progression over time.
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Safari Sentence Scramble

For Teachers K
Students use real life experiences for writing. In this identifying details lesson plan, students use information such as colors, numbers, sizes, shapes and locations to write sentences about the zoo. Students position the words...

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